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D2L · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

D2L Brightspace

15Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

10 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. D2L Brightspace was named 8 times in Learning management syst and 1 other category, where TalentLMS led with 48%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business51 of 64

under the label threshold

Mid-market48 of 74

under the label threshold

Enterprise21 of 59

under the label threshold

In learning management syst · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named D2L Brightspace for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Learning management systems	Learning and development	0%	48 of 74	29%	7	under 10 labels · led by TalentLMS at 48%
Learning experience platforms	Learning and development	0%	42 of 80	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Learn Amp at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for D2L Brightspace yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated D2L Brightspace across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	3	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“it has a reputation for being "heavy." Users often complain about steep learning curves” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Learning management syst · negative prompt · soft negative

“users calling it "the worst LMS" due to non-intuitive design, poor screen organization” MiniMax M2.5 · Learning management syst · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as D2L Brightspace, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and D2L Brightspace was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Docebo11 of 143Not in the top three

Cornerstone OnDemand10 of 141Not in the top three

360Learning7 of 141Not in the top three

Canvas LMS7 of 141Not in the top three

TalentLMS7 of 141Not in the top three

Absorb LMS7 of 140Not in the top three

Moodle6 of 140Not in the top three

SAP Litmos6 of 140Not in the top three

Blackboard Learn5 of 140Not in the top three

Continu4 of 141Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named D2L Brightspace. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 12 of the 14 answers that named D2L Brightspace and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

d2l.com8

docebo.com8

continu.com4

gartner.com4

goskills.com4

intellum.com4

peoplemanagingpeople.com4

talentlms.com4

360learning.com3

absorbai.com3

No domain is on file for D2L Brightspace, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

docebo.com/learning-network/blog/best-learning-management-system4

docebo.com/learning-network/blog/corporate-learning-management-systems4

intellum.com/resources/blog/best-enterprise-lms-platforms4

continu.com/software/best-learning-management-system3

gartner.com/reviews/market/corporate-learning-technologies3

goskills.com/resources/best-lms-compared3

talentlms.com/blog/best-enterprise-lms3

360learning.com/blog/enterprise-lms2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as D2L Brightspace

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as D2L Brightspace; a claim can dispute any of them.

Brightspace 2Brightspace (D2L) 1D2L for Business 1

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