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D2L Brightspace

Overview

What is D2L Brightspace?

Brightspace is an academic and corporate learning management platform. It provides core e-learning features, as well as mobile accessibility and granular personalization and analytics insights.

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What is D2L Brightspace?

Brightspace is an academic and corporate learning management platform. It provides core e-learning features, as well as mobile accessibility and granular personalization and analytics insights.

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

D2L Brightspace | Tips & Tricks | How to Use Virtual Classrooms to Increase Student Engagement

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D2L Brightspace | Tips & Tricks | Using Intelligent Agents to Automate a Welcome Message

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D2L Brightspace v10.4 Creating Dropbox Folders

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D2L Brightspace v10.4 Grading Discussion Topics

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D2L Brightspace v10.4 Creating Discussion Forums

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Demo of Shuffling Quiz Questions in Brightspace

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Features

Learning Management

Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.

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Product Details

What is D2L Brightspace?

Brightspace is a learning management platform used to drive better learning outcomes by offering every learner a personalized, digital experience. From the kindergarten classroom, to college campuses, to global corporations, Brightspace aims to help create inspired and engaging learning for all.

It's key capabilities and benefits include:

  • Mobile-first design - Brightspace works on any device – whether a laptop or hand-me-down smartphone or tablet.
  • Personalized learning - Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents in Brightspace offer a high level of granularity and control over individual learning paths.
  • Teaching tools for educators and instructors.
  • Automation of routine course management tasks. ​
  • Built-in analytics to improve decision-making. ​
  • Tools like gamification, videos, badges, and others to increase learner engagement.
  • Learning experience that meet all accessibility standards.
  • Support for in-the-moment feedback as well as automation of assessments.


D2L Brightspace Features

Learning Management Features

  • Supported: Course authoring
  • Supported: Course catalog or library
  • Supported: Player/Portal
  • Supported: Learning content
  • Supported: Mobile friendly
  • Supported: Progress tracking & certifications
  • Supported: Assignments
  • Supported: Learning administration
  • Supported: Learning reporting & analytics
  • Supported: eLearning
  • Supported: Assessments
  • Supported: Live online learning
  • Supported: In-person learning
  • Supported: Micro-learning
  • Supported: Video learning
  • Supported: SCORM-compliant
  • Supported: Social learning

Additional Features

  • Supported: Social Assessment

D2L Brightspace Screenshots

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D2L Brightspace Videos

D2L Brightspace 101: Building Better Learning Experiences
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Virtual Classroom for Brightspace

D2L Brightspace Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Arabic, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese

Frequently Asked Questions

Brightspace is an academic and corporate learning management platform. It provides core e-learning features, as well as mobile accessibility and granular personalization and analytics insights.

Blackboard Learn by Anthology, Canvas, and Schoology Learning are common alternatives for D2L Brightspace.

Reviewers rate Course catalog or library highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of D2L Brightspace are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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I think it's a clunky platform that feels like it is was made in 2003.

Rating: 1 out of 10
October 11, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
D2L Brightspace
1 year of experience
  • Make you click a thing to click a thing to click a thing to get what you are looking for.
  • Make you click a thing to click a thing to click a thing to get what you are looking for.
  • Make you click a thing to click a thing to click a thing to get what you are looking for.
Cons
  • Create a to-do list.
  • Let users customize course page layouts.
  • Embedded videos take forever to even appear on a page when you get there. This gives me the false impression that content is missing.
  • I think Gradebook sucks. It has question marks and weird icons all over, but there is no tooltip explaining what they mean.
  • In my experience, grading is clunky and takes a lot of clicks to get to an assignment.

Brightspace - It's the whole package and more!

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 16, 2021
JB
Vetted Review
Verified User
D2L Brightspace
8 years of experience
  • Provide an online platform for education/training.
  • Serve as a institution-wide communication channel.
  • Allow for customization to institutional needs.
Cons
  • Consistency across the platform.
  • May take time to customize to best fit institutional needs.

And the award for best LMS ever goes to Brightspace!

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 12, 2021
TR
Vetted Review
Verified User
D2L Brightspace
3 years of experience
  • The layout is amazing! Students who have used other LMS's have often commented on the ease of navigability Brightspace offers.
  • The annotation features for course assignments are easy to follow.
  • The layout of the homepage is very user-friendly and places focus on course announcements.
  • Brightspace email is also a bonus feature!
Cons
  • I wish there was a way that we could block students from their courses and provide notification as to why they have been locked out of their accounts.
  • I wish there was a way to change the order of pinned course in the my courses widget.
  • The instant messenger features in Brightspace are not really that great. I wish there was a way to link it to your phone or that it would provide a different alert. It currently works pretty similar to email.

Brightspace LMS Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 06, 2021
AA
Vetted Review
Verified User
D2L Brightspace
3 years of experience
  • Creating and organizing assignments
  • Able to upload files of all types
  • Manage calendar
  • Student reminders of work due via built in calendar
Cons
  • Editing assignments: too many steps, can be more streamlined
  • Courses are presented the same for instructors and learners. Instructors have to use 'student view' to see course from learners' point of view. Must click a button to deactivate
  • Using the built in course management system to create modules can be challenging

Employee-Tailored LMS Tool That Offers Unparalleled Customization for Improved Engagement

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 18, 2019
JM
Vetted Review
Verified User
D2L Brightspace
2 years of experience
  • File sharing capability between users is largely unparalleled in the LMS space (from my experience).
  • The user interface has continued to receive valuable updates that have created an incredibly efficient platform to navigate.
  • Brightspace offers a single source of truth for standardized learning outcomes based on company objectives.
Cons
  • One can feel a bit rushed on the Brightspace platform during the log-out period. Security requirements may require this, but it makes end-users more conscious about getting through content than taking notes.
  • From my experience, there is not a direct connection between the platform and Outlook.
  • Some content on the platform can feel redundant.
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