The Consumption Dashboard displays an organization's total annual AI consumption and breakdown of activity by users. The dashboard allows administrators to see which users are active and which courses are leveraging D2L Lumi Pro for Brightspace and D2L Lumi for Creator+.
Requirements
The following are required to use the Consumption Dashboard:
- To see the Consumption Dashboard in your organization, you must make Consumption available in Organization Tools.
- To see and use the Consumption Dashboard, refer to the Consumption Dashboard permissions topic to review the necessary permissions.
To review the entire process for enablement and making the Consumption Dashboard and D2L Lumi available, refer to the Set up the Consumption Dashboard and D2L Lumi Pro for Brightspace topic.
Visual tour of the Consumption Dashboard

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Use the Consumption Dashboard to monitor your organization's usage of AI-generated content.
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If your organization has D2L Lumi Pro for Brightspace and D2L Lumi for Creator+, both the Brightspace and Creator+ tabs appear in your Consumption Dashboard. The Brightspace tab displays data for the use of D2L Lumi across your organization. The Creator+ tab only displays data for AI usage with Creator+ tools. Tabs do not appear if your organization does not have a subscription to both.
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Annual Consumption: Shows how many times your organization generated content using D2L Lumi. Annual Consumption resets at the beginning of an organization's annual billing cycle. For example, if an organization used 928/1000 consumptions, the number resets back to 0/1000. Data is not lost on reset. Any historical statistics and usage details remain.
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Consumption by User: Shows how many times a user generated content for an org unit using D2L Lumi.
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Last Name, First Name: Displays a user's first and last name.
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Org Unit: The org unit where the user generated content.
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Generations: How many times the user generated content.
AI consumption and generation tracking
AI consumption is tracked by a unit called a generation. Workflows that use D2L Lumi may consume one or more generations. Generations are tracked independently of whether the items generated by D2L Lumi were saved. The following list describes how generations are tracked and reported:
- Each generated quiz question is equivalent to 1 generation.
- Each generated set of ideas for assignments is equivalent to 1 generation.
- Each generated set of ideas for discussions is equivalent to 1 generation.
- Each generated set of outcome alignment suggestions is equivalent to 1 generation; pressing the suggest more button mid-workflow does not trigger additional consumption.
- Each generated set of summaries is equivalent to 10 generations.
- Each quiz that is enabled with study support consumes at least 1 generation
- When study support is first enabled on a quiz, 1 generation is consumed.
- If a user disables and re-enables study support on the same quiz, in the same course, no additional generations are consumed.
- If the optional ability to generate a quiz results overview message is enabled on the quiz, then 1 additional generation is consumed for each learner attempt that results in a dynamic overview message.
- A dynamic overview message is only generated when there is at least one outcome where all questions aligned to it are correct and at least one other outcome where all questions aligned to it are not fully correct.
- Examples that do not result in a dynamic overview message include: attempts where all questions are correct, attempts where all questions are incorrect, or if there is only one outcome aligned to all questions in a study quiz.
- Each unit of content generated will consume generations based on which workflow is selected and how many pages are generated
- Import pre-written unit workflow:
- Analyzing and proposing a unit structure consumes 3 generations;
- Publishing then consumes 1 generation per page (up to a maximum of 15 pages).
- Generate unit from a presentation or lecture workflow:
- Analyzing and proposing a unit structure consumes 10 generations;
- Publishing then consumes 10 generations plus an additional 5 generations per page (up to a maximum of 15 pages).