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Brightspace

Brightspace – AU’s learning platform

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.

Intro

1. Log in

Browser login to Brightspace

Problems with log in?

  • If you are enrolled at AU contact your student administration.
  • If you are newly admitted to AU, you may not have been registered yet. Contact IT if you do not have access 14 days before the start of your studies.

App login to Brightspace Pulse

  1. Download the App 'Brightspace Pulse':
  2. Open the app and search for Aarhus University (Brightspace.au.dk)
  3. Login with your AU-credentials (AUxxxxxx@uni.au.dk)
    • If you have two-factor authentication enabled, you will be asked to approve your login.

2. Overview of Brightspace

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. 

 

Course overview

This guide shows you how to find your way around all your Brightspace courses.

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Course frontpage

 

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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Settings

3. Profile picture

It is currently not possible to change your profile picture due to a clarification on GPDR rules. Your picture is not visible to anyone, but yourself as long as the function is disabled.

4. Language, Date and Number format

You can change the format for language, date and numbering in Brightspace. The changes can be made so that Brightspace’s own terms and descriptions (menus, etc.) will changed from Danish to English. The changes will have no bearing on the content of the pages.

This is how to change the settings:

 

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5. Notifications

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: 

  1. Subscription Alerts
  2. Update Alerts

In addition, you can choose when you want Brightspace notifications:

  1. Notification settings

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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Pulse app

6. Brightspace Pulse App

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:

  • Personalized notifications. With the latest update of the Pulse app you can control which push notifications you want to receive from your courses.
  • Visible content for Unit descriptions. All content from the description-field in Units, Lessons and Folders are now visible in the Pulse App.

Features

7. Download files from Brightspace

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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8. My Portfolio

This guide will give you an overview of how the tool My Portfolio works

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9. FeedbackFruits - Peer feedback

This guide shows you an example of how FeedbackFruits can be used if your teacher uses this function in Brightspace for peer feedback.

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Sign up/ unsubscribe

10. Join a group on a course

In some courses you have to sign up for a group yourself. Below you will find a guide that shows you how to do it.

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11. Discover courses

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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When a Discover course is no longer relevant to you, you can unsubscribe by following the guide here:

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Communities

12. Communities in Brightspace

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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Video

13. Video in Brightspace

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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Need help?

Contact the IT Support

If you have any questions about how to log into Brightspace, please contact your local IT Support.

Contact the Studies Administration

If you have problems finding your courses in Brightspace, please contact your local Studies Administration:

CED Support

If you need support regarding technical errors, contact the CED support here: 
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Revised 10.12.2024
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