Brightspace is AU’s shared learning platform. Brightspace will be where you access your courses, communicate with teachers and fellow students and find material and other relevant course-related information.
Please be aware that you are responsible for staying informed about your courses. You can stay informed via email notifications, the Brightspace Pulse App or by checking Brightspace on a regular basis.
Below, you will find a number of technical guidelines for some of the key functions in Brightspace. New information and technical guidelines will be added to the page on an ongoing basis to help you get started with the platform before the new semester.
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Make sure to familiarize yourself with Brightspace’s interface to make it easier to navigate around Brightspace
Here you will find guides to:
That you will find your course content and course activities in Brightspace under Content in the course menu.
On this page, you can read more about Brightspace and how to get started with the platform. The page will be updated regularly with new information and technical guidelines.
This guide shows you how to find your way around all your Brightspace courses.
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This guide provides an overview of the front page of a course and shows all the different features you can access from the front page.
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In Brightspace you can receive notifications for new announcements or posts on your courses. These notifications will appear in the three icons at the top right comer of your Brightspace front page. Here are the three different features:
In addition, you can choose when you want Brightspace notifications:
Subscription Alerts
This guide shows where you can see notifications about new posts in various discussion forums that you subscribe to in Brightspace.
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Update Alerts
This guide shows where to see notifications of new posts on various Brightspace courses.
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Notification settings
This guide shows you how to change notification settings.
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There is an app for Brightspace that you can use to get a quick overview of your courses and you can receive notifications when something new happens that you have to know.
Below you will find a short walkthrough of the Pulse app, as well as how to find the app and log in:
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Pulse app notifications
You can control which push notifications you want to receive from your courses. This is how you set it up:
Pulse app improvements
The latest Pulse App update have solved some problems, including:
You can download files from Brightspace either as a PDF or in their original file format.
Below you will find a guide showing how to download content from Brightspace.
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Some courses are not you will not be enrolled automatically and therefore you can sign up for these courses yourself, these are called Discover courses. These are often courses that are not compulsory. Below you will find a guide on how to find and sign up for a Discover course.
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In addition to courses, you are also enrolled in some communities in Brightspace. Communities are collections of people from a faculty, an education or an institute (Arts also has communities for subject areas).
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When you watch videos in Brightspace, it happens like on many other platforms. Some videos are recorded in auditoriums, where 3 cameras are used to record, and the content shown in the room is recorded. This guide shows you how to switch between displaying content from the different sources.
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If you have any questions about how to log into Brightspace, please contact your local IT Support.
If you need support regarding technical errors, contact the CED support here:
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