Pulse App vs. Brightspace in a Web Browser

Tip

The Brightspace website is fully mobile-friendly. You only need the Pulse app if you want to receive notifications about your courses on your smartphone or tablet.

This is important information if you intend to use Brightspace on a mobile device. Brightspace has an app in Apple and Google’s app stores called Pulse. It enables you to receive course announcements and updates via push notifications on your smartphone or tablet. Pulse does not display everything in courses and has less functionality than Brightspace itself. Fortunately, the full content for a course can be accessed easily from the Pulse app by tapping the menu button in the upper-right corner of the screen and selecting Launch Course Homepage. This will take you directly to the full course in your device’s web browser. 

To see ALL the content of a course when using the Pulse app, tap the menu button in the upper-right corner and select Launch Course Homepage.