D2L launches new product to streamline course creation for HR, business, faculty...

Wednesday, 09 November 2022 10:50

D2L launches new product to streamline course creation for HR, business, faculty, and teachers

By D2L

D2L regional director Australia and New Zealand Tony Maguire

COMPANY NEWS: D2L, a global learning technology company, today announced the launch of its D2L Brightspace Creator+ Package, which enables anyone to create engaging digital course content using workflows integrated into Brightspace—saving course creators time, effort and money.

“We’ve listened closely to our customers, and we understand that educators want to create content independently, with no software coding experience. Administrators and instructional designers want a solution that is more budget-friendly, scalable without seat limits and simpler for learners. With these needs in mind, we developed Creator+ to help empower our customer base to deliver exceptional learning experiences,” said D2L CEO and president John Baker.

“Each year, we demonstrate our commitment to supporting learning, and creating tools that are highly accessible and easy-to-use for everyone, everywhere. Creator+ is purposefully built, in partnership with educators and learning design experts, to support the development of better learning experiences,” Baker continued.

According to a study by The Grattan Institute, teachers in Australia worked longer than the standard 40-hour week, with the respondents working about 44 hours a week on average. Based on a 40-week school year, this equates to about 160 extra hours. In the same study, 92% of teachers also said they don’t have enough time to prepare effectively for classroom teaching and 86% of teachers reported they didn’t have time for high-quality lesson planning.

With Creator+, the need to buy and train on expensive, interactive content authoring software is reduced—helping Brightspace customers cut back on administrative work through solutions that are embedded directly into Brightspace and simpler for end users, to help free up time for them to get back to what matters most—their learners.

Building on 20+ years of award-winning course design excellence, the Creator+ Early Access Program launched in May 2022, allowing for important collaboration with education leaders and learning design experts, who provided crucial feedback. Today, D2L is excited to make Creator+ available for purchase.

With Creator+, users can more easily:
• Use ready-made templates to quickly build content that is beautiful, highly accessible and mobile friendly.
• Enhance comprehension with the Practices tool, keeping learners engaged with a wide variety of practice exercises and question types
• Create a consistent visual experience with the Content Styling tool
• Insert flexible and highly accessible interactive elements in courses without any coding skills
• Help reduce complexity with seamless screen recordings through the video Capture App

D2L regional director Australia and New Zealand Tony Maguire said the introduction of Creator+ will provide multiple benefits to creative developers, teaching professionals and organisations looking to maximise their training program budgets.

“Creator+ will help content creators and creatives, who often use multiple tools when developing content for education platforms, to address deeper accessibility through inclusive designs. This platform will also benefit corporate content owners who may need to quickly and economically tweak content for their employee training programs,” said Maguire.

“Our teaching professionals will be at an advantage too because they will be able to utilise more authentic modes of assessment and leverage the deeper use of video capabilities. Put simply, Creator+ will offer the local market technology that offers accessible capabilities, so that no student or employee’s educational needs are overlooked or are costly to those who need it.”

About D2L
D2L is transforming the way the world learns—helping learners of all ages achieve more than they dreamed possible. Working closely with clients all over the world, D2L is supporting millions of people learning online and in person. Our growing global workforce is dedicated to making the best learning products to leave the world better than they found it. Learn more about D2L for K-12, higher education and businesses at D2L.

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