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Quick Start Guide for Instructors
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Brightspace Support 2
Getting started with Brightspace 13
- Getting to know Brightspace, short video
- Quick Start Guide for Instructors
- When do I get access to Brightspace and my courses?
- How do I log into Brightspace?
- How do I log out from Brightspace?
- How do I navigate through the Brightspace Homepage?
- How do I navigate through a course?
- How do I add a course to my homepage?
- How do I adjust the course image?
- How do I adjust my profile picture?
- How do I adjust my account?
- How do I change my email notifications?
- How do I use pronouns in Brightspace?
Manage your course 15
- Checklist: Is my course ready for live education?
- How can I change the visibility of my course?
- How can I change the visibility of the content of my course?
- How can I view my course as a student?
- How do I use Manage Files?
- Short video: How to use the Course Builder (English only)
- How do I use the Course Builder?
- How do I copy the content from one Brightspace course to another Brightspace course?
- What information is (not) being copied when executing Course Copy?
- What are Replace strings and how do I use it?
- How do I organize the Course Home of a course?
- The name / code / semester of my course is incorrect, how can I change this?
- The different stages of your course
- Availability Date Defaults
- What are the consequences for my teaching when Brightspace replaces Blackboard?
Manage the users in your course 10
- How do I use the Classlist?
- How do I add users to my course?
- How are students enrolled/unenrolled to courses?
- What are the permissions within a Course?
- How do I export the Classlist, including group or section enrollments?
- What is Special Access and how do I use it?
- Can I view submissions, contributions and grades of unenrolled and inactive students in Brightspace?
- How can I view grades of students who unenrolled from a course?
- What personal data do students see from instructors and fellow students?
- How to request the Education Administration Office within the Faculty of Humanties to unenroll students from your Brightspace course
Content 30
- Content: An Overview
- What is the standard structure of a course?
- Short video: Leiden Course Model (English only)
- What is the standard course vocabulary?
- How do I structure my course with units/lessons/folders/topics?
- The optimal workflow for creating and adding content to your course
- How do I upload and add a file to Content?
- How do I create a new Discussion via Content?
- How do I create and add a HTML document to Content?
- How do I use HTML templates in my content?
- Short video: HTML Templates (English only)
- How do I create and add a Weblink to content?
- How do I upload a video to Kaltura and place it in the course content?
- How do I add Weblectures to my Course and Content?
- How do I add videos to Content?
- How do I add a document from the Copyright Repository to a course?
- How do I add a download link to a file in a course?
- How do I add SCORM/xAPI objects to my course?
- How do I add a link to an Assignment/Discussion/Quiz to my Content?
- How do I add Remindo to my course and Content?
- How do I add LabBuddy to my Course and Content?
- MedischOnderwijs.nl (manual)
- How can I change the visibility of the content of my course?
- How do I adjust Content availability through Manage Dates?
- How do I adjust Content availability when adding or editing Content.
- How do I replace an existing document?
- Short video: How do I add content?
- How do I use the HTML editor?
- What files can be downloaded by students?
- Content: How to add a topic description
Announcements 3
Anonymous Marking 3
Assignments 18
- Workflow Assignments
- Korte video: How to create an assignment (English only)
- How do I use Assignments?
- How do I create an Assignment?
- How do I set restrictions for an Assignment and/or set different (due) dates per group or sections of students?
- How can I use Assignments for groups?
- How do I attach a grade item to an assignment?
- How do I set up a Pass / Fail scheme in Assignments?
- How do I add and edit categories to manage assignments?
- How do I restore a deleted Assignment?
- Grading Assignments
- How do I assess an assignment offline?
- How do I assess an assignment with inline feedback?
- How do I assess a video assignment?
- How do I assess a group assignment?
- How do I use Pitch2Peer for assignments?
- How do I use Submission Logs with Assignments?
- How do I filter (non) submissions?
Attendance Tool 1
Awards 4
Hybrid Education 2
Calendar 4
Copyrighted Material 6
- What is copyrighted material?
- How do I check whether literature is already available through a link and how do I add these to the concent?
- Short video: Learning Object Repository (English only)
- How do I upload documents to the Copyright Repository in the LOR?
- How do I edit the metadata of a document in LOR?
- Searching in the LOR
Digital Examination 1
Discussions 9
- Short video: How to create a Discussion (English only)
- How do I use the Discussions tool?
- How do I create a Discussion Forum and Topic?
- How do I create a new Discussion via Content?
- Discussions: Settings & Restrictions
- How do I create a discussion topic per group?
- How do I attach a grade item to a discussion topic?
- Grading Discussion Forums
- How can I control what discussion updates I receive?
FeedbackFruits 4
Grades 27
- Grades: An Overview & Short Videos
- Introduction to Brightspace Grades
- Choosing a Grade Scheme
- Example Gradebook: Weighted Grading System
- Examples Gradebook: Formula Grading System
- Grades Advanced Online Training
- Setting up the Gradebook for the first time with the Grades Setup Wizard
- Create Grade Categories
- Create Grade Items
- Set up Resits in your Gradebook
- How do I attach a grade item to an assignment?
