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How to Set Pronouns

Intended Audience: Students, Mentors, Instructors, Affiliation Users

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Brightspace users have the option to display their preferred pronouns, such as She/Her, He/Him, or They/Them, on their profile card. This feature helps foster inclusivity and allows students, mentors, instructors, and affiliation users to share their identity respectfully.

  • Students can view the pronouns of classmates and instructors in the Discussions tool.
  • Instructors can view student pronouns in Quick Eval, Class/User Progress, and Discussions.

Instruction

  1.  First, tap your name from the top of the Brightspace page and then select Account Settings.
    The Brightspace platform is shown with the user name selected from the top right. An arrow points to the expanded menu selection, Account Settings.
  2. Next, enable the Allow others to see my pronouns checkbox by tapping in the box.
  3. Then tap the radio button Use different pronouns
  4. Finally, type the appropriate pronoun in the open text area below and then tap Save and Close to apply your changes.
    The Account Settings page is shown with the features described above enabled. Arrows point to these fields and to the Save and Close button at the bottom of the page. 

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