To find out how to change personal settings such as:

  • Editing your Profile
  • Changing notification settings
  • Changing account settings
  • Updating preferred language settings
  • and a video on managing Account notifications

Click the following link: Change personal settings in Brightspace

Change personal settings in Brightspace

From your username on the minibar, you can make changes to:

  • your user profile
  • notifications
  • account settings
  • and log out

To change personal settings in Brightspace

1. On the minibar, click your username.

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2. Select a setting:
Note: Depending on your permissions and what tools are enabled, additional settings may appear.

  • Profile - set your:
    • profile picture
    • personal information.

Note: All long text fields under Personal Info are limited to 4000 characters.

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  • About profile pictures:
    • The recommended size for profile pictures is 100 by 100 pixels. Uploading a differently sized image could result in loss of quality, stretching, or cropping.
    • The maximum file size allowed for profile pictures is 1 MB. If you attempt to upload a larger file size, it will fail to upload.
    • Accepted file formats for profile pictures are: JPG, JPEG, PNG, and GIF.
    • Your profile picture displays in all of your courses in areas such as Discussions and Classlist.
    • If you do not upload a profile picture, the navbar displays your initials in the user-profile badge. This displays in the Brightspace navbar and Activity Feed.
  • Notifications - control how you receive notifications about activity in your courses. You can receive a periodic summary of activity, or receive individual notifications as things happen.
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Specifically, you can:

  • download Brightspace Pulse to help you stay connected and on track with your courses.
  • set your contact methods (email address and mobile number).
  • set how often you want to receive an email summary of activity for each of your courses.
  • under Instant Notifications, set individual notifications for activity in specific course components such as announcements, course updates, and when you are tagged in discussion posts and threads.
    Note: To receive content-related individual notifications, D2L recommends using the Brightspace Pulse mobile app or select the Email option for the individual notification type.
  • set custom notifications for grade values, and current and future courses.
  • exclude specific courses from notifications.

 

Account Settings - change settings for:

  • fonts
  • dialogs
  • Brightspace Editor
  • reading content
  • video
  • locale and languages
  • time zone
  • pseudo-localization
  • signing in
  • applications
  • discussions
  • email
  • metadata
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Note: If you are traveling outside of your original continent and / or time zone, update your continent and time zone settings to accurately reflect assignment and activity due dates.

  • Log Out - log out of Brightspace.