How to Use the Magnifier and Zoom Function on Brightspace
For those who have difficulty reading online or those with fine motor skills difficulty, Brightspace offers a magnifier and zoom functionality feature to better the experience.
To take advance of these features, 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.
- Use the Account Settings tool to increase the system font size. This increases system fonts only, not icons, other graphics, or user-created content.
- Use an assistive technology or browser that supports zooming in. This increases the magnification of the entire page. This option works well in the Brightspace Learning Environment as images and navigation panels resize well.
- Use a screen magnifier to magnify a portion of the page, such as the area around the cursor. Some users prefer screen magnifiers because they preserve the layout of the page, but allow you to focus on the content in a specific area.
- If you are using equations built with Equation Editor, double-click on inline equations to view them at a larger size.