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.
Self-enrollment allows users to enroll in groups on their own. Use this option when you want users to choose their own group members or to be a part of a group on a topic that interests them.
Updated Fall 2025
Create a Self-Enroll Group
1. Find the Groups聽tool under the聽Activities and Assessments tab on your Navbar.
2. On the Manage Groups聽page, click聽New Category.
1. Enter a Category Name and Description.
2. Select one of the following options from the Enrollment Type drop-down list:
Groups of # 鈥� Self Enrollment
# of Groups 鈥� Self Enrollment
# of Groups, Capacity of # 鈥� Self Enrollment
5. Enter the number of groups or capacity, depending on what you selected.
6. Click Save.
Enroll in a Group (Student Instructions)
Once a Self-Enroll group is set up, students will be able to enroll.
1. Go to the Activities and Assessments聽tab and select聽Groups.
2. Click on View Available Groups
3. Look at the groups that are open for enrollment. Click the number of members (ex. 2/4) to see who has already enrolled. Click聽Join Group聽to join.
4. On the main Groups page, students are able to click Leave Group聽if they need to change their group enrollment.
