Manuals
How do I change my account settings?
Underneath Account Settings you can change many of the display options of the Brightspace environment to your own needs and preferences. The modifications are personal and do not influence how other students see your course.
You can get to the account settings as follows: Click on your name or initials/photo in the minibar, then click on ‘Account Settings’. You will land on the tab Account Settings.
There are three different tabs, which will be discussed one by one in this manual. These are the different tabs:
On the first tab, ‘Account Settings’, you can change general account settings such as preference of pronouns, size of your font, language and timezone preferences and several different settings of other applications.
On the second tab, ‘Discussions’, you can change the display- and answer settings for your discussion forums.
On the third tab, ‘Email’, you can create a signature and save it for all outgoing e-mails within the Brightspace environment.
Account Settings
You can add how you would like to be addressed underneath the button ‘Pronouns’. It is also possible to maintain the pronouns that are in the Utrecht University system, or to keep it private.
Underneath ‘Font Settings’ you can change the font size in Brightspace. Text in images, document and objects do not change with it.
In some Brightspace functionalities the text you scroll past will automatically be marked as ‘read’. Underneath ‘Reading Content’ you can prevent that by checking the box next to ‘Do not automatically mark items as read as the page scrolls’.
Underneath ‘Video Settings’ you can check je box that aid programmes can see and play video’s. You can set this up when you require assistence, such as video-text. For people with dyslexie it is possible to add an extension to chrome, this extension can be on or off whenever you visit a website.
Underneath ‘Locale & Language’ you can change the language, the clock display, first day of the week and date- number- and percentagedisplay. (Please note: It can be possible that some courses will not abide to your preferences.)
Time Zone
Underneath ‘Time Zone’ you can change the timezone. Underneath ‘Signing in’ you can check the box next to ‘Always appear offline’, if you want to prevent that others can see whether you are online if you are logged in. Check the box next to ‘Appear Online’ if you want you online status to remain visible to others. Underneath ‘Application Settings’ you can see which apps have access to your Brightspace account, for example the Pulse app. You can stop this access by clicking on ‘Revoke Access’. Click on ‘Save and Close’ to save your changes and to return to the page from where you navigated to your account settings.
Discussions
Click on the ‘Discussions’ tab to change the settings for discussions.
Underneath ‘Personal Settings’ you change your personal display preferences: Click underneath ‘Display Settings’ if you always want to see an overview of your discussionfora- and topics on the left side of the scream when you click on a topic thread ‘Always show the Discussion List Pane’ and if you want that deleted posts will be shown when you search through discussion topics ‘Display deleted posts’. Check the box underneath ‘Reply Settings’ if you want to include posts that you answer to in your new post. ‘Include original post in reply’. Check the box underneath ‘Subscription Settings’ if you subscribe to the threads, you make automatically ‘When creating a new thread, subscribe to the thread by default’. Underneath ‘Org Unit Settings’ you can indicate through the dropdown-menu whether you want to give discussionmembers the ability to add value to the discussionposts based on stars or voting online (upvote/downvote or just upvote). Underneath ‘Availability Condition Defaults’ you can adjust what people see before a discussion post is posted or if the end dat of a post is expired.
Click on ‘Save and Close’ to save your changes and go back to the page that you navigated from to the account settings.
Note: When you navigate to account settings from a course, you see more options underneath the discussions tab than if you navigate from your personal page to account settings. From your personal homepage you will only see ‘Personal Settings’. From a course you can also change the ‘Org Unit Settings’ (Rating settings). The setting for ratings is only applicable for discussions on a particular course. From ‘Discussions’ you can also change the discussions settings.
Click on ‘Email’ in the topleft to go to the Email tab. At the Email tab you can change three settings. You can choose to send a copy of each mail you send to your organisational emailaccount by checking the box next to Send a copy of each outgoing message to [your email address]. You can add a signature with which mails sent via Brightspace will be signed. Using the option Show external email adresses in the Address Book, you can choose to be able to see the email addresses of your Brightspace contacts in the Address Book.
