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New Content Experience to Become Default in ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Brightspace

Students looking at a laptop around campus as they prepare for Finals before the end of Fall Semester 2025.

Beginning with the Fall 2027 semester, ×ÔοÊÓÆµâ€™s Brightspace site will be updating to feature a new default look and feel for course Content pages. The New Content Experience (formerly called Lessons View) is a more modern and intuitive design for the Content area of Brightspace courses. Since the Content page in a course is the most used area by faculty and students, this update to the default view brings new improvements and better usability to Brightspace courses. From having an improved instructor workflow for adding materials to their Content page to better support for mobile devices for students, the New Content Experience is an improvement to Brightspace that will continue to get enhancements and long-term support for years to come.

Instructor view of the New Content Experience on various devices
Figure: Instructor view of the New Content Experience

While we are announcing this more than a year before it will officially become the default, this New Content Experience has actually already been available for some time. Until now, Instructors who wanted to use this view in their course had to email Brightspace Support for it to be enabled on a course-by-course basis. Starting today, Instructors and other course builders will have the ability to enable or disable this feature in each of their courses without having to contact Brightspace Support. Importantly, Instructors who prefer the Classic Content Experience will not lose that access to that view. Even after the default is changed starting with Fall 2027 courses, Instructors will still have the option to change their courses back to the Classic Content view whenever they wish. This option allows us to improve the overall usability of Brightspace courses, while continuing to allow Instructors to control how their course content is shown to students.

Learner view of the New Content Experience on various devices
Figure: Student view of the New Content Experience

Over the past few weeks we have been updating existing Content guides for instructors and students and creating our New Content Experience Transition page to answer questions and share resources for the New Content Experience. We also have added new guides for features that are unique to this new Content view. We will share more updates on this throughout the year, and if anyone has any questions about this process, please reach out to Brightspace Support.

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