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About Content
Use the Content tool to post and organize course content so that information about course expectations, course syllabus, lecture notes, and important dates display to users clearly. Course materials you post in Content can include documents, images, media files, CaptureCast presentations, URL links, and existing course…
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Use templates in Content
Use templates in your course to improve the visual quality of your content and encourage student engagement. Add templates in the New Content Experience Navigate to Content. Select Create New > Page. Figure: Click Page to create a new page. On the New Page page, click Select Template. Click an available template or select…
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What types of files can I use for course content?
You can upload various documents, images, and video file types to use for course content. Students can view the files inline. To display documents inline, the Document Conversion Service converts documents uploaded to the Content tool into PDFs. The documents are converted during upload instead of during student access,…
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Improve navigation in multi-page content topics
To provide seamless navigation in multi-page content topics, course designers can add a D2L JavaScript solution to HTML content topics containing links to multiple HTML pages. When a student navigates to a multi-page content topic with this JavaScript, the links to the HTML pages are hidden in the multi-page content topic…
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Add existing activities with Google Drive
Elevate existing content or create new content by adding existing files from Google Drive to your Brightspace course. Link your Google account to Brightspace Linking your Google account to Brightspace enables you to import content from your Google account into your Brightspace course. To link your Google account to…
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Notify users about updated course content
You can notify students when updating or changing an HTML topic in Content. They receive an Update alert notification in their minibar; clicking the alert brings them to the updated topic. Notify users of changed content in the New Content Experience You can notify students when content is changed or updated using the New…
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Add existing activities with OneDrive
Elevate existing content or create new content by adding existing files from OneDrive to your Brightspace course. Connect your OneDrive account to Brightspace Linking your OneDrive account to Brightspace enables you to import content from OneDrive into your Brightspace course. To connect your OneDrive account to…
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View user progress in Content
You can view students' progress, track how many topics they viewed, and how much of their time is spent examining the course content by going to the Reports page. To view user progress in Content Navigate to Content. Click on Course options (gear icon) > View Reports. Figure: Click Course Options (gear icon) and select…
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Create and integrate form templates in Content
You can integrate form templates created either at the organization or org unit level to gather information from within course modules and topics in Content. Form responses created by users are then sent to their Brightspace ePortfolio for future reference. For example, you can ask learners to complete a form response to…
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Using Virtual Classrooms and Video Assignments by Bongo
You can use the Virtual Classrooms by Bongo integration to create a virtual classroom session or set up video meetings with learners. You can choose to save your sessions and post them within Brightspace as a resource. You can also use Video Assignments to create video assignments, allowing learners to respond to course…