Tools
On this page you find an overview of tools many teachers use in their education at our faculty.
You can also consult the LLInC website for an extensive overview of university wide tools.
Brightspace is Leiden University’s Learning Management System (LMS).
With Brightspace, you can share course materials, grades and updates with your students, link to the online teaching environment, create and evaluate assignments and tests for your students, conduct plagiarism checks, provide personalised feedback and peer feedback, create surveys, and start discussions. It has a lot of integrated tools and other options to enhance your teaching and increase the active participation of your students.
In Grades you keep track of students' partial grades. It is the place in which you can communicate the grades to them.
You can select how grades display to students, how they update in the online grade book, and how you want to deal with ungraded items. You can connect Grades to Assignments and Quizzes within Brightspace.
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Screensteps Brightspace Grades
Please contact SEEDS to help you with the set-up of Grades in Brightspace.
The Science Skills Platform is an online learning environment for transferable skills built in Brightspace. All Science students have access to the platform throughout their studies.
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Creator+ is a design package included in Brightspace that can be used while setting up your Brightspace course. It provides many options for interactive elements that help you structure information more effectively.
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FeedbackFruits offers different tools to support (peer)feedback, assignments, discussions, and other interactive learning activities.
All the tools facilitate and promote interaction between students and instructors, and between students themselves. FeedbackFruits is integrated into Brightspace.
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FeedbackFruits integration in Brightspace
FeedbackFruits manuals
Ans is an assessment platform. It helps you to create tests and exams from an online management environment. You can use different question types (such as multiple-choice questions, hot spot questions, drag and sort questions, and open questions).
Go to the tab Ans for more information.
Wooclap is a platform that promotes interactivity and participation in classes, face-to-face or remotely. The tool offers a range of possibilities for feedback, voting, quizzing and engaging students in a playful way in their learning activities.
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LabBuddy helps lab teachers to provide inquiry-based education for laboratory classes. LabBuddy ensures that students prepare before coming to their laboratory sessions, supports the acquisition of academic skills, and helps students to stay focused.
The Faculty of Science of Leiden University is providing Overleaf Professional features for all students, faculty and staff who would like to use a collaborative, online LaTeX editor for their projects. Overleaf Professional features include real-time track changes, unlimited collaborators, and full document history.