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D2L Lumi

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Smarter Quiz Insights for Meaningful Intervention

Lumi Insights gives you a clearer picture of student progress after each quiz. Understand learning patterns and take action when it counts.

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Quickly Align Quiz Questions to Learning Outcomes With AI

Save time when building quizzes. Lumi Outcomes uses AI to recommend outcome alignments, giving course creators a quicker way to ensure assessment quality.

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Save Time With Auto-Generated Feedback in Lumi Quiz

Generate questions and feedback in one step. Lumi Quiz now includes optional AI-generated feedback for multiple-choice, true-or-false and multi-select questions that educators can review and refine before publishing.

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Bring Your PDFs Into Lumi for Faster Content Creation

You can now use PDFs as input in Lumi Quiz, Lumi Ideas, Lumi Summary and Lumi Study Support. This gives you more flexibility when creating content using your existing materials.

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Adapt Page Content for Any Learner With AI

Support more inclusive learning with AI-powered tools that help simplify or enhance Page content. The new “Modify With AI” option allows authors to personalize content for different learners while keeping full control over edits.

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New Ways to Start and Manage Ideas in Lumi

It’s now easier to select and work with course activities in Lumi Ideas. You can generate ideas from assignments and discussions, even if they aren’t in Content, and you’ll see helpful icons and prompts that guide you through the process.

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Turn Insights Into Action With Suggested Interventions

Lumi Insights now offers recommended next steps such as reaching out to students or updating quiz content so it’s easier to take meaningful action.

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Create Questions More Easily With Updated Lumi Quiz Layout

Lumi Quiz has a new, more intuitive layout for generating questions. It’s now easier to select topics, choose question types and preview what content is ready to use.

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Smarter Activity Selection With Lumi Study Support

Lumi Study Support now helps you choose activities more confidently, with icons and a new info panel that clearly show what’s available for learner recommendations.

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Better Control and Clarity When Using Lumi Summary

Lumi Summary now makes it easier to know what can be summarized. Clear icons and labels help you choose the right content, while new editing tools let you fine-tune the input before generating summaries.

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Modify Quiz Question Complexity With AI

A new “Modify With AI” button lets course creators adjust the complexity of quiz questions for different learner needs. Instructors remain in control, with full preview and review of AI-suggested changes.

D2L Brightspace

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PIE Idea

Easily Print Quizzes
From Brightspace

Instructors can now generate printable versions of quizzes directly in Brightspace, including support for shuffling, question pools, multiple versions and an answer key. A simple way to meet in-person or paper-based assessment needs.

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Process Assignments Your Way

Brightspace assignments can now be evaluated for AI use, originality, grammar and more using trusted third-party tools, which can be easily connected through new integration options.

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Easily Re-Offer Courses for Retraining or Recertification

Re-offer lets you reuse existing course content for new training cycles, certifications or semesters without rebuilding from scratch.

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Capture More Feedback in Rubric Data

The feedback field in the Rubric Assessment Criteria Brightspace Data Set has been expanded from 1,000 to 4,000 characters. This update supports deeper reporting and gives institutions more flexibility when capturing and analyzing detailed feedback.

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Improved Course Creation Without Semester Requirements

IPSIS D2L Standard CSV 3.1 gives you more flexibility by removing the need to specify semesters when creating or updating course offerings. This update supports institutions that don’t follow a need a traditional term structure, making it easier to manage courses.

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Control Course
Visibility

Gain more control over course visibility by creating new courses as inactive through IPSIS OneRoster integrations. Administrators and educators can decide when to make courses visible, ensuring they appear at the right time.

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Control What Learners See During Quizzes

Instructors can now choose to hide question point values within quizzes using a new option in the Timing & Display settings. This update gives instructors more control over quiz presentations and learner experience.

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Assignments and Discussions Now Match Visibility Settings in New Content Experience

Availability settings like “hidden” or “visible with restricted access” are now properly reflected in New Content Experience, making content management clearer for instructors.

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Manage How Content Appears When It’s Unavailable

Instructors can now choose whether unavailable content is hidden entirely or visible but locked in the Table of Contents which gives you more control over how learners view upcoming or past materials.

