Pulse

Courses

Notifications

Upcoming

Mobile browser

Both teachers and students can use the Pulse app. The app works on both iOS and Android and can be accessed on phones and tablets. You can use the app to easily view your courses and course components, upcoming activities, and your notifications, on your device. The app contains three main sections: Courses, Notifications and Schedule.

• Download the Pulse app from the Playstore or App Store.
• Open the app.
• Select and pick your school, you have to choose 'Hogeschool Rotterdam' as the institution, and then you log in.

1. By default, you will be navigated to Courses, it is the screen in which your courses are listed.
2. Click on a course to see which components are available in that course. Please note: Unfortunately, it is not possible to filter your courses.
3. Click Notifications to view your notifications. When there are new notifications there will be an orange dot.
4. Click Upcoming (it  is a schedule) to view past and upcoming activities and events. You can also add your own activities here.
5. By clicking on the Pin icon you can pin courses, just like on the desktop version. The pinned courses then appear at the top of your screen. This might be useful to create an overview and can help keep your courses organized.

Click the Courses tab and then click a course to view it

1. You land on the course's Activity Feed, which contains all the posts you or your fellow colleagues have made in the Activity feed on the courses homepage.
2. You can then navigate to Content or Grades.

1. Click Notifications. 
2. You will see the Updates and Subscriptions tabs:
   • Under the Updates tab, you can view changes that have been made in the content of a course. 
   • Under the Subscriptions tab, you can see notifications on discussion topics you are currently following.

If there is course information is in the Brightspace calendar/agenda, you can also easily find it in Pulse.

1. Click Upcoming.
2. Under the Work To Do tab you will see that week's activities, of Activities from Content (topics) for which you have set a due date. In the graph you can see how busy your week is (per day). Click on a specific day to view the activities for that day. Note: this is an overview of the activities of all your courses.
3. Click an activity/event to open the details and to navigate to Brightspace website.
4. The check mark behind an activity indicates whether you have completed the activity or not:
   • A light gray check mark means not completed.
   • A dark gray check mark means completed.
5. Under the Events tab you can see the scheduled items from your Agenda/Calendar for the selected week. In the graph you can see how busy your week is (per day). Click on a specific day to see the events for that day, below the graph.
6. Click the plus icon to create a new activity or event (for Android this button will be at the bottom right. Then choose Event or Work to Do.

Click on the three dots icon in the top right corner. Then click Launch Course Home Page. You navigate in your mobile browser to Course Homepage of the relevant course.

When you open Pulse, you land on the Courses tab.

1. Click on Homepage of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. You navigate to your personal homepage in your mobile browser.

You can also navigate directly to a specific course.

• Click on the desired course.

• Click the three-dot icon in the top right. Then click Launch Course Home Page. You navigate in your mobile browser to Course Homepage of the relevant course.