Continuing Education
Make Career-Relevant Learning Easier to Access and Complete
D2L Brightspace, alongside Eduframe or Course Merchant, unifies course creation, delivery, personalization, e-commerce and insights, making it easier for learners to find, purchase and complete career-relevant learning—while helping your institution expand access, improve outcomes and grow with confidence.
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85%
term-to-term completion rate
Source: Texas A&M -
90
Noncredit online courses grown from an initial offering of only a few
Source: Michigan State University Extension -
8,500
Registrations achieved in one year
Source: Michigan State University Extension
Complex Enrollment Creates Friction
Adult learners expect a straightforward path from discovery to registration. Complicated purchasing and enrollment processes can cause prospective learners to abandon their plans before a course even begins.
Learner Needs Don’t Fit One Standard Path
Continuing education serves people with different goals, schedules, experience levels and accessibility needs. Fixed pathways and inflexible formats make it harder to deliver personalized learning at scale.
Content Demands Move Faster Than Program Teams Can
Workforce needs and learner expectations change quickly. When courses take too long to build or update, institutions can struggle to respond with timely, engaging offerings.
Disconnected Systems Create Costly Blind Spots
When commerce, course delivery and performance data are siloed, teams waste valuable time chasing information and fixing inconsistencies instead of improving programs. Leaders lack the visibility they need to understand enrollment, completion and ROI—making it harder to act quickly, allocate resources and grow with confidence.
Scale with Brightspace & Eduframe
A Solution Built to Connect the Enterprise Continuing Education Ecosystem
Looking to scale your continuing education operations beyond streamlined online registration and payments? Move from a fragmented to a frictionless experience for learners and staff with Eduframe. Eduframe is the Continuing Education SIS & Registration Platform built for enterprise CE. It connects learners, programs, modalities, e-commerce and operations while automating workflows and integrating with your wider institutional ecosystem, all on the Brightspace LMS foundation.
Scale Your Continuing Education Business
Deliver a seamless learner journey from discovery, registration and payment through Brightspace access and completion. Support growth with portals, private courses and bulk enrollment, while offering stackable credentials and certificate programs that span individual courses to full programs. Manage multi-campus and school operations across both credit and noncredit offerings.
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Save Time and Improve Accuracy
Support online, hybrid and in-person delivery with room and resource scheduling, while launching programs faster through reusable course and program templates. Automate course planning, enrollment, learner communications, transcripts and certificates to reduce manual work, improve accuracy and help teams scale without adding unnecessary administrative burden.
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Connect Your Enterprise CE Ecosystem
Build a connected, API-first continuing education environment by publishing catalogs through WordPress, Drupal or APIs and integrating marketing, sales, CRM, payment, reporting and analytics workflows. Use business intelligence to understand enrollment, revenue, learner outcomes and operations, while configuring enterprise CE models with custom fields and flexible objects.
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Start with Brightspace & Course Merchant
Reach More Learners With a Built-In Storefront Experience
Looking to launch continuing education e-commerce quickly or streamline online course registration and payments? Make it easier for learners to discover, purchase and access courses with Course Merchant. Course Merchant provides a branded storefront and e-commerce experience with self-registration and single sign-on connecting learners directly to Brightspace.
Reach More Learners and Grow Revenue
Expand your reach with a branded, customizable storefront that makes it easy for learners to discover, browse and purchase courses online. Support revenue growth with flexible e-commerce capabilities, including discount codes, bundled courses, membership pricing, early-bird offers, multi-seat purchases and waitlists.
Create a Seamless Path from Purchase to Learning
Turn shoppers into learners with self-registration, instant enrollment and immediate access to learning through single sign-on. With support for more than 30 payment gateways, credit card and PayPal payments, offline invoicing, free courses and bulk seat allocation, Course Merchant helps create connected experiences for individual learners and group purchasers.
“I think what Brightspace has done with a learning management system (LMS) is move the focus from ‘management’ to the ‘learning.’ That’s made all the difference.”
Better Outcomes Across Your Continuing Education Program
Learners
Provide a seamless path from course discovery to self-enrollment, flexible mobile-friendly learning that fits work and life, personalized and accessible experiences, and clear progress toward professional and personal goals.
Program and Teaching Teams
Support faster course creation and updates, fewer disconnected workflows, actionable insights into progress and performance, resulting in more time to improve content and support learners.
Institutional Leaders
Expand offerings, gain stronger visibility into enrollment and outcomes, data to guide investment and course optimization, and a scalable solution backed by a trusted education partner.
See What a Connected Continuing Education Experience Can Do
Talk to a D2L specialist to explore our two continuing education solutions and discover which best fits your institution’s needs and operational complexity.
When we saw all of the capabilities that Brightspace offered–in terms of technology, data accessibility, mobility, intelligent agents, specific rubrics and widgets–we knew we couldn’t settle for anything less.George HanshawDirector of e-Learning OperationsLos Angeles Pacific University
How does course registration in Brightspace work for continuing education?
Learners follow a seamless journey from discovery, registration and payment through to Brightspace access, with self-registration, instant enrollment and immediate access to learning through single sign-on. D2L offers two continuing education solutions for this, with Brightspace as the learning core. Course Merchant helps you launch continuing education e-commerce quickly with a branded storefront and self-registration. Eduframe, the Continuing Education Student Information System (SIS) & Registration Platform built for enterprise CE, helps you scale beyond streamlined online registration and payments by connecting learners, programs, modalities, e-commerce and operations while automating workflows.
Can I create a branded course storefront for my Brightspace courses?
Yes. Both Course Merchant and Eduframe offer an integrated storefront with a branded catalog and e-commerce for your Brightspace courses. Learners can browse your catalog and purchase courses, with self-registration and single signon into Brightspace. Both support online payments and discount codes. Beyond the storefront, Eduframe adds the administrative backbone for enterprise continuing education, with business portals, private courses and bulk enrollment for B2B growth.
How are registrations and payments of my Brightspace courses handled?
Both solutions connect Brightspace registration and payment in one seamless flow. Learners register, pay online and get immediate access to their course without manual steps for your staff. Course Merchant supports more than 30 payment gateways, credit card and PayPal payments, and offline invoicing. Eduframe integrates with payment providers such as Stripe, Authorize.net, TouchNet, Illumia (formerly Transact) and Flywire. It automatically generates and sends invoices, payment receipts and confirmation emails once payment is complete. Organizations can also register multiple employees in a single order, and corporate partners can manage their employees, orders and invoices through the Business Portal.
What is the difference between Eduframe and Course Merchant?
Course Merchant is designed for continuing education teams that need a branded storefront, online registration and payments connected to Brightspace. Eduframe is the Continuing Education SIS & Registration Platform for institutions ready to scale beyond storefront-only registration and payments, with support for B2B and B2C enrollment, multiple delivery formats, stackable programs, automation and integrations. The right fit depends on your program maturity and operational complexity.
Can Brightspace course registration for continuing education integrate with our existing tech stack?
Yes. Both Course Merchant and Eduframe integrate with D2L Brightspace. Course Merchant connects your storefront to Brightspace for self-registration and single sign-on. Eduframe connects Brightspace with your existing website, CRM, payment providers and reporting tools through out-of-the-box integrations, an Open API and webhooks. It supports integrations with platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, Google Analytics and Power BI, helping institutions streamline continuing education registration, learner administration and reporting without replacing their existing systems.