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A Faster Way to Access Admin Tools

Quickly access your most-used admin tools and search for others with ease using the new administration tools menu in Brightspace. Designed to simplify navigation and save time for administrators.

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Empower Sub-Admins to Create
and Manage Courses in Their
Own Organization Units

Sub-organization admins can now create, edit and delete courses using Course Management and Course Updater. This gives them more control without relying on central admins.

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Easier Organization Unit Management for Distributed Teams

Administrators at the sub-organization level can now manage their own organizational unit structure directly in the Org Unit Editor. This makes it easier for distributed teams to stay organized without needing help from a system administrator.

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Create Larger Groups for Bigger Classes

You can now create groups with up to 3000 users in Brightspace. This change applies to all enrollment methods and helps support high-enrollment courses and training programs.

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Build Reusable Course Templates Using Source Courses

Streamline training and certification workflows with Source Courses. Admins can create a single course model to update and deploy content across multiple course offerings.

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Strengthen School-Home Communication

Streamline parent-teacher communication with new email options in Brightspace. Teachers can now email all parents in a class, target specific groups or message students and their parents together. This makes it easier to keep families informed and engaged.

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Improved Navigation for Outcomes Across Brightspace

Outcomes are now grouped into sets across Brightspace, helping instructors and administrators quickly find the right outcomes when building courses or setting conditions. This makes the experience more intuitive and easier to manage.

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See ASN Outcomes
in the Achievement Dashboard

ASN-aligned outcomes added to an Outcome Set now appear in the Outcome Achievement Dashboard when aligned and assessed. This enhancement supports more complete, program-level reporting across your courses.

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Create and Manage Service Accounts Separately From Other Users

Service users can now be created, viewed and managed separately in Brightspace. This supports better integration management.

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New Support for Non-Graded Quiz Questions

Add questions that don’t count toward a student’s score. Use zero-point questions to gather input, set expectations or guide learners without affecting the quiz grade.

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Automate Parent Emails With Intelligent Agents

Educators and admins can now add parent or guardian emails to Intelligent Agent rules. This makes it easy to send timely, one-way updates that keep them informed without extra work.

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Secure, Scalable API Access Without Manual Logins

Developers can use server-to-server authentication to access Brightspace APIs without requiring a manual login. This enables more reliable and scalable integration workflows.

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Flexible Naming Options Now Available in New Content Experience

Use terminology that fits your institution’s needs. You can now rename Units, Lessons and Folders to terms like Modules and Submodules in the New Content Experience.

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Create, Organize and Scale Content

Build and manage learning content in one dedicated space. Whether creating from scratch or re-using proven materials, Createspace supports versioning, collaboration, AI-powered authoring and seamless deployment to Brightspace courses.

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Full-Screen Reading and Navigation in Course Content

The new Immersive View lets learners hide navigation bars and the Table of Contents while reading content, or switch to a full-screen Table of Contents for a clear overview of the course.

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More Flexibility for Sub-Org Admins to Customize Course Layouts

With new permissions, sub-organization admins can now set default homepages, navbars and themes for their own courses. It’s an easy way to customize the look and feel of the learning experience at scale.

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Support Local Control of Grade Schemes

Make grading more flexible across your organization. Local admins can choose what grading scale best fits their courses.

Creator+ and H5P

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Quickly Find and Create H5P Interactives

Course authors can find the right H5P interactive more easily. Choose the type you want, then jump straight into creating with no extra steps needed.

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Decide if H5P Interactives Count Toward Grades

Manage grading more easily by choosing whether H5P interactives added to an HTML page should be linked to the gradebook. The option appears right at the time of embedding.

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Simpler Workflow for Inserting H5P Interactives

Instructors can now add H5P interactives more easily with a clear, standalone option in the Page editor, making it faster and simpler to embed interactive activities.

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H5P Items Now Display Clearly in Course Navigation

H5P interactives now appear with their own logo in the Table of Contents, making them easier to spot and distinguish from other LTI content.

Performance +

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Beta

Built-In Dashboards.
Custom Insights.

Unlock key insights faster with ready-to-use dashboards that highlight participation, engagement and LMS usage. Turn your data into action.