{"id":11307,"date":"2017-11-01T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T22:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=11307"},"modified":"2019-12-12T14:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T20:14:52","slug":"brightspace-tip-7-change-the-name-of-your-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-7-change-the-name-of-your-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Tip #7: Change the Name of Your Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Instructors have the ability to change the names of their Brightspace courses to suit their needs. For example, if you teach two sections of English 1010, you can personalize the names to become ENGL1010 \u2013 9 MWF and ENGL1010 \u2013 1:15 TR. <\/p>\n

Follow these steps to do it.<\/h3>\n

To change the name of your Brightspace course, you should:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Get into the course you want to change the name of.<\/li>\n
  2. While in the course, goto the NavBar and click on Course Admin<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  3. Click on Course Offering Information<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  4. Enter the new name in the Course Offering Name<\/strong> field and and click Save<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Note: Care should be taken to make sure the new name of the course can be easily recognized by the students enrolled.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Want more information?<\/h3>\n

    Brightspace Migration FAQs<\/a>
    \n    Request a sandbox course<\/a>
    \nSign-up for     Brightspace training sessions<\/a>
    \nYou can find     Brightspace help<\/a> at D2L's website.
    \nJoin the     Brightspace Community<\/a>.
    \nTry these     Brightspace How-To documents<\/a>.
    \nVisit our     Brightspace FAQs<\/a> for additional Brightspace information
    \nor     schedule a one-on-one session<\/a>, email<\/a>, or
    call Janice Florent: (504) 520-7418.<\/p>\n

    Image credit: \"new name<\/a>\" by jflorent is licensed under CC0<\/a> and is a derivative of image<\/a> by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Instructors have the ability to change the names of their Brightspace courses to suit their needs. For example, if you teach two sections of English 1010, you can personalize the names to become ENGL1010 \u2013 9 MWF and ENGL1010 \u2013 1:15 TR. Follow these steps to do it. To change the name of your Brightspace ...continue reading \"Brightspace Tip #7: Change the Name of Your Course\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[403],"tags":[402,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-11307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brightspace","7":"tag-brightspace","8":"tag-course-name","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2Wn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21524,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-525-course-design-suggestions\/","url_meta":{"origin":11307,"position":0},"title":"Brightspace Tip #525: Course Design Suggestions","author":"Janice Florent","date":"August 10, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I usually get a lot of questions from faculty related to setting up their Brightspace courses. 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