D2L Lumi: AI-powered support with D2L Lumi Learner Mode
D2L Lumi Learner Mode adds brand-new AI-powered learning supports directly into the native Brightspace experience. With tools like note-taking, highlighting, AI-enabled knowledge checks, Explain with AI, and AI Examples, learners can engage with course content in more personalised and interactive ways, while organisations gain a foundation for scalable, AI-supported learning experiences.
D2L Lumi Pro: AI-assisted Createspace content authoring
Authors can use D2L Lumi Pro in Createspace to generate module content from uploaded files and modify pages in the Content Library. Move from source materials to structured learning content faster, then refine learning materials with AI-supported assistance built into the content workflow.
Creator+ and H5P
H5P: live list of customer interactives in Creator+
The H5P menu in Creator+ now automatically reflects the H5P content types available in your organisation’s H5P instance, including any enabled custom content types. Authors can quickly discover and add the interactive content types available in their environment.
Performance+
Analytics Builder: easier memory management and visibility
Analytics Builder authors can more easily view high-speed memory usage, making it easier to tune high-performance reports on large datasets.
Course Merchant
Course Merchant: more flexible recommendations management
Course Merchant administrators can manage recommendation areas with a new admin console, more configurable widgets and additional recommendation options. Present more relevant learning opportunities across catalogue and cart experiences while reducing manual catalogue maintenance.
Enterprise platform
Assignments: manage instruction attachments by API
Developers and migration teams can now add and update assignment instruction attachments through APIs. Support bulk course setup, partner integrations and automated migration workflows without manual configuration in the Brightspace interface.
D2L Brightspace
Bulk user management: distributed administration at scale
Distributed administrators can now manage users in bulk within their assigned sub-organisations, enabling safe, scalable administration while maintaining organisational boundaries and reducing the need for manual updates by central administrators.
New Content Experience: more room to focus with flexible side navigation
Learners and instructors can now adjust the width of the side navigation while viewing content in the New Content Experience. Create more space for focused reading while keeping course structure close at hand when it is needed.
Groups: faster group setup with bulk editing
Instructors and administrators can now bulk edit group names and codes within a group category. Update many groups at once, reducing repetitive setup work and improving accuracy in courses with many groups.
Quizzes: flag questions and strike through answer options
Learners taking a quiz can now strike through incorrect answer options and flag questions they want to return to later. Instructors control availability of these options per quiz.
Createspace: build once, reuse across courses
Createspace gives instructional teams a shared workspace to create, organise, collaborate on and reuse Brightspace content across courses. Teams can manage Source Courses as a single source of truth, deploy updates across multiple sections and align Outcomes, including Skills, to modules for stronger connections between course content and learner achievement.
Assignments: more flexible submission retention by API
Developers and administrators can now configure assignment submission retention options through APIs. Set whether to keep all submissions, only one submission or the most recent submission programmatically, helping teams apply submission policies consistently and reduce manual course setup work.
Grades: clear grade values by API
Administrators and developers can now clear learner grade values through APIs. Reset grade items to an ungraded state as part of automated workflows, reducing repetitive manual updates in the Brightspace interface.
Grades: more complete grade category management by API
Administrators and developers can now update grade categories through expanded Grades APIs. Automate gradebook setup and maintenance more completely, helping large-scale course management stay efficient and consistent.
Language Management: expanded language support
Brightspace is adding support for Russian and Polish, helping learners, instructors and administrators use the platform in their preferred language. Expand localised access and support more inclusive learning experiences for Russian- and Polish-speaking communities.
Learning Outcomes: manage achievement scale settings by API
Administrators and developers can now manage achievement scale settings through APIs. Automate setup and reporting workflows for learning outcomes, helping organisations scale consistent outcome structures with less manual configuration.
Portfolio: faster evidence review with expanded search
Instructors and administrators can now find learner portfolio evidence with improved performance and expanded search. Spend less time navigating large portfolios and more time reviewing what matters.
Portfolio: updated category management
Instructors and administrators can now manage Portfolio categories in a new, streamlined interface. Updated labels and navigation make it easier to apply categories, manage class-level categories and organise learner evidence consistently.
Quizzes: expanded question APIs for scalable quiz workflows
Developers and integrators can now manage quiz questions more completely through APIs, including creating, reading, updating, and deleting as well as retrieving questions by ID.
Rubrics: expanded API support for curriculum-aligned assessments
Developers and curriculum integrators can create, update, delete and align rubrics through APIs. This reduces manual setup and helps scale consistent, curriculum-aligned assessment workflows across courses.
Rubrics: API support for written response quiz questions
Developers and integrators can now use Rubrics APIs with written response quiz questions. Apply rubric workflows more consistently across assignments, discussions, grades and written responses.
