Exporting a Brightspace Course Package allows you to keep a copy of your course content outside of the Brightspace Learning Managment system. Course content is exported as a zip file and, when unzipped, will provide you access to individual content items that were housed in your course in a file folder structure.
Please Note: No student or instructor data/submissions/interaction is exported with this process.
To export your course as a Brightspace Package:
- Navigate to your course and click the gear icon in the very upper right corner of the Brightspace window.
- Select “Import/Export/Copy Components” from the menu.
- Select the option to “Export as a Brightspace Package” and click the “Start” button.
Click in the box to “Select All Components” and click the “Continue” button.
- IMPORTANT! Make sure to check the box to “Include course files in the export package” and then click the “Export” button.
- You will receive a confirmation that the export has been started. Click the “Done” button.
- You will see an orange dot in your Brightspace Notifications area when the export has completed. Depending on the size of your course, this notification may take some time to appear. When it does, click on the Notifications icon.
- Click on the “Export finished” link to open the Export Summary.
- Click on the “Click here to download the export Zip package” link to download the zipped file of your course.
- The file will download to the Downloads folder on your computer. Depending on the size of your course, this may take some time. When the download is complete, navigate to the Downloads folder on your computer and find the downloaded export. The file name should begin with “D2LExport_” and contain the code of your course. You may want to move this file out of your Downloads folder to a location where it will be easy to find if you need it.
- Double click the file to view the contents.
