Brightspace - English

Brightspace Support 2

• Contact the Brightspace Support Team
• FAQ Instructors

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 29

• 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?

Announcements 3

• Short video: how to use announcements
• How do I create an Announcement?
• How do I manage Announcements?

Anonymous Marking 3

• Anonymous Marking - An Overview
• How do I assess an assignment using anonymous marking?
• How do I reveal a student's name in anonymous grading?

ANS 1

• Support for ANS

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

• How do I use the Attendance tool?

Awards 4

• What are Awards and how do I issue these to students?
• Add or create Awards
• How do I revoke and edit Awards?
• How do I delete awards?

Hybrid Education 2

• Brightspace Planning Tool Corona
• Using Groups for Lecture Attendance

Calendar 4

• The Calendar widget
• How do I adjust settings in the Calendar?
• How do I share or print the Calendar?
• How do I use tasks in the Calendar?

Checklists 2

• How do I create and use a Checklist?
• How do I add a checklist to Content?

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

• Digital Examination: An Overview

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?

Email 1

• How do I use email in Brightspace?

FeedbackFruits 4

• Feedbackfruits overview
• How do I place a FeedbackFruits module in my course?
• Support for FeedbackFruits
• Peer Review: Explanation

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?

Medischonderwijs 3

• MedischOnderwijs.nl (handleiding)
• Working with Grades & Medischonderwijs
• Support for Medischonderwijs

MS Teams 3

• How does Microsoft Teams work in my Brightspace course?
• Who can create a MS Teams in a Brightspace course?
• Microsoft Teams Support and troubleshooting

Quick Eval 1

• Quick Eval

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

• How do I add Remindo to my course and Content?
• How does Remindo work with Grades?
• Support for Remindo

Rubrics 5

• How do I use Rubrics?
• How do I create or edit a Rubric?
• How do I associate a Rubric to an Assignment or Discussion?
• How do I assess an assignment using a Rubric?
• Rubrics Good to Know and FAQ

Surveys 6

• How do I create Surveys?
• How do I set up restrictions for a survey?
• How do I add a Survey and how do I edit a Survey in Content?
• How do I view the results of a survey?
• How do I create a report of a survey?
• How do I preview a survey?

Turnitin 22

• 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?

Weblectures 1

• How do I add Weblectures to my Course and Content?

Zoom 3

• How does the Zoom link in Brightspace work?
• What is the correct way to log into Zoom via my Brightspace course?
• How can I set up separate Zoom meetings within a Brightspace Course?

Privacy and Security 4

• Privacy Statement Brightspace
• Gebruikersvoorwaarden OneDrive (Dutch only)
• Privacy Statement Zoom (English only)
• Update your browser

Regulations 2

• Publishing Grades
• Communication

Brightspace Release Notes 26

• Known Issues
• 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

Wooclap 4

• Wooclap support
• How do I log into Wooclap?
• How do I add collaborators to my presentation?
• How do I use Wooclap in Powerpoint?