See why D2L Brightspace is more than an LMS
Watch this short video and learn how our learning innovation platform provides you with more flexibility to personalize the experience and unlock learner potential.
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1. Exceptional experiences and outcomes
Discover innovative ways to engage students, creating exceptional experiences and outcomes. Here’s how Brightspace makes it happen.
Motivate your learners with relevant feedback.
Looking for an easy way to provide your learners with timely and contextual feedback and assessments? In-line annotations, assessment hub, grade book, mastery view, video and audio feedback, and amazing rubrics within Brightspace make it easy for you to assess any type of activity, including electronic and paper submissions and observational assessments in the class and within the field. You can even grade assignments and give feedback on the go using our mobile app.
"Parents know now that we can do things differently, they know we can be more flexible. This is going to become the new educational model of the future. LMSs are not a pandemic thing."
John VanWagoner, Superintendent, Traverse City Area Public Schools
"We need to cut the line between LMSs and COVID. We already planned to implement an LMS pre-pandemic, the pandemic just moved us quicker and then clouded the intention for teachers... I'm surprised by school districts that still don't have an LMS and are cobbling together solutions. That's not best practice."
Will Heath, Superintendent, Portland Public Schools
"We need to push personalized learning farther for students, and then push to the next level with learning portfolios for project-based experiences to really show the value of personalization. We need Brightspace for that. This way of learning is here to stay."
Dan O'Connor, Superintendent, Alcona Community Schools
Build amazing personal connections with video.
Brightspace lets you use video to create a more dynamic and interactive classroom experience. From within the platform, you can search and share videos and access off-the-shelf content to bring lessons to life. Now imagine using video to deliver personalized feedback to learners, giving them the chance to practice and build their communication skills. As they say, the medium is the message.
Let them show off.
Watch your learners’ eyes light up as they share their progress, reflections and learning experiences with you, their classmates and their parents. The Portfolio tool, built-in badges and certificates within Brightspace offer instant recognition and the encouragement your learners need to stay motivated. What parent doesn’t love to see their child’s accomplishments on display?
2. Equity for all students
Every learner is unique. Can you really reach all of them? Yes, you can. With Brightspace, full inclusion and equitable access for all learners are realizable goals.
Support learners of every age.
Just as K is not the same as 12, your learning platform should not be a one-size-fits-all solution for all grades. Brightspace grows as your learners grow.
For your nonreaders and early readers, Brightspace offers age-appropriate icons and “Funster mode,” where little ones can capture their experiences in their Portfolio.
As your learners become sophomores and seniors, Brightspace offers them more advanced features and functions, such as virtual classrooms and the ability to self-enroll in supplemental courses.
The elementary discussion boards are unbelievably vibrant and fun to visit. The students are posting videos of their little science projects and encouraging each other, which is great to see. It means that students not only engage in learning more, but also get another valuable opportunity for both social and academic contact with their peers.
We’ve already helped over 2 million students across 42 states, and we couldn’t have sustained that growth without our partnership with D2L. Together, we want to continue that progress and give every student, teacher, and parent access to our SEL content.
We also love that students can use the Pulse app to remain on track in terms of getting notifications for calendar items, new announcements, emails, etc. For parents and students, using the VLE builds confidence in the teacher and the school, as students are never lost or missing key information.
– Natasha Charpentier and Rob Goodbun, Educators, Upper Canada District School Board
Reach every learner in your class.
Brightspace helps you reach every learner in your classroom with tools that enable you to make all courses accessible and by providing you with multiple options for differentiated instruction, such as competency-based learning (CBE).
We align with global accessibility standards such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AAA standards, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the WCAG Checklist and Section 508 VPAT. This commitment to universal design for learning means our platform is designed with accessibility in mind and is interoperable with assistive technologies.
Reach learners from the bus stop to the basketball court.
Snow days? Out-of-town game? No problem (and no excuses).
Brightspace can be accessed from any mobile device or desktop browser, so your learners can learn from anywhere and at any time. Also, our top-rated apps and responsive designs are inspired by thousands of design sessions with learners and teachers and are verified to work on any device.
Ready to reimagine learning?
More than just an LMS, Brightspace Core combines the tools and support you need in order to offer a great teaching and learning experience for students and faculty.
