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.
If you are looking for specific guidance, don’t forget you can search this site. You may also find the A to Z of Minerva Staff Guides on this site helpful. To access Minerva, go to minerva.leeds.ac.uk and sign in using your username@leeds.ac.uk and password.
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.
A to Z of all Minerva guides
Looking for something specific? Try the A-Z for all our Minerva documentation.
Minerva News
A summary of all Minerva related news.
Minerva Monthly Updates
Find out about new features, bug fixes and enhancements to existing features by taking a look at the monthly Minerva updates digest.
Preparing for 2022/23 - answers to frequently asked questions
Ultra Course View modules are now available for population. Here are the answers to some common questions staff may have as they prepare for the 2022/23 academic year.
Need help finding a guide? The A to Z of Minerva guides lists all the Minerva guides currently available on this site. You can also search this site to find answers to your questions.