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D2L Excellence Awards Now Open!
Every year, our community shows us what’s possible when people care deeply, try boldly and work relentlessly to make a real impact in their communities. People like Callie in this fantastic photo—and people like you—belong in the spotlight. The 2026 D2L Excellence Awards officially open for nominations, and it’s your turn…
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Celebrating the 2025 D2L Academy Challenge Winners
The D2L Academy Challenge wrapped up on August 22nd, and what an amazing experience it has been! Over the past month, our community has shown the true spirit of continuous learning and collaboration. 💪 🌟 Challenge Highlights: 350+ users completed at least one of the 12 badged courses 5 users completed all 12 badges in just…
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Semester Start Readiness Guides for Learners
The first week of classes can be busy, but knowing where to find your courses and how to troubleshoot common problems will save time and reduce stress. Semester Start for Learners
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Semester Start Readiness Guides for Instructors
Whether you're creating content for the first time or looking to copy components from one course to another these Instructor focused resources are designed to help you get to class on time Semester Start for Instructors
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Semester Start Readiness Guides for Administrators
From Getting Started to Analytics Builder- these Administrator focused resources are made to give you a head start Semester Start for Administrators
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Let's talk PIEs Webinar 🥧
D2L Product Managers, Jackie and Monica, are excited to invite you to a live discussion all about Assignments and Quizzes, next Thursday, August 14 at 1PM EST. We’ll be celebrating recent PIE releases for these tools — including the #1 PIE item, Print a Quiz (voiced by you 🎉) — and gathering your feedback on what’s coming…
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Community CSAT Survey
We’d love your help making the Brightspace Community even better! If you’ve got a minute, please share your thoughts by filling out our quick Customer Satisfaction survey. Your feedback helps us improve the experience for you and everyone else in the community. We're inviting you to take part in our survey about your…
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🚀New Community Features Launched
Get the Full Story We're building a better Community experience, and this month we're excited to share all the improvements we’ve made in response to, and inspired by your feedback. In addition to fixing known issues and creating usability improvements, we’ve made it easier to post questions, tag and search answers in your…
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Community Roadmap Updated
Your Feedback builds a better Community Check out the Community Roadmap to see what's launching next, what's been just released and leave us new ideas for future features
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Now Open: D2L Excellence Awards
You're making an incredible contribution to learning and we want to hear about it! Nominations are now open for the D2L Excellence Awards. The Excellence Awards honor the innovation, progress and betterment of learning in the communities we serve. This year, we'll recognize up to six award winners who demonstrate…
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Elevate your e-commerce game with Course Merchant!
If you're a Course Merchant user, or are interested in learning more about Course Merchant, our full suite of Course Merchant documentation is now live in Brightspace Community! 🌟📚 Course Merchant is a search-friendly and brand-matched e-commerce system that allows anyone, anywhere to seamlessly discover, browse, purchase,…
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Tour Community
Take a Tour of the D2L Brightspace Community Have ideas for new stops or other questions? Drop them in the thread
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Community Events 🎫
Hi Brightspace Community Members! Don't miss out on all the fun we have during our Community Events! Stay tuned and "Bookmark" this discussion thread. The Community Crew will be posting "Event Alerts 🚨" here so you can get in-platform and email reminders when an Event is coming up. (Set your notification preferences) Jump…
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Community Feedback🗨️
Connect with Community to share your feedback about the types of events and Learning Center resources you want to see more of, so that we can get busy creating these experiences for you!🤟🏽 For more opportunities to give us feedback about your Community Experience, connect with our Community Experience Survey or share your…
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Community Updates
🔖 Bookmark this Discussion to receive automated email notifications of important Community Updates.
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Member Spotlights
What are other Clients doing with Brightspace? Are there Free Downloadable Resources you can get access to? Can you share a resource with Brightspace Community? Check out our Brightspace Community Spotlights!
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Welcome
Welcome to the Brightspace Community! Have questions about how to use this space? Check out our Community Corner Knowledge Base for more information! Getting Started With Community - Brightspace (d2l.com) Need a helping hand with something? You're very welcome to post in this thread and be sure to introduce yourself too!
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Brightspace and links not appearing under “Content”
Hello all, I am a learner and I am having trouble with accessing a link. My professor posted a link for class resources that are important for class time and I am having trouble accessing it despite it being available through “student view”. I will attach two photos, one of my professor’s Brightspace and the other of my…
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How to Report on Students Who Have Not Submitted Assignments?
Hello, I'm working on an important report for our academics that needs to show a comprehensive list of students and their assignment submission status (Submitted/Not Submitted). The Challenge The core issue we are running into is with the Brightspace datasets themselves: The data only includes records for students who have…
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Calendar invitations to sessions
Hello! We are a very very small organization using Brightspace. The entire administration team is only me right now, and I am mostly self taught. So I am in over my head. :D We have a very basic version of brightspace- not a lot of budget for the add ins. For synchronous course events (we put them on Discover) I was…
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🌍️ Help Shape the Future of Localization!
