D2L

D2L: Creators of the Online Learning Platform, Brightspace

D2L is an educational technology company and the creator of Brightspace, the online learning platform. Founded in 1999, our technology is today used by more than 14.5 million users around the world in K-12, higher education, healthcare, government, associations, and the corporate sector.

Why Customers Choose D2L

• Worry-Free Reliability: With 99.9% uptime, D2L’s Brightspace is a rock-solid learning platform you can count on.
• An Industry Leader In Accessibility:  Aligning with WCAG 2.1 AAA, D2L’s Brightspace is built from the ground up using inclusive design best practices to reach every learner.
• Scalable Cloud Technology: D2L’s Brightspace operates on a reliable and secure global cloud infrastructure to make it fast, resilient, and adaptable to your needs.
• Customer Satisfaction: We put our customers first, and they love us for it. We’re proud of the over 1,000 customers in more than 40 countries who are using D2L’s Brightspace to help millions of people reach their potential every single day.
• Less Vendor, More Partner: We can support you in ways you may not expect from an education technology provider. We work with you to plan, measure, and achieve results and help you provide the best learning experience for educators, students, employees, and members.

Contact us today to talk about how we can help transform teaching and learning at your school, institution, or organization.

D2L in Partnership with Zoom Video Communications, Inc.

D2L has partnered with Zoom, a leading video-first unified communications platform, to offer a comprehensive education experience. With Zoom integrated directly into D2L Brightspace, educators can deliver engaging learning content and communication to learners everywhere.

In addition to maximizing the features and tools offered by D2L Brightspace, Zoom helps learners expand their communication skills and learn more efficiently. With enhancements to video communications, virtual conferences, and webinars, learners can engage in a more modern and collaborative learning environment to help improve learning outcomes.

D2L’s Brightspace for K-12

Brightspace is the learning management system that supports students, teachers, parents, and administrators and helps all learners reach their potential.

Exceptional Learning Experiences and Outcomes

Create engaging classroom experiences using live and on-demand video and motivate students with relevant feedback provided through in-line annotations, video, audio, rubrics, and more. The Portfolio tool, badges, and certificates can help students follow their own progress and share projects and accomplishments with classmates and parents.

Equity for All Students

Reach every learner by leveraging tools that can help make all your courses accessible like a built-in accessibility checker and options for differentiated instruction, including competency-based learning. Designing with empathy is a hallmark of our development lifecycles and user experience teams.

Meaningful Connections with Parents

Communicate with parents in timely, meaningful ways. With D2L’s Brightspace platform, you can share work with students’ families, easily pass along comments, and provide insight into lessons, schedules, announcements, and events.

The Tools Teachers Love

D2L’s Brightspace platform makes it easy for teachers to create awesome course content, send automated reminders and alerts, release content based on students’ progress, generate and use rubrics, and provide feedback from one centralized hub.

Worry-Free Technology

D2L’s Brightspace platform has been designed from the ground up for mobile—with beautiful apps and responsive design to work on any device. Get better than 99.9% uptime, the best architecture for disaster recovery, monthly updates delivered without downtime, and industry-leading security, and open-source code libraries and standards-based integrations that help your LMS blend seamlessly with your technology ecosystem.

More Partner, Less Vendor

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 20 years. We offer a broad bench of services from implementation and training through Learning Strategy and Consulting, Learning and Creative Services, Data Solutions Consulting, Technical Account Management, and ongoing support.

Learn more about D2L’s solutions for K-12.

D2L’s Brightspace for Higher Education

Brightspace is the learning platform that built to deliver best-in-class teaching and learning experiences for faculty and students and help all learners reach their potential.

Worry-Free Technology

Brightspace is designed for a mobile-first world, with beautiful apps and a responsive design to work on any device. Enjoy better than 99.9% uptime, the best architecture for disaster recovery, monthly updates delivered without downtime, and industry-leading security. Plus, open-source code libraries and standards-based integrations means Brightspace can integrate seamlessly with your IT ecosystem.

Personalized, Collaborative Learning

Set learners up for success with individualized learning paths, personalized feedback, relevant and timely reinforcement, and progress dashboards. Let them interact and collaborate with each other through discussions forums, build their presentation skills through video, and show off progress through badges and awards.

Equity for All Students

D2L’s Brightspace platform is fully aligned with global accessibility standards, includes a built-in accessibility checker for content, quizzes, and discussions, and can automatically generate closed caption videos in a variety of languages. Our accessibility strategy is informed by inputs from our client community and field experts via our Accessibility Interest Group and Accessibility Advisory Board, and Brightspace is the first—and only LMS—partner of the Strategic Nonvisual Access Partnership (SNAP) program of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB).

Tools Teachers Love

Brightspace makes it easy for teachers to create or curate course content, generate and use rubrics, post announcements and assignments in an activity feed, send automated reminders and alerts, release content based on students’ progress, and provide feedback from one centralized hub.

Exceptional Outcomes

Built-in tools and functionalities allow educators to easily monitor student progress and identify at-risk learners who may need more support. Check learners’ knowledge to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time and automate reminders to keep them on track.

