Sharing a Development Course in D2L Brightspace

Overview

This article explains how Instructors and Teacher’s Assistants (TAs) can share course materials using a development course in D2L Brightspace. A development course allows users to collaborate on course design, build content, and share materials without involving live student data.

Development courses are commonly used to prepare content for future semesters or collaborate with colleagues before copying materials into a live university course.

Instructor and Teacher's Assistant roles can request a development course, copy their materials into it, and then request enrollment of a colleague to share the materials.

What is a development course?

• A development course is not tied to a university course and does not contain student data.
• The purpose of the course is to develop course materials for use in a "live" University course.
• You can also use development courses to share materials or collaborate with colleagues on course design.
• Note: Development courses are subject to deletion during our regular maintenance schedule.

Share course materials in a development course

There are three steps to share course materials in a development course:

1. Request a development course – there are two options:

• Ticket: Submit a Ticket
• Self-Service: Create a Development course automatically using the Request Help widget on the D2L Brightspace homepage.
  • To automatically create a development course: Follow the steps in the section on Development Course Request.
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2. Copy components: Find the course in the Development tab/semester in My Courses, then follow the steps in this article to copy components into your course.
3. Share the development course: Request enrollment of an Instructor or Teacher's Assistant in the Development course to share the content.

Outcome

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