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.
Brightspace allows instructors to view courses from the student view. This is helpful to ensure the course is set up in the appropriate manner and to determine that all content is accessible for students.
Note: Any tool where the view is specific to an individual student will not work with the Student Preview option. Examples are Quizzes and Groups. To see a preview of Quizzes, instructors can choose the Preview option in the Quizzes menu to see the quiz as if they were a student.聽
Updated Spring 2020
Switching to the Student View
1. First, log into Brightspace and enter the course.
2. Click on your name at the top, right corner of the screen. Then click View as Student.
3. To exit this view, click on your name again in the top, right corner and click the X聽to exit student view.
