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System Widget: Content Navigator - Best Practices
What is it? Figure: An example of the Content Navigator widget. The Content Navigator is a streamlined widget that gives users quick access to course topics. Users can select to move from module, to submodule, to content for more direct access. This widget tracks and displays navigational history and allows one-click…
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System Widget: Multi-Profile Widget
What is it? Figure: An example of the Multi-Profile widget. The Multi-Profile Widget provides a flexible, dynamic homepage solution that allows multiple roles and functions to be presented directly to learners on a course homepage. Drawing on Classlists and User Profiles, the Multi-Profile Widget automatically pulls in the…
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System Widget: Learner Awards - Best Practices
What is it? Figure: The Available Awards tab for the Learner Awards widget. Challenge your users to compete against themselves. The Learner Awards widget will show learners the badges they’ve already earned, and, more importantly, the badges that are available that they haven’t earned yet. Users can gauge their progress…
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System Widget: Visual Table of Contents - Best Practices
What is it? Figure: An example of the Visual Table of Contents widget. This widget is an information and navigation powerhouse. The Visual Table of Contents creates a card in the widget for every module created in the course. The card contains a unique image for each module and pulls in the description and number of topics…
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System Widget: Welcome Window - Best Practices
What is it? Figure: An example of the the Welcome Window widget. The first time a user logs into a course, the Welcome Window widget will display a pop-up message. This message can include text, images, and even short videos! Course creators and administrators can easily edit and update the content in the pop-up message,…
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System Widget: Slim Announcements - Best Practices
What is it? Figure: An example of the Slim Announcements widget. The Slim Announcements widget presents a simplified, unified view of announcements, by trimming the display to a single image and a set length of text. The widget allows learners to read more with a click and presents a slimmed-down streamlined display to…
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Single Profile Widget - Best Practices
What is it? Figure: An example of the Single Profile widget. The Single Profile widget provides in-line authoring allowing instructors, facilitators, tutors, and other users to introduce themselves to learners. Your organization may refer to it as the Instructor widget, Teacher Profile widget, Meet your Teacher widget, or…
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System Widget: Photo Banner - Best Practices
What is it? Figure: An example of the Photo Banner widget. Capture the attention of your learners by putting a gallery on your homepage. The Photo Banner widget allows admins and instructors to upload images in a customizable carousel with each photo linking to relevant information. Use this widget when… …you have image…
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Visual Table of Contents - Did you Know?
You might know the Visual Table of Contents widget can show course progress on a homepage, but did you know it also has lots of configurations that let you customize and optimize how you use this widget? Did you know... ...module tiles can display descriptions? If module descriptions are populated in your course, the…
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Homepage Widget Expansion Pack Widgets - Upgrading from the Custom Hosted Widgets
What is changing? Several widgets that were once Custom Hosted Widgets are now being delivered inside Brightspace as System Widgets. The Homepage Widget Expansion Pack includes the following system widgets that replace previous Custom Hosted Widgets: Visual Table of Contents Widget Welcome Window Widget Photo Banner Widget…