Brightspace by D2L now has four AI-powered Lumi tools to help enhance teaching, streamline feedback, and support student learning.
Lumi Feedback
Lumi Feedback is a grading tool that can help instructors generate meaningful, personalized feedback. It assists with creating constructive comments that align with your grading criteria and rubrics, helping you provide timely and consistent feedback while maintaining your academic judgment. While Feedback can make suggestions about feedback and grades, it will save these suggestions in draft form until you edit, approve, and publish the suggestions. You choose which courses or assignments you want to use it. Learn more about how to create rubrics and instructions that make using the Feedback tool more efficient. This tool is only available to faculty.
Benefits include:
- Faster feedback on assignments
- More consistent comments across submissions
- Additional suggestions that instructors can review, edit, and personalize
Lumi Pro
Lumi Pro is an AI assistant designed to help instructors build and improve course content more efficiently while maintaining accessibility. It can assist with creating discussion prompts, quiz questions, summaries, and other instructional materials. This tool is only available to faculty.
Lumi Pro can help faculty:
- Create and refine course content
- Generate assessment and discussion ideas
- Save time on routine course development tasks
- Enhance instructional design while keeping you in control of all final content
Lumi Tutor
Tutor is available for all students to access in D2L. They may use it or not.
Tutor uses your course shell as its source, rather than the internet at large. If you reference external content in your course shell, Tutor pulls out the content on the specific page you link to in your course, but it doesn’t crawl or follow links to other pages on that site.
When multiple sections are combined into a single merged course shell, the AI assistant indexes and scopes its knowledge base uniformly to the unified container. It treats the combined materials, modules, and schedule within that single merged shell as one unified source for all enrolled students. If sections 2 and 3 are combined under section 1 and all learning material is set up in section 1 as normal, students in sections 2 and 3 will be able to use Lumi Tutor the same as students in section 1.
Students can use Tutor to:
- Generate study materials
- Reinforce key concepts and course materials
- Bolster critical thinking and self-directed learning
Lumi Chat
Lumi Chat is an AI chatbot that can answer general questions about “how to use D2L” and other basic, directory information by pulling resources from the Brightspace Community. You can access Lumi Chat from the bottom right corner of your screen anywhere in Brightspace. This tool is available to faculty and students.
FAQ
Lumi Tutor is available for all students to access in D2L.
If your concern is more about academic integrity than the tool itself, it’s worth noting that disabling Tutor doesn’t eliminate the underlying issue — students have access to general-purpose AI tools regardless. Many instructors find it more effective to set clear expectations about acceptable use rather than remove access altogether.
Lumi Feedback and Lumi Pro are available for all faculty to access in D2L. However, you can choose not to launch any of the functionality either in your course (Pro) or the evaluation (Feedback) you give students.
Lumi Chat is available for all faculty and students to use if they wish.
Any content generated by TCU faculty, staff, or students is owned by the TCU person who generated the content. Learnwise (the company that owns Lumi) and D2L do not own generated content, including activities. Nor is TCU’s use of the Lumi tools used to train AI models.
Tutor uses your course shell as its source of truth, rather than the internet at large. If you reference external content in your course shell, Tutor pulls out the content on the specific page you link to in your course, but it doesn’t crawl or follow links to other pages on that site.
No, it doesn’t crawl or follow links to other pages on that site. So, if you want Tutor to reference one particular article or resource you are referencing in your course shell, link directly to that page rather than a site’s homepage or main host page.
Tutor can reference publisher content the same way it does any other linked page if that page is publicly viewable without a login or paywall. If the material sits behind student authentication (e.g., a textbook platform students have to log into), Tutor generally won’t be able to see it, since it can only read what’s on the open page itself.
No. Tutor is programmed to act as a virtual study buddy, not to do the work for students. It’s explicitly instructed not to complete assignments.
Yes, this is possible, but this points to an assignment design issue rather than a product limitation. Tutor is built to help students review and understand material, and that includes summarizing key concepts when asked. So, an assignment that asks students to essentially “summarize X” is something Tutor could complete for a student.
The best mitigation is on the prompt side: assignments that ask students to apply, analyze, compare, or reflect on material (rather than just restate it) are much harder for Tutor to complete wholesale, since they require original synthesis rather than summarization.
No, Tutor will only use material that is set to be visible to students. It will not pull hidden materials or materials outside of a set availability (visibility) timeframe. For example, it won’t include material that you have set to appear to students at a future date. Do note that faculty can interact with Tutor in their course shell just like students do, but keep in mind it will include hidden materials when interacting with you because all content is visible to you.
When multiple sections are combined into a single merged course shell, the AI assistant indexes and scopes its knowledge base uniformly to the unified container. It treats the combined materials, modules, and schedule within that single merged shell as one unified source of truth for all enrolled students. If sections 2 and 3 are combined under section 1 and all learning material is set up in section 1 as normal, students in sections 2 and 3 will be able to use Lumi Tutor the same as students in section 1.