Welcome to the D2L Brightspace Information Page
D2L Brightspace
D2L Brightspace is a Learning Management System (LMS). Simply put, it allows you to manage online elements of your course. It includes a content viewer, quizzes, submission folder, grades area, discussion boards, and more. Faculty can use Brightspace for completely online courses, hybrid courses, and to supplement their face-to-face courses.
You can access Brightspace by going to https://d2l.ship.edu
Support for Brightspace
In light of ever changing features and settings with Continuous Delivery we have opted to use D2L's support (documentation, videos, community site, etc)
Faculty Brightspace Orientation
Brightspace Support for Instructors
Upcoming and Archived D2L Webinars
Name Change
In June 2014 D2L officially changed their company name to D2L (formerly Desire2Learn).
They also officially changed the name of their Learning Management System to Brightspace (formerly D2L).
Continuous Delivery
In practical terms Continuous Delivery means that D2L updates their products (Brightspace Learning Environment, Pulse app, etc) once a month on the third Friday.
In D2L's words, "Continuous Delivery (CD) is a design practice used in software development to automate and improve the process of software delivery. The Continuous Delivery model will allow D2L to deliver updated technology to clients, enabling rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. This frictionless model also makes it possible to increase collaboration with clients and to adapt software in line with user feedback and needs, resulting in incremental and easily integrated changes."
Current Continuous Delivery release notes. You can also view previous and forthcoming release notes on this page.
Here is the current schedule of release dates. Unless otherwise noted the updates occur on the third Friday of the month.