More Partner, Less Vendor

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 20 years. We offer a broad bench of services from implementation and training through Learning Strategy and Consulting, Learning and Creative Services, Data Solutions Consulting, Technical Account Management, and ongoing support.

Learn more about D2L’s solutions for higher education.

D2L’s Brightspace for Corporate Learning

Brightspace is the learning platform designed to help your organization build the skills that matter most, attract top talent, and boost retention.

Content Creation Made Easy

Create custom course content using an HTML editor and pre-built templates or import it from third-party providers and supported LMSs. You can collect all your content within a single library so materials and resources can easily be re-used in the future.

Social Learning Experiences

Let learners connect through integrated conferencing tools, practice their skills with Video Assignments, and get feedback from peers and experts on their submissions. You can use awards, badges, certificates, and leaderboards to recognize progress and nurture healthy competition.

An Intuitive User Experience

Enable people to access content from any device with the Brightspace platform’s mobile-friendly design and stay up to date on news and deadlines with the Activity Feed. Create pathways that guide people in their development, let them self-enroll in courses of interest, and leverage built-in features like an accessibility checker and automated captioning to create courses that help reach every learner.

Your Tools, Your Way

Plug into your unique ecosystem with open standards and APIs and create a branded experience that’s consistent for your learners. You can use automation tools to release messages and reminders according to pre-set rules. Plus, with 99.99% uptime and cloud technology, you can rely on your LMS to be scalable, predictable, and secure.

More Partner, Less Vendor

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 20 years. We offer a broad bench of services from implementation and training through Learning Strategy and Consulting, Learning and Creative Services, Data Solutions Consulting, Technical Account Management, and ongoing support.

Learn more about D2L’s solutions for corporate learning.

D2L’s Brightspace for Associations

Brightspace is the learning platform designed to help create programs that attract, retain, and excite members and enable your association to grow.

Content Creation Made Easy

Create custom course content using an HTML editor and pre-built templates or import it from third-party providers and supported LMSs. You can collect all your content within a single library so materials and resources can easily be re-used in the future.

Social Learning Experiences

Let learners connect through integrated conferencing tools, practice their skills with Video Assignments, and get feedback from peers and experts on their submissions. You can use awards, badges, certificates, and leaderboards to recognize progress and nurture healthy competition.

An Intuitive User Experience

Enable members to access content from any device with the Brightspace platform’s mobile-friendly design and stay up to date on news and deadlines with the Activity Feed. Create pathways that guide people in their development, let them self-enroll in courses of interest, and leverage built-in features like an accessibility checker and automated captioning to create courses that help reach every learner.

Your Tools, Your Way

Plug into your unique ecosystem with open standards and APIs and create a branded experience that’s consistent for your members. You can use automation tools to release messages and reminders according to pre-set rules. Plus, with 99.99% uptime and cloud technology, you can rely on your LMS to be scalable, predictable, and secure.

More Partner, Less Vendor

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 20 years. We offer a broad bench of services from implementation and training through Learning Strategy and Consulting, Learning and Creative Services, Data Solutions Consulting, Technical Account Management, and ongoing support.

Learn more about D2L’s solutions for associations.

D2L’s Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS)

Brightspace Core

Our LMS includes all the tools schools, institutions, and organizations need to deliver a best-in-class teaching and learning experience. Create engaging content, personalize the journey, prioritize accessibility, and track learner performance and progress—all from within one robust, intuitive, mobile-friendly platform. Key features include:

Optional add-on packages deliver powerful analytics tools to help L&D and business leaders save quality time while maximizing impact and driving success or create even more engaging course offerings.

Brightspace Add-Ons

Add-on packages help you get more out of the learning platform—creating more engaging courses and getting deeper insights into data.

Performance Plus

The Performance Plus add-on package delivers powerful analytics tools to help administrators, educators, and learners save quality time while maximizing impact and driving success. Key features include:

• Predictive Analytics
• Self-Serve Analytics
• Advanced Analytics
• Adaptive Learning

Engagement Plus

The Engagement Plus add-on gives institutions and organizations the ability to showcase their online course offerings and helps instructors create engaging video-based lectures or course content. Key features include:

• Game Based Learning
• Awards Leaderboard
• Multi-Media Presentation Recording
• Self-Serve Course Catalog

Learn more about D2L’s products for K-12, higher education, corporate, and associations.

Services

D2L is an education company that is dedicated to partnering with our customers to help improve learning outcomes and access to education across the globe. From day one, we’re ready to work with you to help you achieve your teaching and learning goals.

• We’ll get you up and running. Different industries move at different speeds. Our planning services can help clients quickly identify their goals and identify how to proceed.
• We’ll support your unique needs. No two clients are the same. We work with them to develop solutions that will shape the experience specifically for their institution or organization.
• We’ll help deliver a powerful learning experience. Knowing how to create the most engaging content is important. Our graphic designers, web developers, and courseware developers are ready to help.
• We’ll tailor training to fit their timeline. Our training programs can help you equip your teams quickly so that you have more time to focus on what matters most: teaching and learning.