Employee Onboarding

New Hires Aren’t Getting Productive Fast Enough

D2L Brightspace LMS helps organisations create structured, engaging onboarding experiences that accelerate time-to-productivity and prepare employees for success from day one.

56.9%
Increase in learner engagement

Source: Global employee training organisation
6x
Faster employee onboarding experience

Source: Dematic
45.2%
Increase in learners going through onboarding training

Source: Global employee training organisation

The Challenge

Why New Hires Struggle to Get Up to Speed

Accelerating Time to New Hire Productivity
New hires take too long to become productive and contribute independently.

Delivering Consistent Onboarding at Scale
Providing a consistent onboarding experience across teams, locations and delivery models is complex and difficult.

Creating New Hire Engagement and Retention
Many onboarding programmes fail to keep new hires engaged and connected from day one.

Measuring Onboarding Success
Organisations struggle to measure readiness, competency development and onboarding effectiveness.

What Sets D2L Brightspace Apart

Employee Onboarding Designed to Overcome the Biggest Barriers to Workforce Readiness

D2L Brightspace helps organizations address the most common onboarding challenges by delivering personalized learning experiences, engaging content and actionable insights at scale, helping new hires become productive faster.

Personalized Onboarding Journeys

D2L Brightspace help organizations guide employees through onboarding, reinforce key knowledge and accelerate workforce readiness with AI.

Progress and Readiness Insights

Actionable analytics help organizations identify learning gaps, measure onboarding effectiveness and support workforce readiness with confidence.

AI-Powered Onboarding

D2L Lumi helps organizations create content faster, generate knowledge checks, streamline onboarding workflows and scale learning experiences—while maintaining security, privacy and complete control over their data.

Engaging Learning Experiences

AI-powered learning support helps employees access information, practice skills and stay on track throughout onboarding.

We’ve also got much more flexibility and scalability—plus we can reach more people without increasing staffing or classroom-related costs.

Colin Moran National Training and Education Manager, Irish Rugby Football Union

With Brightspace we can make their onboarding much more relevant, which makes it more engaging.

Sam Moen Technical Specialist and LMS Coordinator, Element Technical Services

With Brightspace, we have created an engaging, self-paced and collaborative onboarding experience that is designed to coach employees through every step of their employment.

Courtney Daponte Project Manager, Residence Life, Campus Living Centres

Better Outcomes at Every Stage of the Employee Onboarding Journey

People Managers

More visibility into employee progress. Better support for coaching, development and performance conversations.

HR and L&D Teams

Scalable onboarding programs. Faster content creation with D2L Lumi. Consistent learning experiences across roles and locations, with AI-powered capabilities that help reduce administrative effort and accelerate program development.

Leadership

Accelerated time-to-productivity. Improved employee retention. Greater confidence that employees are prepared to contribute and perform from day one. AI-powered efficiencies, actionable insights and enterprise-grade security help organizations scale onboarding while maintaining complete control over their data.

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It’s been a very positive experience from start to finish. Everyone we’ve dealt with along the way provided immense support. Pauline DwyerCentre ManagerIINH