D2L Continuous Delivery
PCC uses D2L Brightspace to host our online classes. D2L Brightspace is like our campus and is essential to online learning at PCC. To keep up with the quick pace of change in online education, D2L has moved to a monthly update cycle called Continuous Delivery. This software development cycle is common among web applications and allows for newer features to be developed, tested and implemented faster. This means that we get to see both newer features and improvements to existing features more than once a year.
Benefits to Continuous Delivery
- More frequent, less disruptive updates with no downtime
- Design cycle that focuses on user input. We can see which features we’ve requested and when they are implemented.
- Access to newer features as soon as they are available, not once a year.
When did this happen?
PCC moved to D2L Brightspace v10.5 and Continuous Delivery on Wednesday, December 16th, 2015. That was the last major upgrade that required any downtime. Monthly updates occur on the 4th Friday of the month. You may not have noticed, but we haven’t had a maintenance window outage in years.
This page will be used to communicate about upcoming changes to the D2L environment, including schedules and a list of highlights that we think are important to communicate with students and faculty about.
D2L Continuous Delivery highlights
Next D2L CD update will be Thursday, May 26th, 2022:
2022 Continuous Delivery Highlights
- May 2022 Highlights
- April 2022 Highlights
- March 2022 Highlights
- February 2022 Highlights
- January 2022 Highlights
2021 Continuous Delivery Highlights
- December 2021 Highlights
- November 2021 Highlights
- October 2021 Highlights
- September 2021 Highlights
- August 2021 Highlights
- July 2021 Highlights
- June 2021 Highlights
- May 2021 Highlights
- April 2021 Highlights
- March 2021 highlights
- February 2021 highlights
- January 2021 highlights
2020 Continuous Delivery Highlights
- December 2020 Highlights
- November 2020 Highlights
- October 2020 Highlights
- September 2020 Highlights
- August 2020 highlights
- July 2020 highlights
- June 2020 highlights
- May 2020 highlights
- April 2020 highlights
- February 2020 highlights
- January 2020 highlights
2019 Continuous Delivery Highlights
- December 2019 highlights
- November 2019 highlights
- October 2019 highlights
- September 2019 highlights
- August 2019 highlights
- July 2019 highlights
- June 2019 highlights
- May 2019 highlights
- April 2019 highlights
- March 2019 highlights
- February 2019 highlights
- January 2019 highlights
2018 Continuous Delivery Highlights