Please chose 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 it.

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

Read more about Banners, here.

Announcements are the first content area students see. We advise to place at least 1 announcement with a welcoming message. Announcements are also a good way to communicate reminders or updates about materials or date changes.

To create a new announcement:

1. Go to Course Home and click the Announcements’ drop-down menu
2. Select New Announcement
3. Fill in your announcement Headline and Body with text
4. You can chose to attach files and adjust the start and ending 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 and 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 sub-modules 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 ‘specification’ sub-module.
Specification sub-modules 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 sub-module 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 Course Information, here.

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 with one modules 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 more about Adding and Updating Content to your page, here.

We advise to use the grade center in Brightspace to comply with the student privacy standards.

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

1. Go to Grades
2. Setup Wizard

However, we highly recommend you to first read our Introduction to the Brightspace Gradebook page, 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.

To add/enroll students or staff to your course:

1. Go to Course Admin
2. Click on Classlist under the heading: Learner Management
3. Go to the Add Participants drop down 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 drop down 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
brightspace-support.tudelft.nl
Email: brightspace@tudelft.nl
Phone: 015 27 84333