Relevant to: students
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Introduction
From your username on the minibar, you can easily make changes to your user profile, notifications, account settings, and log out.
Profile
On the minibar, click on your user name. A menu will appear. Select "Profile."
In the "Profile" section you can set your profile picture, add a tagline, and share some personal information about your interests and hobbies.
About Your Profile Picture
- The recommended size for profile pictures is 100 by 100 pixels. Uploading a differently sized image could result in loss of quality, stretching, or cropping.
- The maximum file size allowed for profile pictures is 1 MB. If you attempt to upload a larger file size, it will fail to upload.
- Accepted file formats for profile pictures are: JPG, JPEG, PNG, and GIF.
- Your profile picture displays in all of your courses in areas such as Discussions and Classlist.
- If you do not upload a profile picture, the navbar displays your initials in the user-profile badge. This displays in the Brightspace Learning Environment navbar and Activity Feed.
About Your Personal Information
All long text fields under Personal Info are limited to 4000 characters each.
Notifications
On the minibar, click on your user name. A menu will appear. Select "Notifications."
The "Notifications" section lets you control how you receive notifications about activity in your courses. You can receive a periodic summary of activity, or receive individual notifications as things happen. Specifically, you can:
- download Brightspace Pulse to help you stay connected and on track with your courses.
- set your contact methods (email address and mobile number).
- set how often you want to receive an email summary of activity for each of your courses.
- under "Instant Notifications," set individual notifications for activity in specific course components such as announcements, course updates, and when you are tagged in discussion posts and threads. Note: To receive content-related individual notifications, D2L recommends using the Brightspace Pulse mobile app or select the Email option for the individual notification type.
- set custom notifications for grade values, and current and future courses.
- exclude specific courses from notifications.
Account Settings
On the minibar, click on your user name. A menu will appear. Select "Account Settings." The "Account Settings" section has three tabs: Account Settings, Discussions and Email.
Account Settings
Set your preferences for pronouns, preferred font size, reading content, detecting videos, locale, language, time, date, number format, percentage format, time zone and online status.
Note: If you are traveling outside of your original continent and / or time zone, update your continent and time zone settings to accurately reflect assignment and activity due dates.
Discussions
Set your preferences for how posts are displayed, replies, subscription settings and rating scheme (faculty and staff only).
Email
Set your preferences for emails.