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About Courses
Watch this video to learn how to create a new course with the Courses tool. Review the written steps below, and check Manage courses and course templates with the Courses tool to learn more about working with Courses in Brightspace. The Courses tool makes it easy to create, copy, and search for courses, course templates…
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About Source Courses
A source course is an org unit that functions as a course model to create and maintain a single, perpetual source of content for frequently re-offered courses. Source courses are ideal containers for training, certification and compliance content. Re-offering a source course makes it easy to fulfill yearly employee…
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About Course Reset
Course Reset allows you to return a course to an empty shell. This is helpful when incorrect components are copied into a course, or changes are made incorrectly and the easiest solution is to start from an empty shell, without having to perform the additional step of creating a new course and re-enrolling all instructors…
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Redirect users to the latest source course re-offering
Create a single link that automatically redirects enrolled users to the current re-offered course of a source course in which they are enrolled. The persistent link reduces manual updates and ensures learners always access the most current re-offered course. You can include this link in any external resource where course…
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About Course Templates
You must link every course offering to a course template, which connects it to a parent org unit (for example, a department). Use templates to group related offerings (e.g., all History 101 sections) to streamline enrollment, course creation, and ongoing administration. Treat the template as a library. Settings do not…
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Create and manage source courses in the Courses tool
You can create a blank source course or a new source course from an existing course in the Source Courses tab in the Courses tool. Important: A source course must always have a course template attached to it as a direct parent. If a source course is not a child of a course template, then the Re-offer source course function…
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Administer course templates and offerings
Types of course template properties * Course Template Code - A short form for the template name, used to differentiate it from other templates. For example, in the case of Introduction to Science and Technology, "ST100" could be used. * Course Template Name - The full, recognizable name of the course the template is used…
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Re-offer and manage a course from Source Courses
Watch this video to learn how to re-offer and manage a course from Source Courses. Review the written steps below. The ability to re-offer a course is integrated within the Source Course org unit, providing a more efficient and flexible process compared to copying course components. This functionality supports use cases…
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Manage courses and course templates with the Courses tool
Use the Courses tool to create, copy, and search for courses or course templates. Before you begin to create a new course, make sure you: * Have the correct permissions to access and add Courses in Brightspace. * Know the name, Department, and Semester of the course. * (optional) Select an existing course template to use…
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Deploy a source course
Watch this video to learn how to deploy a source course. Review the written steps below. Use Deploy to copy the contents of a single source course into multiple inactive course offerings at once. Important: You can only deploy to inactive courses. Deploying overwrites all existing content, class progress, and grades in…