Supporting systems

Brightspace is the digital collaboration and learning environment at TU Delft. Each course has its own Brightspace section, where information about the course can be posted. Use of a different platform for sharing course information is not permitted.

In addition to sharing the mandatory course manual, Brightspace can also be used to post assignments, share presentations, form groups, submit work and register marks, etc. Click here to see all the features of Brightspace.
As course coordinator, you are responsible for your course’s Brightspace section. The faculty has formulated the following guidelines for Brightspace:

• Each course must use the format established by the faculty for setting up Brightspace. See below.
• The course manual must be published on Brightspace. The course manual contains information regarding the learning objectives, the structure of the course, the assessment, the weekly timetables and staff information, etc. In summary, it gives students a general idea of what to expect during the course and what is expected of them. The faculty has adopted a format for the course manual, which is available here.
• The course’s Brightspace section must be activated at least one week before the start of the course, so that students can familiarise themselves with the course.

The digital study guide, which contains descriptions of all courses offered at TU Delft, is published on the TU Delft website. The description includes the number of ECTS available for the course, the period in which the course is offered, the name of the course coordinator, the subjects covered, the teaching and assessment methods and the course material required.

The information about the teaching and assessment methods is included in the Teaching and Examination Regulations and therefore has a legal status. Once the course descriptions have been adopted (by the end of May at the latest), it is no longer formally possible to amend the course description. Students may derive rights from the contents of the text in the study guide.

Each year, the E&SA department asks the course coordinators to review the course descriptions and to update them if necessary. This takes place in CourseBase. You will be notified when courses can be reviewed and updated. Check here for a brief guide to using CourseBase.

The content, learning objectives and teaching and assessment methods of the course may only be changed following the Board of Education’s approval. Please send proposals for changes to the Board of Education in good time (opleidingsdirectie-io@tudelft.nl) so that they can be approved before the course descriptions are adopted in May of each year. Once approved by the Board of Education, the board will also submit the changes to the FSC, the OKIO and/or the Board of Examiners for approval (depending on the nature of the change).

Download the brief guide on Coursebase.

Osiris is the system used at TU Delft to track academic progress. All important student information is recorded in Osiris (name and address details, previous education, attendance mode at TU Delft, course and examination registrations and results obtained).

Course coordinators use Osiris to:

• find the students who have registered for the course (this can also be done via the course’s Brightspace section);
• refer students to the possibility of deregistering for the course if they indicate that they no longer wish to participate;
• find the list of students who have registered for the examination;
• enter students’ marks.

Manuals for these tasks can be found here.

At the end of 2021, the faculty launched a new facility for lecturers: the IDE Blended Studio. This studio is managed by the Blended Learning team and can be booked by lecturers to record videos and to broadcast lectures live. The student assistants provide support by advising on different settings and offer technical support during the recording and editing process.

To book the studio, send an email to Blended-Studio-IDE@tudelft.nl.

In addition, lecturers can use Collegerama to record the lectures they give in lecture halls. Collegerama is a TU Delft on-campus video service provided by the NewMedia Centre. Lecturers can use Collegerama to record their lectures and post them on Brightspace afterwards. During a recording, the lecturer and the presentation are recorded synchronously. When students watch the recording on Brightspace, they can choose which part of the video to enlarge.

Please note: The course coordinator is responsible for requesting the use of Collegerama via NewMedia Centre (tudelft.nl).

Note: Make sure you do this in good time to ensure that your request is granted.

For more information click here. 

The faculty has facilities for students to manufacture their models and prototypes. These facilities are located in the Model Making and Machine Lab (PMB).

If your course includes modelling/prototyping, make sure you contact the PMB coordinator, Don van Eeden, at an early stage. Discuss what the students will need to do, whether certain materials will be required and when students will start using the PMB. This way, the PMB will have time to make the necessary preparations and you can rest assured that the PMB will be available for the students on your course.

Click here for more information.

The IDE Valorisation team is instrumental in ensuring professional collaborations between the faculty and external organisations.

From an educational perspective, this means that it:

• plays a role when a course collaborates with companies for practical real-life cases and assignments. This is important to ensure that agreements with organisations are made in a similar manner;
• advises on contracts between the faculty or individual students and organisations to ensure that agreements on issues such as intellectual property and copyrights, etc. are appropriately safeguarded.

If you are planning on approaching an organisation to contribute practical real-life cases for your course, please contact the IDE Valorisation team.

The TU Delft Exam Desk is responsible for planning and organising examinations. Click here for important information on organising digital and on-campus examinations and on what is expected of you as a course coordinator or lecturer.

The faculty’s academic counsellors assist IDE students with all kinds of study-related issues, including: choosing what to study, motivation to study, drawing up study plans, extra challenges, study delays, disabilities, fear of failure, exceptional personal or family circumstances and the associated individual support and schemes, etc. See also: Academic counsellors (tudelft.nl)

As a lecturer, it is good to know that the faculty has academic counsellors and to be aware of the types of issues they can help with. You can refer students to the academic counsellors if you are concerned about their academic progress or their personal well-being. Conversations with academic counsellors are always confidential. The academic counsellors do not intervene in curricular matters, academic content/standards, (compliance/non-compliance with) rubrics; after all, that is the domain of the lecturer.

If you have very serious concerns about a student, urgently advise them to go see the academic counsellor and inform the academic counsellor that you have urged the student to see them. In the event of an emergency and crisis, refer to: Contact in case of emergency / crisis.

As a lecturer, you may also discuss a particular student situation with an academic counsellor. They may be able to advise you on what to do in this situation and/or how to encourage the student to contact an academic counsellor.