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1. Worry-free technology
Do you want a secure, reliable learning experience that works consistently on any mobile device? You’ve come to the right place.
Offer anywhere, anytime learning—on any device
Meet the needs of today’s on-the-go learner. Brightspace is designed for the mobile world—and the platform can be accessed from any mobile device for a true anywhere, anytime, any device learning experience. Our beautiful apps and responsive design are inspired by thousands of design sessions conducted with learners and instructors.
When we hosted our system on-premises, we spent a lot of time on administrative work. Brightspace is updated monthly, allowing CCNB to get the latest tools as quickly as possible, pushed out automatically across all devices. But because of incremental changes, they are better able to help faculty and students to get used to new updates. Because of continuous delivery, we can focus our own IT resources on developing new course content instead of troubleshooting technical issues.
It is clean, modern, responsive and tablet-friendly. It is what people expect today. We think it helped with adoption.
– Michel Marcheterre, Manager of Learning Technology Systems and Network, uOttawa
Having an LMS that is available to all, on all devices, that is accessible, and works across all devices and at various times of the day and night is essential. We have a student body where many individuals are also working. They have to try to squeeze things in related to their schooling while riding the bus or in-between shifts. That is the reality of student life today.
– Dr. Shawna Dark, Associate VP of Academic Technologies, California State University
Realize awesome uptime
Give your faculty and learners a rock-solid and reliable learning platform. Brightspace delivers better than 99.9% uptime and our architecture is the best in the industry for disaster recovery. Even our monthly updates and enhancements are delivered without downtime.
So, when updates do happen, they are completely predictable and totally within your control. You decide when to turn them on.
Easily integrate into your IT ecosystem
Blend the Brightspace LMS into your unique IT ecosystem and create the ideal digital confederation of tools, content, and applications. Unlike other “walled garden” LMS platforms, Brightspace is open and includes source code libraries and standards-based integrations. This open approach means you maintain easy access to your data through APIs, can download critical datasets, and can incorporate timely insights into your day-to-day workflows.
Rely on world-class security
With an impressive track record of security leadership, D2L is the only leading higher ed learning platform that is ISO27001- and ISO27018-certified. We’re also a proud member of the Cloud Security Alliance.
2. Put learners first
You’re driven to help your learners succeed. So are we.
Personalize learning
Ensure all learners reach their full potential with personalized learning from Brightspace.
Allow learners to learn on their terms, proceed through content at their own pace, and access learning from any device.
Easily deliver personalized feedback to keep learners motivated, on track, and engaged.
Guide a learner’s mastery of subject matter and core competencies.
Encourage collaboration and community by making it easy for learners to connect, participate in forums and discussions, and view each other’s profiles.
Use portfolios to reflect on learning, showcase growth, and celebrate achievements.
Identify and track high-risk learners and let Brightspace proactively alert you when to step in and offer help.
We are concerned with the stress students face using technology. Brightspace is reliable and consistent, which defers the stress.
– Michael Amick, VP of Distance Education, Pima Community College
Conditional releases help us liberate students from linear, cookie-cutter course design. By setting up 'success conditions,' we can automatically restrict information and activities until each student is ready. The result is a warmer, more personalized experience.
One company that has made a lasting commitment to accessibility is D2L (Desire2Learn). D2L serves as an example of what can be done by a company that makes accessibility one of its ground rules. In 2013, D2L was honored with a Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award, the highest award presented by the National Federation of the Blind to organizations and individuals whose innovations have enhanced the lives of blind people.
– National Federation of the Blind
We needed an LMS that could provide a reliable environment for our students. Brightspace has definitely been that.
– Carlos Carrillo, Director of Learning Management Systems and Services, Pima Community College
Provide next-generation accessibility
Brightspace is built using the most current accessibility standards, and is inspired by D2L’s culture of inclusion and the belief that disabilities should never pose an obstacle to learning.
Fully compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA standards and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, 1973.
Built-in accessibility checker for content, quizzing, and discussions.
Our accessibility strategy is informed by our Brightspace Community’s Accessibility Interest Group.
D2L is a long-standing member of the National Federation of the Blind’s Strategic Nonvisual Access Partnership (SNAP) program (now the Centre of Excellence in Nonvisual Access (CENA)).
D2L is a participant in the Competencies Development and Review Committee of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals as well as the W3C Silver Community Group formulating a new version of Accessibility Guidelines, and a member of the Ontario government’s Post-secondary Education Accessibility Standards Development Committee.
Motivate learners to achieve
Keep your learner on track, engaged, and stress-free.
Send positive reinforcement and helpful, friendly messages to keep learners motivated and moving forward.
Allow learners to see their progress and access their grades whenever they choose via classroom dashboards.
Provide timely and personalized in-the-moment feedback to encourage engagement and retention.
Give your modern learners a modern learning platform
Connect and motivate modern learners to succeed with an engaging and social learning experience.
Create engagement with video, game-based learning, virtual or augmented reality, and adaptive competency-based learning.
Reward progress and accomplishments with gamification, awards, and badges.
Allow learners to virtually collaborate and interact with their instructors and peers through discussion forums.
3. Enhance teaching success
Built by educators for educators, Brightspace will make you more productive and save you time while improving your students learning experiences.
