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We Are Canada’s LMS

Founded and headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, D2L employs over 500 Canadians and supports millions of learners in K-12, Higher Ed and the Corporate space worldwide. 20 years later, and we’re still focused on reaching every learner.

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Work anywhere, on any device

Go anywhere on any device
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Act on your data

Act now on your data
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Promote social engagement

See how you can promote social engagement
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Build accessible content easily

Start building accessible content easily

We’ve long been pleased with Brightspace, but we have really been pleased with D2L’s work in making the system even easier to use, while retaining features that make it a powerful and comprehensive LMS.

– Adam Finkelstein, Associate Director, Learning Environments, McGill University

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Working with D2L has been amazing. They have completely transformed our learning platform, empowering us to provide instructors and students with a richer variety of innovative learning resources.

– René-Jean Aubé, Technical Analyst, CCNB

The Brightspace platform is an integral part of our academic delivery, and I have always found D2L to be accessible, responsive and invested in the success of Fanshawe College as we serve our students and faculty.

– Peter Gilbert, Chief Infrastructure Officer (Facilities & IT Services), Fanshawe College

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millions of users, and thousands of schools, academic institutions, and corporations around the world.

The New D2L

In 2015, D2L underwent a major transformation as we repositioned towards becoming fully cloud hosted, delivering a reliable 99.9% uptime, and implementing a new user-interface and experience to make Brightspace a fully responsive platform from the ground up on any device.

Why the big change? We listened to our partners and educators worldwide and delivered on our promise to:

  • Build a platform that works on any device
  • Make it easier to grade student work
  • Increase our market lead in drag & drop functionality
  • Make it fast and intuitive to create assessments and design rubrics

Why Brightspace?

1) Work anywhere, on any device

Brightspace is the only major LMS platform that is built fully responsive from the ground up to work on any device. Other platforms rely on students to have the latest device and download their apps, which do not have the full features of the learning platform.

2) Act on your data Your data should always be easy to access. Brightspace helps you track student engagement, learner outcomes, help optimize your course effectiveness and pull reports that assist with your accreditation process all within user-friendly data sets.

3) Promote social engagement

Enhance learning by using Brightspace’s social activity feeds and discussion groups, just like on social media. Allow students to share resources and experiences with their faculty and peers.

4) Build accessible content easily

Learners of every ability should have equal access to their education. That’s why we here at D2L align ourselves, and our platform, to the highest standards of accessibility.

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