Brightspace for Lecturers

Welcome to the Brightspace Help for Lecturers! Here you can find Manuals on Brightspace and its tools and Showcases on how to use them.

Is the answer to your question not listed?
Contact the Brightspace Helpdesk via 📞 (+31 3174)86222 or 📧 brightspace.helpdesk@wur.nl.
You can also check out the (generic) Brightspace documentation for additional information: https://documentation.brightspace.com.

For urgent matters on course-specific issues, you can also contact your Instructional Designer.

Brightspace Manuals

Helpdesk information
- About Helpdesk
BASIC SETTINGS: Login, Page Navigation, Pin a course
- How to log in to Brightspace
- How to navigate in Brightspace: General Brightspace page controls
- How to navigate in Brightspace: Brightspace WUR homepage
- How to navigate in Brightspace: Brightspace Course homepage
- How to manage your courses by pinning them
BASIC SETTINGS: Personal Settings
- How to edit your Profile Picture
- About Account Settings
- How to manage Notifications
COURSE HOME: Overview, Banner, Announcements, Calendar
- How to edit the Course Image
- How to create an Announcement
- How to manage an Announcement
- How to personalise messages using Replace Strings
- How to use the Calendar in Brightspace
- How to edit the Calendar settings
- How to import/export a Calendar
- How to print a Brightspace Calendar
- How to create a Calendar event
COURSE HOME: Course Preview
- How to preview a course as a student
- Test your course as a student: impersonate a dummy student
CONTENT: Course Design and Set-Up
- How to use the Content tool
- How to use the Content to structure your course in Brightspace
- Examples of a course set-up in Brightspace
- How to set up a Default Path for a Content module
- How to edit properties and move a topic in Content
- How to use Discover tool in Brightspace
CONTENT: Course Guide & Course Contacts
- About Course guide and LOR
- How to add a Course guide to the LOR
- Replace an existing Course guide in the LOR
- How to search for a Course guide
- How to create and edit Course contacts
CONTENT: Adding Content to a Course
- Which files are supported by Brightspace?
- Which files are supported by Brightspace? Best Practices
- How to add Documents to a course
- How to add an Audio file or a Video to a course
- How to add a Weblink to a course
- How to add SCORM/xAPI object to a course
- How to preview the SCORM report
- How to import e-modules
- How to add Math using MathML and LaTeX
- How to use OneDrive in Brightspace
CONTENT: Manage Content
- How to Hide or Make visible the course content
- How to replace files in Brightspace
- How to set Restrictions
- How to set restrictions in Content
- About Release Conditions
- How to use the Checklist tool in Brightspace
- How to create a Checklist from the Content
- How to create and manage Checklists from the Course Tools
CONTENT: Course copy
- About course copy in Brightspace
- How to copy a course
- How to copy a course with Rubric
- Offset dates in a course copy
CONTENT: HTML Editor
- About the HTML Editor
- How to add text in the Editor
- How to Insert Stuff in the Editor
- How to insert Quicklinks in the Editor
- How to insert a Graphical Equation to the Editor
- How to access a Brightspace HTML page editing mode
- How to access the Editor
- How to adjust Settings in the Editor
- How to Insert Image in the Editor
COMMUNICATION: Classlist
- About Brightspace course enrolments
- Roles and permissions in Brightspace
- How to use the Classlist
- How to enrol/unenrol users to the course
- How to change the role of a user in the Classlist
- How to create a WUR Guest Account
- How to create an export of the Classlist/group membership
- How to send an email via Classlist
- How to e-mail specific (group of) users using the Classlist tool
COMMUNICATION: Discussions
- Discussions tool in Brightspace
- How to create a Discussion Forum
- How to create a Discussion Topic
- How to add an existing Discussion to Content
- How to edit the settings for Discussions
- How to set restrictions for Discussion Forum and Topic
- How to create a discussion topic per group
COMMUNICATION: Groups
- How to use Groups
- Group Category enrolment types
- How to create a Group
- How to delete groups and categories
- How to add a Group self-enrolment link to Content
- How to view group enrolments
- How to use bulk Group enrolments
- How to use a Group Locker
- How to enrol / unenrol students to a Group
- How to create a sub-group
COMMUNICATION: GroupTool
- About GroupTool
- How to add and/or remove students to/from groups in GroupTool
- How to use the GroupTool to Link and/ or Unlink Groups
- How to use the Schedule with GroupTool
COMMUNICATION: Email
- About sending emails via Brightspace
- How to use the Email tool in Brightspace
ASSESSMENT: Assignments
- How to use the Assignments tool
- How to navigate to Assignment editor Homepage
- How to create an Assignment
- How to set restrictions for an Assignment
- How to give Evaluation and Feedback to an Assignment
- How to use an existing Assignment for groups
- How to use the Assignments tool: Submissions Homepage
