Set up your Brightspace course

Please choose a new course banner. The banner image should be unique and representative of your course content. It will also appear as a thumbnail for students to quickly locate your course.

1. Log in to Brightspace.
2. Select your course by clicking on the title under My Courses
3. Go to Course Home.
4. Click on the top right corner of the default banner image and select the extra options icon as shown in the image below.

5. You can now Remove This Banner or Change Image.
6. Select Change Image.
7. Upload your own image.

Announcements are the first content students see when entering your course. We advise placing at least one Announcement with a welcoming message. Announcements are also a good way to communicate reminders or updates about materials or date changes to your students.
To create a new Announcement:

1. Go to Course Home and click the Announcements widget’s dropdown menu (you can also access the Announcements tool via your Course Admin area).
2. Select New Announcement.
3. Fill in your announcement Headline and Body with text.
4. You can choose to attach files and adjust the start and end date of your announcement. Announcements can also have release conditions, for example, they can be restricted to specific groups.

Read more about Announcements here.

To make sure TU Delft courses stay recognisable and easy to understand for students, they are built using the same structure. By default, all courses include the modules:

• Overview
• Bookmarks
• Course Schedule
• Course Information
• Instructor Area.

The Course Information is one of the most important parts of your course. This module is automatically updated from Course Base and includes the submodules Course Description, Learning Objectives, Course Structure and dates, Assessment, Resources and Tools, Staff and Support.

In case you wish to add specific information to Course Information, please update it to the content item that has ‘Specification’ in the title. Specification content items are by default set to Draft which means they will not be visible to students unless you change their status to Publish.

To add Course Information, follow these steps:

1. Go to Content and click Course Information.
2. Click the title of the content item you wish to update then click Edit HTML.
3. After updating your information, finalise by clicking Save and Close. This will now be available to students.

Read more about the Course Information module

Creating meaningful content that follows your course structure will make it easier for students to navigate information. For example, within Table of Contents create a Module for Week 1, Week 2, etc.

Do note that a maximum of 2 to 3 layers for each module is advised. To create a new module and add content, follow these steps:

1. Go to Content and click Table of Contents.
2. On the left menu bar click Add a Module and name it (Week 1 for example).
3. On the right side of the page click the Upload/Create drop-down button.
4. Click Upload Files and Add Files from your computer.

Read how to Add and Update Content in your Brightspace Course

We advise to use the grade centre in Brightspace, instead of alternative ways of sharing grades, to comply with the student privacy standards.

Once you have your grade allocation planned, you are ready to set up your gradebook in Brightspace. The quickest and easiest way is to use the Setup Wizard.

1. Go to Grades on your course’s navigation bar.
2. Go to the tab Setup Wizard.

3. Set up your grade centre for your students. You can read more about setting up your Gradebook here.

Your course will only be visible to students once it is set to Active in Brightspace.

1. Go to Course Admin.
2. Click Course Offering Information under the heading: Site Setup.
3. Scroll down and select the option Course is Active by checking the checkbox.
4. Finalise by clicking Save.

Read more about Setting your course to Active, here.

Most Brightspace courses are listed in the Course Catalog and are available for self-enrollment by students. Some courses will not be visibly listed or available for self-enrollment in the Course Catalog (these agreements are made per faculty).
A course will appear in the Course Catalog once it has been set to Active in Brightspace (see step above).

To find your course in Course Catalog, go to your Brightspace Homepage and click on Catalog in the Menu Bar.

Go to our Course Catalog page to read the default settings and what other settings are available.

Your faculty or department determines how students and staff are added to a course; you can read more about it here. In some cases you may want to manually add a student or colleague to your course. To add/enroll (individual) students or staff to your course:

1. Go to Course Admin.
2. Under Learner Management, click on Classlist.
3. Go to the Add Participants dropdown menu.
4. Click Add existing users.
5. Type in the name of the user you wish to add and click the magnifying glass icon to search.
6. Check the box by the name of the user you wish to add and select their role on the right-side dropdown menu.
7. Finalise by clicking the Enroll Selected Users button.

Read more about enrolling and unenrolling users, here.

Don’t hesitate to contact us in case you need further assistance!

We are here from Monday to Friday, 09:00 – 17:00
https://www.tudelft.nl/teaching-support
Email: Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl
Phone: (0)15 27 84333