Academic year transition
The information listed below will guide you through setting up your course in Brightspace for the new academic year and help you finalise it more effectively.
Please be aware that not all courses already contain last year's content.
The content of last year’s course has not been copied by our Teaching Support team, if your course belongs to the following faculties:
- Applied Sciences;
- Architecture and the Built Environment;
- Industrial Design Engineering.
However, if you belong to one of these faculties but used Grasple or Ans last year, we did copy the course content for you.
Please view the how-to-copy content page for information on how to copy course content yourself. If the content was copied to your course by accident, please get in touch with Teaching Support.
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If your course has been copied by our team, all course content from last year was copied, except for the elements listed below.
This content is NOT copied:
- Texts added to Overview. It is not possible to copy this automatically. If you wish to display a text there, you can simply copy-paste it from the old to the new course.
- When the Overview section is left empty, this feature will not show up for students.
- Announcements.
- Student data, such as enrolments, grades and submitted quizzes, surveys and assignments.
- Instructors and Course Managers.
- All links to Grasple or Ans homework, including any grade items associated with these.
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- All courses contain the standard Course Information structure.
- Each section within Course Information contains a link that loads information directly from the StudyGuide. Updates to the StudyGuide need to be made when information is incorrect.
- Any information added to Course Information in your old course has been copied to your new course and this information has been set to ‘hidden’.
- It is possible to add specific information in each sub-module of Course Information, and Templates were created to make this easier.
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All courses are set to inactive by default. Inactive courses do not show in the Course Catalog and are not available for self-enrollment.
All modules within your course, except the Course Information module, have been set to "Hidden". This gives you the chance to review, correct and change content before giving students access to your course.
Please check the following items in your course:
- Course Information module (when information is incorrect, please follow these instructions).
- Content, Discussion Forums, Assignments.
- Any (direct) links in your content. This can be links to websites, internal links to Assignments, links to files stored in Course files, links from Assignments to Grade items, etc.
- Gradebook and Rubrics.
- Request access to any External Learning Tools that you will use this year and are not yet available in your course.
- Check any dates that might be set on Release Conditions in Content, Assignments, Quizzes, etc. You can also use the Manage Dates Tool to do this. Please see the Manage Dates support page for more information.
To finalise your course:
- Change content meant for students from Draft to Published.
- Activate your course so it becomes visible for students in the Course Catalog.
- Most courses, except for those of the faculty of IDE, are listed in the Course Catalog for self-enrolment. If you wish to have different settings, please contact Teaching Support.
- Course Managers can add other Course Managers or Instructors.