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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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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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Log In to Brightspace
If you are having trouble logging in, use the sections below to find the right next step. * I don’t know where to log in * I forgot my password * My login isn’t working * I need help with two-factor authentication Important: Your organization manages your Brightspace account and login credentials. D2L cannot reset your…
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Best practices for creating a Course Homepage
The course homepage is likely the first page your students 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 students to…
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Browser support
Use a supported browser to ensure optimal performance, accessibility, and security in Brightspace. D2L recommends that all users access Brightspace using the latest version of a supported browser. Most browsers automatically update to the latest version by default. To ensure you are always running the latest browser…
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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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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 student 's personalized information, such as their name or user ID. This enables you to developer better relationships with your students , increase engagement levels, and improves the…
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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 Watch this video to learn how to manage your account notifications in Brightspace. Review the written steps below. Watch this…
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View your course using a different role
You can temporarily assume the role of your students so you can see your course as they would. This can assist you in understanding how your course appears to your students in Brightspace. Note: You must have the Role Switch > See Role Switch permission granted to your role to view as another role. Contact 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…