Brightspace is Leiden University's digital learning environment.

Since the 2020-2021 academic year, Brightspace has been the online learning environment of Leiden University.

Every faculty has local support for instructors and students that work with Brightspace

Brightspace will fully replace Blackboard in academic year 2020-2021. Following evaluations of students and lecturers’ first impressions of Brightspace, the project team now plans to make this digital learning environment more user-friendly.

Brightspace is the heart of the University’s digital learning environment. Lecturers can use it to provide online support for a lecture or course. They can bring together assignments, lecture sheets and literature, and keep this up to date. Students thus have access to all their learning materials.

Didactics

Brightspace is the heart of the University’s digital learning environment. Lecturers can use it to provide online support for a lecture or course. They can bring together assignments, lecture sheets and literature, and keep this up to date. Students thus have access to all their learning materials.

Education, ICT

Education, ICT

Education, ICT

Education

Education, ICT

Didactics

If you have a guest or visitor who needs access to the network drives or a ULCN account, you can have him or her registered in the guest management system (GMS) via your GMS contact person.

To request an exam, please contact ECOLe. Make sure to hand in your request on time and send the necessary information. Are you not sure yet what you want your exam to look like? We are here to help you find the best option.

Do you want advice with the ICT that supports your lectures? Or do you need help using Brightspace? Your ICT & Education Coordinator is available for all your questions.

Read more about the available tools here.

Digital examinations can take many different forms. Have students write essays, record a podcast or knowledge clip, have them take an exam together in groups or have them take an exam with different types of questions.

You will be able to find all the information necessary to set up your (online) education at our faculty here.

We support you as much as possible with remote teaching, testing and assessing.

In order to facilitate hybrid education, support is offered by the teacher support desks, both at a didactic and an executive level.

Testing and assessment covers all activities performed to gain insight in the students’ level. Formative testing involves inviting student to practise with practice materials. Diagnostic testing can be used for to help students structure their learning process or stimulate them to study independently.…

The university offers an array of tools you can use for your education, and for which SEEDS (the Science teacher support desk) offers support.

Your workplace is equipped with a standard basic software package. In addition, you can also install programmes yourself from the additional software package. If you need software that is not available via the additional or basic software package, you can apply for the software you need.

Examinations will take place on campus again (online or not), without restrictions on group size.

Students learn not only from you, but often also from each other. They do so through analysing each other’s texts, discussions, assessing each other’s work, or completing group assignments. There are various tools available that support this kind of collaborative learning.

Are you a teacher? And do you want to check whether papers, essays or theses have been plagiarised from others? If so, you can use Turnitin. Turnitin compares the content of papers and theses with texts submitted previously and with public Internet sources.

Education that takes place online instead of on campus is called remote teaching or online education. How do you make optimal use of remote teaching?

The tools listed below are available for you to use in your teaching. Several of them will be familiar with you.

SEEDS (the Science Teacher Support desk) provides both technical and educational support on digital assignments and exams.

Study support

Starting 1 September, the University will resume on-campus teaching as much as possible, and in-person teaching will become the norm.

Video tools are vital for remote teaching. There are numerous tools that you can use, each with their own pros and cons.

Small, large or even massive online courses from universities all over the world, for free, or in some cases a fee. That is what we call MOOCs (massive open online courses) on worldwide platforms, or SPOCs (small private online courses) in a more closed setting where the learner is invited.

Leiden University alumni can make use of a number of University services: ULCN and uMail, career support, mentoring network and the Young Alumni Network.

It takes some getting used to, but Maarten Hijzelendoorn is no longer the Blackboard boss: he will now inform researchers about data management. From now on you can turn to Minke Jonk for all of your questions about the new Learning Management System Brightspace. We interviewed them together.

Get inspired by these tips from colleagues in and outside Leiden. If there are any tips about (online) education that you would like to add, feel free to send us a message.

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