{"id":12130,"date":"2018-05-24T16:44:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T21:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2018-05-24T16:44:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T21:44:43","slug":"brightspace-tip-33-pin-unpin-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-33-pin-unpin-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Tip #33: Pin\/Unpin Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div align=\"left\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/drawing-pin-pushpin-push-pin-147814\/\" title=\"push pin\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/drawing-pin-147814_640.png?resize=256%2C246\" alt=\"push pin\" height=\"246\" width=\"256\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The My Courses widget (on the My Home page) uses tile-based images to make finding your courses easier. Users can choose which courses they see in their My Courses widget by pinning and unpinning courses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pinning a course makes it appear in the My Courses widget.<\/li>\n<li>Unpinning a course makes it disappear from the My Courses widget.<\/li>\n<li>Pinning a course also makes it rise to the top of the Select a Course list and on the My Courses widget.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Search through all of your courses and manually pin and unpin courses to ensure that your most relevant courses are visible on the My Home page.<\/p>\n<h3>Follow these steps to do it.<\/h3>\n<p>To pin\/unpin a course, you should:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>From the Minibar, click <strong>Select a course<\/strong> (i.e., the waffle icon).<\/li>\n<p><div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2016\/12\/17202540\/2017-08-17_2022-Course-Grid-Icon-768x104.png?ssl=1\" title=\"Select a Course\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2016\/12\/17202540\/2017-08-17_2022-Course-Grid-Icon-768x104.png?resize=461%2C62&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Select a Course\" height=\"62\" width=\"461\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<li>Type the name of the course that you want to pin or find it by searching in the <em>Search for a course<\/em> field or scroll down to find the course.<\/li>\n<li>Click the Pin icon beside the course. The pinned course will move to the top of the Select a Course list and to the first position in the My Courses widget.<\/li>\n<p><div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2016\/12\/17203807\/2017-08-17_2037-Pin2-768x295.png?ssl=1\" title=\"pin\/unpin course\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2016\/12\/17203807\/2017-08-17_2037-Pin2-768x295.png?resize=499%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"pin\/unpin course\" height=\"192\" width=\"499\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Note: To unpin a course click the Pin icon beside the course.<\/p>\n<h3>Want more information?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2016\/12\/How-do-I-pin-my-courses.pdf\">How to Pin Courses (pdf)<\/a><br \/>\nView all the <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?s=Brightspace+%2Brecap\">Brightspace training recaps<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/xulacat.wikispaces.com\/Brightspace+Known+Issues\">Brightspace Known Issues<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-25-continuous-delivery-updates\/\">Continuous Delivery Updates<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-2-sandbox-courses\/\">Request a sandbox course<\/a><br \/>\nSign-up for <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/events\/index.php?mode=index&status=all&tag=Brightspace\">Brightspace training sessions<\/a><br \/>\nYou can find <a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.brightspace.com\/EN\/-\/-\/-\/welcome_page.htm\">Brightspace help<\/a> at D2L's website.<br \/>\nJoin the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/\">Brightspace Community<\/a>.<br \/>\nTry these <a title=\"Brightspace How-to\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-documents\/\">Brightspace How-To documents<\/a>.<br \/>\nVisit our <a title=\"Brightspace FAQs\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-faq\/\">Brightspace FAQs<\/a> for additional Brightspace information<br \/>\nor <a title=\"Schedule 1-on-1\" href=\"http:\/\/jflorent.youcanbook.me\/\">schedule a one-on-one session<\/a>, <a title=\"Send email\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/mail\/?to=31\">email<\/a>, or <br \/>call Janice Florent: (504) 520-7418.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The My Courses widget (on the My Home page) uses tile-based images to make finding your courses easier. Users can choose which courses they see in their My Courses widget by pinning and unpinning courses. Pinning a course makes it appear in the My Courses widget. Unpinning a course makes it disappear from the My <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-33-pin-unpin-courses\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Brightspace Tip #33: Pin\/Unpin Courses\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[403],"tags":[402,425],"class_list":{"0":"post-12130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brightspace","7":"tag-brightspace","8":"tag-pin","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-39E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16176,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-199-hide-inactive-courses-by-unpinning-them\/","url_meta":{"origin":12130,"position":0},"title":"Brightspace Tip #199: Hide Inactive Courses by Unpinning Them","author":"Janice Florent","date":"January 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The My Courses widget (on the My Home page) uses tile-based images to make finding your courses easier. 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