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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Brightspace Virtual Assistant
As of the September 2024/20.24.9 release, Brightspace Virtual Assistant has been renamed to Lumi Chat and is available with the End User Support (EUS) package. The functionality and documentation of the product remain the same, but the location of the documentation has changed. To access information about Lumi Chat, refer…
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About Lumi Chat
Lumi Chat is an AI-based help tool that is integrated directly into Brightspace as a pop-up window from the speech bubble button in the bottom right corner of the screen. It provides immediate access to help documentation in the same window as your Brightspace session. After typing in a question, the tool provides the most…
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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…