Course Design & Organization

Brightspace basics

This page will provide an overview of navigating in Brightspace.

Start your course design

Beginning your course design, including strategies for online teaching.

Choose online, hybrid or blended

Deciding between an online, hybrid or blended approach.

Structure your course

How to stucture your course from high level design to a step by step weekly plan.

Content (Unit, Folders)

Items can be used to include video, audio, files, text and links in any content area in your course.

Adding text to your Content

Add text to your content with HTML.

Making your courses available to students

Edit the availibility of your course.

Content visibility

Create rules to control content visibility using Release Conditions.

Accessibility Checker

The Accessibility Checker helps you to make your content look better.

Create and manage Groups

Groups have their own collaboration areas in the course so that students can communicate and share files.

Edit the Course Homepage​ ​​

Editing options for the Course Homepage.

Course Calendar

Use the course calender to provide students with dates for course-related events.

Import/Export/Copy course material

Import and export material to or from other courses.

Awards​

The Awards tool enables instructors to provide awards to students.

Checklist​

A checklist contains important or required assignments, readings, or other items to complete.

Organize group work

How can I implement effective group work?

Enroll and remove users from the course

How do I add or remove users from the course?

Groups and sections

Divide the students into groups. Groups have their own collaboration areas in the course so that they cna communicate and share files.

Creating a group assignment

With group assignments in Nestor, students can hand in one assignment together.

Discussions through forums and topics

Allow participants to engage in online discussions on forums. Discussions are grouped in 'threads'.

Share files by using the Locker

Share files with other members of the group, including the instructor.

Using video in education

Why would you use video in your course?

Announcements

Send out time-sensitive information to students. You can also send the announcement as an email to students.

Attendance​​​

The Attendance tool enables you to create registers that track attendance for activities within your organization or course.

Course Calendar​

Use the course calender to provide students with dates for course-related events.

Course members

Use the Course Members tool to view who is enrolled in your course, send messages, view shared locker files and read their blogs.

Email

Send an email to a selection of course participants. This is a send-only tool, you can't receive emails in Brightspace.

Forum and topics

Allow participants to engage in online discussions on forums. discussions are grouped in 'threads'.

Notifications

How to manage notifications in your course

Surveys

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Calendar

Use the course calendar to provide students with dates for course-related events.

Using the Timetable (rooster.rug.nl)

Configure and export (iCal) your own personal timetable and get an overview of all events at the RUG.