For each course, you can create a navbar with links to course-specific and organization-wide tools and resources, and a theme to customize and brand the look and feel of navbars and page backgrounds.
Set a default navbar
You must have permission to manage navbars at the organization level to set default navbars for an org unit and its child org units.
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Navigation & Themes > Navbars.
- From the context menu of the navbar you want to set as the default navbar for the org unit and its child org units, click Set as the default.
Create a theme
Themes enable you to customize and apply branding to navbars and page backgrounds. Themes do not control the type of links navbars can contain. When you create a theme, there are two colors in the theme you can configure to ensure a consistent user experience and adhere to your organization's branding guidelines:
- Primary Color: Modifies the background of the link area in the navbar and units in Lessons (each lesson and folder in a unit displays the same color, only lighter), if enabled.
- Accent Color: Modifies the thin color strip above the navbar.
Notes:
- If the Primary Color is not specified, the default colour scheme is used in New Conent Experience (Lessons).
- All themes listed on the Themes page at the course offering level contain information about whether a theme is shared from another org unit and the name of the org unit sharing the theme.
- If your permissions do not allow you to create themes, you must select from existing themes or use the default theme.
Themes created in an org unit are automatically shared with child org units.
- Themes created at the course level cannot be shared with other courses. However, you can create and store them inside a course template to make them available in course offerings that use the course template.
- The Theme Preview area displays changes as you make them.
To create a theme
- On the navbar, click Course Admin.
- Click Navigation & Themes > Themes
- Click Create Theme.
- Enter a Name and Description for your theme.
- To apply a Logo to your theme, do one of the following:
- Drag-and-drop an image file into the corresponding area, and click Upload
- Click Choose Existing to apply an image that is already uploaded to Brightspace.
Note: SVG files are recommended for better scaling. The logo can be a maximum of 260 x 60 pixels, but displays at smaller sizes for viewing on mobile devices or when viewing a navbar with a course title.
- Choose a Primary Color to modify the background of the link area in the navbar and units in New Content Experience (Lessons). Each lesson and folder in a unit displays the same color.
- Choose an Accent Color to modify the thin color strip above the navbar.
- Click the context menu and select the correct destination from the options in the menu to customize the link destination.
- Click Save and Close.
Your new theme is created. To make your theme the default theme for your course, click the context menu next to your theme and select Make Default.
Applying an org unit name to a navbar
In addition to the logo, you can configure the org unit name to appear, except on the org navbar (which always hides the name), and course navbar (which always shows the name).
To include the org unit name in the navbar:
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Navigation and Themes.
- Click Themes.
- Click the current theme.
- In the Name field, enter the org unit name.
Set a default theme
You must have permission to manage themes at the organization level to set default themes for an org unit and its child org units.
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Navigation & Themes > Themes.
- From the context menu of the theme you want to make the default theme for an org unit and its child org units, click Set as the default.