Customize Your Course Homepage in Brightspace

Originally presented for CAT+FD on 21 October 2021 by Janice Florent

The course homepage is the first page students see when they enter your Brightspace course. This first look at your course will leave a lasting impression. You can customize your course by changing the layout and appearance of your course homepages. You can add dynamic objects to the homepage with the use of widgets. Use the course homepage to orient the students and convey important information. This workshop, the eighth in our #LEX Advanced series, builds on the skills you learned in the #LearnEverywhereXULA course and will help you to customize your course homepages to enhance the course experience for your students.

Resources

1. Workshop Slides
2. Design a Course Homepage with Widgets (pdf)
3. Widgets

• Work To Do Widget
• Quick Eval Widget
• Place Twitter Feed in Custom Widget
• Activity Feed Widget
• List of System Widgets (pdf)

4. Change the Name of Your Course
5. Change Course Name, Banner Image, and/or Banner Text (video)
6. Brightspace Editor
7. Insert Stuff
8. Quicklinks
9. Replace Strings
10. Drip-Feeding
11. Find Free Images to Use in Your Courses
12. List Of Free Photo And Image Editing Tools
13. Creative Commons Wiki Resource
14. Course Design Suggestions
15. Copy Course or Copy Components
16. How the Human Eye Reads a Website
17. #LearnEverywhereXULA Advanced Certification
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