Administrator Documentation

Hosting Guidelines

The D2L Brightspace Cloud provides a continuous delivery model where your environment is deployed and updated without impact to performance or availability for end users. When implementing your Brightspace in the D2L Brightspace Cloud, by default, a domain managed by D2L is provided for your site access. Standard Brightspace hosting configurations include:

Default Secure URL configurations, such as https://[orgname].brightspace.com.
Default DMARC compliant Mail configurations, such as mail.orgname.brightspace.com.
Default backup configurations and 30-day retention.
Brightspace core data access using data sets.

There are custom hosting configurations that clients can request, including:

Using a custom URL for site access. Usually the URL is branded with a domain managed by the client organization.
Securing custom URLs with an auto-renewing SSL certificate.
Using a custom mail domain for the Brightspace email.
Using publicly signed and accessible LDAP Servers if you are using the D2L LDAP integration for authentication into Brightspace.