Brightspace LMS for Higher Education
Millions of learners and instructors in educational institutions around the world count on the Brightspace learning management system (LMS) to deliver worry-free technology that helps put learners first. Enhance your teaching success and improve learning outcomes by partnering with D2L’s learning experts, to improve your higher education offering.
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1. Worry-free technology
Do you want a secure, reliable learning experience that works consistently on any mobile device? You’ve come to the right place.
- Reduce complexity (and stress levels).
- Offer anywhere, anytime learning – on any device.
- Realize awesome uptime.
- Easily integrate into your IT ecosystem.
- Rely on world-class security.
2. Put learners first
You’re driven to help your learners succeed. So are we.
- Personalize learning.
- Provide next-generation accessibility.
- Motivate learners to achieve.
- Give your modern learners a modern learning platform.
3. Enhance teaching success
Built by educators for educators, Brightspace will make you more productive and save you time while improving your students’ learning experiences.
- Focus on what’s important: Teaching and supporting your learners.
- Offer learners efficient, timely, and meaningful grading and feedback.
- Keep learners informed and engaged.
- Continue to use your favorite classroom tools.
4. Improve learning outcomes
Inspire your learners and motivate them to take ownership of their education.
- Keep your learners on track.
- Personalize your feedback.
- Create engaging content, fast.
- Showcase your learners’ learning.
5. Partner with a learning expert
Engage with D2L’s experts 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.
- Let us help you connect the dots
- Begin with a success plan unique to you.
- Work with a customer-driven company.
Why choose Brightspace?
1. Worry-free technology
Do you want a secure, reliable learning experience that works consistently on any mobile device? You’ve come to the right place.
2. Put learners first
You’re driven to help your learners succeed. So are we.
3. Enhance teaching success
Built by educators for educators, Brightspace will make you more productive and save you time while improving your students learning experiences.
4. Improve learning outcomes
Inspire your learners and motivate them to take ownership of their education.
5. Partner with a learning expert
Engage with D2L’s experts 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.
Brightspace Emerge for Higher Education
Brightspace Emerge combines all the tools, services, and support you need to launch your digital transformation, delivering engaging teaching and learning experiences for your faculty and students — all in one convenient package.
Brightspace Core for Higher Education
Brightspace Core is your gateway to continuous innovation and growth, offering advanced personalization, engagement, data tools and add-on packages that help transform the learning experience.
Performance Plus for Higher Education
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.
Engagement+ for Higher Education
The Engagement+ add-on for the Brightspace LMS gives higher education institutions the ability to gamify their course content and engage their students, along with showcase their online course offerings and help instructors create engaging video-based lectures.
Brightspace Emerge for Higher Education
Brightspace Emerge combines all the tools, services, and support you need to launch your digital transformation, delivering engaging teaching and learning experiences for your faculty and students — all in one convenient package.
Save time with intuitive, mobile-first design
- Offer anywhere, anytime learning on any device. Laptop, desktop, tablet, or smartphone—regardless of the way your students want to learn, our responsive learning platform and top-rated Brightspace Pulse mobile app help provide flexible access to educational content.
- Deliver learning with ease. Beautifully designed, Brightspace offers an intuitive interface making it easy to support creating content and engaging students—both in person and online—to help them achieve their full potential.
- Reach every learner. Our CODiE award-winning accessibility features can make it easy for students to navigate using assistive technologies and help you deliver accommodations to meet the unique needs of your students.
Motivate learners with personalized learning experiences
- Reimagine learning experiences at scale. Different course delivery methods or pedagogical approaches, including blended, online, and competency-based education, can be explored to suit your learners’ needs.
- Help increase student engagement. Make it easy for students to virtually connect, interact, and collaborate with their instructors and peers by leveraging the activity feed and discussion forums.
- Recognize individual achievement. Help motivate students with awards, badges, and certificates—all easily managed from within Brightspace.
- Help keep students moving forward. Track progress, engagement, and outcomes across an entire course, or for a specific student, with the Class Progress tool. Use Mastery View to understand student achievement related to course outcomes. Automatically release enrichment or remediation content based on student achievement or provide that extra nudge to keep learners on task and on track.
Enhance teaching with powerful tools for faculty
- Create content—or add existing content—quickly and easily. Use intuitive course-building tools and templates to build new courses or seamlessly import content from a variety of external sources.
- Evaluate faster. Use Quick Eval to sort, filter, and search learner submissions to prioritize evaluation work from a single location. Provide meaningful feedback using tools such as rubrics, annotations, and Video Note.
- Explore the platform and tools at your own pace. The Brightspace platform is enjoyed equally by novice and power users, and everyone in between. With progressive disclosure, the most common items are displayed first, with drill-down options for more in-depth tasks.
Partner with our experts for the service and support you need
- Start with your own unique success plan. Collaborate with our consultants to create a tailored implementation plan to help your platform launch be a success. Partner with our customer success team to help improve adoption and retention and maximize the full potential of Brightspace Emerge.
- Get the support you need, when you need it. Contact our support team at any time of the day through our Approved Support Contact (ASC) portal to tap into Brightspace expertise and help keep your platform in tip-top shape.
- Interact with peers and subject matter experts. When you introduce Brightspace Emerge, you’ll also be offered exclusive access to the Brightspace Community—your 24x7x365 one-stop shop for self-serve resources and a safe space for all users to share, inspire, and support one another throughout their learning journey.
Brightspace Core for Higher Education
Brightspace Core is your gateway to continuous innovation and growth, offering advanced personalization, engagement, data tools and add-on packages that help transform the learning experience.
Save time with intuitive, mobile-first design.
