At the start of school year 2022-2023, The Hague University of Applied Sciences will have switched from Blackboard to Brightspace. Blackboard will therefore no longer be used to provide education from then on. At the moment, however, there is still a lot of data on Blackboard that needs to be retained. That is why a copy will be made of the entire Blackboard environment and placed in an archive environment (Blackboard Archive).

Courses and organizations in its entirety will be copied to an archive version of Blackboard in week 44, from the 31^st of October till the 6^th of November. During this week Blackboard will be offline.

Blackboard is available till the 19th of December 2022. Before then, your information needs to be secured from Blackboard.

Teachers and students will no longer be able to log into Blackboard as of the 19th of December, 12:00. 

In addition, Blackboard will go offline for one week from the 31^st of October till the 6^th of November in order to make the copy to the archive.

No, all active teaching must take place in Brightspace. There is no exception possible for changing or adding information to Blackboard. Thus, new courses, announcements, or assignments can no longer be posted. In addition, students can no longer submit or change submissions either. Therefore, it is important that all live education takes place in Brightspace, including resits and or short-term courses. Please contact your faculty Brightspace project leader with any questions.

As a student, you can save certain documents. For instance, class materials, submitted assignments, or your portfolio.

We recommend migrating courses manually to make sure you make the best of the Brightspace course structure. However, it is possible to export some content from Blackboard and import it in Brightspace. You can find more information here.

An instructor can receive 2 hours of support from a student-assistant. They will work with the instructor on transferring materials to Brightspace.

The support desk can also help with exporting your Blackboard course (in advance).

You can request both options by emailing: [email protected].

This could be done by the instructors/teachers that are already enrolled in the course or via the LSO employee in Osiris. Click here for more information

Students should enroll for courses through Osiris. The enrollment in Osiris is not only used to enroll students in the right course(s) in Brightspace, it is also being used for applications such as Remindo and for evaluation and scheduling purposes. If self-enrollment for particular courses is necessary, this can be arranged. Contact the support desk for more information.

Faculty LSO, Teachers and Student assistants can unenroll students for courses. When the student is enrolled via Osiris, the unenrollment should take place in Osiris. Otherwise the student will be added to the course again after unenrolling in Brightspace.

Yes, but only by LSO. They can use csv or txt files in order to bulk enroll students in courses.

It's not possible for teachers to bulk enroll students into groups. Some programs will make self-enrollment groups allowing students to enroll for the right group or class. We are also looking at options to use groups from Osiris to automatically create them in the Brightspace course.

Students can self-enroll through a self-enroll link. This can be set up by the faculty LSO employees. 

LSO employees can request access to all courses for a faculty for Student Assistants through Topdesk.

No, but you can always manually enroll students should it be necessary.

Yes, this is possible. You can find instructions here. You can also use the “View as Student” option or enroll colleagues as Students within the Classlist.

No. The Sandbox is automatically created for every employee as soon as their Brightspace account is created.

Typically, you can only get courses through the Osiris integration. If you want an additional course, this might be possible, but: only if you have a legitimized reason for it (e.g. there is no Osiris course, there is a second edition of the same course etc.) and you must request it via LSO. If the program or organizational unit does not have a LSO, please ask through the Support Desk.

There is an option in Osiris to create the course in Brightspace. If this option is turned on and if the course is ‘final’, it should be created almost instantly. This process should be done by LSO.

This is not possible. This would cause problems with archiving, student buildup over the years, and problems with the integration with Osiris as a course is created per study year in Osiris too. Even so, it is possible to copy the content of the old Brightspace to the new version of the course. For more information please check the article How do I copy the content from one Brightspace course to another Brightspace course?

No, we can only archive it to make it invisible. This can be done at request by the Support Desk.

Teachers can request them through LSO. If the request meets the guidelines it can be manually created. The most important guideline is that the course should be closely related to educational activities.

The student will still have access to the course as they might need something from that course later during their study. At some point old courses will be moved to the archive.

At least until the minimal legal retention period. It is up to faculties, however, to ensure that they store their documents in the right places. Brightspace is not an archive for study guides, course descriptions etc.

We have made the decision to only use the English language for all standard menus for now. 

It is possible to upload a Dutch Basic Course Template to your course in case you wish to use the Dutch language under the Content part of your course. You can find it here.

