D2L has been a great tool for onboarding employees quickly.
November 05, 2025

D2L has been a great tool for onboarding employees quickly.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with D2L Brightspace

We use Brightspace for internal learning across our org. Not only for getting up to speed with the company, but also for things like security and compliance training. It's been great for cross-team collaboration (ex, learning about other roles) as well as onboarding new employees efficiently and tracking their learning process.

Pros

  • Their mobile application.
  • Data on employee course completion.
  • Integrations.

Cons

  • Time to set-up.
  • Faster desktop web experience.
  • Course Building.
  • Reduced the amount of travel needed to get employees onboarded.
  • Reduced overall onboarding time for new employees.
  • Reduced burden on management answering questions from team members about 'common knowledge' company processes.
I really love the mobile application. Allowing folks to do training on the go is really important and a great feature for us. I do think it can be a little hard to set up courses sometimes. The Web UI can be a little clunky compared to lightweight tools like Atlassian or Notion.
It's an all-in-one platform with great analytics. It can also easily be used for external training programs, which is important for a B2B use case. I really like how it can embed different types of content, like video, and the integrations are also great. It is more costly than the other tools, however.

Do you think D2L Brightspace delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with D2L Brightspace's feature set?

Yes

Did D2L Brightspace live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of D2L Brightspace go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy D2L Brightspace again?

No

Brightspace really helps with quickly onboarding many employees at once. It's asynchronous and helped us not need to coordinate travel between employees. I do think it's a bit 'heavy' for some use cases. For example, if you are just looking for a quick tidbit of information on how to do something, other tools might be better suited.

D2L Brightspace Feature Ratings

Learning Management
7.4
Course authoring
3
Course catalog or library
8
Player/Portal
9
Learning content
9
Mobile friendly
9
Progress tracking & certifications
9
Assignments
6
Learning administration
8
Learning reporting & analytics
8
Social learning
5

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