Brightspace Content is Getting Upgraded
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.
Brightspace houses a tool called Namecoach which allows students to record their name’s pronunciation to ensure other people in their classes are pronouncing it correctly. Adding Namecoach to a Brightspace course enables users to record their names for playback by the rest of the course. In this guide, we’ll go over how this tool can be added to your Brightspace course.
Learn more about Namecoach at their website.
Updated Fall 2026
New Content Experience
- Open your Brightspace course
- Either create a new unit or go to an existing unit
- Click Add Existing
- On the What would you like to add page, click External Tool Activity.
- Select Namecoach Roster from the list of options
- From here, you should see the Namecoach tool in your course and can record or listen to recorded names here.
Classic Content view
- Open your Brightspace course
- We recommend creating a module on your content page specifically for Namecoach.
- Once you’ve created this module, select the module to enter it and choose the Existing Activities dropdown.
- From this menu, choose External Learning Tools.
- In the box that appears, scroll down and choose Namecoach Roster.
- You will now see Namecoach Roster in your Namecoach module.
- From here, you can click on the Namecoach Roster tool in your course to can record or listen to recorded names here.
