Our textbook is now in Brightspace. If you want, this can be the end of it, your students will be able to open each chapter individually and you can continue your class as normal. But in case you want to go the extra mile, we can use our existing toolset in Brightspace to make the layout a bit prettier.
As you can see, the import process has automatically divided the textbook into the modules we saw earlier and each module has been divided into individual chapters, the same way they are divided in the textbook itself. Using Brightspace, we can drag both modules and chapters out of their default order based on our needs by clicking the four dots to the left of each piece of content. This allows us to seamlessly integrate parts of the LibreText textbook into the rest of our class, as demonstrated below.
In this case, I've created a Week 1 Module that contains our syllabus, a discussion post, a chapter from our OER textbook that I'm assigning as well as a (copyrighted) article that I grabbed from online. Using LibreTexts and Brightspace, we can consolidate our course materials in one place in order to make it as easy as possible for our students to stay on top of their coursework.
OPTIONAL: If you don't like each textbook module cluttering up the side bar, you can change their visibility to hide them from students by opening the module and clicking the eye in the top right corner. This will not affect the visibility of content we drag to other modules.
And that's it! We glossed over a lot of the handy features Brightspace offers to make your pages more intuitive; if you're interested in learning more about them, check out the CCC Brightspace Knowledge Base or consider enrolling in a training session.
