Case Study: Maine Virtual Academy improves accessibility, engagement, and student success with D2L Brightspace

A Data-driven Approach to Accessible Virtual Learning

Maine Virtual Academy, a public charter school serving students across Maine through remote learning, needed a way to deliver accessible, engaging, and personalized online education to a diverse student population with varying technology access, bandwidth, and learning needs. The school also wanted a platform that could support asynchronous learning, screen-reader accessibility, and a highly data-driven approach to student success, and it chose D2L Brightspace to help meet those needs.

D2L Brightspace implemented Creator+ for richer course design and the Data Hub for better reporting and insights. The result was more engaging and accessible content, faster course creation for teachers, and measurable gains for Maine Virtual Academy, including 25% time savings for teachers, an 80% completion rate in Creator+ courses versus 35% for others, a 6% rise in retention, a 7% increase in re-enrollment, and growth in student median performance from the 44th to the 57th percentile.

Maine Virtual Academy

Christina O’Grady

Curriculum Coordinator