Brightspace Core
Our learning platform includes all the tools and support you need to help drive business success with engaging learning experiences for all employees, whether they’re in the office or working remotely.

Easily create and curate content
The intuitive design makes it easy to build new content or import curated course content and access the system from any device.
- Create course content right in the system, or easily curate content from third-party authoring tools and off-the-shelf content providers.
- Collect content in a single library, and share and reuse resources—individual files, topics, or entire courses—across the company.
- Access content from any device with a mobile-friendly interface that adapts to any screen size and mobile apps to optimize common tasks.

Drive skills mastery
Create a culture of collaboration, communication, and engagement to take skills development beyond just content consumption.
- Promote iterative employee improvement through coaching and soft-skills development with video-based assessments.
- Promote social learning, and encourage employees to share and collaborate using online discussion forums and digital portfolio functionality.
- Add an element of gamification to motivate employees by recognizing with awards and certificates their training completion and achievements.
- Connect face-to-face with employees with integrated web conferencing, and use whiteboards and slide sharing to make your virtual meetings more engaging.
- Record and embed short video clips in course content to provide examples or facilitate microlearning experiences.

Motivate learners with personalized training
Flexible options allow you to deliver programs that engage each employee’s unique skill set while ensuring organizational needs are met.
- With automated tools, create personalized learning pathways for each learner based on what he or she does—or doesn’t do—in the system.
- Different course delivery methods can be explored to suit your employees’ needs, whether they’re on-site, online, or both.
- Employees can quickly search for and self-enroll in the courses they need to improve their skills and complete required training.
- Give timely and meaningful feedback in the moment with in-line annotations directly in documents as well as with rubrics and video comments.
- Use built-in analytics to track and understand the performance of departments, courses, or individual employees so you can make better decisions about training and development.
Partner for learning innovation and success
From day one, we’re ready to work together to help you make the most of your investment in Brightspace.
- A personalized implementation and training experience focuses on what you need and eliminates what you don’t, optimizing time and resources.
- Brightspace Community is an interactive space for all users to explore to find answers to questions, share ideas and experiences, connect with peers and D2L experts, and more.
- The Approved Support Contact (ASC) Portal makes it quick and easy for your learning management system (LMS) admins to connect with Brightspace Support and leverage resources and tools to keep things running smoothly.


Our goal is to deliver the best learning outcomes for all our participants. Thanks to the D2L platform, we’re able to offer engaging, collaborative experiences that empower healthcare professionals throughout the region to enhance their skills.


D2L’s products and services let people learn in a way that works for them and gives us the flexibility to offer even more training. And D2L’s partnership has been key to getting us started and under way quickly and effectively.
– Sarah Hayden, ARG Human Resources Director, American Refining Group


D2L makes our learning process more efficient by taking the pieces of learning that you can online. That allows you to get greater value out the human face-to-face interactions when they do happen.


The D2L online courses really help people develop skills quickly—we have seen a 90 percent pass rate on many of the pretest quizzes in each module.

Brightspace has been configured to meet our unique needs, and is flexible and sophisticated enough to manage even the most complicated training courses with ease. Customer satisfaction is our primary goal, and delivering the best possible learning experience is a critical part of that. It is clear that D2L shares our vision for the future of learning, so it’s exciting to work with a partner that will help us stay at the forefront of innovation and continue to offer truly world-class learning solutions.
Brightspace Core detailed features
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Learning Environment
An innovative, cloud-based learning management system for creating, hosting, and editing online learning resources. It contains a flexible suite of tools for creating custom content as well as adding content from other tools. -
Learning Repository
An online library for storing, managing, and sharing your learning resources. Connects seamlessly with the Brightspace Learning Environment. -
Activity Feed
From one central spot on a course home page, course facilitators and employees can communicate easily about upcoming assignments, new content, or discussions, knowing that their content will be seen by everyone. -
New Content Experience
An intuitive way to create content aligned to outcomes in a course. It includes a variety of ways to add content, including an HTML editor, linking to Google Drive, OneDrive ™, web links, videos, external learning activities, and more. -
Portfolio
An app that helps learners capture evidence of their learning. They can use the app to take pictures or videos of their work, record their thoughts and reflections, and then log into the Brightspace account to manage their work. -
Mobile Apps
Our mobile apps are optimized to make it super easy to complete the tasks that people want to tackle quickly while on the go—all with offline access and notifications to stay on track. -
Virtual Classrooms
A seamless way to connect face-to-face over video with multiple parties for instruction, assessment, and feedback. Schedule live discussions, office hours, video-based training, and more. -
Video Assignments
Structured video workflows allow for repeated skill practice and knowledge application within a real-world context. By using a variety of feedback tools, learners get personalized, pointed feedback from evaluators and peers. -
Basic Support
Quickly connects LMS Administrators to the resources and support they need to get the most out of Brightspace—24x7x365. -
LDAP Authentication
The LDAP/AD integration allows users to log into the Learning Environment using credentials found in the Active Directory server. -
Closed Captions for Video Note
Video Note allows users to record short videos and add them anywhere the HTML editor is available. To help ensure all users can learn without barriers, closed captions are automatically created.
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Single Sign-On
To access a Brightspace platform-based application without having to log in, that is, without having to enter username and password credentials each time, single sign-on is available. -
Standard SIS Integration
The Standard SIS Integration allows your Human Resources Information System (HRIS) to push data to Brightspace through standard CSV, OneRoster CSV/REST protocol, Ellucian ILP, or APIs. -
Course Conversion
Import course content from supported learning management systems and content providers into Brightspace. -
APIs
Developers can use APIs to access and integrate the functionality of Brightspace with other applications and to create new applications. -
Automation Tools
Automate a number of daily tasks with course batch and course conversion tools. -
Disaster Recovery
Brightspace is a cloud-based learning platform, innovatively architected to support an active/active deployment model across AWS availability zones—offering you maximum reliability, availability, security, and peace of mind. -
Customer Access
Advocacy beyond support—regular communication and best practices to drive adoption. -
Data Hub
The Data Hub tool allows administrators to access predefined collections of data (data sets) from the Brightspace platform. -
Quick Eval
Pulls together submissions from a variety of courses and tools to create a single list of the work to be completed. Easily prioritize by sorting and filtering. -
Discover
Learners can drive their own learning by searching for, finding, and self-enrolling in courses that help them achieve their learning goals. -
Learning Paths
Deliver guided learning with Brightspace by using Learning Paths to group multiple courses into a logical, easy-to-follow path. -
Brightspace Community
The Brightspace Community is a great place to interact with other Brightspace users online, and to get the latest information on Brightspace.
Discover the Brightspace Core Add-on Packages

Robust Analytics with Performance Plus
Create knowledge, take action, and improve outcomes with advanced analytics. Boost learner performance with adaptive learning and predictive analytics.

Spark Inspiration with Engagement Plus
Take online courses to the next level by showcasing course offerings and giving instructors the tools to create fully searchable video-based course content, lecture recordings, and multimedia presentations.
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