There are a few ways you can connect with your peers in Brightspace including email and instant messaging.
How do I connect with peers in Brightspace?
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How do I manage my notifications?
Control how you receive information about your courses by setting up your notification preferences. Watch this 2 minute video to learn how to customize your notification settings.
How do I navigate the Brightspace Learning Environment?
Develop comfort navigating the common elements of Brightspace Learning Environment. This tutorial teaches you how to navigate the Brightspace Learning Environment.
How do I find my courses?
Brightspace will be the online 'home' for many of your courses. This page will show you how to find your courses. If your instructor is using Brightspace, they will make your course available to you (often by Day 1). So if you don't see all of your courses in advance-...
How do I reach out to students at the start of term?
At the start of term email is the best way to reach out to all of your students in Brightspace. Note: Once students have logged in for the first time, they will also receive your announcements to their email. Confirm that your course is “Active” and that the Start...
How do discussions work in Brightspace?
Brightspace Discussions have three levels: Forum, Topic, Thread. Forums are the encompassing structure to the rest of the discussion. Learners cannot create a forum or a topic. In the forum description provide a brief description sentence. A Topic. This is where you...
Personalize account settings
Access to each learner’s personal settings are on the top right corner as shown above, with three sub-settings and the log out function. From there, one can make several important changes to their account. Personal Information 2. Account Settings 3. Account Settings...
How can I use the calendar?
Use the Calendar tool to arrange and visualize course events in multiple views and enable integration of course content and your Calendar. You can use iCal to synchronize the Calendar tool to your personal calendars (such as Outlook and Google Calendar, as well as...
How do I pin a course?
The My Courses widget allows you to “pin” courses so that your favorite courses appear at the top of the course list. Likewise you can unpin courses that you do not want to appear at the top of the course list. You can manually pin any of your courses to your My...
Add waitlisted or auditing students to Brightspace
Manage waitlisted and auditing students Instructors can add auditing or waitlisted students to a course site through the Course Management page in Online Tools (MyPage). How do I know which students are waitlisted/auditing in Brightspace?In Brightspace, waitlisted /...
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