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Quick Start Guide for Instructors
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Brightspace - English
Getting started with Brightspace
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- 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?
Manage your course
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- 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
Manage the users in your course
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- How do I use the Classlist?
- How do I add users to my course?
- What are the permissions within a Course?
- How are students enrolled/unenrolled to courses?
- How do I export the Classlist, including group 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?
Content
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- Content: An Overview
- Short video: How to add new and existing content to your course (English only)
- 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 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?
- How do I add Virtual Classroom 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?
- 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?
Assignments
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- Workflow Assignments
- Short 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?
Copyrighted Material
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- 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
Discussions
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- Short video: How to make a Discussion (English only)
- How do I use the Discussions tool?
- How do I create a Discussion Forum and Topic?
- Which settings and restrictions can I add to discussion forums and topics?
- 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?
Grades
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- Grades: An Overview & Short Videos
- Introduction to Brightspace Grades
- Choosing a Grade Scheme
- Example Gradebook: Weighted Grading System
- Example 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?
Groups
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- How do I use Groups?
- Short video: How to create Groups (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
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- 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?
Quizzes
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- 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 set restrictions for a quiz?
- 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 can I set up what students see when they hand in a quiz?
- 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?
Release Conditions and Manage Dates
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- 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
Turnitin
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- All about Turnitin
- 5 things I wish I knew before working with Turnitin Assignments
- Check your Turnitin More Options settings
- How do I create a Turnitin Assignment?
- Restricting access to your Turnitin Assignment
- How do I use Anonymous Marking in combination with Turnitin?
- How should I approach a Remote Exam with Turnitin?
- 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?
- Create your own QuickMarks set and use this set as a default while evaluating Assignments in Feedback Studio
- How do I assess Turnitin Assignments with Rubrics?
- How do I use PeerMark / Peer Review?
- Turnitin Troubleshooting
- Tell me more on the More Options in Turnitin
- How do I submit a file on behalf of a student in Turnitin?
- How do I download inline feedback in bulk from Turnitin.com?
- How do I regenerate a Similarity Report?
- How do I set up Turnitin for a Group Assignment?
- Turnitin Expired Classes
- Interpreting Turnitin's Similarity scores
Brightspace Release Notes
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- Known Issues
- January 2022 - 21/01/2022
- December 2021 - 17/12/2021
- November 2021 - 19/11/2021
- October 2021 - 22/10/2021
- September 2021 - 17/09/2021
- August 2021 - 20/08/2021
- July 2021 - 16/07/2021
- June 2021 - 18/06/2021
- May 2021 - 21/05/2021
- April 2021 - 16-04-2021
- March 2021 - 19-03-2021
- February 2021 - 19/02/2021
- January 2021 - 22/01/2021
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