Minerva: Staff Guides

Minerva is the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that enables staff to create and manage online teaching areas and to communicate with students. It uses Blackboard technology with a wide range of in-built and integrated tools for interactive learning, assessment and grading.  Visit minerva.leeds.ac.uk and sign in using your username@leeds.ac.uk and password.

Don’t forget you can search this site for answers to specific questions you might have. You can also view an A to Z of Minerva Staff Guides currently available on this site.

Get started with Minerva

Start here to get orientated with Ultra Course View, includes guidance on how to use the institutional module template.

Setup and manage your Minerva modules/organisations

Learn how to setup and manage your modules. Make sure the right people have access to your modules/organisations by consulting the enrolment guides.

Create Content

Ultra Course View offers a variety of ways for you to add content to your module/organisations. These guides focus on creating content.

Communicate

Minerva offers communication at module, school, faculty and programme level. Staff can also request University-wide announcements. These guides focus on the different ways you can use Minerva to communicate.

Engage and Interact

Guides that focus on the built-in tools you can use to engage and interact with your students.

Monitor Activity

Guides focusing on the built-in tools in Minerva to help your students keep on track and to help you understand how they are performing.

Assess and Evaluate

Learn how to use the assessment tools available to Staff via Minerva. Understand how to use the Gradebook and the workflows involved in grading and posting grades.

Accessibility in Minerva

As part of the move to Ultra Course View you’ll notice the usability of all of the interactive tools (discussion boards, blogs and journals) have been improved.

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