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Linking an Announcement to a D2L Content Item in the New Content Experience

This tech tip is to demonstrate how to link an announcement to a content item using the new content experience in D2L Brightspace.

1. From the Announcement tool, create a New Announcement:

Dropdown arrow beside Announcements leading to the option of New Annoucement

2. Enter a title in the Headline field.

3. In the Content field, Click the Insert Quicklink button:

Title of "A link That Leads to a Content Item" in the Headline textbox. The Insert Quick Link button on the content toolbar

4. Browse to the material you want to link to, in this case it’ content:

Content link in the Insert Ouicklink list

5. Browse to and click on the item and the item will appear in the announcement:

Browse too sample page content

6. Fill out the rest of the options as desired:

Availability, Attachment, and Additional Release Conditions options

7. Click Publish or Save as Draft:
Publish and Save Draft buttons

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