Brightspace Learning Repository is an online library for storing, managing, and sharing your learning resources (learning objects). A learning object can be a quiz, a presentation, an image, a video, or any other kind of document or file you use to create course content and learning materials for online learning.
When you publish your learning objects to Learning Repository, you tag those objects with metadata to classify and organize your learning objects and make them easily searchable for others. You can classify learning objects according to defined learning standards or goals. You can also review, rate, and provide feedback on learning objects to ensure high quality online resources.
Types of properties for a local repository
You can modify the following properties for a local repository:
- Name - This is a required field and cannot contain any apostrophes, but can be Unicode.
- Description - This can be Unicode.
- Search by Default - This selects the check box for Brightspace Learning Repository in the list of local repositories on the Search and Advanced Local Search pages.
- Public Access - This makes the repository available to users who do not have Brightspace login credentials.
- Status - All learning objects published to the repository are automatically classified as Unassigned, Approved, Archived, Draft, or In Review.
- Visibility - Make learning objects published to the repository visible or hidden in search results.
- Public Availability - Make learning objects published to the repository publicly available and shareable for users without login credentials, or make learning objects unavailable to external users.
Create a local repository
- On the navbar, click LOR.
- From the tool navigation, click Manage.
- From the New Repository button, click Local Repository.
- On the New Local Repository page, enter a name and a description for the new Brightspace Learning Repository. These fields can use Unicode.
- To include results from the repository on the Search page, in the Search by Default section, select Enable for this Repository.
- To make the repository publicly available and searchable by public search engines, in the Public Access section, select Enable for this Repository.
- From the Status drop-down menu, select the default status for learning objects published to this repository. Users can manually change an object’s status when they publish it.
- From the Visibility drop-down list, select whether learning objects published to this repository are by default visible or hidden in search results.
- From the Public Availability drop-down list, select whether or not learning objects published to this repository are by default publicly available.
- Click Add.
Modify a local repository's properties
- On the navbar, click LOR.
- From the tool navigation, click Manage.
- From the Learning Object Repositories table, click the repository name.
- On the repository page, click Edit.
- Modify any of the repository properties.
- Click Save.