Brightspace
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The Faculty of Medical Sciences, like all other faculties at UU, started using a new Learning Management System (LMS) as of September 2025: Brightspace.
Brightspace is a modern and user-friendly LMS that is an excellent fit for UU education. This system will replace Blackboard, as the agreement with the vendor expires in 2025. The European tendering procedure showed Brightspace to best fit UU's wishes and requirements. On this page you will find all information about the new LMS, Brightspace, and what this means for you.
Important websites uitklapper, klik om te openen
The entire UU has switched to Brightspace. University wide information about this project can be found on the UU intranet: intranet.uu.nl/en/switch-to-brightspace (log in with Solis-id).
The UU support page containing guides and manuals for teachers and students: brightspace-support.sites.uu.nl
And then Brightspace itself: you can log in at uu.brightspace.com with your Solis-id.
Faculty implementation uitklapper, klik om te openen
An implementation coordinator has been appointed for each faculty, the so-called FICO. The FICO is responsible for a successful implementation within the faculty. Migration from existing systems, training and support for teachers and maintaining contact with our study programmes and the central UU project organisation are some of the tasks.
For optimisation and to gain experience, a partial implementation of Brightspace was started in academic year 2024-2025. A small number of courses (but with a total of around 1,000 students and dozens of teachers from our faculty) already started using Brightspace. The first experiences were positive, and evaluation showed a few functions and settings that were improved before the transition of all our university education starting September 2025.
Training uitklapper, klik om te openen
No basic training sessions are planned right now. Contact tel@umcutrecht.nl if you need training.
Getting to know Brightspace in a surprising way is possible starting in March with the escape room Illuminate.
Several in-depth training courses will be offered, for teachers who want to get more out of Brightspace or improve their course. More information on the CAT website.
E-modules uitklapper, klik om te openen
On Brightspace, Instructors can add e-modules to their courses themselves. All e-modules developed by TEL are available for the whole faculty to use. More information and instructions here.
The end of Blackboard uitklapper, klik om te openen
Blackboard and the archive built up there has been taken offline since 1 January 2026. The UU still has a separate archive available from the past 2 study years for visitations. For more information about this, please contact tel@umcutrecht.nl.
From academic year 2025-2026 and subsequent years, course environments will be preserved again on Brightspace, so that students and teachers can look back in courses that have already been followed in later years. But at the moment there is a transitional period in which this is not the case.
Contact and support uitklapper, klik om te openen
For general questions and assistance with using Brightspace, you can contact the Service Desk at TEL@umcutrecht.nl. They will ensure your question reaches the right person.
For questions about the implementation within the Faculty of Medical Sciences, you can contact the faculty implementation coordinator (FICO): Lars van der Plank, L.O.vanderPlank@umcutrecht.nl.
Each program has a designated contact person for the implementation of Brightspace:
- Biomedical Sciences: Michiel Kroes (courseinformationgsls@umcutrecht.nl)
- Biomedische Wetenschappen: Krijn Vrijsen (beleidsmedewerkersBMW@umcutrecht.nl)
- Geneeskunde CRU: Michelle Nugteren (GNK-beleidsmedewerkers@umcutrecht.nl)
- Geneeskunde SUMMA: Judith Boucher (GNK-beleidsmedewerkers@umcutrecht.nl)
- Klinische Gezondheidswetenschappen: Monique van Rooijen (onderwijszakenkgw@umcutrecht.nl)
- Medical Humanities: Saskia Bultman (beleidsmedewerkerMH@umcutrecht.nl)