Brightspace Content is Getting Upgraded
Beginning with the Fall 2027 semester, Brightspace courses will begin using the New Content Experience by default. Additionally, Instructors now have the ability to enable or disable the New Content Experience in their own courses ahead of the change in Fall 2027. For more information about this transition, see our New Content Experience Transition page.
Note: D2L (the company that makes Brightspace) has announced that the Classic Content view will be removed from Brightspace in 2029. After that point, all courses in Brightspace will use the New Content Experience. For more information on that announcement, read our news post here.泭
Adding activities to courses with the New Content Experience
If your course uses the New Content Experience, you can add activities to your Content page by taking the following steps:
- In your course, click on Content
- Navigate to the Unit you want to add the activity
- Click either Add Existing or Create New

- Add Existing allows you to choose from activities that already exist
- Create New starts creating a new activity from scratch
- Choose the activity type you want to add/create (ex - Assignment, Discussion, Quiz)

- If you chose Add Existing, you can now select the specific activity you wish to add

- If you chose Create New, you'll be taken to the activity creation page for that activity.
- Once you've finished setting up your activity, click Save and Close to create it and add it to your Content page
- Once the activity has been added to your course, you'll see the description and other details listed as well as student submission status.泭

Adding Activities in Classic Content
- Navigate to the module you want to add the activity to
- Click either Upload/Create or Existing Activities

- Select Existing Activities to choose from a list of activities that have already been created
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- Select the type of activity you want to add/create
- If you chose Existing Activities, select the specific activity you wish to add

- If you chose Upload/Create, you'll be taken to the activity creation page for that activity.
- Once you've finished setting up your activity, click Save and Close to create it and add it to your Content page
- Once the activity has been added to your course, you'll see the description listed on the Content page
- You can also click on the activity title to see other details listed as well as student completion summary.
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- You can also click on the activity title to see other details listed as well as student completion summary.