How is Desire2Learn® Learning Suite Different?
Reinventing Learning Experiences
Founded to Transform the Learning Experience
- Entire team is focused on helping our clients deliver transformative learning experiences and break down barriers
Innovative Culture
- Numerous client events, conferences, and thought leadership sessions
Investment in R&D
- Greater than 45% of team focused on research and development
Breadth of Integrated Solutions
- Valuable R&D partnerships with clients
- Full suite of integrated learning technology that allow for open integration of other systems (best of both worlds)
Proven Track Record
Building Long Term Relationships
- 12-year track record of delivering on promises and keeping our clients up to date on the latest technology and just getting warmed up
- Numerous clients with 3, 5, or even 10-year agreements
Client Focused
- 98% client retention
Scaling Effectively
- Over 375 people in the company supporting over 650 clients globally
Broad Partner Resources
- Content support from most major publishers and open import tools for the rest
- Standard offerings for ERP/SIS integrations, publishers, and common 3rd party products and infrastructure, etc.
- Open platform allows seamless integration of additional solutions
Easy Migration
- Imports courses from major LMS solutions
- Migrate hundreds of thousands of client courses at no cost, each year
- One example was a migration of approximately 350,000 courses and retraining of 10,000 instructors within 3 months (not that you need to move that fast)
Architecture
Cloud Service Built for Clients
- Upgrades of cloud offerings are on a client’s schedule (no getting surprised with a new quiz tool in the middle of exams)
- Always time to try new features prior to rollout
- Greater control over where the data is stored for privacy regulations or security mandates, if needed
Automated Peak Load Management
- Free additional server resources as clients scale up and no charge for bandwidth for standard use
Automatic Data Replication and Storage Management
- Basic data replication option included at no cost
Latest Generation of Technology
- Latest generation technology that is proven to scale and allows us to develop for all platforms, including C# .NET
- XML, JSON, REST, SOAP used for SOA layer
- Proven to scale to millions of users
Openness
Software License
Open and Commercial
- Freely available open APIs with commercial support
- Commercial license for core technology
- Ability to do integrations without changing the core code
Standards Leader
- One of the first companies to support SCORM, IMS BLTI, IMS CC, and many other open standards
- Active participation (director and chair several groups)
Open Educational Resources
- Support for Creative Commons publishing
- Provide easy access to millions of open educational resources using open standards like SRU and OAI-PMH
Open Annual Security Audit
- 12 year track record of ensuring security has been a priority, and ongoing security reviews with each release
- Security certifications for government clients, and additional advanced certifications in progress
- Regular privacy reviews to ensure we are protecting our client data and information
- Ability to sign-up for automatic (no downtime) security updates for both cloud and on-premises clients
Features
Advanced LMS Functionality
- Dozens of other features not found in any other LMS
- Advanced tools like Desire2Learn Course Builder™ and Instructional Design Wizard™ save clients tens of thousands of dollars in time savings and reduced course development efforts to help improve the quality of course
- Automated rollover from old to new course offerings, including seamless updates of all dates and settings
- Advanced section and group management
- Automatic calendar sync with phones and other calendar systems such as Google or Microsoft Outlook calendar systems
- Special access configurations for different users (e.g. give different dates or amount of time for different users for an assessment or learning activity)
- Intelligent Agents to trigger notifications and action using complex rules with personalized messaging
Integrated Learning Outcomes
- Support for accreditation process and help with improving the quality of client programs
- Flexible learning outcome assessment tools and rubrics
Integrated Community Management System
- Full email system not found in other LMSs
- Community spaces and tools
Free Mobile Applications
- HTML5 mobile web application
Social Applications
- Industry's leading ePortfolio, and many other social tools including instant messaging, email, blogging, and hundreds of third party integrations including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn©, Google, Microsoft Office, and many more integrations
Usability + Accessibility
Ease of Use
- 85%+ prefer using the Desire2Learn platform compared to past systems, and most clients report far lower support calls (from student and faculty surveys in Wisconsin, Ohio, Tennessee, and other locations)
Accessibility
- NFB Gold Certification, first LMS to be re-certified
- Go beyond Section 508 to support WAI guidelines (e.g. WCAG 2.0), ATAG 2.0, and WAI-ARIA)
- Support Non-Disclosure of disability or Individualization
- Preferred LMS for accessibility (equal access to everyone for everything)
- Active Special Interest Group with clients and other leaders that has year round impact on product
- Focused on not just our system being accessible, but helping our clients build accessible content and systems
- Learn more about our Accessibility
Happy Power Users
- Polished user experience and numerous power user features to keep all users happy, not just the novice.
- We offer full set of features and flexibility with usability, not just usability by simplicity