We’re inviting all Brightspace users to share their experiences with our language packs to help improve localization across the platform. If you (or someone you know) use Brightspace in another language, we’d love to hear about your experience! Your feedback will directly influence how we enhance multilingual support in…
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Sketch email to join D2L Champions
Hi, I got an email from "champions@crowdvocate .d2l.com" champions@crowdvocate .d2l.com yesterday in Portuguese. It had a link and when I clicked on it, it asked for a password: Can anyone in here confirm or deny it's legitimate? I already have a D2L login, so that's what threw me. Thank you all in advance!
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🌟 Share Your Story for D2L’s Moments of Significance Campaign!
We’re celebrating the leadership, diversity, and impact of our customers—and we’d love to feature your story. The Moments of Significance campaign highlights culturally, historically, and socially meaningful moments where institutions have advanced diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in education. Whether…
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Customer Spotlight: Intelligent Agents Series by Dr. Elizabeth Pearsall
We’re excited to introduce a new guided course on Intelligent Agents, developed in partnership with Dr. Elizabeth Pearsall, Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning, American College of Financial Services. This course will help instructors and administrators move from awareness to confident implementation of Intelligent…
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Presentation for Career Development
I had a presentation for career development and I'd like feedback on it please, thank you. https://us.v-cdn.net/6036482/uploads/C84XX2RX3W0Q/professional-development-plan.docx
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📣 D2L Partner Event: AI-Powered Assessment & Feedback in Brightspace
Join our D2L Brightspace partner LearnWise for a webinar on scaling timely, rubric-aligned feedback in Brightspace with Lumi Tutor & Lumi Feedback! 🔌 AI-Powered Assessment & Feedback in Brightspace Without Disruption 📅 Aug 20 |11 AM EDT | 5 PM CET What you’ll learn: A practical, instructor-first framework for bringing AI…
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Fix "null" in search menu
This is what I see when I click the search magnifying glass. Why not default to blank rather than "null" on click. Or maybe pull category from my profile. Tags: UX, User Interface
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Good afternoon newcomer to the group
a very excited to start this program. I’m not a computer with so please be patient with me when learning the ends and out of the technical life in here look forward to learning a lot. Have a great day.
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PIE Link broken looking for help
The PIE link is still down. However, I was just looking for a place to make a creative suggestion that would be helpful for users. I've created two weighted graded schemes. One is for work in the "Assignments" folder, and I am able to link that to the grade book. The other scheme is for work in the "Discussions" and…
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🏆 Community Spotlight: Thomas Bartenstein
Meet Tom, a part-time Computer Science lecturer at Binghamton University with 30 years of industry experience. With a background in in-person, online, and hybrid teaching, Tom focuses on keeping things simple, using clear module descriptions to guide students and keep them engaged across formats. His favourite Community…
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Who clicked "Like"?
Is there any way we can see who liked a particular page on the Community Corner…in the same way as we can on Social Media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, etc.?
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Conversations about BrightSpace Quizzes
Hi Folks, Apparently there are big changes afoot on the BrightSpace PIE. As a result of these changes, posts marked as "Not Planned" will not be migrated to the new platform. According to D2L, these ideas will be retained on their internal system to inform future innovation, but will no longer appear on the PIE. So, in the…
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concerns re PIE migration
As I understand it, the PIE is being migrated to some new platform and we have been asked to comment on any posts marked "Feedback Review Window" to indicate that we want particular activities to be migrated. Does this mean that anything marked as "Not Planned" will not be migrated? If not, this is an issue for me. Over…
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Comment re status colours on PIE
Have I just not noticed the colours on the PIE before? This is how “Status” colours are currently allocated: I would say there are some colour choice problems and suggest the following changes: • “Not Planned” should definitely not (a) be green and (b) be the same colour as “In Planning”. Make it red like “Closed”. •…
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🏆 Community Spotlight: Elizabeth Pearsall
Meet Dr. Elizabeth Pearsall, Assistant Provost for Teaching & Learning at The American College of Financial Services. She’s a powerhouse behind their full Brightspace overhaul—redesigning roles, permissions, and course templates to better serve faculty and students. Elizabeth’s favorite Community feature is the depth of…
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How do I get access to the Product Idea Exchange?
Hello. Do I need a different login and password to access the Product Idea Exchange than the ones I use to access Brightspace Community? If so, how do I set those?
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🏆 Community Spotlight: Travis Kramer
Meet Travis Kramer, the Learning Technology Manager at the Koehler Center for Teaching Excellence. Travis leads the administration, support, and continuous improvement of D2L Brightspace at Texas Christian University, while also providing training and instructional design guidance to faculty. He’s passionate about helping…