View as Student: From within your course, you can view what an enrolled student would see. To do this click on your name in the upper right of the window and select the option to “View as HVC - Student (Non-Cascading)”
Profile: Add your profile picture.
Notifications: Update your notification preferences and add your mobile device to get notifications on your mobile.
Account Settings: Add you Pronouns, set how you want to view pages. Confirm how you want discussion boards to function and your Brightspace email preferences.
For more details on the above please see from Brightspace: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/5464-change-your-personal-settings-in-brightspace