Arria10 SoC Dev Kit Beginner Help

You don't normally need to do anything with the MAX V device on the board.

Use the example designs as a starting point if you don't like the documentation. Go to the Pin Planner from the Assignments menu in an open project to see how board components, like the LEDs are connected to FPGA I/O pins.

I presume this is the kit you are referring to:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/products/boards_and_kits/dev-kits/altera/arria-10-soc-development-kit.html

So download the .zip that includes a number of example Quartus project designs from there. You can find more here:

https://fpgacloud.intel.com/devstore/platform/?acds_version=any&family=arria-10&board=16

or at Rocketboards.org.