Kind of groups

The Groups functionality allows you to divide students/participants in the course into smaller groups (of max. 200 students). Students can be in multiple groups at the same time. You can choose whether the groups are automatically and randomly created by the Brightspace system, whether you want to manually add students to certain groups, or whether

Email groups

How to send an email in Brightspace How to email the entire workgroup When you use this option, you will send a mail to every person in the course. How is BCC incorporated? As soon as you select multiple contacts, all names and email addresses will always automatically be added to the BCC for privacy

Add Instructors & Students

To add users to a course, first navigate in the course to the Classlist menu. You can get here by clicking on ‘Classlist‘ from the homepage of the course. Here you will see a list of all users (names removed here for privacy reasons):

Use and manage Classlist

View Classlist  Overview course enrolments  Export Classlist  You can export a list from the classlist through Grades export in the Gradebook.  

Recover data

In some cases, it is possible to restore deleted data from your course. This article explains which data you can restore by yourself, and which data needs assistance of D2L (the Brightspace supplier) to be restored. In this article, the following is discussed: Which data can be restored by me? It is only possible to

HTML Editor

In Brightspace you can use the HTML editor to edit texts. This manual will explain what function are provided by the editor and how to use them. In the screenshot below all functions are indicated by a number and they will be discussed in the text below. At the bottom of the page a picture

Add Xerte course

Step 1: Navigate to the correct Xerte course at Xerte.uu.nl. Step 2: Copy the Embed Code in the Project Details field. If it is not visible, go to Project Properties by clicking on the orange i in the top left; go to Access and make the project public (this can only be done by the