Content Information

The Content area holds course materials for students and other site members. It provides instructors with options to design, create, organize, and share text based content, links to external sources, downloadable files, and connections to other tools and features within a site.

Material in Content is structured as a series of folders: Unit → Lesson → Folder. Any of these containers can hold HTML Pages, uploaded files, external links, etc.

Creating Spaces for Course Content: 

Step 1: Go to Content Tool by clicking Content on the course navbar

Step 2: Click on “New Unit”

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New Unit is located in the top-left of the Content area in between Outcomes and the Settings gear

Instructors will be asked to choose a title, description, and more. Upon clicking Save and Close, a unit is created, and instructors are ready to begin adding course content. Learn more about about organizing course content in CPI’s Designing and Organizing Materials in Content article.

Adding Content to Units:

Adding course materials to a unit is very easy on Brightspace. You can drag and drop content from your computer (i.e. links, documents etc.), and you can also use the Add Exisiting or Create New buttons to add content as well.

Click Create New to create text pages (Pages), add links and more (see picture below).

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Click Add Existing to share learning objects that exist already.

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Add Existing Material in Brightspace

Modifying Content Items

Instructors can modify all content items after they have been published to the content tool. Instructors can control visibility of the tool, Edit the item, add Release conditions, post to the Homepage, Download, Publish as Learning Object Repository (LOR), reassign it’s unit location and delete the file.