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.

1. Select your username and then select Profile.
   
2. You can change the following settings:
   • Picture:
     1. Under your profile icon, click Change Picture.
        
     2. Navigate to the location of the image you want to upload and select your profile picture.
        
        Note: The maximum image file size limit is 1 MB. For the best quality and proportions, upload an image with a width and height of 100 by 100 pixels. The accepted file formats are JPG, PNG, and GIF.
         
     3. Click Add.
        
   • Social Networks: In the LinkedIn field, enter the URL to your social network.
     
   • Personal Info: Enter a Tagline and add your interests or hobbies.
     Note: All Personal Info fields have a character limit of 4,000 characters.
     
3. Click Save and Close to apply the new Profile settings and go back to your Course Homepage. Otherwise, click Save to stay on the Profile settings page.
   

Your profile settings are updated and saved.

Change notification settings

Notifications enable you to customize what methods you want to use to receive notifications, such as Email, as well as what events will trigger notifications.

To change Notifications settings

1. Click your username and then select Notifications.
   
   
2. You can optionally connect with your instructors and classmates and stay informed about course-related updates by downloading the Pulse App on the App Store or Google Play.
3. You can change the following Notifications settings:
   • Contact Methods
     • To change your existing email address
       1. Click Change your email settings.
       2. Select Use custom email, add your new email address, and then click Save.
          Note: Your organization sends all email notifications from Brightspace to the updated email address. Contact your system administrator for further assistance.
     • Summary of Activity
       To control how often you receive notifications about course-related activities, open the drop-down menu under How often? and select whether to receive notifications Daily, Weekly, or Never.
       
     • Instant Notifications
       To set individual notifications for course-related components, select the preferred notification type beside each component.
       Note: To receive content-related individual notifications, use the Brightspace Pulse App or select the Email option notification type.
       
       
        
     • Customize Notifications
       Select whether to receive grade value notifications from the Grades tool or receive future courses-related notifications.
       
       
     • Exclude some courses
       To exclude receiving notifications from specific courses, click on the Manage my course exclusions link and then select the courses you want to exclude.
4. After reviewing all the details, click Save.

Your notification settings are updated and saved.

Change account settings

Account Settings enables you to set your personal pronouns, change Brightspace font settings, enable two factor authentication, enable assistive technologies such as screen reader, and more.

To change Account Settings

1. Click your username and then select Account Settings.
   
   
2. From the Account Settings tab you can change the following settings:
   • General Settings
     Depending on your permissions, you can change your system email and password, and set up two factor authentication by selecting Enable Two Factor Authentication.
   • Pronouns
     To include a pronoun to display in your profile or Classlist, select the Allow others to see my pronouns option. You can select pronouns that were recorded by your organization or type any different pronouns.
     
   • Font Settings
     To change the font size display, open the Font Size drop-down menu, then select the size.
     
   • Reading Content
     An assistive technology such as a screen reader automatically marks content as read as you scroll it. To disable marking items as read, select Do not automatically mark items as read as the page scrolls.
   • Video Settings
     To optimize video presentation for programmatically driven assistive technologies, select Optimize video presentation for programmatically driven assistive technologies.
   • Locale & Language
     Configure this option to change your locale and language preference. You can also change the default clock, date, number, and percentage format settings set by your organization. However, some courses may override your selections.
   • Time Zone
     Click the drop-down button to select a new time zone from the list.

     Note: When traveling outside your original continent or time zone, we recommend updating your continent and time zone settings to accurately reflect assignment and activity due dates.

   • Signing In
     This option allows you to configure your Online Status and Login Destination settings within Brightspace.
     For further information, click on the Which option should I choose? and Selecting your Login Destination links.
     
     
   • Application Settings
     This option allows third-party applications and services registered to your Brightspace account to access Brightspace on your behalf.
     
     
     Figure: The options to configure OAuth 2.0 and ID Key Authorization settings.
     
     Note: Any changes made on the Account Settings tab are saved automatically when you navigate to the Discussions tab.
3. On the Discussions tab you can change the following settings:
   • Personal Settings
     • Display Settings
       Enabling this option will pin the Discussions List pane in the View Topic and View Thread pages.
       
     • Default View
       1. Select Grid View to display the discussion posts in a traditional grid view with post subjects shown in a grid.
       2. Select Reading View to display the discussion posts in reading view where the entire text of a post displays all posts.
          
     • Reply Settings
       
       Selecting this option includes the original post by default when composing a reply.
       
     • Subscription Settings
       Enabling this option allows you to subscribe to the thread by default when creating a new thread.
       

• Grid View Settings
  • Default Threading Style
    • Selecting the Threaded option displays the topics grouped together when accessing them.
    • Selecting the Unthreaded option displays the default threading style used when accessing topics.
      
  • Display Settings
    • Show the preview pane
      
      Enabling this option displays the lower Preview pane in Grid View. If this option is unselected, clicking on a post in the Grid View will open the post in a pop-up window.
    • Show the search bar
      
      Enabling this option displays the Search fields in Grid View.
      
  • Post Fields to Display
    
    Enabling this option displays the Post ID for posts in Grid View.
    
  • Character Limits
    
    Enabling this option allows you to limit the number of characters of the subject displayed for each post when browsing topics. The number of characters can be configured by entering an integer between 1 and 150 in the Subject Characters to Display field.
    

• After reviewing all the details, click Save and Close to apply the new Account Settings and go back to the Course Homepage. Otherwise, click Save to stay on the Account Settings page.

Your Account Settings are updated and saved.

Update preferred language settings

The User menu displays the currently selected language setting; however, you can change that option using the language settings accessible by clicking current preferred language.

Only languages that are enabled by your organization are available for selection.

To change Language settings:

1. Click your username and then select the current preferred language.
   
   
2. Browse to select your preferred language, then click Save.
   Note: Only languages that are enabled by your organization are available for selection.