From the course: Learning Brightspace by D2L

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Enable the course activity feed

- [Instructor] The activity feed widget in Brightspace by D2L is a Home Page feature that allows you to easily direct students to new content and allows students to interact with both you and one another. To give students access to this widget, you may have to put it on your Homepage, which is easy enough. First, head on over to the Course Administration area, then select Homepages. Find and select your Active Homepage, scroll down to Add Widgets. Choose the Activity Feed widget. Select Add and then hit Save and Close. And you're off and running. When we return to the Course Homepage, the Activity Feed widget is right here waiting for us. Now, as we alluded to earlier, this feed is interactive, which means we have to introduce some content. To do that, just select the plus symbol or click within the Create a Post area. From here, you can either post announcements or entire assignments. For announcements, just add your text, and then attach any files, links to course items, external…

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