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Start the term
This page outlines the basic steps you can follow to start the term. It provides information about how to set up and manage your courses. About importing existing content from another course To start your term, you can use the Content tool to import existing course content when creating a new course offering. You can…
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Activate your course
After building your course, ensure that you are aware if it is accessible to learners by controlling its availability and active status. This is particularly important if you only want to make your course available to learners during a specified time period or academic term. Make your course available and active From your…
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About course administration
Course Administration is a central area for accessing tools related to setting up and managing your course. From here you can access many tools to help you run your course smoothly, including: * Enable and disable course tools * Rename course tools * Manage course offering information * Import course components * Import…
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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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Best practices for creating a Course Homepage
The course homepage is likely the first page your learners see when they land in your course. Therefore it’s important to design the homepage with purpose to enhance the course experience. The goal is to place useful information in intuitive places rather than create a cluttered homepage that causes your learners to…
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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 learners . Your navbar can be enabled to be text-based or…
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Automatically customize course content using replace strings
You can use replace strings to customize course content and communications in Brightspace. Replace strings automatically incorporate your learner's personalized information, such as their name or user ID. This enables you to developer better relationships with your learners, increase engagement levels, and improves the…
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View your course using a different role
You can temporarily assume the role of your learners so you can see your course as they would. This can assist you in understanding how your course appears to your learners in Brightspace. Note: You must have the Role Switch > See Role Switch permission granted to your role to view as another role. Contact your…