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Deliver seamless, immersive learning experiences that keep learners engaged and striving for more. Improve completion rates and continuously enhance your courses with built-in tools—all in one accessible, easy-to-use LMS.

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Teaching & Learning Administration Extensibility

Teaching & Learning

Keeping learners engaged shouldn’t be an uphill battle. We equip your educators with tools for course creation, delivery, tracking and more.

Learning Material Distribution and Content Repository

Store, manage and share objects like quizzes, presentations, images and videos in the Brightspace Learning Object Repository. Utilize metadata tagging and public access options to make content easily searchable and shareable across courses.

Learning Material Distribution and Content Repository

Course Design and Content Authoring

Empower educators to build engaging, accessible courses without coding. Streamline course creation with templates, multimedia, interactive content and AI- assisted tools.

Course Design and Content Authoring

Adaptive Learning and Personalisation

Create personalized educational experiences that adapt to each learner’s performance. Deliver helpful content suggestions and reminders to learners with Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents.

Adaptive Learning and Personalization

Assessment and Feedback

Deliver better outcomes for learners by creating opportunities for practice, analysis and collaboration with various assignment types that they can use to demonstrate knowledge, provide feedback and apply their skills.

Assessment and Feedback

Collaboration and Communication

Enhance communication with learners through tools like Announcements and Activity Feed, enabling real- time updates and peer interaction. Learners can engage in discussions, share resources and build community within the platform.

Collaboration and Communication

Outcomes Learner Progress

Effortlessly oversee learning outcomes and ensure alignment with your learning goals from one platform. Experience the ease of a single dashboard that simplifies learner achievement reporting and fosters ongoing enhancement of the learning journey.

Outcomes Learner Progress

Lifelong Portfolio

Encourage learners to build digital portfolios that evolve over time, capturing evidence of learning through text, audio and video. Brightspace Portfolio supports reflection, feedback and sharing with educators and guardians.

Lifelong Portfolio

Learner Progress Dashboard

Learners can access powerful visualizations for engagement metrics, such as course activity, assignment status, and course history, for an individual learner across all their courses.

Learner Progress Dashboard

User Progress Analytics

Brightspace Insights dashboards provide visual analytics to monitor learner engagement, progress and performance across courses. These tools help educators and administrators make data- informed decisions.

User Progress Analytics

Badges and Awards

Issue digital badges and certificates to recognize learner achievements. Awards can be customized, shared externally and used to motivate learners throughout their educational journey.

Badges and Awards

Mobile Experience

Brightspace’ s mobile experience is designed to help maximize productivity for people on the go while providing a complete learning experience that can work on any device. Dedicated applications are also available so learners can check in easily.

Mobile Experience

Administration

Elevate your admin experience with easy-to-use tools, powerful insights and comprehensive support.

User and Role Management

Brightspace allows granular control over user roles and permissions, enabling administrators to create, assign, and customize roles across organizational units. Bulk user management and SIS integration streamline onboarding and access control.

Organisation and Site Configuration

Brightspace supports flexible organizational structures using customizable org units like departments, semesters, and course offerings. Admins can configure tool behavior, language settings and branding to match institutional needs.

Course Management and Templates

The Courses tool enables creation, copying and bulk editing of courses and templates. Templates help standardize course setup, linking offerings to departments and semesters for consistent delivery and easier administration.

Data Exchange Administration

Brightspace supports LIS v2.0 endpoints for secure data exchange with SIS platforms. Admins can configure bulk, outcome, and file download endpoints with authentication protocols like WS- Security and Basic Auth.

Data Hub

Data Hub provides access to Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) and Advanced Data Sets (ADS) for reporting and analysis. Admins can export data in CSV format, apply filters, and visualize relationships using ERDs for deeper insights.

Brightspace: Standards-Based, Secure, Extensible, and Privacy-First

D2L Brightspace is built to plug into complex learning and enterprise ecosystems—without compromising security, privacy, or accessibility.

  • Integrate and Extend

    Standards‑based APIs, plug‑ins, and LTI for seamless connections with LMSs, SIS/HRIS, content tools, and enterprise systems.

  • Privacy by Design

    Your data, your control. No advertising, no data selling. Brightspace supports major global privacy frameworks and gives institutions fine‑grained control over data handling and retention.

  • Enterprise‑Grade Security

    ISO 27001:2022, 27018, 27017, 27701, SOC 1 & 2 Type 2, and CSA STAR certified, with continuous monitoring and AWS‑backed infrastructure.

  • Accessible for All

    Designed to meet and exceed WCAG 2.1/2.2, Section 508, EN 301 549 and related standards, backed by a mature accessibility programme and transparent VPAT reporting.

  • Transparent and Accountable

    Full documentation, audit support, robust incident response, and a clear certification and compliance story.

