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About My Org Units widget
About My Org Units widget Normally, organization administrators are the only users at an institution who can view and navigate to all org unit types through the Org Unit Editor tool found in the Admin Tools menu. Instructors and learners cannot easily navigate to org unit types other than course offering org units they are…
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Customize the login page
The Login Page Management tool enables you to add single sign-on buttons within the Login Widget based on registered Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) identity providers. This enables you to reduce the complexity of creating a single sign-on link or button and remove the dependency on having to modify the HTML code…
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Language Management glossary
The following table indicates the terms used in the Language Management tool. Term Definition Tool package A group of language terms that are used in the same tool Collection A group of language terms that are used on the same page or for similar functionality Parent language The parent language determines which language…
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Add a location to a layout
You can use the Locations tool to define the location name, building, and room dimensions to represent real rooms within your institution. Use the Seating Chart's drag-and-drop interface to view and track attendance and participation for your course and group events. Seating Chart enables you to assign students to seats…
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About Metadata
Metadata is information about a learning resource that you add to the resource to help other users locate it and understand its purpose. Administrators can create views, templates, and taxon schemas for your organization to enable users to enter repetitive metadata information quickly and consistently. You can add and edit…
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About the My Courses widget
The My Courses widget enables learners to access their favorite courses by pinning them to the top of their course list. In the mobile view, widgets now stack on top of each other, and the My Courses widget offers many new options to instructors. With this widget, instructors and learners see courses by enrollment date,…
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About the Create Course widget
The Create Course widget provides a simplified option for users to create courses quickly without access to the Courses tool. Using this widget, instructors and other non-administrative roles can quickly create a new course offering directly from their organization homepage. To create a course using the widget, the user…
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Create and delete org units
You can use the Org Unit Editor to create, archive, and restore org units in Brightspace. Note: You must have the required Org Unit Editor role permission applied to your role to perform these actions. Refer to Org Unit Editor permissions for more details. Create an org unit You can use the Org Unit Editor to create a new…
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Create a custom locale
Create custom locales when you want Brightspace to reflect your organization's cultural preferences. When you create a new locale, it must always inherit its initial settings from a pre-existing locale. Inheriting initial settings from a complete, tested locale allows you to create new locales quickly while ensuring that…
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Deploy and configure the Multi-Profile Widget
The Multi-Profile Widget is a system widget that displays multiple roles and functions to be presented directly to learners on a course homepage. Drawing user details from Classlists and User Profiles, the Multi-Profile Widget automatically pulls in the people and details that you set up. Note: The Multi-Profile widget is…