Accessing Your Courses in Brightspace

Logging into Brightspace Students and instructors can access their Brightspace course(s) by logging directly into Brightspace with their Computer User ID (CUID) and password. Note: If you or your students cannot see your course(s) in Brightspace, please reach out to EdTech. Accessing Your Courses in Brightspace At any time when you are in Brightspace, you can access all […]

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Brightspace Tools

The following is a list of all tools and features that appear under the Brightspace navbar menus. The same menu structure is reflected in the navbar of this site. Other tools and features can be found under Course Admin & Other.

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How Brightspace Courses Are Created

How are Brightspace courses created? One empty course is automatically created in Brightspace for each course section scheduled in Banner. This is done 2 months in advance of when the course will be taught. For example, courses scheduled to be taught in January will have empty course offerings created in Brightspace the previous November. Instructors […]

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Course Roles

Looking for an explanation of course roles? Check out Role Definitions. You can change your role in a course to that of a generic student so that you can view some specific course layout as a student would. Click on your name in the mini navigation bar and click on Change. Select Student from the list of […]

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Course Home

Course Home is the first page you visit when you enter a course. Like My Home, it contains your personal tools and different widgets for displaying information.

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Logging Out

Selecting Logout ends your current session and takes you to the Brightspace Login page. Log Out is located in the Personal Menu in the top right side of the page.

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Brightspace Built-In Help

Navbar Help Link The Help link always visible in the Brightspace navbar will take you the homepage of the Brightspace Instructor Help site: this site! Question Mark Icons When building or editing a course feature you will see question mark icons next to specific items. Clicking on the icon next to an item gives you […]

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