Alternatives and competitors
Sites like D2L
The 20 closest learning management system alternatives to D2L, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 14 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to D2L? The closest matches are Blackboard, Moodle and IXL. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About D2L
D2L brightspace.com
D2L | Online Learning Platform | Creators of the Brightspace LMS Software
Created by D2L, Brightspace is the best LMS software for online learning and teaching. Discover how our online learning platform for schools and companies can help your organization today.
Summary by Claude
D2L's Brightspace is a learning management system for delivering online courses, with tools for course design, assessments, analytics and embedded AI features (D2L Lumi).
- Who it’s for
- Universities, K-12 schools, businesses, associations and government training teams
- Business model
- Software subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to D2L’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to D2L
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to D2L, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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AI-Powered LMS for Transformational Teaching & Learning | Blackboard
Discover Blackboard's AI-powered LMS designed for higher education, businesses, and government - enabling personalized learning, accessibility, and better outcomes worldwide. Contact us!
Very close cos 0.896 - 02
Discover Moodle — the world's most popular LMS
Build an effective, engaging learning ecosystem with Moodle, the most customisable and popular LMS for education, enterprise, and public sector organisations.
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IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish
IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K–12. Used by over 18 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 20,000 topics, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. Interactive questions, awards, and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.
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Instructure: Leading EdTech for K–12, Higher Ed & Business
Empower learning with Instructure’s LMS and edtech solutions for K–12, higher education, and businesses. Discover Canvas, Impact, and Mastery to drive success.
Close cos 0.883 - 05
Illuminate Education - Addressing the Whole Child
Let’s transform education together. Get answers to your questions to increase student and educator success.
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Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
Close cos 0.882 - 07
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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Brilliant | Your Personal Tutor for Math and Coding
Visual, interactive tutoring in math and coding, from 5th grade through college. Master concepts in algebra, calculus, Python, computer science, and more.
Close cos 0.877 - 09
Canva
online graphic design platform
Close cos 0.874 - 10
Runtime Control for AI-Era Software | Feature Flags & AI Agent Control | LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly helps teams safely manage code and AI agents in production with feature flags, progressive delivery, automated rollback, and runtime control.
Close cos 0.869 - 11
Coursera | Online Courses, Certificates, & Degrees
Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.
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Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
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online education platform
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Online Curricula and Solutions | Imagine Learning - Imagine Learning
Research-backed K–12 curriculum, assessment, intervention, tutoring, and professional learning solutions designed to help every student succeed.
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Luma
Discover and host memorable events effortlessly with Luma. Invite friends, sell tickets, and find great events happening near you.
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Website Builder – Easily Create Your Own Website — Squarespace
Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name.
Close cos 0.868 - 17
The AI Workspace for People & Agents | monday.com
Get more work done with AI agents that work side by side with your people. Execute, manage, and operate together on one AI Workspace to drive business results.
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SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform
Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.
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Free K–12 Curriculum for Digital Fluency | CodeAI
Bring computer science and AI education to your classroom with CodeAI’s free K–12 curriculum, hands-on projects, and teacher professional development—no prior experience needed.
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AI Innovation Workspace | Miro
Speed up product development from ideation to launch. Align teams, break tool silos, and ship what customers need in one AI-powered visual platform.
Close cos 0.865
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to brightspace.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones D2L uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What D2L is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.d2l.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- A/B testing
- VWO page source: dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630bef59addea4-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Video
- Vimeo page source: player.vimeo.com/video
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX brightspace-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1559.awsdns-02.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=mFagkdI0m2JjG0M5ADkX_2HBCNE9e8qactTXuaGpS0s
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_netblocks.eloqua.c…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what D2L adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- OpenAI · not on brightspace.com 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on brightspace.com 14/20
- Atlassian · not on brightspace.com 12/20
- Apple Business · not on brightspace.com 12/20
- OneTrust · not on brightspace.com 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Amazon SES · not on brightspace.com 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- DocuSign · not on brightspace.com 9/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on brightspace.com 8/20
- Stripe · not on brightspace.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on brightspace.com 8/20
- Salesforce 7/20