September 2026 Edition
This section provides a preview of product and feature delivery plans for November
2026/20.26.11 and December 2026/20.26.12 releases. The Product and Services Preview document replaces the former 60/90 day Review/Preview.
Important: The most recent and accurate version of Release Notes apply to near-term delivery plans for the upcoming October 2026/20.26.10 release. This page is a preview of planned release features only. As stated in the Safe Harbor Statement,
the information provided herein is subject to change at any time, at the discretion of D2L, and D2L makes no commitment to update the information.
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Enablement Information
Information about the default state of a released feature, function or change in a Brightspace site is included to provide additional information, supporting change preparation, or planning in your organization.
Availability (Enabled State)
Advanced knowledge about whether customers can control access to the feature, function, or changes. This allows Administrators, trainers and supporting roles in an organization an opportunity to know which items are controllable and which are not.
- On: Indicates that the feature’s default state is visible/on and that there is no override or setting to control this state by any user.
- Off: Indicates that the feature’s default state is hidden/off and that there is no override or setting to control this state by any user.
- On (Overridable): Indicates the features default state and that it can be controlled or overridden by a user. For example, a new permission that is automatically selected for specific roles, or an editable config variable default that is on both offer opportunities to configure or override the default states.
- Off (Overridable): Indicates the features default state and that it can be controlled or overridden by a Brightspace user. For example, a new permission that is not selected, a new setting or new config variable that is off by default both provide opportunities to review and enable if desired.
Site Actions (Enablement Method)
For any feature, function, or change that is controllable, this section indicate the role settings, permissions, config variables, tool, or application settings you use to control the feature.
This allows Administrators, trainers, or supporting roles in an organization the opportunity to make decisions earlier and better plan for any work required to support any updates or changes.
Some examples include the following:
- Role Settings
- Role Permissions
- Config variables
- In Tool settings (such as Grades Settings or Widget customization)
- In Application settings (such as Pulse Settings)
November 2026 / 20.26.11
Brightspace — Catalan language pack will be available
Planned Release | 20.26.11
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: All
Site Availability: Off (Customer Overridable)
Site Enablement Actions: Language/Locale Management
Additional Information Overview
With this release, the Catalan language pack will be available in Brightspace. This update will promote inclusive, culturally-responsive education and supports D2L’s commitment to global language accessibility.
Bulk User Management — Updated UI and Connection to Form Elements Removed
Planned Release | 20.26.11
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
This release will introduce significant updates to the Bulk User Management (BUM) tool. General functionality of BUM is not changing with this update.
- The user interface will be completely updated to match our current Brightspace design.
- New permissions will be added to specifically control access to BUM.
- Previously, the BUM tool relied on the Form Elements tool to customize the format of the various BUM actions. That reliance will be removed, and configuration of BUM actions will be done directly within the tool via a new menu.
Administrators will be able to utilize the following permissions:
- Can access the Bulk User Management tool
- Bulk Create Users Action
- Bulk Update Users Action
- Bulk Delete Users Action
- Bulk Enroll Users Action
- Bulk Unenroll Users Action
- Bulk Import Users Action
- Can customize Bulk User Management Actions
Creator+ — Creator+ Practice Experience Improvements
Planned Release | 20.26.11
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator, Learner, Instructor
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: App Version
Additional Information Overview
Creator+ activities will feature a cleaner layout with improved spacing, making it easier for learners to associate actions such as Check Answer with the correct question. As part of these updates, the separator above the Check Answer button will move below the button to create a clearer connection between each question and its associated action.
Additional visual refinements will improve consistency across Creator+ activities, including standardized font styling, spacing, and overall layout.
These updates will not change how activities function, but they will provide a cleaner, more consistent experience for both content authors and learners.
Groups — Manage Groups experience will include new Manage Members enrollment page and improved workflows
Planned Release | 20.26.11
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor
Site Availability: On (Customer Overridable)
Site Enablement Actions: Configuration Variable (Org)
Additional Information Overview
The new Manage Groups experience, currently available through opt-in, will introduce an improved interface for manually adjusting group membership.
