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Brightspace’s end-user support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The fact that students have a place to go at 11 pm on a Saturday is huge.Mark SchneiderDirector of learning technology and AI strategyNorthern Alberta Institute of Technology
D2L Brightspace is built to plug into complex learning and enterprise ecosystems—without compromising security, privacy, or accessibility.
Standards‑based APIs, plug‑ins, and LTI for seamless connections with LMSs, SIS/HRIS, content tools, and enterprise systems.
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.
ISO 27001:2022, 27018, 27017, 27701, SOC 1 & 2 Type 2, and CSA STAR certified, with continuous monitoring and AWS‑backed infrastructure.
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.
Full documentation, audit support, robust incident response, and a clear certification and compliance story.
“The impact Brightspace has had is peace of mind for everybody – for faculty to know that it’s a cloud-based product that has good infrastructure, that’s solid, reliable, it doesn’t go down.”
Open-source flexibility shouldn’t mean custom code every time you want two systems to talk to each other. Brightspace gives your team standards-based, supported ways to connect the tools your institution already relies on — and build new ones.
Download our Brightspace Integration Map – a full architecture reference covering APIs, LTI Advantage, SIS and rostering connectors, SSO, and the custom app framework.
Multiple platforms required for authoring, engagement, assessment, analytics and accessibility — none of them fully connected.
Time and effort spent connecting and maintaining systems diverts IT from work that actually moves the institution forward.
Different tools, interfaces, and workflows across courses means students and faculty never develop confidence in the environment.
Licensing, training, and vendor support across multiple platforms adds up quickly — often without a clear picture of total spend.
Every additional platform, integration and vendor relationship introduces new security, privacy and governance considerations.
“If you really enjoy the coding aspect, you’re not losing that going to Brightspace. You don’t lose the ability to build fun, innovative things. It’s just you’re not building everything. You get a really solid foundation, and then you can actually build good additional solutions on top of that.”
Moving off self-hosted doesn’t mean losing control of your environment. Brightspace gives admins granular governance and full data transparency — D2L manages the infrastructure risk, your team keeps the configuration authority.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
“We completed a VLE unification project where we migrated 9,000 students, 650 staff and two and a half thousand Moodle courses to our Brightspace instance, so we now have a single VLE for TU Dublin and the level of support from D2L made all the difference in our transition.”
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