August 2026 Edition
This section provides a preview of product and feature delivery plans for October 2026/20.26.10 and November 2026/20.26.11 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 September 2026/20.26.09 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)
October 2026 / 20.26.10
Analytics Builder — Visibility into SPICE usage for Analytics Builder
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator, Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Analytics Builder authors will be able to view SPICE usage and capacity details in one place, helping data teams identify high-consumption datasets and resources more effectively.
API — Forward enrollments to the latest source course re-offering via API
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: API Developer
Site Availability: N/A
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
With this new Valence API, users will be able to take the Source Course ID, User ID, and Role ID to push a user to the latest course re-offering of the identified source course.
API — Enable API Access to manage Achievement Scale settings
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
This update will introduce new Achievement Scale APIs to manage achievement scale configurations for auditing and governance.
API — New APIs to retrieve and link rubrics across course activities
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: API Developer, Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Two new API capabilities will be introduced to support rubric alignment workflows.
- Retrieve rubric alignments
A new endpoint will allow clients to retrieve all rubric associations within a course. Supported activity types will include Assignments, Discussions, Grades, and Quiz Questions such as Written Response. This capability will help instructional designers audit rubric usage and identify alignment gaps. - Create rubric alignments
A new endpoint will allow clients to programmatically link rubrics to course activities. Multiple rubric associations per activity will be supported. This capability will help curriculum integrators automate setup workflows and support consistent evaluation criteria across assessments.
Brightspace — Polish language pack will be available
Planned Release | 20.26.10
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 Polish language pack will be available in Brightspace. This update will promote inclusive, culturally-responsive education and supports D2L’s commitment to global language accessibility.
Brightspace — Russian language pack will be available
Planned Release | 20.26.10
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 Russian language pack will be available in Brightspace. This update will promote inclusive, culturally-responsive education and supports D2L’s commitment to global language accessibility.
Creator+ — Practice Experience improvements
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator, Instructor, Learner
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: App Version
Additional Information Overview
Practices will feature a cleaner layout with improved spacing, making it easier for learners to associate actions like Check Answer with the correct question. As part of these updates, the separator above the Check Answer button will be moved below the button to create a clearer connection between each question and its associated action.
We will also make a series of visual refinements to 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.
Data Access / Data Hub — Updates to Brightspace Email Log Brightspace Data Set
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The Brightspace Email Log Brightspace Data Set will be updated with the following changes:
- Existing column —
RecipientType (nvarchar, PK) updated to a Primary Key value.
Data Access / Data Hub — New Columns in Organizational Unit Ancestors Brightspace Data Set
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Role / Audience: Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
In the Organizational Unit Ancestors Brightspace Data Set, new columns will be added to indicate the date in which the ancestor was removed or deleted from the organizational unit. New columns added:
- LastModified (DateTime, nullable)
- DateDeleted (DateTime, nullable)
Data Access / Data Hub — New Columns in Organizational Unit Descendants Brightspace Data Set
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Role / Audience: Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
In the Organizational Unit Descendants Brightspace Data Set, new columns will be added to indicate the date in which the descendant was removed or deleted from the organizational unit. New columns added:
- LastModified (DateTime, nullable)
- DateDeleted (DateTime, nullable)
Data Access / Data Hub — Updates to the Discussion Topic User Scores Brightspace Data Set
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The Discussion Topic User Scores Brightspace Data Set will be updated with the following changes:
- Updated column —
Version (bigint, not nullable)
The meaning of this column will change from RowVersion to Computed Modification Version, resulting in updated values for all rows. - New column —
IsDeleted (bit)
Indicates whether a discussion topic user score was hard deleted. This can occur through Data Purge or Course Reset.
IPSIS — Optionally inactivate child courses of a section association through the Ellucian ILP integrations
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator
Site Availability: Off (Customer Overridable)
Site Enablement Actions: In Tool/App Setting
Additional Information Overview
A new configuration option for Ellucian ILP integrations will allow administrators to have child courses automatically set to inactive after cross-listing. When the section association is deleted, the child courses will be unmerged and made active again.
New Content Experience — Improve Add Content workflow
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: Configuration Variable (Org Unit)
Additional Information Overview
The Create New and Add Existing buttons will be replaced with a single new Add button. This simplified workflow will allow users to select the activity type they want to add, such as a Page, Assignment, Quiz, or LTI Link, and then, where relevant, choose whether to create a new activity or reuse an existing activity from the course.
The new menu will also display more options directly, allowing additional third-party tools to be immediately available for selection.
At launch, this change will only be available for NCE courses using the Immersive Display. Support for the standard Brightspace Navigation view is planned for a later release. For enabling the new Immersive Display, administrators must use the d2l.Tools.Content.EnableImmersiveView configuration variable.
New Content Experience — Collapsible and draggable side navigation
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor, Learner
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: Configuration Variable (Org Unit)
Additional Information Overview
The side navigation in the New Content Experience will become collapsible and draggable, allowing users to create additional space when viewing content topics.
At launch, this feature will only be available in the Immersive View of NCE. For enabling the new Immersive Display, administrators must use the d2l.Tools.Content.EnableImmersiveView configuration variable.
Portfolio — Updates to Portfolio filter interface for category management
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: All
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The Portfolio category filter experience will be updated to improve category management. The Go to Category Manager button will be moved outside the filter area, and interface labels will be clarified.
Key improvements will include:
- renaming Categorize All to Apply Categories
- adding distinct labels for class-level and school-level category management
- adding a new Manage Categories option that will link to class categories only
These changes will be applied in both the evidence approval view and the individual evidence view to provide a more consistent navigation experience across Portfolio.
Quizzes — Expand API support for Questions
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: API Developer, Integration Vendor
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The existing Question APIs will be expanded to support create, read, update, and delete operations for all question types, as well as question retrieval by ID.
Quizzes — True/False question type will render more consistently across all quizzing areas
Planned Release | 20.26.10
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.
Widgets — Work To Do widget will display a View Course Work link for all learners
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Learner
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Currently, only learners with permission to view the Work To Do widget at the organization level can access the View All Work link, which opens a full-screen view of overdue and upcoming activities across all courses. Learners with this permission only at the course offering level can see up to six activities in the Work To Do widget.
This update will introduce a new View Course Work link that will allow users to open the Work To Do tool for the specific course offering they are viewing. This will ensure that all overdue and upcoming activities for that course are visible to the learner.
Widgets — Work To Do widget will display times for upcoming and overdue activities
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Learner
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Currently, the Work To Do widget displays only the date an activity is due or ends. With this update, the widget and tool will also display the time an activity is due or ends in the learner’s local time zone.
This update will give learners more precise visibility into when upcoming and overdue activities need to be completed.
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
Previously, users could be limited in their actions within BUM by their permissions within Users. These new BUM-specific permissions will provide greater control and ease of access, as these permissions will also support Distributed Administration to utilize BUM within Sub-org Units.
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.
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, Paren/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.
Change history
- 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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