Course Content
Classes within Brightspace will be created automatically every semester. You will no longer need to manually create your course sites. If you are assigned to an additional course in Banner by the Registrar and you have access to your other classes, please allow a few hours for the information to pass into Brightspace. If you do not have the site within 24 hours of being assigned, please reach out to Digital.Education@marist.edu.
Please refer to the list below for when your courses should become available within Brightspace for you to start editing.
Fall courses should be available by JUNE.
Winter courses should be available by OCTOBER.
Spring courses should be available by DECEMBER.
Summer courses should be available by APRIL.
Your site will automatically become published on the start date listed in Banner. Students will be able to see that they are registered for your course within Brightspace before then, however they will not be able to enter the site. If you need to share content with students before the start date, please refer to Email All Students
The Brightspace system is set to have all courses stay open one year for students to have access to the content. After the year the course will automatically close.
In order to have your TA added to your site, please email Digital.Education@marist.edu with the chair of your department CC'd, including the following information:
- TA CWID
- Class they need to be added to (CRN is preferred and can be found under course title on homepage)
Permissions they should have:
- Read Only Facilitator - Can only read content within the site, similar to a student
- Facilitator - Has grading capabilities, but cannot create content, assignments, quizzes, etc
If you would like your courses merged, please email Digital.Education@marist.edu with the following information:
- Course CRNs to be merged (can be found under course title on homepage)
- Which course should be the main course (i.e. the course all students will access)
Please note that all content from the merged sites will be lost, such as student submissions, so it is recommended to merge early in the semester.
Brightspace Tools
Create “units” to organize your course materials sequentially for students. Units can contain content such as lessons (a folder structure), HTML documents (pages), weblinks, files from your computer, and activities such as assignments, discussions, and quizzes. If you already have a content unit structure in your new course site (typically from copying content as outlined above), review and edit those units as needed.
If you are reusing content from a previous site, you’ll likely need to replace older syllabus information. For information on how to add your syllabus, see
The classlist tool in your course site contains a directory of names, emails, and group settings for quick access for all participants in your course.
Helpful Guides:
Overview: Classlist
Tutorial Video:
Video: Classlist Overview
View your course as a student and make changes to your content as required before making it “active” to students. For instructions, see INSERT LINK. Note that there are limitations to the “student view” feature, and it can be helpful for checking that items are visible to students as well as how they might navigate a course site.
Use the “Manage Dates” feature to review the dates (start, end, due) associated with items in your course site.
iLearn-related FAQs
Faculty will have courses that were offered from Summer 2022 to Spring 2023 automatically moved into Brightspace. If you have a need to move a different course, a form will be available to make requests later this spring.
Project sites will not be copied automatically. Should you want your project site transitioned to Brightspace, a form will be available to make requests later this spring.
Course sites created prior to Summer of 2022 will not automatically be transferred to Brightspace. A form will be available to request the transfer of additional courses. Additionally, student content will not be transferred with course materials.
You will be able to log into iLearn until the end of the Spring 2024 term, but new courses and rosters will not be fed after Summer 2023. After this time, faculty will be able to request to retrieve archived courses through Digital Education until December 2025. After 2025 requests for archived courses will no longer be granted.
Panopto videos do not live within iLearn (the LMS), they are actually in a different location and integrated. We’ll be integrating Panopto into Brightspace (the new LMS) so all faculty videos within Panopto will be available in the new system.
To access your Panopto Videos outside of the LMS: https://marist.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Home.aspx
