How to set your Pronouns
Brightspace provides students, faculty, and staff the ability to specify their pronouns in their user profiles. These pronouns are visible to anyone who shares a course with another user, including students, instructors, TA’s, and other enrolled users. This guide details instructions on how to show your personal pronouns (or hide them).
Created Spring 2022
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Set Your Pronouns
- Click on your profile and select Account settings
- In the Account Settings tab, find the Pronouns heading
- Check the box to “Allow others to see my pronouns”
- Select “Use different pronouns”. (note: the other option of “using what the organization has on record” will display no pronouns)
- Be sure to Save your changes.
View a User’s Pronouns
If a user has set their pronouns, they will be visible in the Classlist next to the user’s name.
You are able to view a user’s pronouns on the Classlist page as well as when grading assignments and viewing discussion threads and responses. You can do this by hovering your cursor over the user’s profile picture/icon. This will display a small window with that user’s information, including their pronouns (if they have chosen to share them).
- Hover your cursor over the profile picture/icon (the red circle)
- View the user’s pronouns (the yellow circle)
