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.
What is exactly changing?
Beginning with the Fall 2027 semester, all new courses in 自慰视频鈥檚 Brightspace will use the New Content Experience by default. This change brings improvements to the design and usability of the Content tool in each course. While Instructors can revert back to the Classic Content view for any course, the default for new courses will be the New Content Experience.
Additionally, starting in June 2026, Instructors and other course builders will have the option to enable this New Content Experience in any of their courses. Until now, Instructors had to email the Brightspace Support team to enable this view for each course. This update gives Instructors more direct control over the display of their course content and allows them to experiment with the New Content Experience before it becomes the default view beginning with the Fall 2027 semester.
Importantly, it is worth noting that this change only impacts the Content page of a course. Activities like assignments, quizzes, discussions and areas like the course homepage, Class Progress, and Grades are not impacted by this change.
When is this change happening?
- June 15, 2026 鈥 Transition announced
- June 15, 2026 鈥 Instructors and other course builders will begin to see a prompt in each course to either聽enable the New Content Experience or leave it off.
- 2026-27 Academic year 鈥 We will advertise and communicate this transition throughout the year.
- Fall 2027 Semester 鈥 The default view of the Content page in new courses changes to the New Content Experience.

Why is the default Content view changing?
The New Content Experience 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 of the Content page 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.
How will this impact my courses?
All courses in the Fall 2027 semester and moving forward will have the New Content Experience enabled by default. This view can be changed to the Classic Content Experience by Instructors and other course builders on a course-by-course basis. It is important to note that no content is lost when switching between Classic and New Content Experience. The only change is how that content is displayed.

While this change is an important step in keeping 自慰视频's Brightspace environment modern and useful to instructors and students, we know that there are going to be questions about this transition. Below are answers to some common questions about the New Content Experience.听
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Resources for further study:
If you want to learn more about the New Content Experience, how to use its new features, or see videos of it in action, here are some guides and resources that may be helpful. If you have any questions about this transition, please reach out to brightspace@vanderbilt.edu.听
- Instructor Guides -
- How to change Content view in my course
- How to add activities to Content
- Uploading and viewing files in Content
- What is the Table of Contents?
- How do I upload my syllabus?
- How do I move files around in my course?
- How do I create modules and add content to them?
- How to make Content unavailable to users
- How to set custom colors for Units and Lessons in the New Content Experience
- Student Guides -
- Example Videos -
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- Webinar - (~48 minutes)