🆚 Canvas LMS vs. D2L Brightspace

Type

Learning management system
Learning management system

About

Canvas LMS is a cloud-based open-source learning management system designed to help educational institutions deliver and manage online, hybrid, or in-person courses with tools for course authoring, grading, analytics, and mobile access.

It offers a modern user interface, standards-based gradebooks, learning outcomes tracking, open APIs, support for Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), and integrates with a wide range of third-party apps such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, and Turnitin.

D2L Brightspace is a cloud-based learning management system used by schools and organizations to deliver online and blended learning experiences.

It offers course creation and management, personalized learning paths and adaptive release, assessment and quiz tools, competency-based education features, analytics dashboards for tracking learner progress and engagement, and mobile accessibility with apps for both learners and instructors.

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Headquarters

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Open source
Cloud $25+/user/month
Free version ❌
$5+/user/month

Categories

LMS › Rank #9
LMS › Rank #12

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Canvas LMS is 1.5 times more popular than D2L Brightspace.
Total websites

Market share

LMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Canvas LMS is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while D2L Brightspace is more popular in Canada, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates.
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Brazil
Australia
Japan
India
Spain
United Arab Emirates
Belgium

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Canvas LMS is more popular among sites focused on education and reference, business, and software and hardware, while D2L Brightspace is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and health sites.
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Software/Hardware
Art/Culture/Heritage
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Sports
Interactive Web Applications
Recreation/Hobbies

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,320
#2,551
#2,847
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Name
Rank
#11,437
#12,907
#13,882
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See also

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