Course Design and Set-Up | How to use the Content tool

Use the Content tool to post and organise 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, presentations, URL links and existing course activities. You can add release conditions, grade items and learning objectives to topics to ensure users navigate through course materials while fulfilling specific course requirements and learning expectations.

Content page overview

When you are already in your course page you can click on Content in the green navigation bar. This will take you to the course content overview:

Brightspace course page - Content

On the left side, the menu navigates to Overview, Bookmarks, Upcoming events and Table of Contents.

Overview

This is the first page when students click on the Content in the course green navigation bar. 

For the uniformity of the course structure in WUR Brightspace, we advise you to not put anything in the Overview as it will be overlapping with course information and announcements. The overview page will not be shown to the students if there is nothing in there.

Bookmarks

Course content items you bookmark appear in a list on the Bookmarks page. Click the Add Bookmark icon while viewing a topic to add it to your bookmarks list. The number beside the Bookmarks link indicates how many bookmarks you have.

The Bookmark tool is per course. So, if you bookmark something in one course it will only be bookmarked in that course.

Upcoming Events

This page lists course material Due dates, Start dates, End dates, and other course events for the next seven days. If you set availability dates or due date for a content item, it appears in the Upcoming Events page and the Agenda view in the Calendar tool.

The dates listed on this page are not exclusive to Content topics, upcoming events include all events within the course from the Calendar tool. Click Upcoming Events to view all past, current, and future course events. The number beside the Upcoming link indicates how many upcoming events you have.

Table of Contents view

The Table of Contents panel lists all modules you have created in your course. Modules in Brightspace are like folders, you can create them to group the content and activities by topic or week.

Click on a listed module to view and manage its details, topics, and sub-modules. All the content will be presented to the right side of the grey bar.

Additionally, in the main view, you will also see three grey buttons at the top of the page: Import Course, Bulk Edit, Related Tools.

Course Content page

Table of Contents - module(s) view

A module in a Content page view is like a container for topics grouped either by Week or Theme. When clicked its contents open to the right of the panel with the list of modules in Table of Contents.

Module content view

In the Content page, you can arrange your course content by dragging and dropping modules (and content items) using the module or topic's drag handle (the vertical dots before the name of the module/item).

If you drag a module or topic above or below other modules and topics, a grey line appears to indicate you can drop the module or topic there. If you drag a module or topic over another module, the module appears orange to indicate you can drop it there.

For more information on moving content items please visit: How to edit properties and move a topic in Content

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Now you know how to use the Content page in Brightspace!

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