- How do I attach a grade item to a quiz?
- How do I attach a grade item to a discussion topic?
- How do I use the Formula Editor?
- Grading Students
- Grading Assignments
- Grading Quizzes
- Grading Discussion Forums
- Release Grades to your student
- How do I export Grades?
- How do I import Grades?
- Copy your Gradebook and Grade Settings to another course
- How can I view grades of students who unenrolled from a course?
- How does Remindo work with Grades?
- Working with Grades & Medischonderwijs
- How to delete a Grade item associated to an External Learning Tool?
- How do I export Grades for uSis?
Groups 9
- How do I use Groups?
- Korte video: Hoe maak ik Groepen? (English only)
- How do I create Groups?
- How can I manage Group Enrollments within my Course?
- How do I remove Groups?
- How do I use Lockers for Groups?
- What do students see in Groups and how do they use them?
- What is the difference between Groups and Sections?
- How can I see which students are in which group/section?
Kaltura 6
- How do I use Kaltura in my Brightspace course?
- How do I upload a video to Kaltura and place it in the course content?
- How do I manage and edit my Kaltura videos?
- What is the course Kaltura Media Gallery?
- How do I add a Kaltura Live Room to my course?
- Why do I get an Access Denied message when I try to view Kaltura videos in Brightspace?
Labster 3
Medischonderwijs 3
MS Teams 3
Quick Eval 1
Quizzes 18
- How do I use Quizzes?
- How do I create a quiz?
- What type of questions can I add to a Quiz?
- How do I edit a quiz?
- How do I use the Question Library?
- How do I add a quiz to Content?
- How do I attach a grade item to a quiz?
- Grading Quizzes
- Quiz Statistics: where do I find them and what do they show me?
- How do I create a (statistical) report of a Quiz?
- How do I delete a student's quiz attempt?
- How do I publish feedback for a quiz?
- How can I preview what a student sees when handing in a quiz?
- How do I adjust the correct answer of a quiz after students have already submitted?
- Quizzes - Availability & Conditions
- Quizzes - Timing & Display
- Quizzes - Attempts & Completion
- Quizzes - Evaluation & Feedback
Release Conditions and Manage Dates 7
- All about Release Conditions, Manage Dates and Availability of your Content, Grades and Tools
- What are release conditions?
- How do I set up Release Conditions?
- Automatically Release Content for a certain time period, or after a certain date
- How do I use Manage Dates?
- How do I set restrictions for an Assignment and/or set different (due) dates per group or sections of students?
- Use case: Release Conditions and Start-End Dates for Assignments with Grade items
Remindo 3
Rubrics 5
Surveys 6
Turnitin 23
- All about Turnitin
- 5 things I wish I knew before working with Turnitin Assignments
- How do I create a Turnitin Assignment?
- Restricting access to your Turnitin Assignment
- How do I assess Turnitin Assignments with Feedback Studio?
- How do I control when and how students see their Feedback and Grade for Turnitin Assignments?
- How do I transfer Turnitin Scores to Grades?
- How do I re-sync grades from Turnitin Feedback Studio to Brightspace after I Published Feedback?
- How do I assess Turnitin Assignments with Rubrics?
- How should I approach a Remote Exam with Turnitin?
- How do I use Anonymous Marking in combination with Turnitin?
- How do I set up Turnitin for a Group Assignment?
- How do I activate and use Quick Submit for a plagiarism check?
- How do I download inline feedback in bulk from Turnitin.com?
- How do I regenerate a Similarity Report?
- Interpreting Turnitin's Similarity scores
- Create your own QuickMarks set and use this set as a default while evaluating Assignments in Feedback Studio
- Turnitin Expired Classes
- Tell me more on the More Options in Turnitin
- Turnitin Troubleshooting
- View Peermark submissions
- How do I download a Similarity Report?
- How to request a paper deletion
Weblectures 1
Zoom 3
Privacy and Security 4
Regulations 2
Brightspace Release Notes 27
- Known Issues
- Februari 2025 - 21/02/2025
- March 2024 - 22/03/2024
- January 2024 - 19/01/2024
- December 2023 - 22/12/2023
- November 2023 - 17/11/2023
- October 2023 - 22/10/2023
- September 2023 - 22/09/2023
- August 2023 - 18/08/2023
- July 2023 -21/07/2023
- June 2023 -16/06/2023
- May 2023 -19/05/2023
- April 2023 -21/04/2023
- March 2023 -17/03/2023
- February 2023 -17/02/2023
- January 2023 -20/01/2023
- December 2022 -16/12/2022
- November 2022 - 18/11/2022
- September 2022 - 16/09/2022
- August 2022 - 19/08/2022
- July 2022 - 22/07/2022
- June 2022 - 17/06/2022
- May 2022 - 20/05/2022
- April 2022 - 22/04/2022
- March 2022 - 18/03/2022
- February 2022 - 18/02/2022
- January 2022 - 21/01/2022
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