By clicking on this tab you will access the page with a list of all global announcements made. Here you will also be able to manage your notification settings such as:

• Changing your email ID to receive notifications.
• Selecting how often to receive email notifications (weekly, daily, never).
• Selecting to receive specific instant email notifications from a range of options.
• Customise notifications as per available options.
• Selecting and managing courses to exclude from notifications.

Alternatively, the notification settings can also be accessed from the minibar by clicking on your profile. Read more here: The minibar

Under this tab you will find the links to:

• Awards - a tool that allows you to add awards and certificates to courses if required.
• Calendar - the general calendar of the Wageningen University & Research.
• Progress - an overview of your personal progress in courses you are enrolled in with the role of a student.
• Learning Object Repository - a library for storing, managing, and sharing of course related resources.
• Quick Eval -  offers evaluators a single location to view all learner submissions that are awaiting evaluation. Submissions made to Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussions are displayed in a sortable list and can be selected to take you directly to their assessment page. For more visit: How to use quick eval

To provide students with greater flexibility and control over their personal learning goals, the Discover tool allows them to search for active courses and self-enroll. In addition, students can self-unenroll from the courses they self-enrolled in.

(Source: D2L)

To learn more please visit: How to use Discover in Brightspace

By clicking on Help you will be able to access the Brightspace Help for Lecturers and Brightspace Help for Students, a database of instructions and information on how to use the Brightspace Learning Environment at WUR.

Also,  you can perform a System Check at any time, to ensure that your browser is properly configured to use the system.

The tabs in the My courses widget on the Brightspace WUR homepage will vary from student to student depending on their enrollments. Below is a description of the tabs that can be seen in the screenshot above:

1. All - is the landing tab of the page, and will show thumbnails of pinned and recently visited course homepages (max 20 thumbnails)
2. Pinned - appears as soon as you pin one course
3. [academic year] - this tab will show courses of the ongoing academic year
4. Other tabs - these will appear depending on your enrollments
5. Arrow - will appear if more than 7 tabs are available

Within the My Courses widget located on the Brightspace WUR homepage, you can view blocks containing a picture and name of a course that you recently searched for or pinned. These are called thumbnails, and provide an easy overview, identification of and access to your courses (the thumbnail is clickable).

The thumbnail of a course will show the following information:

1. Course image (banner)
2. Course name
3. Course code
4. Optionally, the following icons that are directly linked to:
   • New Assignment Submissions, Unread Discussion posts, Ungraded Quizzes,
5. Pin icon (if course was pinned)