Brightspace Pulse

D2L Corporation

About this app

Help instructors and learners stay connected anytime, anywhere, with the Brightspace Pulse App. The app allows you to visualize upcoming activities, manage your time, and stay on top of coursework. 
-See all important dates and deadlines for each of your courses, plus add your own 
-Stay up to date about course-related updates such as Announcements, Activity Feed, Grades, Quizzes, and Assignments, all through push notifications 
- Review course content off-line without a data connection, including video and audio content 
- Participate in Activity Feed discussions 
-Seamlessly log in to D2L Brightspace via browser to complete additional tasks 

Ratings and reviews

It does what it's supposed to, and it's done reasonably well. It would have to over deliver for 5*s. It is nearly a 4* app, but there needs to be a way for it to recognize when work is complete so it stops notifying you about things you've already done. It's annoying af to get multiple messages to remind you to do something you've already done, and it makes me want to shut off notifications completely, but that too would limit it's usefulness. *sigh*

Every time I press the notifications button, it breaks and doesn't load. I have to close and reopen the app. Same thing can happen about 50% of the time by pressing the notification in my phone's bar. Everything else works decent, but I prefer the stability of the website.

Used as a student for college, and this is by far the worst app I've had to use for my education. Unlike it's competitors, the mobile app doesn't allow for most of the functionality of the desktop experience, often having to redirect you to the mobile site that's equally flawed. Content (including urgent notifications) can take over an hour to produce a notification. I'm told the professor/teacher experience is somehow even worse.

What’s new

Bug fixes and stability improvements.