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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.

    • How can instructors check discussion board posts in Brightspace?
    • How are Discussions structured in Brightspace?
    • How can I grade Discussions in Brightspace?
    • How can I make journals in Brightspace?
    • How do I link a Brightspace Discussion Topic to Grade Book so that it appears in Grades?
    • Why didn't my discussion questions copy over?
    • 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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