If you are importing course material from publishers (E.g., test banks), or receiving content from another instructor who has provided it in a file to be uploaded, follow these instructions to Import the Content into your own course offering. The content should already have been prepared in .zip file format. Note: These instructions are for […]
Tag: Course Admin & Other
Exporting Course Content to Share
If you would like to share content from one of your courses with another instructor but don’t want to grant them access to your course, you can use the “Export” capability in D2L. Exporting your course will create a file in a .zip format that can subsequently be imported by another instructor into their D2L […]
Sharing Content Between Instructors
If you wish to share your course content with another instructor, or if another instructor is willing to share their content with you, this can be easily accomplished with Brightspace’s Import/Export/Copy Components tool. A link to the Import/Export/Copy Components tool can be found on the Course Home page of your Brightspace course. A Two Step […]
Copy Content from Another Course
Empty Brightspace shells are automatically created near the beginning of each semester. If you have been assigned to a course, you will be enrolled in it automatically. Once your empty Brightspace course shells are available to you, you can copy the entire contents of your existing courses, or copy selected content items, into the appropriate new Brightspace […]
Selecting Course Tools
The course navigation bar includes common tools by default that you may or may not want to use, or to be visible in your course. For example the Assessments tab on the navigation bar contains a link to Quizzes, Self-Assessments and Surveys by default. You may or may not use any of these items. You […]
Course Roles
Looking for an explanation of course roles? Check out Role Definitions. You can change your role in a course to that of a generic student so that you can view some specific course layout as a student would. Click on your name in the mini navigation bar and click on Change. Select Student from the list of […]
Course Home
Course Home is the first page you visit when you enter a course. Like My Home, it contains your personal tools and different widgets for displaying information.
Logging Out
Selecting Logout ends your current session and takes you to the Brightspace Login page. Log Out is located in the Personal Menu in the top right side of the page.