Focus on what’s important:
teaching and supporting your learners
Brightspace makes it easy for instructors to complete common tasks such as:
Select a platform that will grow with you
Just getting started with Brightspace? No worries. Feel free to explore the platform at your own pace, and get started with simple features such as drag-and-drop content and a quiz builder.
And if you are a power user, we’re ready to support you as well. Brightspace’s advanced features include fast rollover to the new semester with auto-adjust for dates, personalization of feedback with automated messages, and quick setup of group activities and virtual assistants.
Offer learners efficient, timely, and meaningful grading and feedback
Quickly assess your learners’ work and provide feedback across all courses from Brightpace’s centralized assessment hub.
Provide in-line annotations on documents and grade assignments offline with the grader app.
Access rubrics on your mobile phone to assess learners in the field.
Provide in-the-moment personalized feedback via audio and video.
Having worked with many Learning Management Systems’, Brightspace is the most effective platform to deliver a CBE program. We’re excited to see how D2L is embracing innovative education solutions to help our students to truly succeed.
– James Fountain, Executive Director for the ICBE, A&M-Commerce
The partnership between SAIT and D2L has played a critical role in helping us increase student engagement with our digital learning platform, and we’re excited to see the impact on retention rates.
– Bradley Ackroyd, Manager, Center for Learning and Teaching, SAIT
I absolutely love the audio-video tool for personalizing the experience. Some of the feedback about it from students is mind-blowing. They say it feels like someone is there talking to them about their assignment instead of scribbling notes all over their work and it makes them want to try harder.
– Dr. Jaclyn Broadbent, Lecturer in Health Psychology, Deakin University
Keep learners informed and engaged
Give your learners the information they need to succeed and one place to receive updates with Brightspace’s dynamic activity feed. Easily post announcements, links to content, and assignments on a single page without having to juggle multiple tools.
Continue to use your favorite classroom tools
Continue to use the familiar tools you and your learners love. Build and incorporate content from Google Docs™, YouTube™ videos and weblinks—and then drop it right into your course.
4. Improve learning outcomes
Inspire your learners and motivate them to take ownership of their education.
Keep your learners on track
Quickly see early indicators of learner engagement, easily spot those needing help, and intervene early.
Access meaningful classroom insights to spot at-risk learners and to monitor student progression toward learning outcomes.
Check what learners already know (or don’t know) so you can deliver the right content and questions at the right time.
Automate reminders to provide a helpful nudge or inspire learners to reach their full potential.
Brightspace technology is flexible, so we knew we could be creative. We were able to inject some fun aspects you wouldn’t see on a university MOOC and give students meaningful options. We created a course that personalizes learning paths within a comprehensive structure—that’s what a great MOOC is all about.
We enabled intelligent agents so that the system could respond to certain student actions—or inactions—without the need for manual instructor intervention in every case. We know that feedback is most valuable when it arrives quickly, and this tool helps us deliver individualized responses, including the final letter of completion, almost instantaneously.
Personalize your feedback
Send personalized feedback to learners using automated, scheduled messaging based on specific criteria, for instance, submission of an assignment or passing a quiz.
Create engaging content, fast
Quickly create engaging course content incorporating video, virtual classrooms, game-based learning, awards, and badging.
Not quite sure where to start? D2L’s Learning & Creative Services team can help. They’ll work with you to review and enhance your existing course modules, apply best practices, and help you build custom homepages and engaging HTML templates.
Showcase your learners’ learning
Boost learner confidence and engagement and give learners an easy way to demonstrate their learning and showcase accomplishments to faculty, peers, and employers by using portfolios.
5. Partner with a learning expert
Engage with D2L’s experts education and pedagogy. We’re committed to supporting you in ways you might not expect from a technology provider. And we’ve been doing it for 20 years.
Begin with a success plan unique to you
Realize your institution’s goals, broaden LMS adoption, and improve learner engagement and goals. We’ll develop a success plan aligned to your institution’s unique goals and geared to helping you address your strategic and tactical needs.
Work with a customer-driven company
Engage with a company that puts its customers first. Our customers are at the center of our design and development process and the most important members of our development team. Brightspace is built with customer feedback and continually enhanced with thousands of design sessions with learners and faculty representing hundreds of educational institutions.
Monthly product updates incorporate ideas directly from our customers.
Customer input and feedback are incorporated at every step of the Brightspace product development process from early ideation to early access.
I appreciate how collaborative D2L is—they’re so responsive to my needs. We work in a continual process of revision on the Brightspace platform, always thinking about what’s working, what could be improved, and what additional tools are necessary. It’s refreshing to have a technology partner that’s driving innovation forward, tailoring education to the needs of students and teachers alike.
– Dr. Jaclyn Broadbent, Lecturer in Health Psychology, Deakin University
D2L is more than an LMS vendor. The company shares a common value with CSULB — a commitment to quality education. So the decision to stay with Brightspace was a comfortable decision from a partnership perspective.
– Dr. Shawna Dark, Associate VP of Academic Technologies, California State University
D2L is an education partner that is willing to help develop the tools SNHU needs now, and for the future.
– Gerry Fulbrook, AVP of Academic Technologies, Southern New Hampshire University
Ready to reimagine learning?
More than just an LMS, Brightspace Core combines the tools and support you need to offer a great teaching and learning experience for students and faculty.