- Brightspace offers a great mobile experience for faculty and students on any device through a responsive design, which adapts to any screen size, paired with mobile apps to optimise common tasks.
- Award-winning accessibility features make it easy for students to navigate tools using assistive technologies.
- An intuitive interface and built-in templates make it easy for instructors to design courses, create content, and grade assignments.
Keep students progressing with engaging course content.
- Add some personality directly to course content with in-line audio, video, and other media from internal sources, content repositories, or external sites.
- Help increase engagement with integrated video capabilities that allow you to use video-based assessments, web conferencing, and embedded feedback.
- Students can document and share their learning journey as it happens with the Portfolio tool.
Motivate learners with personalized learning experiences.
- Motivate students by gamifying the course and recognizing their individual achievements with awards and certificates.
- It’s easy to share content with the class due to an integration with Google Drive and the ability to post media from the YouTube™ video community or other favorite sites.
- Different course delivery methods or pedagogical approaches, including blended, online, and competency based-education, can be explored to suit your learners’ needs.
Enhance teaching with powerful tools for faculty.
With Performance+, you can quickly get answers to the questions that are most important to your institution with advanced analytics dashboards. With up-to-date, real time information, there is no more waiting for custom reports, no reliance on external tools, and no manual management of roles and permissions.
- The Adoption Dashboard within Performance+ helps educational administrators clearly see how Brightspace is being used, so they can amplify successes and determine where to invest.
- The Engagement Dashboard helps educational advisors identify at-risk and succeeding groups and individuals in order to take appropriate action.
- The Assessment Quality Dashboard helps educators and instructional designers quickly evaluate the effectiveness of quizzes and quiz questions.
Make data-driven decisions with built-in analytics.
- Faculty can quickly compare each learner’s performance in the course using the Class Progress Dashboard.
- Student-level reports and detailed grade statistics allow granular analysis of learners’ performance to help them improve.
- Access to learner data allows you to analyze it with business intelligence tools or integrate with your SIS student information system and other systems.
Partner with our experts for the service and support you need.
- A personalised implementation and training experience focuses on what you need and eliminates what you don’t, optimising time and resources.
- Brightspace Community is an interactive space for all users to explore to find answers to questions, share ideas and experiences, connect with peers and D2L experts, and more.
- The Approved Support Contact (ASC) portal makes it quick and easy for your LMS admins to connect with Brightspace support and leverage resources and tools to keep things running smoothly.
Performance Plus for Higher Education
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.
Learning analytics that make sense
- Brightspace offers a great mobile experience for faculty and students on any device through a responsive design, which adapts to any screen size, paired with mobile apps to optimize common tasks.
- Award-winning accessibility features make it easy for students to navigate tools using assistive technologies.
- An intuitive interface and built-in templates make it easy for instructors to design courses, create content, and grade assignments.
Personalized learning paths
The adaptive learning engine creates a scalable, personalized experience to help each student succeed in his or her own way.
- The semantic engine automatically links concepts to content. It develops an active understanding of each student’s progress against learning objectives and of where they need extra help.
- Instructors can use the learning objectives, content, and questions they’ve already created for a course to set unique learning paths for each student.
- Course content and assessments are automatically tailored to each individual, helping deliver a personalized experience regardless of class size.
Better outcomes for at-risk students
Predictive analytics and visual diagnostics can help instructors identify at-risk students in a course and take action to help them improve.
- Intuitive dashboards transform complex learner data into easily identified patterns of student engagement and academic risk.
- Integrated workflows help instructors quickly take prescriptive action for at-risk and disengaged students.
- With a better understanding of what’s working and what isn’t, instructors can improve and optimise their course content and delivery over time.
Engagement+ for Higher Education
The Engagement+ add-on for the Brightspace LMS gives higher education institutions the ability to gamify their course content and engage their students, along with showcase their online course offerings and help instructors create engaging video-based lectures.
Improve student engagement through Game Based Learning
With Engagement+, you can boost student engagement through game based learning more easily than ever. The user-friendly gaming framework enables the creation of a highly interactive learning experience with no programming experience required. Learning has never been so much fun!
- Tight integration with the Brightspace LMS allows instructors to add existing content such as quizzes, assignments, and other files directly to the game map.
- Rewarding student progress and accomplishments is easy with the use of awards issued upon completion of map activities.
Nurture healthy competition among your students with the Awards Leaderboard
Motivate students to take their learning to the next level. Gamify your courses, and create a sense of satisfaction by adding awards and badges to course activities. Plus, with the Awards Leaderboard you can create a fun and competitive environment where students can visualize and show off their progress.
- Let your students see how they’re stacking up against their peers and inspire them to continue learning so they can unlock even more badges.
- Encourage social learning, collaboration, and knowledge sharing within the Brightspace LMS platform by issuing digital badges after students participate in discussions, submit assignments, complete game activities, or do other course activities.
Online video designed for higher education
Multimedia lecture recordings and fully searchable video content help make courses more engaging for online, blended, and flipped classrooms.
- Cross-library search and robust in-video search help students find the exact content they’re looking for.
- Tight integration with Brightspace allows instructors to add lecture recordings directly to their courses.
Catalogue to showcase course offerings
Schools can give learners an easy way to find and register for courses or to market and sell their course offerings or training programs using a course catalogue.
- Search tools, tags, and course categorization help learners quickly self-enroll in the best course for them.
- Courses can be offered individually or as part of a larger program. Optional date restrictions, registration limits, and wait lists give you control over enrollment.
- Turnkey e-commerce gives you a storefront to market your course offerings. The integration with PayPal allows you the option to collect registration fees via credit card.
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higher education institutions who are transforming learning for their students, faculty, and administration. Read their stories: