From the course: Learning Brightspace by D2L
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Enable the course activity feed - Desire2Learn Tutorial
From the course: Learning Brightspace by D2L
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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The D2L content editor3m 6s
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Communicate through the announcements tool2m 58s
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Email students2m 38s
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Use the course calendar tool2m 39s
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Develop course competencies and learning objectives6m 50s
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Communicate through the D2L chat feature3m 13s
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Enable the course activity feed2m 29s
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Automate intelligent agents4m 28s
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Set up a user profile2m 25s
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