Building with Brightspace

  • Step by step guidance from design to launch.
  • Single source technical documentation, sandbox environments, and dedicated technical support.
  • Clear integration paths for:
    • 1EdTech LTI Advantage
    • REST APIs
    • Custom JavaScript & extensions
  • Visibility for integrated solutions through the D2L IntegrationHub, where Brightspace customers can discover, evaluate, and adopt partner tools.

 

 

D2L Integrations

Developer Community of Practice

Join a vibrant network of developers, partners, and D2L experts. Access forums, blogs, code samples, and direct support channels to share knowledge, solve challenges, and accelerate your Brightspace integrations.

SIS & Rostering Standards (IPSIS)

Manage imports for users, courses, enrolments, and section/course associations through the IPSIS family of products.

Supported standards and options:

  • OneRoster (CSV/REST)
  • LIS v2.0
  • Ellucian ILP
  • D2L Standard CSV
  • Custom API integration
  • Integrate with any SIS/SRS/HRIS that can export CSV.

 

Capabilities:

  • Automated provisioning and de‑provisioning
  • Delta uploads and validation mode
  • Self‑serve admin mapping
  • Extensible handlers and background services for bulk and real‑time operations

1EdTech LTI Support

Brightspace is fully compliant with LTI Advantage Complete (v1.3):

  • Deep Linking v2.0
  • Assignment and Grade Services (AGS) v2.0
  • Names and Roles Provisioning Services (NRPS) v2.0
  • Legacy LTI versions (1.0, 1.1, 1.1.2) supported for backward compatibility.
  • Securely pass context, user, and course data between Brightspace and external tools while maintaining strong security and privacy controls.

Brightspace API & API Toolkit

Secure, RESTful APIs with OAuth 2.0.

Coverage includes users, courses, enrolments, grades, content, and more.

Open APIs licensed under Apache 2.0 and organized by resource for clarity and maintainability.

Developer tooling:

  • Detailed documentation
  • SDKs and shared code libraries
  • Ready‑made Postman collections
  • Browser‑based testing tools

Joint Certification with 1EdTech

D2L Brightspace is the first learning platform to offer joint partner certification with 1EdTech.

This makes it easier and faster for your custom plugins & eco-system ed-tech providers to join D2L Partner Program, and to:

  • Achieve and prove compliance with global interoperability standards (e.g., LTI Advantage).
  • Demonstrate a jointly recognised “stamp of quality” to institutional IT and procurement teams.

 

This collaboration reinforces D2L’s commitment to:

  • Supporting open, standards‑based ecosystems.
  • Removing barriers to interoperability for ed‑tech providers
  • Helping institutions adopt trusted, ecosystem‑ready solutions with confidence.
  • Offering institutions’ own teams and Plugin Builders a path to professionalization and building for an open & secure eco-system.

Custom Apps

Unlock endless possibilities with custom apps and integrations. Build bespoke apps and workflows on top of Brightspace’s APIs and SDKs.

Tailor integrations to institutional needs, from custom dashboards and workflows to deep product integrations.

Authentication & Service Accounts

OAuth 2.0 and SSO for secure, federated identity management.

Service account users enable safe automation and integration while preserving least‑privilege, role‑based access control.

D2L Link – Connect Beyond the LMS

Automate time-consuming manual tasks, ensure data accuracy and free up your team to focus on what matters most. Automate manual tasks, improve data accuracy, and streamline workflows, all delivered and maintained by D2L experts for reliable integration.

Pre‑built and custom connectors to:

  • CRM
  • HRIS
  • BI / Analytics platforms
  • Other enterprise and learning tools
  • Automate manual data flows, maintain accuracy, and reduce operational overhead.
  • Delivered and maintained by D2L, reducing the burden on institutional IT teams.

Enterprise-Grade Security

Certifications:

  • ISO 27001:2022, 27018, 27017, 27701
  • SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2
  • CSA STAR
  • Secure AWS infrastructure with continuous monitoring and regular risk assessments.

 

Best Practices:

  • SSO, TLS encryption
  • OWASP Top Ten‑aligned development
  • Robust backup and disaster recovery.

Comprehensive Privacy Commitment

No use of learner data for advertising; no sale of learner data.

  • Aligns with major privacy regulations: GDPR, UK GDPR, FERPA, COPPA, PIPEDA, LGPD, CCPA, PDPA, DPDPA, and more.
  • Data residency and hosting aligned with local legal requirements.
  • Transparent policies, incident response plans, and user/institutional control over data.

 

 

 

Privacy Center

Accessibility & Compliance

Accessibility‑first product development, including input from assistive technology users and a client‑led Accessibility Interest Group.

Compliance with:

  • WCAG 2.1 A/AA/AAA and moving toward WCAG 2.2
  • Section 508
  • EN 301 549
  • WAI‑ARIA guidelines
  • VPAT 2.4 INTL documentation and transparent reporting of exceptions and workarounds.

Active participation in 1EdTech standards and accessibility initiatives.

 

Accessibility at D2L

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