Southern New Hampshire University

Accessing Brightspace

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Brightspace is a learning management system that enables personalized learning, course management, and interactive content delivery for educators and students.

In Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, type  https://my.snhu.edu

Enter your @snhu.edu email address and the password on the sign in page

You received your @snhu.edu email address and a temporary password in an email a few days before the start date of the course.

The SNHU login page

If this is the first time you are accessing my.snhu.edu, then you will need to change your password.

This new password must:

  • be at least 12 characters long,
  • include at least 1 uppercase letter,
  • include at least one lowercase letter,
  • include at least one number

On the right side of the screen, select the button "myCourse Access Your Courses"

The top of the "my.snhu" page, with "Access Your Courses" highlighted

Brightspace will open.  Select your PDHU course from the center of the screen.

If you are trying to access Brightspace from a mobile device,

  1. open Google Chrome on the device
  2. enter https://learn.snhu.edu into the address bar as shown below
  3. then login using your @snhu.edu email and password used on my.snhu.edu

 

example of website in the url search bar
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