Rubrics: link rubrics across activities by API
Instructional designers and curriculum integrators can now retrieve and create rubric alignments across course activities through APIs. Audit rubric usage, automate setup and maintain consistent evaluation criteria across institutional learning experiences.
New Content Experience: sequential learning
Instructors can now more easily guide learners through content in a completion-based sequence while still showing the full course structure. Learners can see what is ahead, understand course progress and unlock the next item as they complete required content.
Course Offering Information: distributed administration support
Sub-organisation administrators can now view and manage relevant department and semester information in Course Offering Information screen according to distributed administration permissions. Create a more consistent administration experience across Brightspace for larger organisations.
Groups: easier manual enrolment management
Instructors and administrators can now manage group enrolments through a clearer interface with group-first and learner-first views. Review and update memberships more efficiently, especially in courses with many groups or larger enrolment limits.
Quizzes: point summaries by quiz section
Instructors and learners can now see how points are distributed across quiz sections while building, taking and reviewing assessments. Improve quiz design and help learners plan their time and effort more effectively.
Course Merchant: improved waitlist management
Admins can configure waitlist behaviour, view queue order and pending offers, and set waitlist limits, allowing users to fill open seats faster, reduce manual administration, and give learners a clearer waitlist experience and next steps when a seat becomes available.
Language Management: expanded language support
Brightspace is adding support for Urdu and Catalan, helping learners, instructors and administrators use the platform in their preferred language. Improve accessibility and support more inclusive learning experiences for Urdu- and Catalan-speaking communities.
Createspace: search and filter for sync
Administrators and content teams can now search and filter linked courses when syncing learning objects. Find the right destinations faster and apply updates with greater confidence.
Createspace: sync to unlimited linked courses
Content teams can now sync updates to an unlimited set of linked courses, rather than running large sets in batches of 50. Manage reusable content across very large course models with high performance and fewer manual steps.
Createspace: APIs for scalable sync workflows
Developers and administrators can now use APIs that interact with Createspace sync workflows. Automate how reusable content is managed and support more scalable bulk content operations across Brightspace environments.
Source Course: easier course copy workflows
Instructors and administrators can now find Source Courses when searching for courses to copy from. Make centralised course creation workflows easier to adopt and help teams reuse trusted course structures more efficiently.
Createspace: sync objects in shared modules
Content teams can now sync items that are available both as individual objects in the library and also within one or more shared modules. Sync version updates from the individual object to relevant modules within Createspace for maximum consistency and reusability.
Portfolio: updated evidence page experience
Learners can now upload and interact with portfolio evidence on a clearer, better-organised evidence page. Improved layout, navigation and access to key actions make evidence submission easier to complete.
Quizzes: question pool and section APIs
Developers and integrators can now create, read, update and delete quiz question pools and sections through APIs. Improving support for automated quiz setup, migration and integration workflows at scale.
Content Service: audio descriptions for prerecorded video
Instructors and content authors can now add Audio Description tracks to prerecorded video content in Brightspace and Createspace. Help learners who are blind or have low vision access important visual information in course videos, supporting a more inclusive learning experience.
Createspace: save Brightspace course content to the Content Library
Instructors can now save existing Brightspace course content directly to the Createspace Content Library. Reuse valuable learning objects in future courses, reduce manual recreation work and support more consistent course materials from a central library.
Createspace: see where Brightspace Objects are used
Instructional designers can now see which courses use a Brightspace Object from Createspace before making changes. Understand downstream impact, make more informed updates and reduce the risk of disrupting course content.
Createspace: deploy Content Library objects by API
Administrators and developers can now deploy reusable Createspace Content Library objects into Brightspace course offerings through an API. Support automated workflows and distribute learning objects across courses more consistently at scale.
Createspace: clearer permission management
Administrators can now manage Createspace access with permissions that are organised more clearly and aligned with familiar Brightspace patterns. Assign the right level of access with greater confidence and consistency.
Createspace: create Content Library objects by API
Administrators and developers can now create new Brightspace Objects in the Createspace Content Library through an API. Enable automated content creation workflows and build reusable content more consistently across the content ecosystem.
Createspace: add assets to the Asset Library by API
Administrators and developers can now add assets to the Createspace Asset Library through an API. Automate asset upload workflows and help teams manage media and learning resources more consistently with less manual effort.
Media Library: track object deployment events
Course designers and administrators can now use dataset information to understand where Brightspace Objects are deployed across course offerings and Source Courses. Assess dependencies before making changes and manage shared learning assets with greater confidence.
Quizzes: expanded quiz attempt APIs
Developers and integrators can now retrieve more detailed quiz attempt information through APIs, including question-level details for attempts. Enabling richer reporting, integrations and migration workflows that depend on complete assessment data.