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How Brightspace Helps WVU

Built to support WVU’s land-grant mission—serving students, communities, and the future workforce.
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From classroom to real-world impact

Support every student, wherever they are

Scale innovation and deliver a consistent experience across programs and campuses

Why Now?

Universities across North America are re-evaluating their LMS.

Not just for features, but for:

  • A platform that can scale across modalities and campuses
  • Faster innovation without relying on add-ons
  • Better support for student success and retention
  • A partner that evolves with institutional priorities

WVU’s next LMS decision will shape the learning experience for years to come.

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See How Brightspace Supports WVU

This personalized demo shows how Brightspace could support WVU’s strategic priorities. From student success and retention to research growth and workforce readiness, all within a more unified, flexible LMS environment.

In the demo, see how Brightspace:

  • Delivers a consistent experience across in-person, hybrid, and online courses
  • Enables a personalized learning pathways to support student progression
  • Connects learning to a career outcomes through portfolios and applied assessment
  • Reduces faculty workload through shared templates and built-in AI support

 

D2L Brightspace just makes interactive, engaging content possible. Before we just didn’t have the tools to do it. Now we do. And now we have endless possibilities about creating content that is relevant, engaging, coherent, and research based.

– Jose de Leon, Mathematics Manager, University of Florida, Lastinger Center

What WVU Can Achieve with Brightspace

Personalized Student Success at Scale

Improving retention, persistence, and graduation rates for a diverse, geographically broad student population. 

How D2l Performance+ Facilitates This: 

  • Personalized learning paths adapt to individual student needs and pace 
  • Predictive analytics identify at-risk students early, enabling timely intervention 
  • Real-time engagement and performance data help advisors and faculty take action faster  
  • Supports students balancing work, commuting, and other commitments with flexible, data-informed learning experiences 

Result: Students stay on track, receive support when it matters most, and are more likely to persist and graduate. 

 

One Consistent Experience Across Every Course

Deliver a cohesive, high-quality learning experience across all campuses, modalities, and programs.

How Brightspace Helps: 

  • Standardized templates and shared content
  • A unified learning environment across all modalities
  • Reduced friction for students and faculty

Result: A reliable, consistent WVU experience for every learner.

Purposefully Built AI

Connecting learning to workforce outcomes while supporting faculty in delivering high-quality instruction. 

D2L Lumi enables: 

  • AI-assisted course and content creation  
  • Personalized support that improves learner performance  
  • Trusted AI designed for transparency and oversight 

Result: Scalable innovation with measurable impact. 

We were on Blackboard Learn for over 25 years, and our use was pretty inconsistent. [The] platform was not so modern, and we weren’t really innovating on it, as much so as you can imagine [we were] getting a lot of noise around the need for a new LMS.
Ashley Smith USC Associate Chief Information Officer, Application Services

A More Reliable Foundation for What’s Next

As WVU evaluates the future of its learning environment, Brightspace offers a simpler, more consistent platform to support student success, faculty efficiency, and innovation across every program and campus.

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Moving to a next-gen LMS with D2L solved a lot of issues for us—it’s been a milestone in enabling us to move forward with some ground-breaking initiatives. Derk RiechersDirector of Multiple Modalities