How to Change Personal Settings to Optimize Assistive Technology
Brightspace offers plenty of different types of personal settings for those who may be using assistive technology to work on their classes. Even if you do not use assistive technology, these settings may still come in handy for your own Brightspace experience should you need them.
Students have to set change their personal settings themselves under Account Settings. To access Account Settings, click on your name on the minibar. Press Account Settings in the dropdown menu.
Account Settings
Step 1 - You can configure the Login Destination option to log directly into a course, rather than My Home. This option can simplify navigation if only taking a few courses.
Step 2 - Font Face and Font Size options will adjust the appearance of text. Be sure choose ones that provide the best results for your needs. To adjust the size of icons, you can use a magnification tool such as the zoom feature built into most browsers.
Step 3 - If you use a screen reader to navigate, you can turn on Show secondary windows as pop-ups. Otherwise, some of the secondary pages may not be distinguishable from the main page.
Step 4 - If you use a screen reader or you only use a keyboard to navigate Brightspace, you can select the Turn off rich text editor and view source option. Using this option, you can upload HTML content authored in an external editor.
Step 5 - To automatically detect videos, turn on the Optimize video presentation for programmatically-driven assistive technologies option.
Discussion Tab Settings
On the Discussions tab, students should consider the following configuration options:
- To simplify the layout of discussion lists, you can turn off the Always show the Discussions List pane option.
- Turn off the preview pane and show topics with a grid view.
Email Tab Settings
On the Email tab, students should consider the following configuration options:
- To simplify the layout of your inbox, clear the Show the Message Preview pane and Show the Folder List pane check boxes.