Technically there is no maximum, but storage is costly. Thus, it is strongly suggested that you use external sites such as Sharepoint, Stream, and other THUAS approved file hosting sites to store large files.

The Visual Table of Contents is a tool to indicate to students if there is any content they did not visit. It is also possible to navigate from the widget on the course homepage to the Content part of the course. How to adjust this widget and solve problems you might encounter, please visit The Visual Table of Contents article

No. Widgets cannot be switched off/deleted.

Check if your browser and your browser settings are supported at this website. Are they supported but you still encounter problems? Please contact the support desk.

Yes it does, Ouriginal has the same database. Should you wish to include a source that is not in the database, you can do so via the “Include Source” button. Do note that you will not be able to view a student plagiarism source such as an earlier submitted paper due to privacy concerns.

No, as FeedbackFruits is mainly used for formative purposes it is not possible to check for plagiarism within FeedbackFruits.

No, but you could sync your Sharepoint files to your computer files, and then you can upload them the regular way. Click here to learn more

No, there is no specific limit. If the file is really large we do sometimes advice to look at other options, also because it can take a long time to upload in Brightspace with the danger of it being interrupted during uploading. For example, for video assignments we advice to upload it in Stream and hand in the URL to the video in Brightspace instead of uploading it completely in Brightspace.

Go to your course, then go to Course Tools -> Course Admin. Select Import/Export/Copy Components and select Import components and click Start. Choose the components you wish to copy. For more info, click here.

Please see How can I change the visibility of the content of my course?

There are multiple applications or (course) tools in which you can release feedback. The most common being Assignments. In Assignments, firstly you give feedback by clicking on the submission. Then, the teacher has the option to either Publish the evaluation or Save Draft. If you choose Publish, the grade and feedback will be immediately visible for the student. In case you want to release grades and feedback to all students at the same time, opt for Save Draft. Then go back to the overview of all the submissions, select all student submissions and click on Publish Feedback to release all grades and written feedback for this assignment. For more info about publishing feedback, click here. 

For releasing feedback within other course tools, see the following articles:

Grading Discussion Forums

How Do I publish feedback for a quiz?

How do I asses a group assignment?

That is correct, when you have selected the student view, you cannot see the Start button. Nevertheless, there is a way to check the Quiz you just have made. Go to Course Tools – Quizzes, and click on the arrow, then select the third option: ‘Preview’. In this way, you can check your Quiz.

Inserting something in a HTML document:

Within the HTML document you can find multiple importing options that you can use. For example you can insert files from your computer or Youtube Videos by clicking on the “Play/Pause/Circle/Square” button to open the Insert Stuff window.

Next to that button, there is the “Insert Quicklink” option. Here you can insert a link to the contents of your course (e.g. a specific assignment, quiz, discussion), external learning tools (e.g. Möbius), third party tools (e.g. MS Teams meeting), or specific websites.

Next to the link option, there is the "Insert Image" button. Here you can insert an image from your computer, URL, or course offering files. And when you click on the little ‘+ button’ next to the image option, you can insert a table. Here you can select the properties of your table and modify it later if you wish.

Embeding something in a HTML document:

For this you will have to Edit (or create a new) HTML document and click on the “Play/Pause/Circle/Square” button to open the Insert stuff window. Click on the 7^th option: Enter Embed Code. Then, paste a copied code (like a YouTube code of a video) here and hit Save and Close.

Be sure to read the article "How do I use groups?" to find all you need to now about groups and group assignments.

To set up what the students see as the hand in a quiz (or the quiz questions themselves), you have to go to Quizzes and click Edit Quiz. Under Submission Views (the fifth tab) you have to click the Default View. The default message can be found under Message. It can be changed here if desired. Here are all the different settings and options you can select for students to see. These are all described in this article.

We can add Learning Outcomes on organisation level so you can select them in multiple courses. It is not yet possible to create reports for the learning outcomes that cover multiple courses.

They have access as soon as they receive their THUAS account credentials. They are only added to courses through Osiris one month before the new study year starts. If they need access earlier they can either self-enroll or can be added manually or by uploading with csv files by a LSO emplyee of a faculty.

Yes, a couple of test accounts are available. Please read this article carefully if you wish to use them.