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Brightspace Parent & Guardian web application
Brightspace Parent & Guardian allows authorized parents and guardians to log in to a school's Brightspace to see what their children are working on, what’s on the schedule, and the latest news from the classroom. This helps parents and guardians engage with their young learners and maintain awareness of their upcoming…
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Brightspace Parent & Guardian administrator checklist
Complete the following items in order to get Brightspace Parent & Guardian ready for use. These checklist items are more fully described in the following sections: * Enable Brightspace Parent & Guardian tool. * Create Parent/Guardian role. * Update Instructor role and Administrator role. * Confirm availability of…
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Enable Brightspace Parent & Guardian in Organization tools
From the Admin Tools menu, click Organization Tools. On the Tool Availability page, set the Availability toggle for Brightspace Parent & Guardian to on.
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Use D2L Standard CSV with Brightspace Parent & Guardian
Create parent/guardian users and relationships between the learner and the parent/guardian using D2L Standard CSV Users (Version 1.1 – including relationship) CSV file format.
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Viewing parent/guardian-child relationships
Only authorized users with the role permission See Parent/Guardian Child Relationships for '{RoleName}' can see parent/guardian-child relationships. From the Admin Tools menu, select Users. Search for a user and click on their name to view user details. Select the Relationships tab to view a list of related users.
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About parent/guardian-child user relationships
Your institution is responsible for maintaining the accuracy of user relationships in your Student Information System (SIS). Consult with your advisers to ensure you adhere to your institution’s privacy and security policies, and applicable laws. For example, your institution or jurisdiction might have a policy or law that…
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Notifications for upcoming due dates
To notify parents and guardians about their child's upcoming work, you can enable the visibility of the Update alerts icon in the Brightspace Parent & Guardian web application. When visible, this icon indicates there are notifications for upcoming assignments and quizzes that are due in the next 2 days. Note: This…
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Tools associated with Brightspace Parent & Guardian
The following tools are integrated with Brightspace Parent & Guardian: * Brightspace Portfolio - Parents and guardians can see Portfolio items shared by instructors. * Activity Feed - Parents and guardians can view an aggregate activity feed from all courses their child is enrolled in. Parents and guardians can read posts,…
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Weekly activity summaries for parents and guardians
Parents and guardians can choose to receive a weekly summary of their child's activity in Brightspace. Each Saturday at 8 AM (based on the server time in the client's specific AWS region), an activity summary is emailed to parents and guardians that contains notifications and reminders. For example, an activity summary may…
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Brightspace Parent & Guardian FAQs
How can we handle cases where a Teacher is also a parent or guardian at the school board? D2L expects Teachers who are also parents or guardians to have separate userids/account from their Teacher account. At this time, we do not support a single account as the user experience would be compromised if they shared the same…