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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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Change personal settings in Brightspace
You can keep your personal settings up to date by changing your Profile, Notifications, Account Settings and preferred language setting in Brightspace. To change personal settings in Brightspace Select your username and then select Profile. Figure: Select Profile to navigate to the Edit My User Profile page. You can change…
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Navigate Brightspace and find your course
Easily find your online courses after logging in to Brightspace from either the Course Selector or the My Courses widget. Note: If you log into Brightspace and cannot find the course you're looking for, you may not be enrolled in the course. If you cannot find or see a course in Brightspace, contact your instructor or your…
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Course homepage
Become familiar with your course through the homepage elements that are available to you. Text-based navbar The text-based course navbar uses text to describe the various Brightspace tools available to you. Figure: Course homepage elements with a text-based navbar. Icon-based navbar The icon-based course navbar uses icons…
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View and download audio-video transcripts
Improve accessibility for your audio-video content by viewing and downloading transcripts. Transcript View allows users to pair playback of a video file with scrolling captions. This introduces the View transcript option in the Media Player that allows you to download the transcript in .txt format or the caption track in…
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Navigate course content in the New Learner Experience or in the New Content Experience (Lessons)
As a learner you can access Content in different views: * Classic Content Experience * New Learner Experience * New Content Experience (Lessons) New Learner Experience If the content in your course appears like the image below, you are using the New Learner Experience. Figure: View of the table of contents when the New…
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Troubleshoot missing course content
No content in my course / Missing modules or topics There are several reasons why course materials might be missing from Content: * The course has not yet started. * You may have access to a course, but if the course start date has not yet passed, it is possible that your did not add any materials for you to review. *…
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Create and insert a video note in Brightspace Editor
Record videos up to 25 minutes long and add them anywhere where Brightspace Editor is available. To help ensure all users can learn without barriers, closed captions can be automatically created. Note: The ability to add video notes is controlled by a permission set by your administrator. If you do not see the Add Video…
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Record audio-video content in Media Library
Media Library offers a consolidated media processing, storage, and streaming option for all audio-video materials. Any media files that you create are stored in the Media Library repository. Use Media Library's Media Player and the Record Webcam option to create content for discussions or assignments in Brightspace. Note:…
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Submit and manage assignments
Understanding due dates and end dates A due date is the submission deadline of an assignment in your course. This date is specific to assignments only. End dates are attached to assignments. The end date is the final date an assignment is available for you to submit to, regardless of the due date. Once the end date of the…