'Minerva' Learning Environment or VLE

'Minerva' is the name of Bath Spa University's VLE. Here's where to log in to Minerva.

Internet Explorer 8 and Minerva: If you're going to use IE8, read the first bit of the 'Minerva and web browsers' page and change a setting to make it behave.
Enrolment Information: Missing people? Can't see a module? Here's how enrolment works ...
Configure your 'Minerva' welcome page / Show or hide courses: Cut down on the clutter ...
Accessibility guidelines (pdf): Guidlines for Minerva from Bath Spa University's VLE group.
Backing up your work: This allows you to back up the contents of a course. Also useful if you have course material you need to move from one course to another ...
Summer 2009 rollover: Info on the new Minerva tool that allows academic staff to manage staff enrolments. This also includes information on copying course content from a previous year to the current one.
Module Evaluation Survey: There's a ready made module evaluation survey built in to your Minerva module. You'll need to deploy it though. You may well need to know how to do this, use that help page with video.

Academic Staff: 'Practical Tutorials': Starting points for Academic Staff - info on practical tasks, including adding material, email to students, the digital dropbox ...
Students: getting going with 'Minerva': A single page of help on getting going with Minerva - for students

Minerva and web browser software: Why everyone's mileage may vary
Downloading and printing: Why this can get complicated
Minerva's text editor: Formatting your text, using images, reusing your web pages from say the 'Teaching' server.
Minerva, Teaching Materials, and Copyright: Guidance on copyright when you provide teaching materials via 'Minerva'.
Minerva and accessibility: Make use of the accessibility guidelines developed by the VLE group and approved by the learning and teaching committee. You'll find them in the Academic Office web site's A to Z - and in case their link doesn't work for you, here's a PDF version.

If your module isn't in the list of courses you see: Log a job via the Work Management System for the Student Programmes Office to investigate. (SITS-based Minerva courses are generated from the Student Programmes Office SITS data)

Minerva - Disable HTML editor. If you're interrupted by an 'Office install dialogue', disabling Minerva's web based Visual Text Box html editor can help. Here's how.
'Minerva' resources for staff
E-learning links - VLE resources on the web
'Minerva' FAQ

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