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Navigate Brightspace and find your course
Learn about your Brightspace organizational homepage, how to find a course in your organization, and how to navigate your course level homepage. Navigate your organizational homepage The Brightspace organizational homepage is designed to help make your job easier, more efficient, and give you greater reach when it comes to…
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Log In to Brightspace
Your experience trying to log in to Brightspace for the first time may differ depending on how your organization has set up and is managing log in credentials. Your organization may have a Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication method implemented, where you can access all the sites in your organization using a single SSO…
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Customize your course navbar
When you log in to Brightspace, you will notice that your course homepage is broken up into two sections. In the top half, you will see navigation tools, such as your navbar. You can customize your navbar to surface the tools most relevant to you and your students. Your navbar can be enabled to be text-based or icon-based.…
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Activate your course
After building your course, ensure that you are aware if it is accessible to students by controlling its availability and active status. This is particularly important if you only want to make your course available to students during a specified time period or academic term. Make your course available and active From your…
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Create a widget-based homepage
Course widgets can help you engage with your students by featuring useful tools on your course homepage. The first step is to create a widget-based homepage. Widget-based homepages display a standard homepage that contains various widgets. After you create the homepage, you can add or remove widgets, customize their…
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Homepage Widget Expansion Pack
The Homepage Widget Expansion Pack offers a catalog of homepage system widgets to provide a more customized learning experience for your homepages. System widgets were available for purchase individually or in packages of 3, as an add-on to your Brightspace product plan. Some may have been included in your implementation…
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Brightspace Virtual Assistant
As of the September 2024/20.24.9 release, Brightspace Virtual Assistant has been renamed to Lumi Chat and is available with the End User Support Lite package. The functionality and documentation of the product remain the same, but the location of the documentation has changed. To access information about Lumi Chat, refer…
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About Lumi Chat
Lumi Chat is an AI-based help tool that is integrated directly into Brightspace as a pop-up window from the speech bubble button in the bottom right corner of the screen. It provides immediate access to help documentation in the same window as your Brightspace session. After typing in a question, the tool provides the most…
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About Brightspace Editor
Brightspace Editor is the default editor across Brightspace. You can find Brightspace Editor nearly everywhere you create content in Brightspace. Overview Figure: The Brightspace Editor appears anywhere that you create content. Brightspace Editor allows users to create and insert content across Brightspace. Note: When…
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Content experiences
Use the Content tool to post and organize course content so that information about course expectations, course syllabus, lecture notes, and important dates display to users clearly. Course materials you post in Content can include documents, images, media files, CaptureCast presentations, URL links, and existing course…