The Course Selector drop-down menu shows manually pinned courses, followed by current enrollments, then future enrollments (if they are available and visible to the user), and finally, past enrollments (if they are visible to the user).

Notifies you about unread mail and instant messages from instructors and students

Notifies you about new blog posts, subscribed discussion forums, topics, and threads

Notifies you about new and updated announcements, due dates and end dates, and grades. Students will receive update alerts when you add new content to the course, or when you publish announcements, grades or deadlines. An orange dot appears when there are new updates.

Can be used for the tool 'view as a student', and contains all information regarding your profile and account settings. Here you can also set your preferred language. You can log out of the Brightspace Learning Environment through your profile icon.