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Delivering Excellent Learning Experiences at Scale  

Challenge  Continuing decades of championing accessible education  As the alma mater of first man on the moon Neil Armstrong, Purdue University knows that every giant leap starts with one small...

More than 1,000 organizations in over 40 countries around the world rely on D2L to help them transform learning.

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Our working relationship with D2L has been wonderful. They're so far above some of the other LMS platforms that I've had the opportunity to work with.

 - Joy Karavedas, Senior Director of Research and New Program Development, Orange Lutheran High School

A three-year exercise in frustration became a three-month pathway to success once we started to work with D2L.

 - Michael Crowe, Vice President Academic, Bow Valley College

You should absolutely, 100% go with D2L. I’ve been with them for 11 years. The system is incredibly stable. It’s incredibly flexible because what you need right now today may not be the same thing you need five years from now. Businesses evolve. Customers evolve. Things change, and D2L changes with you.

 - Connie Ryan, Founder and President, Professional Development Institute

Making Higher Education More Accessible to More People

Modern States Education Alliance is a nonprofit ​dedicated to making a high-quality college education accessible and affordable to all. It built free online courses that are available to anyone and teach the content needed to take and pass the credit-bearing College​​ ​Level Examination Program (CLEP) exams​, offered by the College Board​. Partnering with D2L, Modern States migrated 32 courses to D2L Brightspace, streamlined its learner registration process, enhanced its analytics capabilities and simplified time-consuming processes through automated workflows—helping the organization ​advance​ its mission of democratizing access to higher education.

The Power of Agile and Responsive Professional Learning

The Upper Grand District School Board’s (UGDSB) Program Services team has revolutionized professional development (PD) with the launch of the “Let’s GO UGDSB Learn” tool, powered by D2L Brightspace. This innovative and adaptable PD system tackles systemic challenges such as teacher shortages, evolving learning preferences, and scattered, previously hard-to-find resources. The team’s forward-thinking approach has led to significant improvements in educator effectiveness, student outcomes and teacher satisfaction.

Enhancing Student Support and Engagement with a Transformative Accessibility Hub

In response to challenges with managing student accommodations, Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) utilized tools in D2L Brightspace to develop an Accessibility Hub. The institution’s efforts simplified internal processes, reduced staff workload, and improved student engagement. Northeast Iowa Community College is a recipient of a 2025 D2L Excellence Award based on its innovations.

Elevating Online Learning Through Faculty Development

The University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) has a long-standing commitment to high-quality online education. Through its eLearning Facilitation Certification Workshop (eLFC), UCO equips faculty with the skills and confidence needed to create engaging, student-centered online learning experiences. By leveraging D2L Brightspace, UCO has built a scalable and replicable faculty development program that enhances online teaching and drives measurable improvements in student engagement, satisfaction and success.

Enhancing the learning experience with accessible and flexible text-to-speech 

To help students fit learning into their lives, Penn Foster Group integrates ReadSpeaker within D2L Brightspace, bringing course content to life through text-to-speech. This solution empowers students to choose to listen—perfect for those balancing work, family or needing extra reading support. By offering an alternative way to engage with content, text-to-speech helps learners stay on track and reach their educational goals.

Theory to Practice: How C-BEN is Defining the CBE Experience Challenge 

In support of developing and deploying CBE programs, along with making knowledge more accessible from experts in the Competency-Based Education (CBE) community, the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) launched CompetentU. Built on D2L Brightspace, the program teaches effective CBE practice through competency-based courses, empowering more leaders in the education, workforce, and training & development space to develop and deploy competency-based programs that are at the heart of education, learning, and development.