What’s New at D2L
Our users and customers are at the center of all we do at D2L. We’re always listening to your needs, and every month we deliver new and updated features, products, solutions and services to help meet them. We compile recent highlights here to make it easy to stay up to date on what we’ve been up to.
Our Focus Is on Creating Effective and Easy-to-Use Educational Technologies
More than ever before, there’s a need for educational technologies that save time, reach every learner and set people up for success. The events of the past few years have surfaced challenges in equity and access to quality learning that many didn’t know existed. Our focus has been on creating educational technologies that empower users of every level, simplify the experience for users of all abilities, and bring solutions together in one place. We’re making it easier to offer learning in online and blended environments so that everyone can succeed.
Empower
Giving educators and administrators tools they need to improve outcomes and save time.
Author Your Own High-Impact Courses
Transform Teaching and Learning With Digital Resources
Access and Act on Your Data
Author Your Own High-Impact Courses
Ready-made content templates, interactive elements, easy-to-capture video recordings and practice exercises all come standard with the launch of Creator+. Educators of all skill levels can craft beautiful and instructionally sound content using seamless and familiar D2L Brightspace workflows—with no coding required.
Transform Teaching and Learning With Digital Resources
High-quality, curriculum standards-aligned content is now available right in Brightspace with the launch of our D2L Adventure offering. The digital resources pair seamlessly with our suite of teaching and learning tools.
Access and Act on Your Data
We continue to build out the Data Hub, which now has 125+ data sets available that give clients access to more and more information. Our Insights Dashboards in Performance+ are now even easier to use, analyze and pull actionable information from. A new version of the Adoption Dashboard brings users an improved, simplified experience to help administrators gain a deeper understanding of how users in their organization adopt Brightspace.
Simplify
Making workflows efficient and consistent.
Find Efficiency in Consistent, Reliable Experiences
Copy Assignments From One Course to Another
Share Achievements Publicly
Manage All Media Files in One Place
Keep Automatic Enrollments Organized
Surface Relevant Courses to Streamline Self-Enrollment
Simplify Automatic Messaging
Find Efficiency in Consistent, Reliable Experiences
Updating tools and improving consistency across the platform—and without disruption—continue to be priorities. With the launch of the new Quiz creation experience, our goal was to simplify common tasks for first-time or infrequent users while giving easy access to the advanced features that our experienced power users love. This experience also required no migration.
Copy Assignments From One Course to Another
Educators who teach multiple courses can now copy assignments to other courses in just four clicks.
Share Achievements Publicly
Users can now easily create a public link to share their badges and certificates earned in Brightspace. It’s never been easier for an achievement granted from Brightspace to be shared to LinkedIn as well as ePortfolio and the Brightspace profile.
Manage All Media Files in One Place
Content creators can access all their multimedia files across Brightspace in one central location, making it simple to view, download, edit and delete, regardless of what course or tool the file was created in.
Keep Automatic Enrollments Organized
Parent companies or institutions with sub-companies or campuses can use the Learning Groups tool to set up automatic membership enrollment rules for users based on their attributes while ensuring users and courses in each sub-company or campus are separate from each other.
Surface Relevant Courses to Streamline Self-Enrollment
Set up rules for self-enrollment in Discover based on role and other custom user attributes to ensure users can only enroll in courses that align to their needs.
Simplify Automatic Messaging
Updates to our Intelligent Agent tool provide more flexibility and make it easier for users to set up and manage automatic messaging.
Unite
Coming together to transform the way the world learns and take the friction out of your learning strategy.
Create Accounts on the Spot
Take the Friction Out of Integration
Come Together in an Improved Community Experience
Rely on Us
Supercharge Your Workforce
Create Accounts on the Spot
Now users can take advantage of just-in-time user creation via SAML authentication (SAML Just-in-Time), meaning there’s no need for an administrator to intervene to create the account.
Take the Friction Out of Integration
Integration with other tools is even easier with improvements to LTI. Administrative workflows are now more intuitive, and we’ve added functionality to safeguard against potential errors.
Come Together in an Improved Community Experience
Early access to the new D2L Brightspace Community brings a new and improved experience for users that makes it easier to access documentation, ask questions and find information.
Rely on Us
Achieving and maintaining security and privacy measures continue to be top priorities for D2L, helping us provide our customers and partners with a platform they can rely on. Continued compliance with ISO 27001 and ISO 27018 security standards is now complemented by our recent ISO 27017 certification, a testament to D2L’s cloud security management.
Supercharge Your Workforce
D2L Wave—a separate offering from Brightspace—continues to expand its education partner network, including its first-ever U.S.-based education partner. This provides Wave users with a larger selection of professional development courses and programs. Wave has also streamlined payment and registration processes to make professional development more accessible.
The Updates Never Stop
Stay up to date with new releases through our D2L Brightspace Community. Have questions or want to learn more?