Name: Brightspace
Rating: 3.9 (42 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Brightspace?

Brightspace is a learning management software developed by D2L designed to support online and blended education environments for educational institutions and organizations. The software provides tools for course creation, content delivery, assessment management, and analytics. It enables instructors to organize curriculum, track learner progress, and foster communication through discussion forums and messaging features. Brightspace also offers integration capabilities with other educational technologies and supports adaptive learning through personalized pathways. The software addresses the need for flexible digital learning environments, aiming to improve accessibility, engagement, and administrative efficiency in education and training management.

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Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education

FAVORABLE

“Brightspace- Brightening up your learning experience”

4.0

Dec 27, 2022

A quick and easy learning management app that is loved by both students and their parents. It creates highly personalized and creative ways for learning to be done. It digitizes the whole college and makes it easy to learn and operate for everyone. Short learning curve for most teachers and faculties and a lot of training material is available for them to upgrade and learn. Clear and easy to use GUI.

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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.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1999

Head office location

Kitchener, Canada

Number of employees

1001 - 5000

Website

http://www.d2l.com/

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Brightspace Likes & Dislikes

1. Super upgrades and timely updates available. They try to add features often. 2. GUI is simple and easy to learn and use, even without training. 3. Report creation and representation and visualization is very simple.

I like how it is very easy to upload and organize the various documents throughout the platform. I also like how I can see each student's account and the amount of time that they are spending on each task. The benefit of time stamped assessments is great for recording achievement.

1. Roles of the admins and other members is not clearly defined. 2. There are app/module outages and those are frequent. 3. File size limitation of 3GB.

I dislike how in various discussion boards the posts would come out of order which caused some confusion for students who were actively participating in a discussion. I would also love to see some more options to do more types of assessments for students.

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Brightspace- Brightening up your learning experience

Teacher

<50M USD

D2L is an excellent tool for the classroom

Nov 17, 2018

As a teacher I used D2L as a supplement for my daily lessons and for students to download assignments and participate in class discussion. I found the entire platform very user friendly and easy to navigate through. I was easily able to upload content for students and organize it by unit. The only issue I had was when multiple students were commenting on the same discussion post, they would often come out of order which caused confusion when trying to assess their work.

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“Brightspace- Brightening up your learning experience”