Adding a Link to Brightspace

In Brightspace, you can add a link directly into a module in Content or as a link in the Brightspace text editor anywhere it appears. These are the instructions to link to a file or website other than a video.

Directly in Content area

To insert a link to a file, including a Teams meeting recording, directly in a module in the Content area:

  1. In your course, click Content and in the left Table of Contents, click to open the module in which you want to place the link.

The module titled Resources is selected from the Table of Contents

  1. In the right-hand side editing panel, click Upload/Create and select Create a Link.

Create a Link elected from the Upload/Create drop-down list

  1. Enter a Title (the text that will appear in the module and will be linked) and type or paste the URL.
  2. Click Create.

The New Link dialogue box

In the Brightspace Text Editor

To insert a link to a file in the Brightspace text editor anywhere it appears:

  1. Click the Insert Quicklink icon.

The Brightspace editor menu with Insert Quicklink highlighted.

  1. Select Link from the Insert Quicklink dialogue box.

Link is selected in the Insert Quicklink dialogue box

  1. Type or paste the link to the file in the Link field.
  2. Provide the Text that will appear and will be linked to the file.
  3. Click Save and Close, Insert or Update, depending on where you are using the Brightspace editor.

The Insert Quicklink dialogue box

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