🚀 Brightspace Release Notes: September 2025 – Lumi Expands!
Septembers release notes brings exciting new ways to deliver AI-powered support and feedback directly in Brightspace. With several major updates to the D2L Lumi family, institutions can now give learners faster answers, provide consistent academic support, and streamline instructor workflows — all without leaving the learning environment.
Here’s what’s new and enhanced:
💬 Lumi Chat (Core) – Learners no longer need to leave Brightspace to get answers. Lumi Chat provides an embedded assistant that instantly responds to support and service-related questions using Brightspace help content or institutional resources.
🔗 Lumi Chat – Single Channel – For institutions that want Lumi Chat solely inside Brightspace, this option delivers AI-powered support within the course environment while allowing admins to connect to approved external data sources for richer, contextual answers.
🌐 Lumi Chat – Multi-Channel – Take Lumi Chat further by extending it beyond Brightspace. Deploy the assistant into institutional portals, authenticated websites, or even Microsoft Teams. Learners and staff get consistent AI-powered answers wherever they engage, with links back to Brightspace when relevant.
📝 Lumi Feedback – Grading and feedback just got smarter. Lumi Feedback analyzes learner submissions against instructor rubrics, generating draft scores and personalized feedback for instructor review. This saves time, increases consistency, and helps instructors return meaningful feedback more quickly.
🎓 Lumi Tutor – A new, course-aware AI assistant that gives learners personalized study guidance right inside Brightspace. Lumi Tutor creates contextual study guides, flashcards, and practice questions, supports multilingual interactions, and allows instructors to shape how the assistant engages with learners.
✨ Why this matters: These updates make Lumi a more flexible, powerful partner for institutions. Learners benefit from instant answers and personalized support. Instructors gain time-saving tools for grading and tutoring. Administrators have more control over how and where Lumi is deployed — whether in Brightspace alone or across multiple institutional channels.
📖 Dive into the details:
🔗 Read the full September 2025 Release Notes here