System Navigation: Overview
Goal
After completing this how-to article, you will know how to navigate from the main landing page to your course materials.
Description
General
The Virtual Assistant tool is located at the bottom right corner of every Brightspace page. For more information on using this tool to access help with Brightspace, please refer to the Virtual Assistant article.
Main Landing Page
- The top-level page that everyone within Brightspace can access is termed the "main landing page." The main landing page is the initial page that will load whenever you log into the Brightspace site.
- On the "main homepage," use the My Courses widget to select a course tile to navigate to the course's landing page.
Course Landing Page
- After selecting a course from the main landing page, the "course landing page" will load. The course landing page provides quick and convenient access to various features through the "course homepage" and "course navbar."
- Within the course homepage, the Announcements widget allows you to keep up to date with the latest postings from the faculty in the course.
- Within the course navbar, the Course Menu link provides quick access to the tool where course topics, instructions, resources, and more are located.
- From any page within Brightspace, select the IWU logo to navigate to the main landing page.
- From any page within a course, you can select the course name to navigate to that course's landing page.
