Course Content and Organization in Brightspace

The microlevel layout and organization of your course can enhance the teaching and learning experience. These guides will help you create modules and add materials to your course. 

Guides in This Section

  • Setting Up Your Course Homepage
    12/1/24
    The course homepage is where students will land when they first access your course. You can customize the homepage and course navbar in a variety of ways to make sure your students have access to components you feel are important and high touch points.
  • Organizing Your Course
    12/1/24
    Use Content tools to provide a course overview, communicate upcoming dates and deadlines, bookmark important content, and view and manage course modules.
  • Building a Course Orientation Module
    12/1/24
    To ensure your students can successfully find and access course materials and resources, it is necessary to provide supporting materials to show and explain these processes. Building a Course Orientation Module can help students as they begin to explore your course.
  • Designing Your Syllabus
    12/1/24
    A successful course has a solid design and clearly laid out syllabus. Think of your syllabus as the roadmap for course success. An important step in your syllabus design is to articulate a clear and succinct grading policy.
  • Adding Course Content
    12/1/24
    Similar to the larger course structure, the modules (and their content and activities) of your course should have a logical, consistent and uncluttered layout. The following guide provides you with the steps to create a module and its content, import or copy materials.
  • Copying, Exporting and Importing Course Content
    12/1/24
    Instructors can copy content from a past-term course, export course content as a ZIP file to use as a backup and import a ZIP file from another source.
  • Deleting Course Content
    12/1/24
    Delete any content not being used in your course. This can include duplicate files or modules, outdated content, undeployed quizzes and inaccessible documents.
  • Activities and Assessments
    12/1/24
    Adding activities and assessments to enhance your students' learning experiences in UB Learns. The following section provides guides on how to build activities and assessments into your UB Learns course.
  • Creating Release Conditions
    12/1/24
    Release conditions allow instructors to guide instruction by providing rules and conditions for students to follow in order to access content and activities. The following guide provides with you the steps to incorporate release conditions into the flow of your course.