3. Create meaningful connections with parents
With Brightspace, communication between parents and teachers can experience a dramatic improvement.
Offer parents a window into the classroom.
Brightspace makes it easy for you to communicate with parents in a timely and meaningful way. Streamlined teacher/parent or guardian communication is shown to positively impact student outcomes and academic performance, can result in fewer behavioral issues, and is tied to higher graduation rates.
Foster meaningful conversations and learner independence.
A growth mindset is embedded in how we designed Brightspace Parent & Guardian. When they are more informed, families can engage in more meaningful conversations using the language of growth and discovery. Instead of asking their children, “What happened at school today?” they can ask questions like, “Do you need help preparing for the math test tomorrow?” and “Can I read over your essay on Hamlet?”
Brightspace also encourages learner independence by enabling young learners to easily set goals, understand their progress, benchmark themselves against the class and plan for the week ahead—teaching them valuable skills they’ll be able to take with them for the rest of their lives.
I’m walking around with my iPad and [Brightspace] has an app, a grading app. And what the students are expected to do is they actually have an assignment, I call it a quest; students then upload proof that they have mastered a particular quest, or if you want, a learning target. And I then have that data, which then leads to my conversation. I look at their work, we have a conversation. But I can immediately give them a grade if you will and say, ‘Boom. They have mastered this objective.
– Jon Bergmann, Chief Academic Officer, Flipped Learning Global
Parents will no longer have to wait for parent teacher interviews to find out how their child is doing. We’re excited to see the impact that this will have on student outcomes as their parents have more information to support their children in reaching their potential.
Parents really appreciated the hands-on approach… they appreciated that I wasn’t just doing a pen and paper assignment.
– Myles Sloan, 9th Grade Geography Teacher
Last year we made the switch to using Brightspace for our parent communication. We love that not only can we update parents on all of the learning that is going on inside of the classroom, but we can link them to great web resources to help engage them in learning with their child. Our parents love the virtual tours of our indoor and outdoor classrooms, our embedded learning slideshows and our daily posts using Pic Collage.
– Michael Folino, Dawn DeCaria and Mary Schmagala, Teachers, Harriet Tubman Public School (DSBN)
4. Give teachers the tools they love
Using one integrated learning platform, your teachers can focus on what they do best rather than on mundane tasks.
Find more time in your day.
We’ll take on the burden of many administrative teaching tasks and bring new efficiencies to your day so you can find more time for quality, one-to-one student and parent interactions. With Brightspace, you can focus on what you do best—inspiring young minds.
Use Brightspace as your virtual assistant to send reminders, alerts and personalized feedback to your learners.
Automatically release remediation or enrichment content based on your students’ achievements and progress.
Easily create and use rubrics.
Use Brightspace Quick Eval to provide relevant and timely feedback, including in-line annotations, on all your assessments, across all courses, with one assessment hub.
Align learning standards with assessments and lessons in just a couple of clicks.
The Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) lets students always stay connected and learning. I expect students to be active in their educational journey, and the VLE lets this happen. Students can get immediate content and video support and be part of the ‘classroom’ at any hour of the day within the VLE. Even feedback (via interactive examples, work, and electronic communication) happens quickly with the VLE.
– Kevin Gray, Mathematics Teacher, Thousand Islands Secondary School in UCDSB
Working with D2L has made the process much quicker and easier than we expected. Previously, we were able to build maybe six to eight courses in a year. With the Brightspace platform, we have created 50 new and revised courses in around two-and-a-half years.
We’d been using all these clunky LMS platforms and getting frustrated. Brightspace is the first tool we found that doesn’t put a barrier between us and our goals, so getting teachers on board and building new courses is really straightforward.
It’s a real advantage to be able to have insight at a glance from within Brightspace. It allows me to view grades, make comments or assign additional reading. It helps provide students with a true personalized approach to learning.
– Katie Scheuerell, Instructor and Online Coordinator, CESA2
Easily create content.
Brightspace is a delight to use. It allows you to quickly build courses and create content on a single page. Our built-in templates are beautiful, mobile-friendly and fully accessible. They offer the perfect starting point for content creation.
- Seamlessly add existing content from publishers, district-developed content, third-party storage services and Open Education Resources.
- Copy courses from year to year or course to course within seconds, including adjusting all the dates automatically.