The new Manage Members page will support two workflows: users will be able to view all groups and their members, or switch to a user-focused view showing all users and the groups they belong to. These options will make it easier to review and manually adjust group membership.
For organizations that have opted into the new Manage Groups experience, the new Manage Members enrollment page will be immediately available, and the previous Enroll Users page will no longer be visible. Users will be able to opt out by using the toggle on the Manage Groups category page to turn off the new experience.
For additional information, refer to High Impact Changes Timeline page in our Community, where this was originally announced in June, and review the blog post Introducing New Manage Members Workflows in Manage Groups - Brightspace.
Homepages and Navbars — Course Title and Course Banner will display the status of a course and its dates
Planned Release | 20.26.11
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator
Site Availability: Off (Customer Overridable)
Site Enablement Actions: Config Variable (Org)
Additional Information Overview
This feature will introduce a new way for users to quickly view a course offering’s status and associated start and end dates from within the course. This information will make it easier to determine whether a course has not yet started, has ended, or is not visible to learners.
A new configuration variable will allow administrators to display course status and dates for all users in the course title above the navigation bar.
For course offerings that use a course image banner, a new setting will allow the course status and dates to appear on the banner. The dropdown menu on the course image will also include a new option for quickly accessing the Course Offering Information page when adjustments are needed.
My Courses Widget — Improvements to the My Courses widget for Test Instances
Planned Release | 20.26.11
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Learner
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Stylistic and functional changes will be added to the My Courses widget to improve usability and provide clearer visual indicators for course due dates and statuses.
Course cards will display due date information in red text, and the Overdue status indicator will appear in bold red text for greater visual emphasis. In the All Courses dialog, the Filters button will move beside the Search field, Recent Searches functionality will be removed due to existing browser search support, and filters will no longer appear when no options are available for selection.
This initial release will introduce these changes to client Test instances only. Clients will see the updated styling and performance improvements in those environments.
Portfolio — Rebuilding the Portfolio App with React Native for better performance and cross-platform access
Planned Release | 20.26.11
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor, Learner, Parent/Guardian
Site Availability: N/A
Site Enablement Actions: App Version
Additional Information Overview
The Portfolio mobile app has been fully rebuilt from native Kotlin (Android) and Swift (iOS) into a single React Native (Expo bare) codebase. This provides cross-platform support with a shared codebase, compliance with Android 15 (SDK/API35) requirements, and a modernized technology stack leveraging lessons learned from the Pulse app. The app update will be delivered as a silent update. Users must update the app, but the bundle identifier remains com.brightspace.mobile.folio so the app store recognizes it as an update to the existing app.
Quizzes — New Group and Section filters
Planned Release | 20.26.11
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The Quizzing tool will be updated to use the new Group and Section filters introduced in the February 2026 release. Groups and Sections will appear in separate dropdowns, improving navigation and scalability for courses with up to 1,000 groups per category. Previously, the View By filter combined groups and sections into a single dropdown, which could result in long, difficult-to-navigate lists.
On the View Statistics pages, the filters will appear within each tab: User Stats, Question Stats, and Question Details. This placement will make it clearer that filter selections apply independently to each tab.
For additional details, refer to the February 2026/20.26.02 Brightspace release notes.
Quizzes — True/False question type will render more consistently across all quizzing areas
Planned Release | 20.26.11
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor, Learner
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The True/False question type will be updated to render more consistently across all quiz areas, including question creation, preview, quiz taking, results display, and print.
December 2026 / 20.26.12
API — Expanding API support for Question Pools and Quiz Sections
Planned Release | 20.26.12
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: API Developer, Integration Vendor
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
New APIs will be released to support Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations for Question Pools and Quiz Sections.
