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D2L

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Global software company

D2L (or Desire2Learn) is a Canada-based global software company with offices in Australia, Brazil, Europe, India, Singapore, and the United States. D2L is the developer of the Brightspace learning management system, a cloud-based software suite used by schools, higher educational institutions, and businesses for online and blended classroom learning. The company is also the developer of Open Courses, a Massive Open Online Course platform.² It was founded by John Baker.¹ It is headquartered in Kitchener.¹ It employed 800 people.¹ Its shares trade on Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol DTOL.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1999Founded¹

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TickerDTOL on Toronto Stock Exchange¹
Industryeducational system, software development¹
HeadquartersKitchener¹
Websitewww.d2l.com

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D2L (or Desire2Learn) is a Canada-based global software company with offices in Australia, Brazil, Europe, India, Singapore, and the United States.²

The story

Founded by John Baker in 1999.¹

D2L was founded in 1999 by Canadian John Baker, who became president and CEO. He founded D2L while studying systems design engineering during his third year at the University of Waterloo. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross in 2017, for his work at the company to advance learning across the country and around the world. D2L raised $80 million in Series A funding, one of the largest tech funding rounds in Canada at the time, to expand its product offerings and grow internationally. The company went public with an initial public offering in November 2021, on the Toronto Stock Exchange. D2L named Stephen Laster as D2L, President in 2022. D2L acquired Connected Shopping Ltd., makers of Course Merchant in 2023.

From Wikipedia’s article on D2L, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

Leadership

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FounderJohn Baker¹

Products and brands

Brightspace

Brightspace is a cloud-based learning management system (LMS) developed by D2L for use in K-12, higher education, and corporate training environments. Brightspace is a platform for creating, delivering, and managing online and blended learning experiences. Brightspace allows for customization, integrates with third-party tools, and provides mobile and accessibility support.

D2L's first virtual learning environment clients included University of Guelph, Virtual High School (Ontario), the University of Waterloo and Fanshawe College.

Brightspace was built using microservices and operates as a software as a service. It incorporates Web Components and Google Polymer, HTML5, and responsive web design to provide a user interface that can work on any mobile device.

Brightspace combines a Learning Environment, ePortfolio, Learning Repository, Video Recorder, Virtual Classroom, and Mobile apps, in one cloud-based platform.

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In May 2020, Brightspace signed an agreement with Stockholm-based edtech company RepresentEdTech to resell and distribute its cloud-based learning platform in the Nordic region.

Creator+

D2L Brightspace Creator+ is a bundle within the Brightspace learning management system (LMS) developed by D2L (Desire2Learn). It is designed for educators and content creators to develop interactive and accessible learning materials. Creator+ has features like multimedia content creation, customizable templates, interactive elements such as practice questions, and accessibility checks.

Performance+

Performance+ is a bundle learning analytics to help automate tasks and identify risks. An adaptive learning engine personalizes the content for each learner. Learning Analytics and Intelligent Agents provide early intervention to help learners and a set of data that can be used to make improvements based upon analysis.

In 2016, Fast Company recognized D2L as a leader in Data Science.

D2L Achievement+ for Brightspace

An add-on package designed for schools, institutions, and organizations offering competency-based education programs. It includes an interface for aligning course activities and assessments with learning outcomes, as well as a data dashboard for reporting.

D2L Lumi

In 2024, D2L launched D2L Lumi, a set of artificial intelligence-powered features to support building content, assessments, and activities.

Open Courses

In 2008, D2L entered the massive open online course (MOOC) market to support MOOC pioneers Stephen Downes and George Siemens.

The University of Tasmania used D2L's MOOC platform for tens of thousands of learners, with more than 70% of students completing the courses.

Course Merchant

Course Merchant is a software as a service e-commerce and course catalog enables institutions and organizations to sell and manage access to online courses and other educational content.

Services

D2L's services include onboarding services, end-user help desk support, technical account management, technical data management, advisory consulting, program management, training, course development, customization, and accessibility design support.