Use the New Content Experience (Lessons) to create, add, and arrange learning materials for your course.
Create a new unit in the New Content Experience (Lessons)
The first step in adding and organizing learning materials is to create a new unit in your course.
To create a new unit
- From your course navbar, click Content.
- Click New Unit.
- From the New Unit page, do the following:
Figure: The New Unit page.
- Enter a Name for the unit.
- If desired, click Add Due Date and enter a Due Date.
- If desired, enter a Description for your new unit.
- Click Availability Dates to set a Start Date and End Date for the new unit.
- Use the visibility toggle to make the unit visible or hidden from learners on creation.
- Click Save.
The new unit is added to your course.
Create a new lesson in the New Content Experience (Lessons)
Create a new lesson and add it to a unit in Content.
To create a lesson
- From your course navbar, click Content.
- From the table of contents, click a unit that you want to add the lesson to.
- Click Create New and then click New Lesson.
- From the New Lesson page, do the following:
Figure: The New Lesson page.
- Enter a Name for the unit.
- If desired, click Add Due Date and enter a Due Date.
- If desired, enter a Description for your new unit.
- Click Availability Dates to set a Start Date and End Date for the new unit.
- Use the visibility toggle to make the unit visible or hidden from learners on creation.
- Click Save.
The new lesson is added to the selected unit.
Video: How to add a new unit and lesson
Link to external resources in the New Content Experience (Lessons)
To supplement your course material with external resources, link out to resources using a web link.
To link to external resources
- From your course navbar, click Content.
- Click Create New.
- Click WebLink.
- From the New Web Link page, do the following:
Figure: The New Web Link page.
- Enter the display name in the Name field and the web address in the Link field. A preview of the link appears under My Link.
- If desired, enter a Due Date, Start Date, and End Date.
- Under Display Options, do one of the following:
- Select the Embed on the page (iframe) radio button to embed a secure (https) link in the Lessons viewer.
- Select the Open in a new tab radio button.
- Click Save.
An external link to learning materials is added to Content.
Set material as optional or required in the New Content Experience (Lessons)
You can set your course materials as Optional or Required for learners to improve their experience and manage their learning time more effectively.
To set material as Optional or Required
- From the table of contents, select the desired material.
- Click the Options (...) menu .
- Select Set as Optional or Set as Required.
Figure: The More Options menu for a required content topic, showing the Set as Optional option.
Note: Learners using New Learner Experience (LX) can see if a topic is Optional or Required, but learners and instructors using New Content Experience (Lessons) cannot.
Add existing material in the New Content Experience (Lessons)
You can also add existing material to your course from the New Content Experience (Lessons). To clearly indicate where you are adding material, the top of the Add Existing menu displays breadcrumbs. This also allows you to easily navigate up the tree to add material at different levels.
To add existing material
- From your course navbar, click Content.
- From the table of contents, select the unit, lesson, or folder you are adding material to.
- Click Add Existing. The What would you like to add? page opens.
Figure: The What would you like to add? page.
- Choose one of the available options:
- Google Drive: Click Continue to Google Drive > Allow> choose an item to add.
Note: When adding private files from a Google Drive account to Brightspace, a notification indicates if the file is private, and teachers are given the option to change permissions so that anyone with the link can view the file.
- OneDrive: Click Continue to OneDrive > select your account > enter credentials and click Accept > choose an item to add.
- Assignment: Select an assignment from the list.
- Discussion: Select a discussion forum > click a discussion topic.
- Quiz: Select a quiz from the list.
- Checklist: Select a checklist from the list.
- External Tool Activity: Select from the tool providers that are in use by your institution, or click Create a New LTI Link to register a new LTI link.
- SCORM/xAPI Object: Select a SCORM course package to import into the Lessons tool.
- LOR: Search or browse for a learning object from Brightspace Learning Repository (LOR). A learning object can be a quiz, presentation, image, video, or any other kind of document or file you use to create course content and learning materials for online learning.
- Drag and drop a file onto the dialog or click browse to select a file from your computer, course files, or a public file. The file is added to the selected unit, lesson, or folder.
Note: When you add an existing assignment, discussion, quiz, or survey to a content topic, the content topic's Visibility state syncs with the Visibility state of these existing activities. For example, if you add an existing assignment that is Visible to content, the content topic maps to the assignment's visibility state and becomes Visible.
Video: Add external content to a course