- How to create Categories and add assignments to them
- How to add an Assignment to Content
- How to use the Assignments tool: Submission Log
- How to print Brightspace assignments in bulk
- How to copy an Assignment
ASSESSMENT: Assignments - Turnitin®
- How to use Turnitin® in Brightspace
ASSESSMENT: General on Quizzes, Surveys & Self-Assessments
- How to use the Question Library
- How to manage the Question Library
- About Question Types, Section and Question Pool
ASSESSMENT: Quizzes
- How to use Quizzes
- Quiz question types
- How to create a Quiz
- How to add questions to a Quiz
- How to add questions to a Quiz from Question Library
- How to edit quiz question visibility and properties
- How to edit a Quiz
- How to set restrictions for a Quiz
- How to set quiz submission views for students
- How to preview a quiz
- How to add a Quiz to Content
ASSESSMENT: Surveys
- How to use Surveys tool
- How to Create a Survey
- How to add questions to a Survey
- How to add a Survey to Content
- How to export Survey reports
- How to create a Self-Assessment
ASSESSMENT: Rubrics
- About rubrics
- How to create a rubric
- How to associate a rubric with an Assignment
- How to associate a rubric with a Discussion topic
- How to use rubrics
ASSESSMENT: Quick Eval
- Quick Eval tool in Brightspace
- How to use Quick Eval tool to assess course submissions
PROGRESS: Content tracking, Student Progress, Course content Statistics
- How to enable students to track the content they have already seen
- How to use course Content statistics
- How to view course Content statistics
- How to export course Content statistics reports
- How to reset course Content statistics
- How to use course Content statistics for SCORM objects
- How to view course Content statistics of SCORM objects
- How to export course Content statistics for SCORM objects
- What is the Progress tool in Brightspace
- How to use the Progress tool homepage
- How to manage indicators in the Progress tool
GRADES: Gradebook, Grade Items
- Checklist: How to set up a Graded Course
- Introduction to the Grade Book
- How to create a Grade Item/Grade Category
- How to use grading with formulas
- How to reorder Grade Items
- How to import grades in Brightspace
- How to publish grades
- How to enter grades manually in Brightspace
- Recommended Grade Book Settings
- How to create a grade scheme
- How to set restrictions for Grades
- How to use the Grades Setup Wizard
COURSE TOOLS: Course Admin
- How to activate and set a start date of a course
- How to manage dates
COURSE TOOLS: Intelligent Agents
- What is an Intelligent Agent and how are they useful
- How to create an Intelligent Agent
- How to manage an Intelligent Agent
- How to test an Intelligent Agent
- How to manually run an Intelligent Agent
COURSE TOOLS: Manage Files
- How to use Manage Files tool in Brightspace
- How to create a folder in Manage Files tool
- How to delete files from Manage Files tool
EXTERNAL LEARNING TOOLS: An overview
- External Learning Tools - An Overview
EXTERNAL LEARNING TOOLS: Virtual Classroom
- Virtual Classroom | General information
- Virtual Classroom | How to create and add a meeting
- Virtual Classroom | Manage and launch your meetings
- Virtual Classroom | How to enter a meeting
- Virtual Classroom | How to manage your presentation
- Virtual Classroom | Available functions in a meeting
- Virtual Classroom | Roles of participants and how to change them
- Virtual Classroom | How to edit scheduled meeting settings and delete a meeting
- Virtual Classroom | Inviting external participants
- Virtual Classroom | Breakout rooms and group work
- Virtual Classroom | Troubleshooting
- Virtual Classroom | How to add a Virtual Classroom to the Content area
- Virtual Classroom | Restricted meetings for group work
EXTERNAL LEARNING TOOLS: Microsoft Teams
- MS Teams | General information
- MS Teams | Brightspace and MS Teams integration options
- MS Teams | How to log in
- MS Teams | Integration options: How to integrate a MS Teams meeting in your Brightspace
- MS Teams | Integration options: How to create a MS Teams team from your Brightspace
- MS Teams | How to link a team of MS Teams to Brightspace course page
- MS Teams | How to record and share the MS Teams recording
- MS Teams | Roles of participants
- MS Teams | How to add a guest account
EXTERNAL LEARNING TOOLS: FeedbackFruits
- How to create FeedbackFruits Learning activities
- How to add a grade item post-published to FeedbackFruits Learning Tools
- How to edit content in a FeedbackFruits Learning Activity
- How to use the FeedbackFruits notifications
EXTERNAL LEARNING TOOLS: Weblectures, Knowledge clips, Multimedia
- How to use Weblectures in Brightspace
- How to use Knowledge clips in Brightspace
- How to use Multimedia in Brightspace
EXTERNAL LEARNING TOOLS: LabBuddy, JoVE, H5P
- How to use LabBuddy in Brightspace
- How to use JoVE Connection
- How to set up H5P
- How to share an H5P folder
- How to save H5P files on your computer
- How to reuse and duplicate H5P content
- How to link H5P with grades

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