Brightspace Parent Access:

Getting Started and Navigating Your Students Course(s)

Logging into Brightspace
1. Open > Internet Explorer, Chrome, FireFox or Safari
web browser on your computer
2. Type > learn.parkhill.k12.mo.us/parent in address bar
3. Press > Enter key
4. Type > Parent PowerSchool username
5. Type > Parent PowerSchool password
6. Click >

or Press > Enter key

District Brightspace Homepage

The Mini Bar

A navigation bar of links that is always at the

top of the screen inside Brightspace

1. Click > a course title in the My Courses widget

to view content for that particular course in
which your student is enrolled.
2. Please refer to pages 4 & 5 for instructions on
course content

Notifications (Optional)

Control how you receive notifications about activity in your student(s) courses. You can receive a periodic summary
of activity or receive instant notifications as things happen. You are not able to be notified of student activities such
as Discussions, Dropbox, or Quizzes. Notifications can be via email, text message or in some instances both.
1. Click > Dropdown icon next to username
2. Click >
3. Click > Change your email settings to use
email different than one shown
4. Click > Register your mobile and follow prompts to
be able to receive text notifications. A verification
text will be sent with a confirmation code that you
will need to finish the signup process.

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Daily Summary of Activity

This will send a summary email of the activities in the last
24 hours of the course. The parent can choose when the
email arrives each day. This may be modified anytime.
1. Click >

and change to

2. Click > Inside time field

and type time to receive
summary

Instant Notifications
1. Click > checkbox of the email, text
message or both to the right of
the notification you would like to
receive. NOTE: the choices checked

to the image on the right are the only

ones available for Parent Access

2. Leave Custom Notifications blank

Exclude Some Courses

By default all notifications settings apply to all courses for
a Brightspace user. A user can control which courses they
would like notifications to be on or off.
1. Click >
2. Click >
3. Click >

to turn off notifications in all courses

to turn on notifications in all courses

4. Click >
to the right of a course title to
turn off notifications for that particular course
5. Click >
to the right of a course title to turn
on notifications for that particular course
6. Verification of courses excluded will now show
7. Click >

to save all the notification preferences and customization

8. Click >

to return to District Homepage

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District Homepage Header

1. Click > Park Hill Logo to reload District Homepage

2. Click > District Website to open the Park Hill District website in a new internet browser tab
3. Click > ePortfolio to open the Brightspace ePortfolio tool (See page 5 for instructions on ePortfolio)

District Homepage Widgets

News Messages that all Brightspace
users receive
Parent News - Messages specific
to parents.

Course Homepage
Similar to the District Homepage but is only for a particular course and it may be customized by the teacher so each
course may look different or use different terminology. Homepages may be graphical or a more widget based look.
1. Click >
in the Navbar
2. Click > Course title

Graphical Example Used in most

courses grades K-5. Users may access
course content and tools from the course
homepage using the graphics in the
middle of the page or the Navbar icons
towards the top of the screen. Placing
your cursor over the graphics will pop up
at title of what the image is linked to. The
Navbar will always show when inside
a course.

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3. Or
Click >
and then select the course
title from the My Courses widget on the district
Brightspace Homepage

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NAVBAR

Widget Example Used mostly in secondary courses

The Navbar is the way to access course content and
tools from the homepage and will always show when
inside the course.

Course Content

Content is the area where teachers organize course handouts, documents, links, videos and other materials. Parent
Access does not allow for access to Discussions, Dropbox, Journals, or Quizzes.

Accessing course content

This is based on what type of homepage the teacher has selected for their course.
Graphical Homepage and Navbar
1. Click >
icon on the homepage

or

2. Click > Lessons > Content in the Navbar

Widget based homepage and text Navbar

1. Click >

icon

Course Content Organization

Content is placed in Modules (folders) and Sub-Modules

(subfolders). Teachers often organize Brightspace content
they way organize paper materials and/or grade categories
in their classroom. Common examples would be by units,
chapters, topics, and or subjects for elementary. Each
teacher is different, so please contact them if you have any
questions. Below is an example of an elementary course.

Notice that this course has 23 items. When the user clicks
on the Table of Contents all the documents and tools in
the course show in the right pane. When an individual
module or sub module is selected only the documents or
tools in the selected area will show.
The example to the right shows the user has clicked to view
the contents of Training Day 1: Properties of Matter (is
highlighted blue) which is a sub module of the Science and
Water Cycle and has 6 items. Items have icons to help
identify content type and placing your mouse over them will
give a pop-up label.
NOTE: Content may be restricted by a date and time so content could be added and removed from a course on a frequent basis.

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