Regular feedback is crucial to our students' learning process. As you cannot always provide extensive feedback yourself, it is useful to incorporate peer-feedback activities into your course.

Assessment is a powerful motivator for students to learn. At the same time, it offers them and you an insight into their progress, knowledge and skills. On this page you can find information about different types of assessment and feedback, rubrics, assessment matrices and supervision of students.

The most common assessment formats and points to consider when making your choice.

Didactics

An inspection and feedback session for exams offers students an important occasion to receive feedback and gives them insight into their learning process.

In this step, you will find examples and an explanation of each video format, but remember: video making is a creative process, so don’t let formats limit your imagination. Build on them to find and create your own style that fits your message.

You can quite simply make videos with your webcam or smartphone. This format is used mostly when you want to give a quick response or update.

If there's one thing that students should get from their teachers, it’s good feedback, says assistant professor Andrei Poama. ‘But we need to do it in a more fair way.’ Together with a team of experts on educational sciences, he is working on a project that develops GenAI applications that teachers…

Evaluation is an important instrument in revealing, monitoring and improving the quality of your teaching.

Planning, organizing, and conducting exams, from setup to review.

In March, the Faculty Strategic Plan (FSP) Steering Committee invited several forums, groups, students and members of staff to give their feedback on the draft of the Strategic Agenda. This feedback has been collected in several different ways, during meetings, via online feedback forms, or in direct…

Transferable skills, Career development

Whether you’re giving a course for the first time or aiming to update your learning objectives or teaching formats, effective education starts with good course design. This step-by-step plan will help you create or innovate your course: from learning objectives to teaching formats.

Depending on its purpose, assessment can support ongoing learning, provide final evaluations, or help students reflect on their own progress.

If you want your students to be actively involved in your lecture or tutorial, book an Active Learning Classroom!

Teachers at Leiden University are experts in their field and passionate about educating students in their discipline. It is also important that they can work effectively as a member of a team, together with colleagues and students, and that they feel committed to our organisation. We will therefore…

Transferable skills are skills that students develop during their studies and can use later in a variety of work contexts.

From assessment periods and deadlines to invigilators and organising digital assessments. Everything you need to think about for planning, organising and communicating assessments.

This academic year, seven (teams of) teachers will receive a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.

Assessment design is essential for measuring student progress and providing feedback that reinforces their learning.

If you’re inspired to introduce innovations or have plans to update a course or learning pathway, the tips and starting points given here may be helpful.

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Workshop

Workshop

In 2022-2023 eight (teams of) teachers received a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.

This step-by-step plan will guide you through the various stages of assessment: from design to organization and review.

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Communication, Working effectively, Transferable skills

Communication, Outreach, Transferable skills

Didactics

Internship assessment takes place according to Faculty standards with associated feedback and assessment forms.

On this page we've bundled the best practices which will be presented during the Education Market of 19 June 2025.

Constructive alignment is a core principle of educational design. It ensures that you design courses, materials, activities and curricula with which your students can achieve the learning objectives you set out for them.