The “View as Student” feature allows you to view your Brightspace course from a student's perspective. The View as Student function is good for giving you a quick overview of what your course looks like, but is just a "shell" that is placed on top of your normal user.
If you want to complete a quiz or hand in an assignment as a student, you can instead add a test user to your course that you can use.
Pay attention to the following:
Others can also impersonate the test user you have enrolled in your course - also at the same time as you. Therefore, you must be aware of whether you have data on the course which may not be available to unauthorized persons. In this case, you should not use a test user, always remember to remove from the test user when you have finished checking your setup.
It is also possible to see individual activities as a student, see the different guides under the different activities.
Below you will find instructions for:
This guide shows you how to add a test user who is a student who e.g. can be used to complete a quiz or submit an assignment. With this user you can more than "View as student".
Problems viewing the full guide? Try refreshing the page. If it does not work Press "View It" and select "Watch It" and switch back again.
Below you will find a list (divided by faculty) of the test users found in Brightspace. Remember to remove/unenroll the user from your course when you have finished using them, as all instructors can impersonate these users.
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