The first thing to do is to navigate to the LibreText website and locate the material you want to use in your class. This could be a whole textbook or just an individual chapter of a textbook.
Once we're at on the LibreText homepage, we need to navigate to whatever subject we're teaching. To do this, mouse over Explore the Libraries. This should open up a list of subject areas; click whichever one contains the subject you're teaching. As an example, let's say we're teaching a lower level writing course. Our subject are in that case would be Humanities.
Once you click your subject area, it should take you to this page. For the purposes of this tutorial, we're going to ignore two of the icons here and focus on "Bookshelves." This is where every textbook that's ever been uploaded to LibreText lives and it's what we're going to use to find a textbook to import to Brightspace.
Clicking Bookshelves should bring you to this page. Select which subject the textbook you're looking for is located in. Since we're teaching an lower level writing course, we're going to go with "Composition"
This website's starting to feel like a Russian nesting doll. Again, we're teaching a lower level class, so let's stick to Introductory Composition.
Here's the good stuff. These are all the introductory composition textbooks currently on LibreTexts. Because everything on the platform is licensed under a Creative Commons license, you can feel free to use anything here in your classes, at absolutely zero cost to you or your students. You can read through each textbook and decide which one you want to use in your class, but because we don't have all day, for the purpose of this demonstration, I'm going to make an executive decision and select Basic Reading and Writing (Lumen) as my textbook.
Here is what the textbook looks like when you open it. As you can see, the textbook itself is separated into sections that they call "modules." You should also take note of the buttons in the top right. These are important for what we're going to do next.
Once you're ready to import your textbook, mouse over the "Downloads" box in the top right and click "Import into LMS." Your browser should then download a file called "LibreText.imscc" to the Downloads folder of your computer. This is the file we're going to upload to Brightspace; it contains content of the entire textbook. Unfortunately, as of writing, there is no way to import only an individual chapter, but you can delete excess chapters through Brightspace once you've imported the whole textbook. Annoyingly, every textbook you download will default to the same name, so if you download multiple textbooks, they will be named LibreText(1).imscc, LibreText(2).imscc, and so on. It won't affect the import process, but it might be annoying. If you want, you can rename the .imscc files to make them easier to tell apart.
