You Built for Flexibility. Are You Ready for What’s Next?
Your platform helped you scale digital education, enabling community, assessment, and growth when it mattered most. But expectations have evolved. What once felt adaptable can become increasingly complex to maintain, with rising demands to manage integrations, ensure security and keep everything up to date.
Brightspace offers a more modern, predictable foundation, reducing operational overhead, centralising accountability, and delivering stronger outcomes across retention, course delivery and institutional performance.
Eliminate Risk with
Trusted Security Management
A 2025 security audit of Moodle uncovered critical vulnerabilities allowing attackers to bypass core security controls and access sensitive institutional data
Protect Your Institution with Trusted Security Governance
Reduce risk, stay compliant, and eliminate security overhead with a fully managed learning platform.
Security Risks are Hidden
Modern learning environments are becoming harder to secure—and the stakes are increasing.
Vulnerabilities aren’t always visible across complex digital ecosystems
Open-source platforms introduce greater uncertainty and maintenance burden
New regulations are increasing accountability
New Regulations Are Raising the Stakes
The EU Cyber Resilience Act (coming into effect 2027) introduces strict security requirements and significant penalties for non-compliance.
While limited exemptions exist, most open-source platforms—including Moodle—are unlikely to qualify, leaving those responsible for institutions exposed to greater operational, regulatory, and financial risk.
Cyber Threats Are Already Disrupting Higher Education
Cyber-attacks are no longer hypothetical—they are actively impacting institutions today, disrupting teaching, research, and student services while eroding trust.
Currently, the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) lists 578 recorded vulnerabilities for Moodle, compared to one for Brightspace, highlighting a stark difference in security exposure and maintenance implication.
How D2L Helps
We offer the best protection and the most certifications for security and privacy
Fully managed platform security and governance
Automated updates and vulnerability management
Reduced operational strain on IT teams
Proactive protection of data, privacy, and system uptime
Drive Higher Returns Through Stronger Student Engagement
Retaining students longer delivers significant financial gains through more predictable revenue, lower acquisition costs, and greater long‑term sustainability. Brightspace strengthens these outcomes by providing engaging learning experiences and an interface proven to elevate student satisfaction.
At the University of Surrey, digital learning innovations — including weekly formative quizzes, gamified learning, and personalized video feedback — helped elevate the university from 60th to 3rd in the ‘Learning Resources’ category of the National Student Survey, and from 102nd to 4th overall in the UK by 2023. They also achieved 100% positive feedback in ‘Overall Student Satisfaction’, with satisfaction rates of 94%, 93%, and 97% for module organization, digital support, and material access. Streamlined communication and assessment practices further eased administrative loads, freeing instructors to reinvest time into higher‑value teaching and student support — translating directly into stronger engagement, better retention and measurable ROI.
Discover Your Institution’s ROI with Brightspace
Deliver excellence in teaching and learning with a learning platform that grows with you. Learn how Brightspace can reduce risk, deliver better learning experiences and increase your return on investment.
To provide a meaningful starting point, this calculator uses benchmark data from UK government sources and sector purchasing frameworks to estimate your current LMS cost. We apply a small number of standardised assumptions to estimate the total cost of maintaining a Moodle-based environment — including costs that are often distributed across teams, departments and external providers. The results are designed to be directional, not definitive — helping you quickly understand the scale and composition of your current investment.
Contact us today to review your current inputs and provide a detailed analysis on ROI
Course setup, content management, ongoing support needs
Support & Experience Overhead
Student support, service desk demand, user friction
Many institutions find these costs are significantly higher than expected once fully consolidated.
Accelerate Course Development and Capture Efficiency Gains
Brightspace streamlines course creation and setup, eliminating time‑consuming administrative work so faculty can focus on what matters most – elevating teaching and learning. For example, South University achieved a 30% reduction in course development time by using Creator+ compared to other design tools, enabling faculty to deliver more immersive, high-quality content faster. The time saved from routine tasks and platform maintenance can be reinvested into upskilling teams, enhancing instructional design, and supporting students, all of which drive higher engagement and improved retention.
These efficiencies create a scalable pathway to stronger institutional ROI, reinforcing the impact highlighted in our retention calculator. And because Brightspace includes native, built‑in tools for creating interactive, professional‑quality content, institutions can reduce long‑term costs by developing their own tailored learning experiences without relying on external authoring tools or constant updates.
We’ve never felt like D2L is trying to sell us a product. Instead, they’re partnering with us on a solution.Mark SchneiderDirector of Learning TechnologyNAIT
*Calculator Assumptions
Time horizon is five years.
Calculation includes a one-time fee of approximately 50,000 GBP for implementation.
Annual fees include annual subscription, hosting costs and vendor support.
Calculation assumes that the organisation requires 5.5 people annually (LMS Administrator, Dev Ops, Database Admin (0.5), Client L1 and L2 Support, and Developers. Of this 5.5 people, 25% people’s resource time is allocated. With D2L calculation, resource time drops to 15%.
Monthly average wage cost of 3,000 GBP.
Assume average monthly tuition of 1,000 GBP over 9 billable months.
Assume current Moodle dropout rate of 8%.
Of retained students, calculation assumes they are retained for 4 months.
Assumed a contribution margin on that revenue of 15%.
Assumed cost of student acquisition of 200 GBP per student.
NPV weighted Annual cost of capital is 12% and annual inflation is 3%.
D2L has made every effort to provide complete and accurate information. The content of this page is based upon information available as of February 2, 2026, and it is to be used for informational purposes only. If you identify any information outlined on this page that is inaccurate, please contact us at [email protected] with details so we can make the appropriate modification.
We’ve never felt like D2L is trying to sell us a product. Instead, they’re partnering with us on a solution.Mark SchneiderDirector of Learning TechnologyNAIT