{"id":16176,"date":"2021-01-18T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T22:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=16176"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:57:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:57:02","slug":"brightspace-tip-199-hide-inactive-courses-by-unpinning-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-199-hide-inactive-courses-by-unpinning-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Tip #199: Hide Inactive Courses by Unpinning Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/vectors\/drawing-pin-tack-thumbtack-red-146214\/\" title=\"push pin\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2013\/07\/12\/12\/46\/drawing-pin-146214_1280.png?resize=384%2C298&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"push pin\" height=\"298\" width=\"384\"><\/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<h4>To pin\/unpin a course, you should:<\/h4>\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\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/course-selector.png\" title=\"Select a Course\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/course-selector.png?resize=625%2C103\" alt=\"Select a Course\" height=\"103\" width=\"625\"><\/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\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/course-list-720.png\" title=\"pin\/unpin course\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/course-list-720.png?resize=579%2C320\" alt=\"pin\/unpin course\" height=\"320\" width=\"579\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<li>To unpin a course click the Pin icon beside the course.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Change the order of your pinned courses:<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt> <\/dt>\n<dd>If you want to completely change the order in which your courses are displayed, unpin all your courses and then pin them in the reverse order of how you want them to appear in the My Courses widget. The course that is pinned last will appear first.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Want more information?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.brightspace.com\/EN\/semester_start\/-\/learner\/faq_pin_courses_to_top.htm\">Pin courses to the top of the Select a Course list<\/a><br \/>\n<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 \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/for-students\/how-do-i-pin-my-courses\/\">How to Reorder Pinned Courses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View all the <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?s=Brightspace+%2Brecap\">Brightspace training recaps<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/Brightspace:_Instructors_Quick_Start_Tutorial\">Instructors Quick Start Tutorial<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/All-Release-Notes\">Continuous Delivery release notes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/index.php\/Brightspace_Known_Issues\">Brightspace Known Issues<\/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\/\">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<p><strong>Note: Are you doing something innovative in Brightspace or perhaps you've discovered a handy tip? Share how you are using Brightspace in your teaching and learning in <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-158-educator-share-showcase\/\">The Orange Room<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><small>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/vectors\/drawing-pin-tack-thumbtack-red-146214\/\">image<\/a> by OpenClipart-Vectors from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/license\/\">Pixabay<\/a><\/small><\/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-199-hide-inactive-courses-by-unpinning-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Brightspace Tip #199: Hide Inactive Courses by Unpinning Them\"<\/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-16176","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-4cU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14297,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-118-hide-inactive-courses-by-unpinning-them\/","url_meta":{"origin":16176,"position":0},"title":"Brightspace Tip #118: Hide Inactive Courses by Unpinning Them","author":"Janice Florent","date":"August 15, 2019","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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