Manage Brightspace Home Page Widgets
Overview
Managing and adding widgets to a course Homepage is powerful way to optimize any class in Desire2Learn. Managing your course Homepage allows you to modified content to communicate more clearly, provide quicker access to important items, easy access to different types of assessments tools, collaborate with others in class, and engage learners in both small and larges courses.
Steps to Managing and Adding Home Page Widgets
To being managing your D2L home page:
- Enter D2L, select Edit Course
- Select the Home Pages link
- Select New Homepage button and name your new custom home page
- Save your new homepage and click on the edit Content/Layout tab. This will provide the basic layout of the course Homepage and each area has the ability to add widgets to each area of the page.
To add widget simply click on the Add Widget button and you will need to select the widgets you would like to have on your home page. You can preview each widget by clicking on the preview button off to the right side of the widget
Once you have the page set with widgets for each of the areas on the page you should save and go back to the listing of home pages you will need to set this as your course Homepage.
Custom Widgets
While there are a number of widgets you can choose from you may wish to create custom widgets and the following section has several ideas for creating custom widgets.
- Setting up an Custom Widget RSS Feed
- See D2L RSS Feed Java converter at https://feed2js.uww.edu/build.php
Other Resources
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