Brightspace: Update the Course Tools Menu or Revert a Navbar back to the Default

If a tool is not listed on the "Course Tools" menu in your Brightspace course then that "Course Tools" menu may be outdated. For example, "Accessibility Check - Yuja Panorama" and "Library Subject Guides" are new.  If they are not listed on the "Course Tools" menu then you should either update your the "Course Tools" menu or revert that course's navbar back to the default.

Which one to choose depends on how customized that course's navbar is:

The reason why this happens is because when a course is copied using the "Copy All Components" rather than "Select Components" the new updated "Course Tools" menu with the "Course Tools" menu from the past course. "Copy All Components" can be used once again after updating the "Course Tools" menu. Announcements will be made, with a links to this document, when the "Course Tools" menu needs to be updated. 

 

Replace an Outdated Course Tools Menu

The following instructions show how to remove the old Course Tools menu and then how add the updated Course Tools menu. Use this method if your course navbar is highly customized. 

1. Hover your mouse on the green bar to bring up the button with three dots

2. Click "Edit This Navbar"

  • "Customize this Navbar" may appear here. Click that option and then click on "Yes, I'll work with a copy of the navbar".

 

Number 1 hover mouse on navbar, number 2 choose "Edit this Navbar"

 

3. Click the "X" on Course Tools to remove it.

4. Click on the "Add Links" button. 

 

Number 3 click the x to remove Course Tools. Number 4 click Add Links to find the updated Course Tools

 

5. Scroll Down to find "Course Tools"

6. Check off the "Course Tools" option that has the most recent date.

7. Click "Add"

 

Number 5 Scroll down. Number 6 check off the Course tools with the most recent date. Number 7 Click Add

 

8. Don't forget to Save it!

 

Number 8 Save and Close


 

Revert a Course's Navbar Back to the Default

1. Hover your mouse on the right side of the green navbar and then click on the dotted button that appears.
2. Click on Manage All Course Navbars
3. Drop this listing down and choose the Default option.
4. Click Apply

Steps 1-4 labeled.

 

 

 

 

 

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