Platform

Uptime, privacy and security

Nothing is more important to us than the privacy and security of your data. We have a security and privacy compliance track record through obtaining a combination of ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27701 certifications.
We also consistently deliver >99.95% global uptime and provide 24×7 access, to help see that Brightspace is available when users depend on it most—such as during peak times like the start of academic terms.

Flexibility and scalability

Higher education institutions are understandably scrutinising every investment. Although many have a desire to invest in their future and do things differently, any spend needs to offer flexibility and scalability.

Brightspace can help support multiple delivery models and formats. It offers 13 1EdTech open standards integrations, for greater interoperability. D2L’s commitment to 1EdTech product certifications and open standards means you can have more choice and flexibility to connect Brightspace with thousands of products all to help create a better user experience and reduce costs.

D2L’s microservices-based architecture can help make Brightspace faster, flexible and scalable. This can also make it easier to integrate APIs or access the platform across more end-user devices such as desktops, mobile devices and wearables.

User experience

One of the last things you want when migrating to a new LMS is low faculty adoption rates and a complex user experience for educators and students. With teaching staff stretched for time and resources, everyone should both want to and be able to use your platform.

Brightspace can support the full software adoption lifecycle, meaning no matter the technical expertise of your team we can help personalise the user experience of our platform to help cater to your institution’s needs.

Access and accessibility

Universities should cater to their students’ needs by recognising diversity with respect to factors such as ability, age, gender, language and culture. Brightspace can help enable this by delivering an experience that can reach each learner.

Brightspace can offer a better experience through the flexibility of the organisational structure and the roles and permissions tools which can allow administrators to manage learning in various ways for different types of learners, without creating burdensome workloads.

We offer multiple opportunities to help create spaces that support collaboration and social learning practices, for example. Communities can be created for cross-functional groups—with discussions and project areas that can support asynchronous collaborative exercises. Additionally, multiple discussions can be created so users can browse and participate in relevant forums.

Making the learning experience more accessible can help learners, including those with temporary or situational conditions that may pose barriers to accessing a learning platform or participating in learning. Embracing inclusive teaching methods can also help to attract and retain a more diverse range of students and may deliver higher outcomes for learners.

D2L’s commitment to accessibility and transparency sets us apart. We integrate the latest global accessibility standards into our product processes and openly report on our compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Level AAA standards.

Personalised learning

Modern learning experiences should offer maximum choice and flexibility without sacrificing personalisation and scalability, and Brightspace is equipped to help facilitate this. Release Conditions, for example, can help create custom learning pathways. By attaching a release condition to an item, you can see that learners are not able to view that particular item until they have met the associated condition—for example, needing to have viewed all content on Topic 1 before gaining access to Topic 2.

Intelligent Agents can also be used to help support positive reinforcement or to flag any potential issues. For example, emailing learners whose grades are below a certain level or automatically checking in with users that haven’t logged in for a certain length of time. This can free up time for teaching staff to focus more on research and driving better student outcomes and less on admin-intensive tasks. We believe your LMS should improve staff well-being and job satisfaction as well as communication with your students—and that’s where Brightspace can shine.

Advanced analytics

The use of analytics can help you understand the data available at your fingertips and help make decisions that can positively impact student success and the overall quality of the education that your institution can provide. For example, with the help of Achievement+ you can align activities and assessments with learning outcomes, and better report on mastery or achievement at various levels of your institution – all through a centralised dashboard.

Brightspace can help put data and measurement at the heart of the teaching and learning experience to better enable conversations around usage, engagement, adoption, assessment and more. You can access course-and-programme-based analytics for students and instructors via built-in User Progress Dashboards, Class Progress Dashboards and Inline Tool Reports, as well as system-wide analytics through our Data Hub or APIs. Data Hub can provide administrators the flexibility to extract raw data from over 100 datasets to filter, aggregate and transform the data or push into a business intelligence solution to help create interactive visualisations.

Levelling up further, D2L’s advanced analytics tool, Performance+, can provide a strategic view through rich visual dashboards and an integrated business intelligence tool to help measure adoption, engagement and achievement—both within individual courses and across the organisation. This can help administrators and educators act on insights quickly to keep everyone on track.