Brightspace
Brightspace is Leiden University's digital learning environment. With Brightspace you can share course materials, grades and updates with your students, create and evaluate assignments and quizzes, perform plagiarism checks, provide personalized feedback and peer feedback, and start discussions.
Brightspace includes many integrated tools and other options to enhance your teaching and increase your students' active participation. The Gradebook in Brightspace lets you record grades, calculate final grades and share them with students, among other things.
Experience Brightspace as a student
In the Student Experience for Teachers you can experience Brightspace from a student's perspective. You can see what your course page looks like for students. Probably you will discover tools that you might not yet be using yourself.
- Enroll for the Student Experience for Teachers
- More information about the page
You can find the Brightspace manuals on the Brightspace supportsite. All functionalities within Brightspace are explained on this site.
There are several tools you can use within Brightspace:
Turnitin is a programme which enables you to use, for instance, a plagiarism check or rubrics to review your students' assignments. As Turnitin is integrated in Brightspace, grades can automatically be transferred from Turnitin to Brightspace.
You can find more information on Turnitin in Brightspace on the Brightspace supportsite.
FeedbackFruits (FbF) is a tool designed that encourages interaction and feedback among students:
- Prompt a discussion amongst your students in the margins of a video or text (Interactive Study Materials).
- Enable them to give interactive presentations (Interactive Presentation).
- Review the assignments of their peers (Peer Review).
You can find an overview of all the functionalities that FbF offers, and their uses, on the FeedbackFruits website.
For more information about using FbF in Brightspace, consult the Brightspace supportsite.