To provide parents and guardians with a clear view of their child's work and progress from Brightspace Parent & Guardian, the Student Dashboard in the web application and the Home tab in the Pulse app include the Work To Do and Recent Grades widgets.

Work To Do
The Work To Do widget displays a summary of assigned learning activities from all a student's courses that are overdue or have an upcoming due date or end date. Counters for each section indicate how many learning activities remain to be completed, along with information about each learning activity's name, due date, and course name. For example, the Overdue section displays any assignment, quiz, or content that has not been completed and is past the set due date on the respective activity.
In the Work To Do widget, parents and guardians can click or tap the following items to display more information:
They cannot click or tap the following items:
Content
Quizzes
Surveys
Checklists
- LTI Content

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Tip: To view details about Work To Do items, parents and guardians click or tap View all work to do in the View all Work page. They choose a date range from the calendar for the items. Learning activities only appear in the Work To Do widget when the activity has a defined due date or end date. The widget does not display a default end date: parents and guardians must choose both a start and end date. Overdue work is shown from the previous 12 weeks. To view the details of an item, they click or tap the name of the item. |
Recent Grades
The Recent Grades widget displays released grade items for all the courses in which a child is enrolled. The Recent Grades widget only appears if there is at least one grade for a child.

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Note:Surveys and checklist items do not display in the Recent Grades widget, since they are not gradable.To view the details of a graded assignment or discussion activity, parents and guardians click or tap the assignment or discussion in the Recent Grades widget. |
To view all released grades, parents and guardians click or tap View all grades. If an instructor is using the Grades tool for a course and they release the final course grade to the student, the final course grade (final calculated grade or final adjusted grade) is also visible to parents and guardians. From the student's Grades page, they can filter by course.
If an instructor provided text feedback on a grade item, parents and guardians click or tap view Feedback.