How to Use Brightspace

Registered courses will become available in Brightspace at 12AM on the first day of the semester, and not before. If your instructor has not set your specific course to Active, you won’t see it. Contact your instructor about this.

1. On the Langara homepage, click Log In
2. Under Students, click on Brightspace
3. Log in with your Langara email address and password (e.g. jsmith00@mylangara.ca)
4. Once you have logged in, you will see your Brightspace My Home page; choose a course from the main area of the page

If you are having trouble logging in, contact the IT Service Desk.

Please note: It can take up to 24 hours after registration for a Brightspace course to become available to students. If it has been 24 hours and you still cannot see your course, please contact your instructor.

Step-by-step guide

Due to length, these instructions are available in PDF for easier reading.

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How to navigate within your Brightspace courses, and find:

• Assignments
• Quizzes
• Discussions
• Other course materials

Step-by-step guide

Due to length, these instructions are available in PDF for easier reading.
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The Assignments tool in Brightspace. How to:

• Find assignments
• Submit assignments
• View feedback and grades

Click here for information on using Turnitin in your Brightspace Assignments (this tool is only available if enabled by your instructor).

Step-by-step guide

Due to length, these instructions are available in PDF for easier reading.

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Reading and responding to Discussions in Brightspace. How to:

• Find Discussions
• Understand how Discussions are organized
• Read and post messages
• Respond to messages
• Read feedback to your posts

Step-by-step guide

Due to length, these instructions are available in PDF for easier reading.

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How to do Quizzes and Surveys in Brightspace. All about:

• Finding your quizzes
• Completing quizzes
• Viewing your submissions and seeing your grades
• Completing surveys

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Brightspace email is now send-only

As of December 2019, it is no longer possible to receive email messages in Brightspace. You can still compose and send messages, and your message will be sent from your Langara Office365 email address and sent to your recipient’s Langara email address. Any correspondence from that point will take place within Langara’s Outlook email system.
Click here for more information.

Sharing Awards

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If you’ve taken courses that use Badges or Certificates, such as the Langara Student Success Course, you might need to be able to make those badges visible to other people. Watch the video below for a demonstration of how to do this.

Self Registration

There are a few courses in Brightspace that are available for Self Registration. You might choose to join these courses, or you might be told or invited to register. To Self-register in a course.

1. From the Brightspace Homepage, click Self Registration
2. Click the course in which you want to register
   

    

    

    

    

    

3. Click Register

Depending on the course, you may be added immediately, or the owner of the course may need to approve your enrollment first. If this is the case, you may get an email confirming your enrollment.

When you’ve been enrolled, the course will appear on your Brightspace Homepage in the My Courses widget.