What is Brightspace?
Brightspace is a cloud-based, software platform for online teaching and learning. Brightspace is owned by D2L (formerly Desire2Learn) and is one of the four major players in the Learning Management System (LMS) higher ed market. Brightspace is Canadian-owned and was developed in Waterloo, Ontario.
In the LMS market, Brightspace provides teaching and learning software systems for K-12, Higher Ed, and Corporate training customers. Brightspace has a broad community of users internationally; all users are on the same version. Within the National Capital Region, Algonquin College, University of Ottawa, and College La Cite all use Brightspace learning management system.
You can connect with the International and National Brightspace Community to share ideas, information and challenges, or to view training videos, via Brightspace Community.