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Pinned Article D2L Upgrades: Major Features from January to December 2025

What were the student and instructor features released in the January through December 2025 updates for D2L Brightspace?

Pinned Article Navigating D2L Brightspace using Homepages, Navbars, and Minibar

What is the difference between the My Home page and a course homepage? What is a navbar? What is the minibar? Where can I find my notifications alerts? Where do I log out of D2L Brightspace?

Access Email tool and Adjust email signature in D2L Brightspace

Where can I access the Email tool in my course? How can I get to my email signature?

Access your class Calendar in D2L Brightspace

How do I review my class calendar in D2L Brightspace? Can I review upcoming events from the Calendar tool?

Account Settings in D2L Brightspace

How do I access my personal account settings in D2L Brightspace? Where can I set my pronouns that display in the course Classlist?

Add links, images, and media using the HTML Editor in D2L Brightspace

How do I add a link, image, or media in the HTML editor? What is the accessibility checker?

Bongo Virtual Classroom and Video Assignment in D2L Brightspace

What is Bongo Virtual Classroom? What is Bongo Video Assignment?

Captioning media in the Media Library in D2L Brightspace

How can I caption media in D2L’s Media Library?

CE/CT login for D2L Brightspace

How do students and instructors login to the Minnesota State continuing education and continuing training D2L Brightspace site?

Class is closed in D2L Brightspace

I need to access a class in D2L Brightspace that is now closed. How do I gain access to it?

D2L Upgrades: Major Features from January to December 2024

What were the student and instructor features released in the January through December 2024 updates for D2L Brightspace?

Log in to Microsoft 365 Widget in D2L Brightspace

How can I log into the Microsoft 365 widget in D2L Brightspace?

Media Library in D2L Brightspace

What is the Media Library tool in D2L Brightspace? How do I access audio or video files that I recorded in D2L Brightspace?

Post and reply to Discussions in D2L Brightspace

How do I read discussion posts and threads in D2L Brightspace? How do I start or reply to a discussion post? What does 'access restricted' or 'submission restricted' mean when I'm posting in Discussions?

Post video in Discussions in D2L Brightspace

In my online classes, how can I quickly create a MediaSpace video and add it to my discussion post?

Profile in D2L Brightspace

How do I add information to my Profile page in Brightspace? Can I upload a profile picture?

Respondus LockDown Browser in D2L Brightspace

What is the Respondus LockDown Browser? How can I report an issue with the LockDown Browser to Respondus support?

School Tabs in D2L Brightspace

Why do I have tabs with my school’s name or acronym in D2L Brightspace? How can I add or remove a school tab from D2L Brightspace?

Self-enroll in a non-academic course from Discover in D2L Brightspace

What is the Discover tool? How do I self-enroll or request to be enrolled in a non-academic course in D2L Brightspace?

Subscribe to class Notifications in D2L Brightspace

How can I setup email notifications to receive for my D2L Brightspace classes?

Supported browsers in D2L Brightspace

What browsers are supported in D2L Brightspace?

Video Note technical specifications in D2L Brightspace

What is the max resolution captured, conversion codec, and bitrate for a video note captured in D2L Brightspace?