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About Manage Locales
Use the Manage Locales tool to configure cultural formatting and languages for your organization. It extends the Manage Languages tool to provide additional display options for various cultural groups. A locale incorporates a language from Manage Languages and settings for the user interface display. The system can…
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Types of locales
In Brightspace, you can use various system locales and create custom ones to reflect your organization's cultural preferences. The following table indicates the types of locales you can use in Brightspace. Types of localesLocale Description Custom Custom locales enable you to create and manage locales specific to your…
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Customization of a custom locale
When creating or editing a custom locale, you can customize how number, dates, and times appear for the locale inside the Numbers and Dates and Times tabs. Numbers The following table indicates numbers you can customize for a custom locale. Item Description Digital Grouping Controls the appearance of how digits are…
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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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Set a default locale
Setting the default locale within the Manage Locales tool determines the default locale for the entire organization. If a course or user's locale preferences are not set, the system uses the default locale. You can only have one default locale at any given time. It should be the locale that best reflects the needs of your…
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Forcing a locale
You can force a locale if you want to override locale preferences for course offerings and users. Generally, users can specify their own locale settings within their preferences. It is possible to force a locale at the organization level by setting the following configuration variables: * d2l.Region.ForceLocale – Set this…
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Edit the status of a locale
Locales that are set to active are available to everyone; they can be applied to course offerings and set within a user's preferences. If you want to make a locale unavailable to your organization, you can change its status to inactive. Changing its status to inactive allows you to use it again in the future. Deactivating…