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So Much More Than a Learning Management System

Packed with powerful tools, customizable content and best-in-class service and support, Brightspace leaves the limitations of a traditional LMS in the dust. Create personalized learning at scale and help learners realize their true potential with a learning innovation platform that’s evolved as purposefully as education itself.

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The Tools You Need
to Help Transform
Teaching and Learning

Time is not a renewable resource. Protect yours with an easy-to-use platform that can facilitate meaningful feedback and mastery-based progression while supporting every learner’s unique journey.

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Deliver Great Results—
No Matter Where, How or Who You Teach

A flexible and powerful learning innovation platform, Brightspace is built for learning at every stage of life—from the earliest days of school to higher education and beyond.

We struggled to find a holistic solution with other vendors, but we’ve found it here with D2L Brightspace and we’re really grateful for that.

 – Michael Crowe, Vice President Academic , Bow Valley College

One of the things I use Brightspace for is to build community within our teachers, not just students. It’s been really helpful in creating that connection for our online teachers who are all over the country.

 – Joy Karavedas, Senior Director of Research and New Program Development, Orange Lutheran High School

You should absolutely, 100% go with D2L. I’ve been with them for 11 years. The system is incredibly stable. It’s incredibly flexible because what you need right now today may not be the same thing you need five years from now. Businesses evolve. Customers evolve. Things change, and D2L changes with you.

 – Connie Ryan, Founder and President, Professional Development Institute

Why Brightspace?

  • Unlock New Possibilities

    Leverage powerful and robust tools made to help educators create more impactful learning experiences.

  • Eliminate Routine Tasks

    Free-up time to focus on what matters most-helping learners unlock their potential.

  • Make Smarter Decisions

    Uncover insight into your data with power analytics right at your fingertips.

  • Educate Anywhere

    Deliver high-quality learning experiences anywhere, anytime, on any device.

  • Reach All Learners

    Deliver a learning experience that meets the needs of all people, regardless of age or ability.

Serves Learners Today,
Evolves With You Tomorrow

Brightspace is packed with features to help you digitize, optimize and transform the learning experience.

Digitize Courses

Digitize Courses

Optimize Outcomes

Transform Experiences

Digitize Courses

Today’s tech-savvy learners expect modern learning experiences that offer maximum choice and flexibility—even in face-to-face courses.

Give them what they need to succeed.

Digitize Courses

POPULAR FEATURES

  • Content Experience

    Keep the learning experience engaging by adding content using the Brightspace Editor or by linking to Google Drive, One Drive, web links, videos, external learning activities and more. An intuitive interface and built-in templates make it easy for educators to design courses and create content aligned to outcomes.

  • Discussion Boards

    Encourage learners to share thoughts with their peers in Discussions. Set up forums and topics for them to ask questions, discuss course content and assignments, and work together in assigned groups and sections.

  • Outcomes-based Assessments

    Connect curriculum or course expectations to learning activities, assess learners against those expectations and view progress over time.

  • Video Note

    Record videos and add them anywhere the Brightspace editor is available. To help ensure everyone can learn without barriers, closed captions are automatically created.

  • Mobile-first Design

    An industry-leading mobile experience supports learners on any device through a responsive design that adapts to any screen size. Plus, mobile apps that optimize common tasks are available.

  • Accessibility

    Award-winning accessibility features make it easy for learners to navigate tools using assistive technologies. Educators are empowered to support every learner by ensuring conformance through the Accessibility Checker, implementing quiz Accommodations, granting special access or adding Release Conditions based on individual needs.

Optimize Outcomes

Personalize learning and make smarter teaching decisions backed by data. Save time by automating tasks and boost learner engagement.

Make use of the tools that can help improve student outcomes.

POPULAR FEATURES

  • Gradebook and Mastery View

    Set up a grading system for your course and connect it to your learning activities in the Gradebook. View and understand the overall level of achievement of learners related to each outcome being taught in a course with Mastery View.

  • Rubrics

    Create rubrics at the organization, department or course level (or use existing ones) to help streamline your grading workflow.

  • Advanced Analytics and Reporting in Performance+

    Interact with your data by using Insights Adoption, Course and Learner Engagement and Assessment Quality dashboards as part of our Performance+ package. Create reports, visualizations, and communicate results effectively across your institution/organization with the Insights Report Builder.

  • Predictive Analytics

    Predictive analytics and visual diagnostics in our Performance+ add-on package can help educators identify at-risk learners in a course and take action to help them improve.

  • Peer Review

    Expose learners to multiple perspectives by having them give and receive feedback on their peers’ Video Assignments.

  • Awards

    Issue sharable merit-based badges and certificates as learners progress through learning materials. This form of inspirational recognition does not contribute to a final grade but acknowledges accomplishments and progress throughout a course or program.

Transform Experiences

Implement advanced learning modalities to further personalize the experience. From mastery-based learning to competency-based models, Brightspace supports the most effective online or blended learning approaches.

Deliver a modern education that suits every learner.

