There are two options how you can share OneDrive files in your Brightspace Course. In the table below you can find the comparison of these two options, sharing from Brightspace Content using button Upload/Create and from OneDrive page directly:

Sharing OneDrive files or folders to your Brightspace course Content can be done directly from Brightspace, but you will have to have your file saved in OneDrive beforehand.

Once you have accessed OneDrive through Brightspace you will see the content of your OneDrive in the pop-up window in Brightspace.

1. Click the folder to access the file you want to share

2. Click on the file(s) in the folder that you want to share
3. Then, click the button Add

The OneDrive file(s) will now appear in the selected (sub)module of the Brightspace Content at the bottom of the existing list of items.

Your file now becomes an item in the Brightspace course content and you can further manage it: Move a topic within a module and Edit properties in Content, such as adding a Start Date, a Due Date, an End Date, adding a condition for releasing the file to the students (About Release Conditions), changing the visibility status of a topic, or just adding a description of the content.

You have the possibility to share your OneDrive files also by directly going to your OneDrive content. There you have two options of how you can share the file or folder with your students:

• Sharing via OneDrive file's URL link
• Sharing via direct e-mail

This action will return you to the option to copy the URL of the OneDrive file to be shared with the selected sharing options.

6. Click the button Copy

You have now saved the URL to the file you want to share into a memory. To use this link in Brightspace. follow the steps in the manual How to add a Weblink to a course.