Don’t Manage Learning, Unleash It
Powerful tools. Best-in-class service and support. High-quality, customizable content. Help unlock learner potential with Brightspace, your all-in-one solution for creating personalized learning at scale.
Join a community of more than 500 universities and colleges already using Brightspace.
The Tools You Need to Help Transform Teaching and Learning
Time is not a renewable resource. Protect yours with an easy-to-use platform that can facilitate meaningful feedback and mastery-based progression while supporting every learner’s unique journey.
Works for Students, Grows With You
A learning innovation platform packed with features to help you digitize, optimize and transform the learning experience.
Digitize
Digitize Classrooms
Today’s tech-savvy students and faculty expect modern learning experiences that offer maximum choice and flexibility—even in face-to-face courses.
Give them what they need to succeed.
Content Experience
An intuitive interface and built-in templates make it easy for instructors to design courses, create content and grade assignments.
Outcomes-based Assessments
Connect curriculum expectations to learning activities, assess students against those expectations and view progress over time.
Video Note
Students can record short videos and add them anywhere the Brightspace editor is available. To ensure all students can learn without barriers, closed captions are automatically created.
Mobile-first Design
Brightspace has been built with a responsive design that adapts to any screen size, paired with mobile apps to optimize common tasks.
Accessibility
Award-winning accessibility features make it easy for students to navigate tools using assistive technologies.
Progress Dashboards
View, compare, and track class and student performance at a glance.
Discussion Boards
Encourage students to share thoughts on course material with their peers. Set up forums, discuss course content and assignments, and work together in assigned groups and sections.
Optimize
Optimize Outcomes
Faculty can motivate students to succeed by taking advantage of Brightspace’s built-in opportunities to engage.
Make use of the tools that can help improve student outcomes.
Gradebook and Mastery View
Set up a grading system and connect it to your learning activities in the Gradebook. View and understand student achievements related to each course outcome with Mastery View.
Advanced Analytics and Reporting in Performance+
Interact with your data by using powerful dashboards in our Performance+ add-on package. Create reports and visualizations, and communicate results effectively across your institution.
Awards, Badges and Certificates
Issue merit-based awards as students progress through learning materials to acknowledge accomplishments and progress throughout a course or program.
Peer Review
Using Video Assignments, expose students to multiple perspectives by having them give and receive feedback on their peers’ videos.
Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics and visual diagnostics in our Performance+ add-on package can help instructors identify at-risk students and take action to help them improve.
Rubrics
Create rubrics at the organization, department or course level (or use existing ones) to help streamline your grading workflow.
Transform
Transform Experiences
Personalize learning to help students succeed, no matter what challenges they may face in their educational journey.
Rethink the way a modern education is delivered.
Release Conditions
Create a custom learning path through your course by automatically releasing enrichment or remedial content based on learner achievement.Automatic Nudges
Automate reminders to provide a helpful nudge to keep learners on track and inspire them to reach their full potential.Portfolios
Empower students to capture photos or videos of their learning as it happens, record their thoughts and reflections, and then share them with instructors. This helps demonstrate growth over time against learning outcomes.Course Publisher
Enable content providers to distribute courses to any learning management system (LMS) while maintaining complete control and supporting a seamless learner experience.Annotations
Annotate document submissions inside your course without having to download anything.Audio and Video Feedback
Provide meaningful feedback on audio and video assignment submissions using built-in annotation tools.The Benefits of Brightspace, at a Glance
Built for people who care deeply about helping all learners reach their potential.
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Access
Learn at an individual pace, anytime—and on any device.
Personalize
Engage students with timely, personalized feedback that supports growth and development.
Autonomy
Teach the way you want (with the tools you love) on a flexible platform you can make your own.
Efficiency
Automate administrative tasks and help free up time to personalize the student learning experience.
Transform
Easily transform the physical classroom experience into a high-quality online learning experience.
Centralize
Support credit, non-credit and professional development goals on a single platform.
Partnership
Thrive in an educators’ community that grows with you to support the future of learning.
Experience
Reach your institutional goals faster with a partner that brings more than 20 years of institutional experience.
Harness the Power of Partnership
From migration to course design and everything in between, we’re here to help you maximize your results.
Onboard and Launch
We support a seamless transition to Brightspace with our personalized, people-first approach.
Customer Success and Technical Support
Once you’re up and running, we’ll help make sure your momentum doesn’t plateau.
Learning and Creative Services
We’re here to help you build a transformative learning experience—one of the hardest things you can do.
D2L Customers Are Transforming the Way Their Students Learn
But don’t just take our word for it.
Frequently Asked Questions
We currently partner with 570 universities and colleges, including The State University of New York, Southern New Hampshire University, Victoria University, Carleton University, the University of Suffolk, the University of Cape Town and Purdue University Global.
You don’t have to sacrifice any of your current tools to use Brightspace—it’s an entirely plug-and-play LMS. We were the first commercial LMS certified for IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability and IMS Learning Information Services (LIS), and we currently lead the industry in IMS Global certifications. With Brightspace, it’s possible to seamlessly mix and match multiple applications within your institution’s digital learning ecosystem. Our commitment to IMS Global product certifications and open standards also means you get more choice and flexibility to connect Brightspace with thousands of products to create a seamless user experience and enhance data privacy.
Moving existing courses in your current LMS to Brightspace isn’t difficult. Our bulk migration tools make it easy to move hundreds—or hundreds of thousands—of courses in a single batch. That migration process can efficiently run behind the scenes of your system at night—with no manual effort required. Additionally, you’ll have the support of our change management experts, who can make switching to Brightspace a breeze. Learn more about smoothly switching to Brightspace here.
Powerful alone, but even better together.
Access Robust Analytics With Performance+
Improve student outcomes and performance with adaptive, predictive and advanced analytics tools.
Spark Inspiration With Creator+
Support educators in the efficient development of better learning experiences through engaging course content.Services and Support
Whether you’re a first-time or a long-term customer, our services and support can be personalized to your needs to ensure success at every step.Getting started with D2L Brightspace is easy
Our team is ready to help you reshape the future of education.