This article explains how to navigate within Brightspace.

• The minibar 
• The personal homepage
• Course home 

In the upper right corner of the screen you will find a basic menu: the minibar. 

1. Use the Course Selector to view the courses that you are enrolled for. You can pin courses to the homepage here. If you are enrolled for a large number of courses, you will be able to search them with a search bar

2. Subscription alerts: set whether you want to receive notifications of activities in discussion forums and they will appear here.

3. Update alerts: notifies you of newly uploaded files and assignments. If there is an orange dot, click on the bell icon to view the updates.

4. By clicking on your profile picture or name, you are able to adjust settings concerning your notifications and account.

When you log in to Brightspace, your homepage will be the first page you land on. Every personal homepage has the same layout. 

1. You can see an overview of the 12 last visited courses.
Note: Brightspace automatically fills the homepage until 12 courses are displayed, even if you have not pinned 12 courses to this page. 

• Some courses contain icons with a number in the orange frameworks. These icons represent Activities (Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes). The number indicates how many unread items there are within the Activity. 
• Click on the name of a course that you wish to open. 
• Or click on View All Courses to see every course you are enrolled in. 

2. Activities from all your courses will be displayed in your Calendar. Clicking Upcoming Events will reveal a list of activities. Click on Calendar to open the calendar.

3. Click on Brightspace Support if you need assistance

4. Find quicklinks to other THUAS Applications by clicking HHS Applications

Navigating to a course:

• On your Homepage, you can click on a course. This will bring you to the Course Home.
• Another way is to select a course in the Course Selector. This will also bring you to the Course home.

The navigation bar of the course is identical for all courses of The Hague University, and it is generally called the navbar. The navbar enables you to navigate to:

• Course Home: Go back to your course homepage from any other page in the course.
• Content: In which the course material is located and divided into modules.
• Grades: View your grades for each assignment within the course. 
• Class Progress: See your overall progress in the course, broken down into sub categories (Grades, Discussions, Assignments, Quizzes, Surveys and Course Access). You can click on each of these for more detailed information.
• Course tools: from here you can go to
  • Groups
  • Assignments
  • Ouriginal
  • Quizzes
  • Surveys
  • Discussions
  • Attendance
  • MyMediasite
  • Mediasite Videos

1. At the top you can see the Course Name. 
2. This the course banner. Usually it gives the course name, but sometimes it also shows a personal welcome message.
3. Via the Visual Table of Contents you are able to quickly navigate to the desired module. Please notice that the percentage is only an indication of how much of the content you have visited. A 100% does not always mean you have finished this part of the course. Make sure you always check under Content (6) closely.
4. Underneath Announcements you can see notifications for the specific course. You can adjust the settings in order to also receive an E-mail for new announcements. 
5. At the Calendar, you can see activities from the course like meetings and deadlines of assignments. 
6. Content is where you find most information about the course.