Assignments — Legacy Group Category Assignment creation workflow opt-in will end
Planned Release | 20.26.12
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator, Instructor
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Introduced in the February 2026/20.26.02 release, the assignment creation workflow available from the Groups Category Management page was updated to use the same creation experience as Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussions.
With the December 2026/20.26.12 release, the opt-in period for this updated experience will end. After this release, all users creating an assignment from the Groups Category Management page will use the updated assignment creation experience.
The legacy assignment creation view used only in this workflow will be retired. This change will provide a more consistent experience that matches creating a group assignment directly from the Assignments tool.
Brightspace — Urdu language pack will be available
Planned Release | 20.26.12
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: All
Site Availability: Off (Customer Overridable)
Site Enablement Actions: Language/Locale Management
Additional Information Overview
With this release, the Urdu language pack will be available in Brightspace. This update will promote inclusive, culturally-responsive education and supports D2L’s commitment to global language accessibility.
Classlist, Users — Default search type changes to Starts With
Planned Release | 20.26.12
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator, Instructor
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: Config Variable (Org)
Additional Information Overview
To improve the performance of searches, and reduce time to retrieve information, the default values of two configuration variables, d2l.Tools.Classlist.DefaultSearchType and d2l.Tools.ManageUsers.UserList.DefaultSearchType, will be updated to Starts With instead of Contains. This change will mean that when searches are done within the Classlist or Users tools, searches will be completed by looking in each field for matches that start with the search term instead of searching within the entire field, reducing the time to return results and reducing timeouts that can occur when searches are attempted.
Content — Support for Sequential Navigation through Content
Planned Release | 20.26.12
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor
Site Availability: Off (Customer Overridable)
Site Enablement Actions: In Tool / App Setting
Additional Information Overview
To better guide learners through courses that are designed to be completed in order, a new Content settings option will allow instructors to enable a sequence.
When enabled, content topics and modules will remain locked until the preceding topic is completed. Learners will still be able to view the full course sequence, but they will not be able to access locked content until the required previous content is complete.
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) — EOL of CPD Advanced Datasets
Planned Release | 20.26.12
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: All
Site Availability: N/A
Site Enablement Actions: N/A
Additional Information Overview
As announced in the January 2025/20.25.01 Release Notes, the CPD Advanced Data Sets will be deprecated and will no longer be accessible to customers. The affected data sets include:
- CPD Job Targets
- CPD Records
- CPD User Targets
Content related to CPD Advanced Data Sets will also be removed from all Brightspace documentation.
Creator+ — Improved font size consistency in Practices and Elements
Planned Release | 20.26.12
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: All
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: App Version
Additional Information Overview
Creator+ will optimize font sizing in Practices and Elements to improve consistency when a content topic defines a font size on the HTML tag.
Groups — Category and group descriptions will be added to the new experience
Planned Release | 20.26.12
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
As part of ongoing updates to the new Manage Groups experience, currently available through opt-in, the category and group pages will display the descriptions configured for each category and group.
For organizations that have opted into the new Manage Groups experience, this update will be available immediately. Users will be able to opt out by using the toggle on the Manage Groups Category page to turn off the new experience.
IPSIS — The IPSIS Administration tool will be refreshed
Planned Release | 20.26.12
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The IPSIS Administration tool will be refreshed to align with common Brightspace design patterns and provide a more consistent experience across the platform.
All core functionality will remain unchanged. Users will notice minor interface updates, including dates displayed in the user’s time zone, slight formatting changes to error and audit log message details, and an updated click target for expanding and collapsing batches.
My Courses Widget — Improvements to the My Courses widget
Planned Release | 20.26.12
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Learner
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Stylistic and functional changes will be added to the My Courses widget to improve usability and provide clearer visual indicators for course due dates and statuses.
Course cards will display due date information in red text, and the Overdue status indicator will appear in bold red text for greater visual emphasis. In the All Courses dialog, the Filters button will move beside the Search field, Recent Searches functionality will be removed due to existing browser search support, and filters will no longer appear when no options are available for selection.
