Account Settings
To access your Brightspace Account Settings, click Account Settings from your personal menu.
Use the tabs across the top of the page to view and edit display options:
- Account Settings
- Discussions
Setting your account preferences
Use the Account Settings tool to customize and manage your personal preferences for things such as the Learning Environment's appearance, accessibility options, language and region and Discussion tool settings.
Account Settings
Settings on this tab are not related to a specific tool.
Font Settings
Adjusting the font face and font size changes the default font and size of text in the system. It does not affect images, documents, and other objects such as math equations.
Dialog Setting
The Show secondary window as options enables you to set secondary windows as pop-ups instead of dialog boxes. This setting helps screen readers and other assistive technologies separate the content of the secondary window from the main window. If you are using assistive technology such as a screen reader, we strongly recommend showing secondary windows as pop-ups.
HTML Editor Settings
Provides the option for you to turn off the rich text editor. The HTML editor has many additional rich text features that might be difficult to navigate with assistive technology. This option simplifies pages that have text fields, while still allowing you to include HTML content.
Video Settings
Select Optimize video presentation for programmatically-driven assistive technologies if you use assistive technology, such as a screen reader, to navigate the web. This option ensures that your assistive technology can detect embedded videos; it does not affect the accessibility of specific video players.
Locale & Language
Preferred Locale and Language - Sets which locale to use for screen orientation, text, and graphics in the system. The options in the drop-down list correspond to the locale options available at your institution. Administrative staff and course designers can override your preferences for specific pages and courses.
Time Zone
Sets all dates that include times in the Learning Environment to correspond with the time zone you specify.
Application Settings
Click Revoke Access if you want to force all your applications or devices to renew their authentication. This ensures that others cannot, for example, access your grades or send emails to you if you lose a mobile device or discover that a linked application is compromised.
Discussions
Display Settings - The following display settings are available:
- Always show the Discussion Topics List - Use this setting to show or hide the list of topics in the View Topic and View Thread pages. Hide it to save space or show it to switch between topics quickly.
Reply Settings - Use this setting to automatically include the original post by default when composing a reply.
Email Options
- Include original message in email replies - Sets whether to include original messages with your replies.
- Save a copy of each outgoing message to the Sent Mail folder - Saves a copy of your sent messages to a folder for convenient record keeping.
- Email Signature - Create an email signature to include at the bottom of your email messages.
Display Options
- Show the Message Preview pane - Enables you to browse emails by displaying them in a preview pane at the bottom of your message list.
- Show the Folder List pane - Sets whether you see a list of folders in a left panel when reading messages.
- Mark messages as read when viewed in the Message Preview pane - Using the preview pane to read your messages will mark them as "read".
- Show internal email addresses in the Address Book - Internal addresses for your system contacts will appear in the Address Book.
- Allow filtering messages and contacts on group enrollment - Controls whether groups and sections are listed in the Filter By field in the message list and the address book.