The Multi-Profile widget allows you to introduce yourself to your. The system widget retrieves user information from User Profiles and the Classlist to display a list of users in the course and their roles to .
The Multi-Profile was part of the Homepage Widget Expansion Pack.
Note: The legacy Homepage Widget Expansion Pack has reached the End of Support milestone and will be retired in September 2024/20.24.9. Clients can continue to use the hosted versions of the widget until that date; however, they are no longer supported by D2L. Clients using the legacy hosted versions of widgets should upgrade to the new Brightspace System widgets. For more information about how to identify which legacy widgets you are using and plan for the retirement of the Homepage Widget Expansion Pack in your environment, refer to Upgrading from the Hosted Widgets.
Deploy the Multi-Profile Widget
The widget displays the following options:
-
Display My Profile: A quick setting to switch to a single profile view. This setting can be changed by anyone with permissions in the widget.
-
Update User Settings: Choose to remove individual users from an instance of the widget, change the category an individual user displays in, and reorder the appearance of users.
Modify and setup the Multi-Profile Widget
You modify the Mult-Profile widget to customize the heading, which roles the widget displays, and more.
To modify and set up the Multi-Profile widget
-
Add the Multi-Profile System widget to your homepage.
-
Navigate to the Multi-Profile widget.
-
From the Multi-Profile widget, click the Open Multi-Profile Widget Tools (...) button and then choose an option to modify:
-
Customize Heading: Customize the title of the widget, the default being Multi-Profile Widget.
-
Display Roles: Choose which roles to automatically display in the widget.
-
Create Categories: Group roles under a category heading. This is useful for roles that have unusual naming conventions in Brightspace for administration purposes.
-
Display Profile Fields: Select which profile fields will appear for each user listed in the widget. This pulls from the User Profile that any user can update in their User Settings area.