Case Study: Gwinnett Online Campus achieves personalized learning at scale and a 90.8% pass rate with D2L Brightspace

Supporting every student with individualized learning paths

Gwinnett Online Campus, serving over 10,000 students annually with 1,720 enrolled in Personalized Learning, set out to boost student success by developing individualized learning paths that meet each learner’s strengths and gaps. The challenge was to scale truly personalized instruction across middle and high school courses—supporting at-risk, special education, supplemental and summer students—while giving teachers the tools to target instruction and report mastery automatically.

Partnering with D2L, Gwinnett used Brightspace features such as Release Conditions, Grade Book formula items, and embedded H5P activities so teachers could release tailored content based on formative assessments and capture highest-attempt mastery grades automatically. The approach grew from five courses in year one to 19 live courses by year three, produced a fall 2020 pass rate of 90.8%, delivered an average 20-point mastery gain for reteaching, and expanded personalized learning into multiple instructional settings with measurable positive impact on students and school climate.

Gwinnett Online Campus