Personal Settings | How to edit the general Account Settings

This article will show you how to edit Account Settings, which can be used to change the settings of how Brightspace is presented. These settings are for the personal account and do not affect the content of courses.

This article show how to:

Navigate to your Brightspace Homepage. Then,

  1. Click on your [Name] or profile picture, a drop-down menu will appear
  2. Click Account Settings  
Click on your name or profile picture a drop down menu will appear click on Account settings

This action will open the Account Settings page, three separate tabs are shown:

  • Account Settings - this menu contains the more general account settings, such as font, language, time, reading and video settings
  • Discussions - personal discussion settings such as Display and Reply settings
  • Email - email options such as receiving copies of outgoing messages, email signature and display options

This article describes the options of the Account Settings tab.

Account Settings tab

Account settings page
Video and Locale and Language Settings
Account Settings- Time Zone

3. Once you have selected all the preferred options, do not forget to click the blue Save and Close button.

Click on the blue Save and Close button

 

Now you know how to edit your Account Settings in Brightspace!