The navbar contains:

1. Course Home – to return to the Course homepage
2. Content – to go to the Course Content
3. Communication – to go to the Classlist, Discussions, to send Emails and to access Groups and Grouptool
4. Assessment – to access and edit Assignments, Quizzes, Self Assessments, Surveys and Rubrics and to access Quick Eval
5. Progress – to keep track of the progress of all users in the course
6. Grades – to set up the Grades Wizard, to Enter and Manage Grades and to access Grading Schemes
7. Course Tools – to access all available course tools, Intelligent agents, manage course files and to manage YuJa videos
8. Help - to access the Brightspace Help for Lecturers manual and Brightspace Help for Students manual and to do a System Check

Course image, also called a banner, is a customisable feature of the Brightspace course environment. You can select your own image (be aware of copyright) or choose one from the integrated image library.

If you want to learn how to change the course image, read more here: How to edit the Course Image.

The Announcements tool enables you to create news items that help communicate course updates, changes, and new information to your users quickly and effectively.

You can create Announcements items with formatted text, graphics, audio, and quicklinks. You can also choose the date range and conditions for an Announcements item's availability.

This is the same widget as the one on the Brightspace WUR homepage.

This widget allows you and also the students to search within the repository of Course Guides,  a library for storing, managing, and sharing of course guides of the academic year. Learn how to search for a Course guide.

The Updates widget is configured to display the following links:

• Unread submission files
• Unevaluated assignment submissions
• Unread discussions posts
• Ungraded quizzes
• Quizzes that have not been attempted

The Calendar widget consists of a mini-calendar and a list of upcoming events. The Calendar on the Course homepage displays all events created by lecturers for the applicable month. There are two drop-down tabs in this widget:

1. Clicking on this drop down tab will expand a monthly calendar. Any day of any month can be selected.
2. Clicking on this drop-down tab will expand an events list corresponding to the day selected in the widget calendar. Clicking on an event in the widget takes you to the event in the Calendar tool.

The Quick Eval offers you a single location to view all student 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. You can sort, filter, and search submissions to prioritize their evaluation work.