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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.

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

Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are changing many aspects of education. On this page we help you discover the possibilities, encourage responsible use and effectively deploy AI tools in your educational practice.

Didactics

It goes without saying that recruiting new bachelor’s students is important to our university. Our recruitment efforts are focused both on schools and on the pupils themselves.

Personal development, Didactics, Working effectively

It’s not easy to choose the right course of study for you. Leiden University is a strong believer in offering comprehensive orientation, so we organise information activities all year round.

Welcome to the Faculty of Science Teacher Platform. Here you will find information about everything related to teaching within this faculty: from the practical matters you need to arrange, to innovating your course.

Once you have completed the design of your course, you have to deal with the practical organisation of teaching. Here you find information about the faculty support.

For all editorial questions or to register a new course/ subject, contact your Faculty Prospectus editor.

Every faculty has its own procedures with respect to registering for courses and examinations, BSA, handing in grades, publishing timetables, etc. For more information, see your Faculty’s tab.

Study support

While designing your education you need to be aware of the rules and regulations recorded in the OER: Course and Examination Regulations (Onderwijs- en examenregeling).

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

This platform offers you information and inspiration in teaching and course education.

It is essential for researchers to be able to obtain independent research funding in order to advance in their career.

Leiden University has an extensive in-house emergency service (Bedrijfshulpverlening, BHV). An emergency response officer is an employee who has followed a training programme allowing him or her to assist others in case of minor incidents. Do you want to become an emergency response officer yourself?…

The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of the course. The form of this assessment varies and depends on your choices. For example, the final grade might depend only on the final assignment, or it might be calculated from several assignments that took place during…

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.

Lunchbyte

Welcome to the teacher platform of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences (FSW). Here you will find information on everything related to teaching at FSW: from the practical issues you need to take care of to innovating your course.

Bindend Studieadvies

Leiden University strives to accommodate young talent, which is why it does its best to create an inspiring environment for PhD candidates. With the University Training Programme for PhDs, we offer a degree programme that is both complete and challenging.

You have chosen to do a PhD track at the Faculty of Humanities. Doing a PhD's no small feat, what do you need to know when your start conducting research for a PhD?

Online Proctoring

Are you travelling on business in the Netherlands? Then your travel and subsistence expenses will be reimbursed. Before making a business trip, arrange permission from your manager.

Kaltura (Personal) Capture allows you to make recordings in various ways and upload them to the video portal.

Didactics

Practical information for lecturers at Leiden University and information about matters such as educational quality and policy.

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

Starting from the academic year 2024-2025, the entire university will be using testing platform Ans for digital assessment. The Faculty of Humanities will make this switch from Remindo to Ans in the second semester (February 2025).

In an inclusive learning environment, every student feels welcome, valued and respected.

Active learning is one of the ambitions mentioned in the University’s educational vision (Learning@LeidenUniversity).

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

Per start of the academic year 2024-2025 students of the Faculty of Science have access to the software distribution platform Academic Software.

The faculties Humanities and Science have made a page with extra information on OER.