Reduce Teacher Workload
Help Teachers Spend Less Time Managing Work and More Time Teaching
D2L Brightspace helps reduce administrative friction so educators can stay focused on teaching, supporting students, and creating better learning experiences.
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60%
Reduction in assessment workload
Source: Michigan Virtual -
25%
Teacher time saved
Source: Maine Virtual Academy -
94%
Teacher retention rate
Source: Gwinnett Online Campus
Disconnected Platforms Multiply Administrative Overhead
When content, grading, communication, and progress data live in separate systems, teachers spend hours navigating between platforms instead of focusing on instruction. Every extra login is lost instructional time.
Manual Grading and Feedback Steals Time From Students
Repetitive assessment tasks pile up. Feedback gets delayed. Providing timely, meaningful feedback can become difficult when assessment workloads continue to grow.
Inconsistent Tools Can Create Inconsistent Student Experiences
When lesson planning and communication tools are fragmented, students get different experiences depending on which teacher they have, not which district they are in.
Burnout Drives Turnover. Turnover Costs Districts.
Teachers who are stretched too thin leave. Replacing them is expensive, disruptive, and sets back the students who needed continuity most.
What Sets D2L Brightspace Apart
Built to Support Educators, Not Add to Their Load
Brightspace is designed around how educators actually work. The goal is not to add another platform. It is to reduce the friction that comes from the ones already there.
Build Better Lessons in Less Time
Creator+ and D2L Lumi help educators create interactive, accessible content using intuitive workflows, reusable templates, and AI-supported tools, without starting from scratch every time.
Streamlined Grading and Feedback
Integrated assessment tools reduce manual effort, speed up feedback cycles, and surface learner progress in one place. Less processing time means more time for the teaching that matters.
One Environment for Everything
Content, communication, assessment, and progress monitoring in a single platform. Fewer tabs, fewer logins, fewer places for things to fall through.
AI That Saves Time Without Adding Complexity
D2L Lumi is built to do specific things faster: draft content, surface insights, reduce repetitive effort. Less overhead, not different overhead.
Impact
Time Back, for Everyone.
Teachers
- Less time on admin, more time with students
- Faster content creation and grading
- Feedback that is timely enough to matter
School Leaders
- Consistent instructional tools across classrooms
- Reduced platform fragmentation and training overhead
- Retention benefits from a supported teaching staff
District Leaders
- Measurable time savings across the educator workforce
- Reduced burnout and turnover costs
- A system that scales without scaling the admin burden
Help Teachers Reclaim Time for What Matters Most
Brightspace has helped to streamline workloads. For instance, teachers can easily re-purpose existing course content and lesson goals, which means that they can spend more time with students and less time planning.Evan OBranovicExecutive Director of TechnologyTraverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS)