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Beginning with the Fall 2027 semester, Brightspace courses will begin using the New Content Experience by default. Additionally, Instructors now have the ability to enable or disable the New Content Experience in their own courses ahead of the change in Fall 2027. For more information about this transition, see our New Content Experience Transition page.
This guide provides instructions for creating a virtual classroom session in your course. You must create your virtual classroom session ahead of time and assign a date and time for access. You must also link the session to your content area in order for students to see it.聽Students do not see the Virtual Classroom tab on the Navbar.
Please note: Recorded Virtual Classroom meetings are available only within the course they were created, cannot be downloaded or edited, and are retained for only 14 days. If you would like to retain recordings of these meetings for longer periods, please consider using聽Kaltura Capture聽to record your Virtual Classroom meetings.
Create a Virtual Classroom Session
STEP 1:聽To create a Virtual Classroom session, click on the tool in your Navbar.
If you have not installed Virtual Classroom to your Navbar,聽here are instructions on how to do that.
STEP 2:聽In the bottom right of the following page, click the聽+听产耻迟迟辞苍.
TEP 3: In the pop-up menu, notice that there is a user limit of 150 in a meeting.
STEP 4:聽Create the session title and set the meeting date and time. It鈥檚 a good practice to open the session 5-10 minutes ahead of time, to allow yourself and students time to join and acclimate themselves to the interface.聽If the session needs to begin immediately, choose the聽Now听产耻迟迟辞苍.
STEP 5:聽Select the desired duration of your session.
STEP 6:听厂别濒别肠迟听Automatically record meeting聽if the recording needs to begin as soon as the session starts.聽 Instructors have the ability to stop recording at any time.聽 Select聽Publish recorded meeting聽to make the recording available to students once it has been processed (instructors can access the recording regardless of this setting).聽 Select聽Allow external participants聽to generate a sharable link that can be provided to people outside of the course.聽 Select聽Invite entire class聽to allow all students to access the session (recommended).
STEP 7:聽Select whether the session needs to repeat weekly. Click聽Save.
Add the Session to the Content Area
STEP 1:听颁濒颈肠办听Content聽in the Navbar. In the selected module, click聽Existing Activities, then聽Virtual Classroom (QL).
Note:聽You聽must聽place the virtual classroom session somewhere in the Content area for students to be able to access it.聽
STEP 2:聽To add your created session, select it from the available list.聽 Additionally, there is a聽Create New Session聽button that allows new sessions to be created.
STEP 3:聽The meeting will now be聽visible聽to students in the selected module. It is not necessarily聽available, depending on your dates and time.
STEP 4:聽When a user clicks on the link, they will see their Virtual Classroom session, a dial in number, and help for Virtual Classroom. An聽Invite Link聽is available to the instructor, and can be shared with any external participants if necessary.聽 When the meeting start day/time arrives, you will see an聽Join听产耻迟迟辞苍.