Change history
- 17-09-2026: Updated My Courses Widget — Improvements to the My Courses widget for Client Test Instances to My Courses Widget — Improvements to the My Courses widget planned for 20.26.12.
- 16-09-2026: Published the September Product and Services Preview
- 13-08-2026: Published the August Product and Services Preview
- 16-07-2026: Published the July Product and Services Preview
- 11-06-2026: Published the June Product and Services Preview
- 14-05-2026: Published the May Product and Services Preview
- 16-04-2026: Published the April Product and Services Preview
- 26-03-2026: Updated API — Support Delegated Administration of Users within the Users API to API — Support Distributed Administration of Users within the Users API
- 12-03-2026: Published the March Product and Services Preview
- 24-02-2026: Updated Data Access / Data Hub — Updates to Rubric Assessment Dataset to clarify the upcoming changes
- 12-02-2026: Published the February Product and Services Preview
- 15-01-2026: Published the January Product and Services Preview
- 05-01-2026: Data Access / Data Hub — Updates to Content Objects Brightspace Data Set to the list of features planned for 20.26.03. Removed Data Access / Data Hub — Updates to Question Relationships Brightspace Data Set from the list of features planned for 20.26.03.
- 12-12-2025: Published the December Product and Services Preview
- 13-11-2025: Published the November Product and Services Preview
- 21-10-2025: Published the October Product and Services Preview
- 18-09-2025:
- Removed Annotations (Nutrient) — Update the third party software that powers Assignment Annotations (Nutrient) from version 1.3.0 to 1.6.0 from the list of features planned for 20.25.11
- Administration and System Settings — Improved Admin Tools Menu Experience - the transition period for enforcing the new Admin Tools Menu experience has been extended from December 2025 - 20.25.12 to February 2026 - 20.26.02. The config variable name was also corrected, from to d2l.Preferences.NewAdminCogMenu to d2l.Preferences.NewAdminToolsMenu
- Data Access / Data Hub — Updates to Release Condition Results Brightspace Data Set is now planned for 20.25.11
- Fixed typos and made revisions to improve consistency and clarity
- 17-09-2025: "Usability Improvement - Update legacy style tabs to D2L's modern tabs" is now planned for the 20.25.12 release
- 16-09-2025: Published the September Product and Services Preview
- 20-08-2025: Published the August Product and Services Preview
- 22-07-2025: Removed Assignments - Support Bulk feedback Submission in Assignments and Discussions Submission Page from the list of features planned for the 20.25.10 release
- 21-07-2025:
- Added more information to Data Access / Data Hub - Updates to Grade Results Data Set
- 17-07-2025:
- Corrected duplicated heading content for HWEP - Slim Announcements Permissions Update
- Added missing item for Data Access / Data Hub - Updates to Quiz Attempts Brightspace Data Set
- Corrected heading for Data Access / Data Hub - Updates to Question Relationships Brightspace Data Set
- 16-07-2025 - Published the July Product and Services Preview
- 13-06-2025 - Published the June 2025 Product and Services Preview
- 04-June-2025 - Corrected duplicated heading and removed Course Management - Enable delegated administration of courses to support distributed administration initiatives from 20.25.07 release
- 03-June-2025 - Corrected misplaced information for Lessons/New Content Experience items
- 28-May-2025 - Updated list of features coming in 20.25.07
- 26-May-2025 - Removed internal-facing metadata
- 15-May-2025 - Published the May 2025 Product and Services Preview
- 22-April-2025 - Updated the following preview features:
- Outcomes - Implement Outcome Set (prev Programs) Management with Achievement Scale Setting for Better Reporting is changed to Renaming 'Programs' to 'Outcome Sets' for Better User Familiarity
- Updated the Additional Information section of Rubrics - Adding Ability to Clear Rubric Selections to Save Instructors Time in Evaluation
- 8-April-2025 - Published the April 2025 Product and Services Preview
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