In three years, online course registrations rose from 40 to 548, with more than 90 per cent of learners finishing their courses.

Oakville, ON, June 8, 2026 – Good Roads has won a 2026 D2L Excellence Award for making its professional training available online for municipal and First Nations staff across Ontario.

The D2L Excellence Awards, run by the learning technology company D2L, recognize teams that use its Brightspace platform to make learning more effective and more accessible.

Good Roads won for a project titled “Transforming Municipal Professional Development.” The work set out to remove the usual barriers to training: travel time, short staffing, and cost. The team at Good Roads built the courses on D2L Brightspace and used the interactive content tool H5P to keep learners engaged.

Over three years, the program:

• grew online course registrations from 40 to 548;
• kept course completion above 90 per cent;
• extended training across Ontario, including to First Nations communities; and
• self-sustaining program, began covering its own costs.

“This award reflects the work of our whole team,” said Scott Butler, Executive Director of Good Roads. “We help municipalities and First Nations build safer, stronger infrastructure. Online learning lets us reach every professional who needs training, whatever their location or the size of their organization.”

The online courses run alongside Good Roads’ in-person training, so members can learn on their own schedule.

Good Roads is a municipal association concerned with the advancement of roads and other infrastructure in Ontario. Based in Oakville, Ontario, we have been devoted to the cause of better roads since 1894. Originally known as the Ontario Good Roads Association (and still using that name corporately), we have more than 428 member governments, including most of Ontario’s municipalities and a growing number of First Nations, as well as dozens of affiliated corporate members in the transportation and infrastructure sectors. Our purpose, in part, is to connect our members to each other, to other levels of government, and to relevant companies in the private sector. Our members look to us for training, knowledge, political advocacy, and answers to their most pressing problems. Good Roads is resolutely independent.

For more information visit www.goodroads.ca

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For more information, please contact:
Rachel Swiednicki
Manager, Communications and Marketing
Good Roads
1525 Cornwall Road, Unit 22
Oakville, ON L6J 0B2
905-630-0542
rachel@goodroads.ca