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Build your course

Create and organize your course content, add learning materials, manage dates, and prepare your course for students.

Review a Blackboard Migrated Course in Brightspace

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Creating Content in Brightspace

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Copying Your Brightspace Course Within Brightspace

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Navigating Brightspace

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Make a copy of an existing HTML page in the same Brightspace Course Content

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Using Page Templates

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Upload Files to Brightspace

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Add a Web Link

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Create a Welcome Window

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Manage Dates

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Create and Add a Padlet to your Course

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Personalize Your Course Banner

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Impersonating a Demo Student

First, you must create a ticket and ask ITS to add a Demo Student to your course(s). 

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TLC has been so helpful this summer when I have been "stuck." It has been so reassuring to have someone double-check and get me on the right track.

I was one of the first group of instructors to teach online at UFV, following in the footsteps of early adopters Wendy Burton and Patrick Murphy (both now retired). I have loved teaching online and have been through several changes in learning management systems. Using Blackboard had become second nature, and I had learned some of the tricks to make my online teaching life easier.

When Brightspace was launched for the Summer 2025 term, I quickly mastered the basics with the help of the TLC Brightspace tutorials. As with Blackboard, working with small group discussions, assessment tools, and grades is a bit trickier! Whenever I felt on shaky ground, TLC was happy to help me out. This made the change to Brightspace a lot less stressful overall.

  • – Elizabeth Dennis
  •    Instructor

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