ESU D2L Student Support

The Brightspace course homepage is designed by the course's instructor so there are many options as to how the page may appear. Below are the most common components that students will use on the Brightspace course homepage.

The Brightspace Course Navbar may contain items not seen in the figure to the right but it will contain the items displayed. The Course Home tab is available throughout the course and brings the user back to this Course Home Page. The Course Home tab does not open a drop-down menu but the others contain drop-down menus. The most important of these are covered below.

For more information about the Content page, click here for D2L Content tool information.

The Content tab brings the user to the course's content. It is here that instructors traditionally inlcude the material for the course such as

• Course Overview
• Bookmarks
• Course Schedule
• Table of Contents
• Modules and Topics covered in the course

The Brightspace Calendar tool has several options that may appear in a course. Instructors may place the calendar on the course home page or in the content of the course. An Instructor may not include the calendar in the course at all but the tool is still accessible to students. To access the calendar tool, Choose the Resources tab and then Calendar (see screenshot). If the course instructor has scheduled items on the course calendar, students will see the items when the tool is open. Also, notifications will be sent of upcoming assignments or quizzes that the instructor included in the calendar.Students can create and manage their own calendar whether or not an instructor has set up calendar items. To view more details on the calendar tool click this link.