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Add widgets to your homepage
Course widgets can help you engage with your learners by featuring useful tools on your course homepage. The first step is to create a widget-based homepage. Widget-based homepages display a standard homepage that contains various widgets. After you create the homepage, you can add or remove widgets, customize their…
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About System Widgets
Brightspace core includes default System Widgets that are set up to represent and help you engage with various tools in Brightspace directly from your course or organization homepage. Important: The System Widgets List can also display widgets that are available with paid add-on widget packages. For example, widgets…
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Create a custom widget
Custom widgets allow you to expand the functionality of available content in your homepages to suit your specific organizational and course needs. You can add custom HTML code to create a wide range of widgets. You can create custom widgets for your courses, or use custom widgets shared to your course offerings from the…
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Using the My Courses widget
In the My Courses widget on your homepage, the courses display a default image assigned from the curated image library. You can also select an image that is more representative of the course from the library provided by D2L, or add your own image for the course tile. Any images that you include with the My Courses widget…
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Using the Updates widget
The Updates widget provides you with a quick way to review all outstanding notifications or tasks that you may have for your course. It displays various updates, including unread discussion posts, new emails, and more. Note: For information about how to add widgets to your course homepage, refer to Add widgets to your…
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Change personal settings with the My Settings widget
You can change your user profile, account settings, notifications, and more using the My Settings widget found on the My Home page. To change personal settings with the My Settings widget On the navbar, click My Home. On the My Home page, navigate to the My Settings widget. Figure: Use the My Settings widget to change your…
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Displaying course grouping tabs in the My Courses widget
The My Courses widget can display tabs that sort courses by Semester name, Department, or Role below the course name. To display course grouping tabs On the My Home or Course Home page, navigate to the My Courses widget. From the My Courses context menu, select Customize this widget. Do one of the following: * Select…
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Homepage Widget Expansion Pack
The Homepage Widget Expansion Pack offers a catalog of homepage system widgets to provide a more customized learning experience for your homepages. Note: System widgets are available for purchase individually or in packages of three, as an add-on to your Brightspace product plan. Some may have been included in your…
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Using the My Org Units widget
My Org Units is a custom widget that allows all users to search and navigate to different types of org units they are enrolled in, such as colleges, departments, semesters, groups, sections, course offerings, and course templates. You can use the My Org Units widget to go to other org units aside from their enrolled course…
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Using the Multi-Profile Widget
The Multi-Profile Widget allows you to introduce yourself and your team to your learners. The system widget retrieves user information from User Profiles and the Classlist to display a list of users in the course and their roles to learners. Note: The Multi-Profile Widget is part of the Homepage Widget Expansion Pack.…