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Brightspace for Instructors
Communication Tools

Discover how to improve communication between you—the instructor—and your learners. 

  • How can I add a signature in Brightspace communications?
  • How can I email my students in Brightspace?
  • How can I make journals in Brightspace?
  • How can I send automatic emails to students if they didn't complete something in my course?
  • How do I create an Announcement in Brightspace?
  • I just created an Announcement in Brightspace and I want to send an email to my students linking to it. How do I do that?
  • Students aren't getting notifications of announcement I create in my course before this course starts or after it ended. Why?
  • Why can't I email an Announcement to my Students in the Announcements Tool? Will they be notified in the Pulse App?

  • Discussions

    Find out how to encourage peer-to-peer collaboration within D2L Brightspace.

  • Why does the Discussion area look different?

  • Groups

    If you want learners to see all learners and content for a course, but be a part of a group for a specific project or activity, use the Groups tool.

  • How can I create Groups in Brightspace?
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