AI-Assisted Learning Content Generation for Public Servants
Education & Learning
What it collects
- Course content and instructional materials stored in Brightspace, used as the basis for AI-generated learning content. The register states no personal information is involved.
- Run by
- Canada School of Public Service (CSPS)
- Where
- No fixed location
- Kept
- Not stated by the Helpful Places.
- Shared with
- Accountable organization, Vendor
What it is for
Lumi is an AI tool embedded in the Brightspace learning platform used by the Canada School of Public Service to help instructional designers create quizzes, practice questions, assignments, and course development shells. It generates educational content based on existing course material. The system does not process personal information, and users are informed when AI has been used to produce content.
What it collects and what happens to it
Data taken in
- Course content and instructional materials stored in Brightspace, used as the basis for AI-generated learning content. The register states no personal information is involved.
Processing
- Lumi uses a language model embedded within Brightspace to generate assessment and instructional design content from course material inputs.
What it does
- Generates quizzes, practice questions, assignments, and course development shells based on provided course content. Instructional designers review and decide whether to use, edit, or discard the generated output.
Outputs
- AI-generated quizzes, practice questions, assignments, and course development shells produced for use within Brightspace learning courses. Output does not contain personal information.
Run by
- The Canada School of Public Service deploys Lumi within its Brightspace learning management system to support instructional designers and course developers across the Government of Canada.
Built by
- D2L is the vendor that builds and supplies the Lumi AI capability embedded within the Brightspace learning platform, licensed to the Canada School of Public Service.
Kept for
Not stated by the Helpful Places.
Shared with
- Generated learning content and usage data within Brightspace is available to the Canada School of Public Service as the deploying organization.
- As the technology provider, D2L / Lumi may have access to usage data and course content inputs processed by the system, subject to contractual terms.
Stored
Not stated by the Helpful Places.
How to read the colours
Can it identify you?
- Anonymized data
- Data about people with the link to who is broken. Stripped of identifiers, blurred, aggregated, or noised so this system can’t reasonably tie a record back to an individual.
- Pseudonymous data
- Each person’s data is tied to a token (hash, ID, template) that lets this system recognise the same person across events, but the token itself doesn’t reveal a name. Reidentification is possible with extra information.
- Identifiable data
- The data either contains a direct identifier (name, address, account name, recognisable face or voice, plate number) or carries a token this system uses to look up legal identity during processing.
Who completes the loop?
- Human decides
- This mode suggests; a person decides what to do next. The AI is always advisory — a human is in the loop on every decision. Example: a triage tool ranks cases for a clinician who chooses which to see first.
- Human executes
- This mode decides; a person carries out the result. Example: an optimizer plans the day’s trash-collection routes, and drivers run them.
- Autonomous
- This mode decides and acts on its own. No person reviews each decision or carries out the resulting action.
Definitions from the DTPR standard. Amber is about your data, violet about who decides. The fuller the shape and the deeper the colour, the more identifying the data or the less a person is involved.
- AI registerGovernment of Canada Algorithmic Impact Assessment Register — Lumi (D2L), 2526-CSPS-EFPC-030
- AI registerGovernment of Canada AI Register — Lumi (D2L)
- AI registerGovernment of Canada AI Register — Lumi (D2L)
- Register entryPublished by the Helpful Places. Reference c359689e. This disclosure was drafted with AI assistance.Schema: ai@2026-05-06-beta
What you can do
Ask about this system
Questions go to the Helpful Places, not the vendor.
Your rights
- Right to Be Informed of AI UseThe register confirms that AI use is disclosed to users. Government of Canada employees interacting with Brightspace content are informed when AI has been used to generate learning materials.
- Right to Algorithmic TransparencyInformation about the use of the Lumi AI system is publicly listed in the Government of Canada's AI and Algorithmic Systems Register, accessible at open.canada.ca.
Risks and safeguards
No risks or safeguards have been published for this system yet.