In Brightspace, adding a document to a course is an easy way to share study materials, assignments, or additional information with students. This feature allows teachers to upload documents, such as PDFs, Word files, or presentations directly within the course platform, ensuring that students have access to the necessary resources for learning.

If you want to attach a file to ‘Content’, navigate to the Content section in the course menu.

Click on the unit or lesson where you want to add the file. More information about units/lessons/topics/folders can be found here: “Hoe verdeel ik mijn vakinhoud in units-lessons-folders-topics”

You will see the buttons at the top right: ‘Add Existing’ and ‘Create New’.

Add Existing: Add existing content, such as files, activities, or questions that have already been created in this or in other courses. So instead of making something new, you reuse what is already available. This saves time and ensures that you use consistent content within your course.

Create New: This allows you to instantly create new content, such as a new document, quiz, or assignment, specifically for that unit or topic.

Within that unit or lesson, click ‘Add Existing’ in case you want to upload a previously created document.

You’ll be taken to a page where you can choose from all kinds of different tools and documents to upload, such as ‘Assignments’ or ‘Quizzes’. In addition, you can also add regular Word documents, for example.

Choose the type of file you want to add to the course. Drag the file at the bottom of the ‘Drag and drop or browse’ box or find the file in your computer files.

After this, click on ‘Upload’ and the file is immediately visible in the selected unit or topic. For example, when uploading a PDF file, this looks like this for students: