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.
If you are building your course while you have students in the course, there may be some content you do not want them to view. This tutorial shows you two ways to keep content unavailable to students.
- Toggle visible/hidden in content
- Setting date and time restrictions on content
Updated Summer 2026
Toggle Visible/Hidden in Content
1. Under Content, find the module or item for you would like to change the visibility.
2. Once open, click the eyeball icon to toggle Visible: 
or Hidden: 
New Content Experience
Classic Content聽
Setting Date and Time Restrictions on Content
New Content Experience聽
- Click the three dot Options icon for your content item
- Click Edit
- Click Availability Dates & Conditions
- Add a Start Date and/or End Date
- Click Save
Classic Content
- Click on the downward arrow next to your content鈥檚 title. Select Edit Properties in Place.
- Set the Start Date聽and聽End Date聽for content availability. You can also set聽Release Conditions听丑别谤别.
Note: A聽due date聽is not necessary for content items, but can be used in other areas of Brightspace. If the end date is later than the due date, this will allow for submissions that will be marked 鈥渓ate.鈥