Awards & Recognition
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2013 – 2021
Canada’s Best Managed Companies
Platinum Standard
In renaming D2L to the Platinum Club, Canada’s Best Managed Companies cited the company’s innovative and effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The award also recognizes D2L’s leading role in helping educators make the sudden and unexpected transition to fully online learning and its ongoing commitment to employee engagement, including support for diversity and inclusion, despite the challenges of moving to remote working.
2012 – 2014, 2018 – 2022
Canada’s Top Employers for Young People
This editorial competition recognizes employers offering the nation’s best workplaces and programs for young people starting their careers. D2L was recognized for the two-year graduate program that features rotations through four different product development teams. Additionally, for the LEAD program that helps employees grow as professionals and future leaders, including developing and presenting solutions to actual D2L challenges to senior leadership.
2017, 2020
Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures
Mid Market
D2L, for the second time, has demonstrated their mark of excellence in culture and performance by being among 10 mid-market corporations and awarded for their commitment and culture in 2020. This national program annually recognizes best-in-class Canadian organizations for having cultures that have helped them enhance performance and sustain a competitive advantage.
Waterloo Area’s Top Employers
2011 – 2022This award exemplifies our ongoing commitment to establishing the best work environment. A variety of on-site amenities, support for employees work-life balance, employee development programs, and a company-subsidized social committee were highlighted as the primary contributing factors in our selection for the 10th consecutive year.
Canada’s Best Employers for Recent Graduates
2019 – 2022D2L was selected for The Career Directory, a guide to entry-level recruitment for recent college and university graduates. Highlights for new graduates at D2L include various training opportunities, tuition subsidies (related to the job), a wide variety of new grad positions, & various work benefits.
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The Candidate Experience Award
2019 – 2021Top-Ranked CandE Award Winner
D2L named a top employer in the small employee category (2500 employees or less) – and number four employer overall. The CandE Award recognizes achievement in recruitment and delivering an exceptional experience for employment candidates.
Aragon Research 2021
2021Women in Technology Award in Marketing
Aly Scott, Chief Marketing Officer at D2L, has been awarded the Aragon Research 2021 Women in Technology Award in Marketing. As a four-time CMO in the SaaS software market, Aly has led standout market penetration and acceleration strategies for multi-national, high-growth public and private companies for more than 25 years.
Best in Biz
2021Silver Winner, Customer Service Executive of the Year 2021
Throughout the pandemic, our teams went—and continue to go—to extraordinary lengths to support our customers and have been recognized as a Silver winner in the Customer Service Executive of the Year category in Best in Biz Awards 2021.
Training Industry
2020 - 2021Top 20 Learning Management System (LMS) Companies (2021)
The Top LMS Training List is based on thorough analysis of the capabilities, experience, and expertise of the LMS providers and is designed to help buy-side organizations in their search for the right training partners.
Talented Learning
2021Top 40 Learning Systems
With decades of success in the academic LMS space, D2L is now leveraging its core competencies in instructor-led training, social and informal learning and application integration to expand into customer education and association markets.
SIIA CODiE Award
2021Best Customer Experience in EdTech
The annual SIIA CODiE Awards recognizes the tool, platform, or service that has gone above and beyond to help educators adopt their solution effectively with superior customer service and support, during the time of COVID-19.
SIIA CODiE Award
2021Best Remote Learning Experience Partner K-12/Higher Education
The annual SIIA CODiE Awards recognizes the best education technology product that supports remote learning in a (post) COVID-19 world.
SIIA CODiE Award
2021Best Solution for Students with Special Needs
The annual SIIA CODiE Awards recognizes the best solution designed to benefit students with unique educational needs in the K-12 or higher education market.
EdTech Breakthrough
2020Overall LMS Solution Provider of the Year
The EdTech Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough educational technology in categories including e-learning, student engagement, school administration, career preparation, language learning, STEM and more.
Canada’s Top Employers for Young People
2012 – 2014, 2018 – 2022This editorial competition recognizes employers offering the nation’s best workplaces and programs for young people starting their careers. D2L was recognized for the two-year graduate program that features rotations through four different product development teams. Additionally, for the LEAD program that helps employees grow as professionals and future leaders, including developing and presenting solutions to actual D2L challenges to senior leadership.
Craig Weiss Group
2020-2021#1 Learning Management System for Associations
Analyst Craig Weiss named the Brightspace platform as the top learning management system for both EdTech and Associations and earned the Craig Weiss Certification for Customer Support. D2L is an award-winner in the Associations category for the past three years.
Craig Weiss Group
2020Top 20 Learning Systems for Associations
Global learning technology leader D2L has been recognized by prominent industry analyst Craig Weiss.
SIIA CODiE Award
2020Best Professional Learning Solution for Faculty & Administrative Staff
The annual SIIA CODiE Awards recognizes the companies producing the most innovative Business & Education technology products across the country and around the world.
SIIA CODiE Award
2019 – 2020Best K-12 Learning Management System
Recognized by the annual SIIA CODiE Awards for the second year in a row. The prestigious CODiE Awards recognize the companies producing the most innovative Business and Education technology products across the country and around the world.
