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Updated 13th October 2025
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Lecturer
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, EducationFAVORABLE
“Exploring Brightspace's Professional Development Features: An Educator's Perspective”
The gradebook tool in Brightspace provides me with professional development features that benefit my work. These upload problems stop me from working productively as an educator. Enhancing the content management system must be our top learning experience priority.
Professor
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, EducationCRITICAL
“Difficult for learner and instructor to interact with course”
The most significant disadvantage is the absence of mobile website design. This has been a disadvantage that has caused so much stress to both the instructors and the students who need flexibility in the learning and teaching activities.
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Company Description
D2L empowers organizations to deliver transformative, personalized and meaningful learning experiences. As your partner in driving growth and success, we enable learners to reach their full potential, supporting 18+ million learners worldwide. Our platform, Brightspace, is a cloud based LMS designed to empower educators passionate about enabling every learner to achieve their full potential. We develop innovative, pedagogically advanced features that enhance skills development, engagement, retention, and overall learning outcomes for learners of all ages and abilities.
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Public
Year Founded
1999
Head office location
Kitchener, Canada
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
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Difficult for learner and instructor to interact with course
The most significant disadvantage is the absence of mobile website design. This has been a disadvantage that has caused so much stress to both the instructors and the students who need flexibility in the learning and teaching activities. - LecturerGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Exploring Brightspace's Professional Development Features: An Educator's Perspective
The gradebook tool in Brightspace provides me with professional development features that benefit my work. These upload problems stop me from working productively as an educator. Enhancing the content management system must be our top learning experience priority. - Assistant LibrarianGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Brightspace: A Learning Platform Supporting Workforce Development
As a learning platform Brightspace can effectively support workforce development. The inclusion of learning paths is an important benefit. However the cumbersome course creation process detracts from the overall experience. - ProfessorGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Brightspace: Enabling Peer Interaction Within Digital Classrooms
By storing materials exclusively within Brightspace, I have both remained focused and saved time that I would have spent searching through multiple sources. Through Brightspace discussion forums I have managed to connect and cooperate with my fellow classmates. - ProfessorGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Brightspace: An Exploration of its Robust Features
Brightspace functions as a robust LMS which comprises many features. Better integration of essential features into a simplified interface would transform Brightspace into an intuitive system usable by both students and teachers.
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