An excellent way to personalize your course and communications in Brightspace is to use Replace Strings. Replace Strings are specific variables in curly braces { } that are then replaced with the corresponding variable value, such as a student’s name or the course name, etc. They’re easy to use!
A few examples are:
- Start a course announcement with “Good morning, {FirstName}!”
Each student sees their own name, e.g. “Good morning, Maria!” - In your course banner, you can replace the existing text with “Welcome, {FirstName}, to Environmental Geology”
Theo will see “Welcome, Theo, to Environmental Geology” in his course view. (To do this, hover over the banner and click the 3 dots (…).” - If you’re using Intelligent Agents to sends emails to students, use {InitiatingUserFirstName}
- NOTE: Emails sent from the classlist do not support Replace Strings
You can read more and see a list of all the possible Replace Strings on D2L’s Community site, Automatically customize course content using replace strings
Brightspace – Announcements
Brightspace – Content & Activities
Brightspace – Discussions
Brightspace – Intelligent Agents