Brightspace Content is Getting Upgraded
Beginning with the Fall 2027 semester, Brightspace courses will default to the New Content Experience. 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 your course is using the New Content Experience, you can customize the colors used for each Unit or Lesson on your course's Content page. In order to customize the color of each item, a theme is required to be set for the course. To learn how to create and set a theme in your course, refer to our guide here.听
Note: This feature is not available in courses using the Classic Content view.
Once you have a theme applied to your course, you can customize the colors for your Units and Lessons by taking the following steps.听
- Go to your course
- Click on Content
- Find the appropriate Unit/Lesson
- Click the three dots Options menu
- Select Edit
- On the Edit Unit/Lesson page, select Display
- You can select Default to match the custom theme for your course
- You can select Custom to select any color for this Unit/Lesson
- If you select Custom, you can choose from a preselected set of colors, specific colors you've recently used, and you can edit those colors as well as entering a specific Hex code for exact color matching
- If you select Custom, you can choose from a preselected set of colors, specific colors you've recently used, and you can edit those colors as well as entering a specific Hex code for exact color matching
- Once you have your color selected, click Save
- Click Save and Close to save your changes