- Easily apply your chosen pedagogy, including competency-based learning, active learning and gaming.
Gain a bird’s-eye view of your entire classroom.
With Brightspace, you can zoom in on student activities with a click and—even better—act on the information. Use the virtual assistant within Brightspace to send reminders, open remediation or enrichment pathways, or use in-the-moment personalized feedback to provide that extra nudge to keep learners on track and on task.
5. Worry-free technology
Enjoy peace of mind—even on the first day of school. You may just find your support team playing Solitaire. 😉
Allow them to learn from any location and any device.
Brightspace is the only leading learning management platform designed from the ground up for mobile—with beautiful apps and responsive design to work on any device. Our mobile experience is based on thousands of design sessions with students and teachers and is optimized to stay on track while on the go.
Say goodbye to downtime.
With Brightspace, we consistently deliver 99.9% uptime and the industry’s best architecture for disaster recovery. Even our monthly updates and enhancements are delivered without downtime. This means no headaches for your IT staff and a flawless experience for learners and teachers. Updates are predictable and within your control. You decide when to turn them on.
Blend seamlessly with your technology ecosystem.
We build and maintain the critical core while enabling you to build around the edges.
We know you need a digital confederation of tools, content and applications—dynamically connected through open standards and APIs. Unlike other platforms that can be “walled gardens,” Brightspace offers open-source code libraries and standards-based integrations, so your data, downloadable data sets and timely insights are incorporated into your normal workflows.
Count on industry-leading security.
With an impressive track record of security leadership, D2L is the only leading learning platform company that is ISO27001- and ISO27018-certified and part of the Cloud Security Alliance.
Brightspace provides me a streamline, organized way to deliver content to my students. Students are diverse in their learning styles and Brightspace allows me to provide many different modes for content mastery. Whether it is a video tutorial or an embedded study tool, Brightspace provides choice for my students.
– Molly Moseley, High School Science Teacher, Necedah Schools
Students live in a digital world and we have to meet them where they are. Our initiative is to engage kids with technology and Brightspace is the hub that makes this possible.
– Matt Waymack, Director of eClass Development, Gwinnett County Public Schools
6. More partner, less vendor
Take full advantage of D2L’s 20+ years of expertise to achieve student success and your strategic goals.
Work with a customer-driven company.
Know that your input matters. Brightspace is built with customer feedback, and the platform is continually enhanced through thousands of design sessions with learners and teachers. Feedback is gathered through advisory boards, user research, communities of practice, conferences and events.
We’re so much more than a learning management vendor.
We’re your partner.
As experts in education and pedagogy, we’re committed to supporting you in ways you might not expect from a technology provider. And we’ve been doing it for over 20 years.
We offer a broad bench of services unique to the edtech sector. Your D2L team can include a Customer Success Manager, Advisory Consultants, Learning & Creative Services, Instructional Designers, Technical Account Managers and Data Gurus to help you optimize the use of the Brightspace platform and achieve your learning and business goals.
We’re experts at implementation and will give you peace of mind as you get started and throughout your journey.
Our in-house Learning & Creative Services team will help you enhance your learning materials for blended and online learning to maximize engagement, responsiveness and accessibility. We can also help you build and launch online courses and programs that take advantage of the latest strategies in learning design.
We’ll build you a success plan aligned with your unique goals and tailor it to improve adoption, engagement, outcomes, completion rates and graduation rates.
We’re really pleased with D2L and especially our CSM [Customer Success Manager]. D2L understands K-12 and how to coordinate things in a way that supports our faculty and students.
– Matt Waymack, Director of eClass Development, Gwinnett County Public Schools
We were impressed with D2L from the get-go. Their team genuinely cares about customer success; they were eager to get our input and grow the product to fit our needs.
– Mark Becker, Middle School/High School Principal, Necedah Schools
The transition was really easy. D2L did most of the legwork. Our job was getting content ready, then testing and reporting back with problems. They did everything in the background to make sure it was working the way we wanted.
– Paul Hatala, Blended Learning Instructional Coach, Hamilton Wentworth District School Board
Ready to reimagine learning?
More than just an LMS, Brightspace Core combines the tools and support you need in order to offer a great teaching and learning experience for students and faculty.