What are manually created courses?
Manually created courses are courses that are not created by the uSis - Brightspace integration, but act the same as uSis courses. That means that they are regular courses, that take place in an education period, but can not be created by the uSis - Brightspace integration. From a student and instructor point of view, the course names of uSis courses and manually created courses are the same. This provides consistency in the course names for end users.
uSis courses are known to take place in an education period. Currently the following education periods are known in uSis and therefore also in Brightspace:
- Semester 1
- Semester 2
- Full Academic Year
Only for LUMC
- Education Period 1
- Education Period 2
- Education Period 3
Read more in this article (Dutch only) on the advice and policy, for whether you should make use of a manually created course, or if an alternative like MS Teams would be a better fit.
This article is about a specific type of manually created courses: the manual course. Other types of manually created courses are:
- Faculty Courses, a course for an entire faculty
- Programme courses, a course for an entire programme, such as a Bachelor, Master or Minor
- Sub-Master Courses, like the Master course template used in courses
- Sandboxes
Request a Manually created course
Prerequisites:
- Course Name
- Academic Year or Calendar Year
- e.g. 2019-2020
- or 2020
- Education Period or Start Month
- e.g. Semester 1 or 2
- May or 05
- Department
- Faculty/institution
- Optional: If you want to fill the course with content, we need the course code of the source as well
Please follow the steps below:
- Fill in format below
- Save as excel/csv
- Send in via the Helpdesk Portal
- You'll receive an email as soon as your request has been processed.
Course convention Manual courses
Course name convention
The convention for the course name = [academic year]-[education period] [course name]
e.g. 1920-S2 Vakdidactiek Bedrijfseconomie
- Course is called Vakdidactiek Bedrijfseconomie
- And takes place in academic year 2019-2020, semester 2
Course code convention
The convention for the course code = [faculty number]_[course name abbreviation]_[academic year]_[education period]
e.g. 7_VB_1920_S2
- Faculty number - See below an overview
- Abbrevation of the course name: VB
- Academic Year: e.g. 1920 for 2019-2020
- Education Period: e.g. S2 for Semester 2.
- See below for an overview of available education periods
| Name | Code |
|---|---|
| Semester 1 |
S1 |
| Semester 2 | S2 |
| Education Period 1 | OP1 |
| Education Period 2 | OP2 |
| Education Period 3 | OP3 |
| Science | WN |
| Full Academic Year | HS |
Faculty code convention
| Faculty name | Department code | Template code | Faculty number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology |
DEP_ARCH |
ARCH_FAC_MANU |
1_ |
| UB |
DEP_BIB |
BIB_FAC_MANU |
BIB_ |
| Global Affairs (the Hague) |
DEP_FGGA |
FGGA_FAC_MANU | 8_ |
| HOVO |
DEP_HOVO | HOVO_FAC_MANU | HOVO_ |
| Humanities | DEP_FGW | FGW_FAC_MANU | 5_ |
| Law | DEP_LAW | LAW_FAC_MANU | 2_ |
| LUMC | DEP_LUMC | LUMC_FAC_MANU | 3_ |
| Social Sciences | DEP_FSW | FSW_FAC_MANU | 6_ |
| Science |
DEP_FWN | FWN_FAC_MANU | 4_ |
| ICLON | DEP_ICLON | ICLON_FAC_MANU | 7_ |
| SEA |
DEP_SEA | SEA_FAC_MANU | SEA_ |