The Course Selector drop-down menu shows manually pinned courses, followed by current enrollments, then future enrollments (if they are available and visible to the user), and finally, past enrollments (if they are visible to the user).

Notifies you about unread mail and instant messages from instructors and other students

Notifies you about new blog posts, subscribed discussion forums, topics, and threads

As a student, you will receive update alerts when there would be a new content added to the course, a new announcements or grades have been published, but also when there is a deadline approaching. An orange dot appears to indicate these actions.

This contains all information regarding your profile and account settings. At the bottom of the drop-down menu, you can log out of the Brightspace Learning Environment.