Under Account Settings you can adjust many of the display options of the Brightspace environment to your own preferences. The adjustments are personal, so they don't affect how students see your course.
- On the first tab (Account Settings) you can change general account settings such as font size, language and time zone preferences and various settings of other applications.
- On the second tab (Discussions) you can change the display and reply settings for discussion forums.
Account Settings
- Click on your name or initials/photo in the minibar.
- Click 'Account Settings'. You land on the Account Settings tab.
- Under Pronouns you can indicate whether and which pronouns you want to show.
- Under Font Settings, change the text size in Brightspace. Text in images, documents, and objects does not change with it.
- In some Brightspace functionalities, text that you scroll over is automatically marked as 'read'. Under Read content you can prevent this by Do not automatically mark items as read when scrolling the page checked
It is not possible to use a view for dyslexics in Brightspace. If you do want this, you can add an extension in Chrome (een extensie toevoegen in Chrome). You can enable or disable this extension when you visit a website.
- Under Video Settings you can check that utilities can see and play videos (optimize video display) (this is intended for people with disabilities).
- Under Locale and language settings you can select your language. It is set to Dutch by default, but you can change it to English. Here you can also change the clock display, first day of the week and date, number and percentage display (Note: some courses may override your preferences).
- Under Time Zone you can change the time zone.
- Under Signing in, check 'always appear offline' if you want to prevent others from seeing when you are logged in. Check 'appear online' if you want your online status to be visible to others.
- Under Application settings you can see which apps have access to your Brightspace account, for example the Pulse app. You can also stop access here by clicking 'Revoke access'.
- Click Save and Close to save your changes and return to the page from which you navigated to your account settings.
Discussions
- Click the Discussions tab to change the settings for discussions.
- Under Personal settings change your personal display preferences:
- Under Display settings check whether you always want to see an overview of your discussion forums and topics on the left side of the screen when you click on a topic or thread (Always show the list of discussions pane) and whether you want deleted posts to be displayed when you search discussion threads (Display Deleted Posts).
- Under Reply settings, check whether you want to include posts you reply to in your reply (Include original post in reply).
- Under Subscription Settings tick whether you want to automatically follow the threads you create yourself (When a new thread is created, subscribe in to the thread by default).
- Under Organizational unit settings, you can indicate via the drop-down menu whether you want to enable discussion participants to rate discussion posts using stars or cast an online vote (upvote/downvote or only upvote).
- Under Availability condition default settings, you can set what you see automatically before a discussion post is posted or after the end date of a post has expired.
- Click Save and Close to save your changes and return to the page from which you navigated to the account settings.
Note: If you navigate to account settings from a course, you will see more options under the discussions tab (as mentioned above) than if you navigate to account settings from your personal homepage. From your personal homepage you will only see the Personal settings.