Overview

Features & Capabilities

Brightspace Pulse helps instructors and learners stay connected anytime, anywhere by visualizing upcoming activities, deadlines, and course updates from Brightspace (D2L).

Key features include push notifications for announcements, activity feeds, grades, quizzes, and assignments; offline access to course content (video and audio); discussions in the activity feed; browser-based login to Brightspace; and Apple Continuity across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

User Growth & Download Statistics

By:
D2L Corporation
Rating:
4.80
(267,170)
1,706 new ratings
Version:
2.2607.1200 Last updated: 2026-07-28
Version code:
888646676
Creation date:
2015-08-21
Compatible devices:
Size:
49.60MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-09-05
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Ranking

Other platforms

Android
Brightspace Pulse (v2.2604.1.1003512)
3,677,046 4.77 (27,711)

Contact the developer

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Developed by:
D2L Corporation
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brightspace-pulse/id1001688546
Website:
https://www.d2l.com/the-best-mobile-learning-experience/

User Reviews

Brightspace Pulse is generally praised for being easy to use and keeping students on track with push alerts and quick access to grades. Many users rely on its calendar and notifications to manage assignments on the go. However, reliability is a recurring problem: crashes, random logouts, and performance issues after updates. Some essential web features are missing in-app (documents, downloads, full grade details), and navigation and notification behaviors can be clunky or inconsistent. Overall it’s useful when stable, but stability and feature parity need improvement.
Pros
  • Easy to use and convenient on mobile and tablet
  • Helpful push notifications for due dates and updates
  • Quick access to grades and assignment status
  • Effective calendar/assignment tracking
Cons
  • Frequent crashes and random logouts undermine reliability
  • Notifications/navigation issues: alerts not actionable or overly noisy
  • Missing features compared to the web: can't view some documents, download files, or see full grade details inside the app
  • Clunky UI and performance issues, including update-related problems
Recent reviews
Half of the actions open in a browser window. The other half don’t work. Canvas is infinitely better.
by di*****, 2026-08-22

This app is good for keeping track of your assignments and getting things turned in. The only thing I complain about is when you finish an assignment it marks it on the app but then the day that it’s due it spams you with notifications saying that the certain assignment needs to be turned in, even though it says on the app that it’s complete. I don’t want to turn off notifications because I need them but it needs to stop spamming with notifications! Fix please
by df*****, 2026-08-22
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