Diversity & Inclusion Award, Top Ten
2019World’s most attractive employers
Rated within the top ten most supportive, diverse, and inclusive employers in Canada in a survey of 23,000 students from over 150 Canadian colleges and Universities on Universum’s Diversity & Inclusion Index.
Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards
2019Finalist, Human Capital Management
Congrats to our partner, Accenture, on being a finalist in the Human Capital Management category of the 2019 Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards! The awards recognize vendors that contribute advancements in technology, drive change, & increase value for organizations.
Learning Technologies Awards, Gold
2019Best online distance learning programme
OnDemand is a unique programme combining the discipline of a classroom with the flexibility of independent study. It is data driven, responsive and places the individual at the centre of their learning experience.
Chief Learning Officer Learning in Practice Award
2019Excellence in Community Service
Humanitarian projects need support from aid workers, but they have a lot to learn before they can work in the field. ICF worked with D2L to design a blended learning experience to prepare volunteers for rapid deployment—helping to respond faster in post-disaster situations.
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IMS Global Learning Consortium
2019Technical Excellence Award
D2L Platform and Standards Architect Viktor Haag received the IMS Technical Excellence award recognizing an individual with significant and sustained participation to create and publish an IMS standard. Contributions include authoring and reviewing the specifications, developing reference implementations, and providing a cross-specification perspective.
BIG Innovation Award
2019D2L Brightspace Pulse
This annual business awards program recognizes the organizations, products and people that are bringing new ideas to life. Nominations were judged by a select group of business leaders and executives who volunteered their time and expertise to score submissions.
Canada’s Best Managed Companies
2013 – 2021Platinum Standard
In renaming D2L to the Platinum Club, Canada’s Best Managed Companies cited the company’s innovative and effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The award also recognizes D2L’s leading role in helping educators make the sudden and unexpected transition to fully online learning and its ongoing commitment to employee engagement, including support for diversity and inclusion, despite the challenges of moving to remote working.
Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards
2018Best Advance in Learning Management Technology
Recognized for driving an innovative approach to employee learning and development. The partnership was awarded bronze for Accenture’s use of D2L’s Brightspace to power its INSEAD Online Strategy Certificate Program.
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36th LEAD Corporate Leadership Award
2018Best Use of a Learning Management System
HR.com honours Epworth’s transformation from an institution primarily focused on compliance training to an elearning organization committed to improved work practices, learner-led learning and digital literacy.
Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards
2018Excellence in Leadership Development
D2L & Accenture captured Silver at the Brandon Hall Human Capital Management Excellence Awards. The awards recognize the organizations that have most successfully deployed programs, strategies, modalities, processes, systems, & tools with measurable results.
CLO Learning in Practice Awards
2018Division 2 Gold, Innovation Award
Dr. Nancy Robert, EVP and chief product and marketing officer, was awarded the Innovation Award. The award is presented to learning executives who have applied innovative practices, processes, and/or technologies in order to address an organizational opportunity.
CLO Learning in Practice Awards
2018Excellence in Innovation Award
The awards recognize top industry leaders who excel in the design and delivery of employee learning and development programs. D2L was awarded Bronze for creating an interactive video player to help the TSO encourage students and teachers to tune in to Canada’s musical heritage.
E&I Cloud Leadership Awards
2018Collaboration (Runner-up)
Evaluation was based on the use of cloud technologies to address collaboration between one or more individual institutions or between one or more branch campuses within an institutional system.
E&I Cloud Leadership Awards
2018Cloud Storage (Runner-up)
Recognizing higher education institutions for their innovation in cloud computing. Evaluation for this category was based on the use of cloud technologies to address institution-wide administrative & academic storage challenges for staff, faculty and/or students.
E&I Cloud Leadership Awards
2018Public/Private Cloud Security (Runner- up)
These awards recognize higher education institutions for their innovation in cloud computing. Evaluation for this category was based on the best application and/or approach to securing institutional public and/or private cloud resources.
E&I Cloud Leadership Awards
2018Innovation (Runner-up)
The E&I Cloud Leadership Awards recognize higher education institutions for their innovation in cloud computing. Evaluation for this category was based on the creative use of cloud technologies to address institutional challenges and/or operational efficiencies.
E&I Cloud Leadership Awards
2018Hybrid Iaas/Paas
The E&I Cloud Leadership Awards recognize higher education institutions for their innovation in cloud computing. Evaluation for this category was based on the best application and design for an institutional infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service solution.
Aragon Research Globe for Corporate Learning™
2017"Leader" Distinction
D2L received a “Leader” distinction in the Aragon Research Globe for Corporate Learning™. D2L’s Brightspace was recognized for its differentiation in learner experience, social assessment, content creation and curation, integrated video across the platform, and analytics.
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Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures
2017, 2020Mid Market
D2L, for the second time, has demonstrated their mark of excellence in culture and performance by being among 10 mid-market corporations and awarded for their commitment and culture in 2020. This national program annually recognizes best-in-class Canadian organizations for having cultures that have helped them enhance performance and sustain a competitive advantage.
