# Brightspace Parent & Guardian — user reviews

> 13 indexed App Store user reviews of Brightspace Parent & Guardian by D2L Corporation, rated 4.20/5 from 146 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brightspace-parent-and-guardian/id1575406836/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brightspace-parent-and-guardian/id1575406836.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 110 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 18

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — The report can’t be open:(

*2026-03-14*

I don’t know why the report can’t be open

### 1/5 — Sigma

*2025-11-14, version 20.2301.0*

Not very sigma

### 1/5 — Gaps between Pulse and Brightspace

*2024-09-18*

It looks like I only get the messages from my child’s class if I am logged into his Pulse app; the two apps are not in sync. Furthermore, the UI needs major improvements to be user friendly.  Sometimes, notifications will not even open up when trying to read them.

### 1/5 — Slow and glitchy

*2023-12-21*

iPhone 13 mini. Unusable app experience. Uninstalled. Will use desktop instead.

### 1/5 — Poor app

*2023-06-16*

You cannot see any grades, what’s handed what’s pending, an error message keeps popping up.

### 1/5 — Dog $ !T

*2023-05-08*

Absolutely useless. Notifications not specific to child’s class, notifications don’t come through when homework is set, and don’t always show in feed, don’t know when homework has been completed. Not sure what the benefits are.

### 1/5 — Very buggy, total garbage

*2023-05-02*

Someone must have paid a good bribe to get this app to the TDSB

### 1/5 — Garbage - use the web or Pulse app

*2023-02-04*

Zero point to having a separate parents app. It doesn’t work. Don’t waste your timing setting up a parent account. Just log in as your kid. Otherwise you can’t see all the material. 

Logged in as a parent and the web app wouldn’t let me look at a high school class curriculum PDF as though it was highly confidential information. 

I’m sure this company is hosing school boards and ignorant IT administrators into wasting time and tax dollars to use this next to useless service.

### 1/5 — Needs Tweeking for sure

*2023-01-30*

Our school district changed to Brightspace and we’ve unfortunately only had issues since the switch. Notifications don’t work. Early do their posts load properly. And you can’t communicate back to the teachers would has been very frustrating having to go between app and email constantly.  Would definitely use some tweeking and updates to make it more family & user friendly.

### 1/5 — Doesn’t give enough

*2022-11-14*

Maybe get a notification once a month. Assignments always say overdue or upcoming but nothing every updates.

## Most praised reviews (3 highest-rated)

### 2/5 — Please invest in User Experience

*2025-09-09*

This is a very disappointing app.  It’s surprising the school board uses this based on the poor reviews.  Please invest in user experience and update the app accordingly.  The login process was difficult (have to use forgot password) then the app has very limited features and the notifications aren’t clickable.  I want to love to app, but I don’t.  I hope it improves in the future.

### 2/5 — Not user friendly

*2024-10-23*

Not user friendly at all.

### 2/5 — Wish I could see more

*2023-11-10*

Mostly, I wish I could access my child’s work from the parent app. Also, I only receive notifications sometimes and find it difficult to navigate how to receive more. I see the potential but hope to see some revisions in the future. Thanks for considering.

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*