POPULAR FEATURES

  • Intelligent Agents

    Automate reminders to provide a helpful nudge to keep learners on track and inspire them to reach their full potential.

  • Release Conditions

    Create custom learning paths through your course by automatically releasing enrichment or remedial content based on learner achievement.

  • Course Publisher

    Easily distribute updated versions of courses to any LMS. Manage access licenses, collect meaningful analytics and support a seamless learner experience.

  • Portfolio

    Empower learners to capture photos or videos of their learning as it happens, record their thoughts and reflections, and then share them with instructors. Learners can manage their Portfolio year after year to demonstrate growth over time tied to their learning outcomes.

  • Annotations

    Annotate document submissions inside your course without having to download the file. Provide inline contextual feedback on assignment submissions such as comments, free-hand drawing, shapes and more.

  • Audio and Video Feedback

    Provide meaningful feedback on audio and video assignment submissions using built-in annotation tools.

Get a Free Demo

See what Brightspace can do for you with a free, personalized demo. Give us 20 minutes. We’ll give you more than two decades of experience helping organizations hit their goals.

  • Get all your questions answered—no sales pitch, no obligations
  • Discover tools and features that will help you the most
  • Hear how organizations like yours use Brightspace
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Keep The Tools You Love

Brightspace is built to fit seamlessly with the tools you, your educators and your learners already love—no heartbreak or sacrifice. We offer hundreds of integration options for Brightspace, allowing you to easily create a consistent digital learning experience.

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Benefits at a Glance

Built for people who care deeply about helping all learners reach their potential.

  • Access

    Learn at an individual pace, anytime—and on any device.

    Learn more about our mobile learning experience

  • Personalization

    Engage learners with timely, personalized feedback that supports growth and development.

  • Flexibility

    Teach the way you want (with the tools you love) on a flexible platform you can make your own.

  • Efficiency

    Automate administrative tasks and help free up time to personalize the student learning experience.

  • Transformation

    Easily transform the physical classroom experience into a high-quality online learning experience.

  • Centralize

    Support credit, non-credit and professional development goals on a single platform.

  • Partnership

    Thrive in an educators’ community that grows with you to support the future of learning.

  • Experience

    Reach your institutional/organizational goals faster with a partner that brings more than 20 years of learning expertise.

Harness the Power of Partnership

From migration to course design and everything in between, we’re here to help you maximize your results.

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Learning Services

We’re here to help you build a transformative learning experience—one of the hardest things you can do. 

Onboard and Launch

We support a seamless transition to Brightspace with our personalized, people-first approach.

Customer Support Services

Once you’re up and running, we’ll help make sure your momentum doesn’t plateau.

Optimization Services

Get premium daily help with Brightspace administration, technical support, and data analysis to take your results to the next level.

Brightspace 2022 SIIA CODiE Award Winner

Brightspace
2022 SIIA CODiE
Award Winner

  • Best Customer Education LMS
  • Best Emerging Technology for Administrators
  • Best Learning Management System

 

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • We currently partner with more 1,100 international organizations, including The State University of New York, Southern New Hampshire University, The New York City Department of Education, Gwinnett County Public Schools, the American Nurses Association, Colliers International, Accenture, PWC, CIPD, ISC2, PNC bank, Grant Thorton, the Canada School of Public Service, the University of Cape Town and Purdue University Global.

  • You don’t have to sacrifice any of your current tools to use Brightspace—it’s an entirely plug-and-play LMS. We were the first commercial LMS certified for IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability and IMS Learning Information Services (LIS), and we currently lead the industry in IMS Global certifications. With Brightspace, it’s possible to seamlessly mix and match multiple applications within your institution’s digital learning ecosystem. Our commitment to IMS Global product certifications and open standards also means you get more choice and flexibility to connect Brightspace with thousands of products to create a seamless user experience and enhance data privacy.

  • Moving existing courses in your current LMS to Brightspace isn’t difficult. Our bulk migration tools make it easy to move hundreds—or hundreds of thousands—of courses in a single batch. That migration process can efficiently run behind the scenes of your system at night—with no manual effort required. Additionally, you’ll have the support of our change management experts, who can make switching to Brightspace a breeze.

  • D2L Brightspace is packed with features, but if you want to extend its functionality the following add-ons can be purchased:

    • Course Merchant – An integrated course registration storefront. It helps your organization market course offerings or training programs to a broad audience of learners.
    • Video Assignments and Virtual Classroom – Video Assignments and Virtual Classroom form a holistic video assessment solution that fosters a more active learning experience.
Powerful Alone, but Even Better Together

Powerful Alone, but Even Better Together

  • Improve learner outcomes and performance with adaptive learning and advanced analytics tools.

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  • Support educators in the efficient development of better learning experiences through engaging course content.

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  • Whether you’re a first-time or a long-term customer, our services and support can be personalized to your needs to ensure success at every step.

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Getting Started With Brightspace Is Easy

Our team is ready to help you reshape the future of learning.

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