Learning Impact Awards
2017Honorable Mention
St. Leo University’s implementation of D2L Brightspace was awarded Honorable Mention by the IMS Global Awards for 2017. IMS recognized the deployment of the learning management system because of its innovative use of technology to support and enhance learning.
Best of Elearning! Awards
2017Best LMS - Cloud
For the industry’s exclusive users’ choice awards, all nominations are made directly by users of solutions. D2L was chosen as the winner of the Best Learning Management System – Cloud category for its Instructional Design Wizard, TurnItIn integration, and flexible course delivery options.
Waterloo Region’s Healthy Workplace Award
2016 – 2017Platinum-Level Award
This award recognizes and celebrates workplaces in the Waterloo region that demonstrate a strong commitment to improved health for their employees. D2L encourages and supports the health and well-being of our employees. At D2L, we believe a healthy workplace leads to engaged employees, which contributes to a more effective and productive company.
Training Magazine’s Learning Design Challenge
2016Silver Award: Brightspace Gamification & Silver Award: Analytics Suite
Training magazine rewards learning and development professionals for best practices in e-learning. D2L was chosen as a winner for its innovative learning analytics and gamification offerings.
IMS Learning Impact Awards
2014Platinum, Degree Compass
Recognizing the most impactful use of technology in support of learning worldwide, finalists are selected for having products and services that address the most significant challenges facing education. D2L is a two-time Platinum winner, recognized for its work with NYCDOE and Degree Compass.
Sustainable Waterloo Region
2014Leadership & Innovation Award
D2L received the award for our higher-than-average record of providing alternative commuting support through the TravelWise program. This award recognizes an organization that has demonstrated a strong commitment to—and creative solutions for—encouraging alternative transportation for employees. We were also recognized for our Eco Plan that rewards our Waterloo region employees who turn in their parking pass.
EY Entrepreneur of the Year
2013Software and Technology
John Baker was recognized as Ontario’s Entrepreneur of the Year in the Software and Technology category. The Canadian program honours the country’s most impressive entrepreneurs from all areas of business. Award finalists are chosen based on their vision, leadership, financial success and social responsibility.
Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award
2013Accessibility
In 2013, D2L received the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award from the National Federation of the Blind for its groundbreaking work in accessibility. Specifically, this award is given to organizations and individuals who have made impactful contributions toward achieving the full integration of the blind into society on a basis of equality.
EdTech Digest Awards
2013Leadership Award
The EdTech Digest Awards recognize technologies, trendsetters, and leaders throughout the education sector for their innovative contributions. As part of the 2013 EdTech Digest Awards program, D2L was chosen as a winner for its outstanding solutions in the field of education and technology.
Ovum “On the Radar” Award
2013Best Implementation of Big Data and Analytics
For delivering an analytics solution that helps institutions develop meaningful insights from educational data, the Big Data category profiles organizations that have created new products, services, or processes to address previously unsolved challenges with an innovative approach.
Greater K-W Chamber of Commerce
2012Business of the Year
This award recognizes an organization that makes an exceptional contribution to the business community through involvement and leadership while also acting as a role model in the community.
Microsoft Public Sector Partner of the Year
2011 – 2012Education Solution Partner
The award recognizes a partner that excels at providing innovative and unique solutions based on Microsoft technologies to education customers. D2L was recognized for exemplifying how innovative solutions can be delivered by embracing Microsoft technologies to deliver D2L Learning Suite.
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Best Small and Medium Employers
2010 – 2012Top 50 in Canada
A national study named D2L one of the top 50 best small or medium-sized employers in Canada, citing high levels of employee engagement. This is a particularly important award for us, as employee opinion is the predominant factor in determining an organization’s overall score.
Junior Achievement
2011Business of the Year
The Business of the Year Award recognizes a company that is outstanding in all areas of business, with a history of leading-edge marketing strategies, support of youth throughout the community, exceptional corporate citizenship, and high quality standards.
Deloitte Technology Fast 50™
2011Leadership Award
Candidates are judged on their ability to create a distinct competitive advantage in a high-growth market. A panel of subject matter experts evaluates companies based on several key criteria: competitive advantage, size, growth, market attractiveness, management effectiveness and organization, and financial performance.
National Federation of the Blind
2010 – 2011Nonvisual Accessibility, Gold Level Web Certification
D2L has made a pledge to support the NFB nonvisual web accessibility program. We aim to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to annually test and certify D2L’s learning environment against the NFB’s standards, reflecting our belief in building inclusive design into our research and development practices.
Brandon Hall Learning Technology Award
2010Best Advance in Technology in Learning Analytics or Reporting
The category looks for functionality related to collecting learning data, querying data, creating reports, visualizing data, comparing variables & data sets.
IMS LearnSAT
2010Best in Category Award, Learning Management System
D2L was the recipient of first place in the Learning Management Systems category, a Best in Category Award for learning management that was based on the results of the 2010 IMS Learning and Education Technology Satisfaction and Trends (LearnSAT) survey.
AMCA Awards
2007 – 2010Platinum MarCom Award
D2L has received the prestigious MarCom Platinum Award in recognition of conference material and special event plans for our annual users’ conference, Fusion. Winners are recognized for their excellence in terms of quality, creativity, attention to detail, and resourcefulness.