Brightspace Pulse

D2L Corporation

About this app

Stay connected to learning anytime, anywhere with Brightspace Pulse.

Brightspace Pulse gives learners and their authorized parents and guardians a convenient way to follow coursework, deadlines, progress, and important updates.

Learners can:

- Access their course content

- View important dates and deadlines across their courses

- Manage upcoming and overdue coursework

- Receive notifications for Announcements, Grades, Quizzes, Assignments, Activity Feed posts, and more

- Access supported course content offline, including video and audio

- Participate in Activity Feed discussions

- Open Brightspace in a browser to complete additional activities

Parents and guardians can:

- View upcoming and overdue work, grades, shared Portfolio items, and classroom updates

- Receive notifications about quizzes and assignments with upcoming due dates

- Follow multiple learners from one account, when supported by their school or organization

Features vary by role and by your institution or organization's Brightspace configuration. An account provided by your school, district, or organization is required. Parent and guardian access must be enabled by the learner's school or organization.

Ratings and reviews

Pulse is and has been such a truly useful app while I have been in school, particularly with my online classes. You have access to your class content directly without having to login your laptop. When I am working or out running errands, I like to do assignments like reading or listening to assigned videos. Highly recommend downloading.

The app is great at taking care of needs. However, there isn't a link to directly access the email, which would be convenient. The reason for the low rating is the lack of a "create event" option for assignments that are not directly in Brightspace (be they in another program or in-person). This feature did exist at one point and removing it proves to be majorly inconvenient.

Overall, does its job well and doesn't overcomplicate things. Pulse can definitely make parts of your class smoother, especially if you like to pop in randomly throughout the day. As a small critique, please get rid of the "swipe to reveal" for grades. It's not a game, and it doesn't make it exciting. I'd rather just see the grade in the notification and move on with my day. Thanks for considering. :)

What’s new

- Parent and guardian access is now available in Brightspace Pulse. Parents and guardians can sign in using the same credentials they use for the Brightspace Parent & Guardian app and access the same experience directly within Pulse.

- Improved organization search. We've updated "Find your school, institution, or organization" to make it more inclusive and help corporate customers find their organization more easily.

- Bug Fixes and stability improvements.