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Brightspace Help

This guide will help you use Brightspace for your courses at Red Deer Polytechnic.
   

Brightspace Notifications

By default, Brightspace will send you the following notifications to your RDP email:

  • course announcements
  • assignment due date reminders (2-days before deadline)
  • discussion post due date reminders (2-days before deadline)
  • discussion post mentions and thread subscription notifications
  • grade updates

You can customize which email notifications you receive by accessing your Notifications settings.

IMPORTANT!: All notifications will be sent to your RDP email address; this cannot be changed in Brightspace. However, you can forward your RDP email to a different email account.

Access Notification Settings

To access your notification settings:

  1. Click on your Profile Name (top right-hand corner)
  2. Click on Notifications

Brightspace Notifications

Update Notifications

Summary of Activity

The Summary of Activity provides a complete email summary of activities for each of your courses.

You can set the frequency of this email to:

  • Never
  • Daily
  • Weekly

Instant Notifications

These are email notifications for important items such as:

  • Announcements
  • Assignments
  • Content
  • Discussions
  • Grades
  • Quizzes

You can select which Instant Notifications you wish to receive by checking/unchecking the boxes. Several notifications have been selected by default. 

Manage Account Notifications Video