IT Center Changes

In line with the life cylce of course rooms with connection to RWTHonline, the winter semester 2020/21 course rooms were deleted on November 13, 2023.

Improvements:

• security issue was closed
• Paella player version 6.5.6 as the default player
• all Release Notes

• Migration from MySQL to PostgresSQL

In line with the life cylce of course rooms with connection to RWTHonline, the summer semester 2020 course rooms were deleted on May 2, 2023.

RWTHmoodle was launched in the summer semester 2019 with Moodle version 3.6.3, replacing L²P which had been used until then. A lot has happened regarding RTHmoodle since 2019, with regular updates to newer versions, as well as new functions and changes. The biggest changes and a redesign came with the upgrade to version 4.1 in March 2023.

Functions

Course index:

• left sidebar listing all sections, activities and materials
• students: color hightlights indicates the completion of an activity
• standard topics format: collapsing and expanding of sections
• right block drawer: collapsable
• managers: edit mode via switch at the top right corner

Improvement

Redesigned start page:

• reducing the amount of information
• focus on login
• clearer distinction between login via RWTH Single Sign-On and login for local accounts

Dashboard:

• landing page after login
• important blocks: „Timeline“, „Recent Badges“, „News“ und „Helpful Links“

My Courses:

• list of course rooms

Course index:

• activity block (previously on the left sidebar) can be added by the managers in the block drawer

Horizontal menu bar:

• centrally located
• managers: course settings, participant administration, grade administration, and reports. Other elements, e. g. course import, are grouped under “More”

Question bank (managers):

• expanding of question management
• questions can now be saved as drafts
• versioning of questions
• comment on questions for necessary revision steps as part of a review process
• Facility index and discriminative efficiency of a question are displayed directly in the overview
• flagging of questions if a review is necessary

Other improvements (managers):

• “Label” resource is now “Text and media area”
• In the editor, creating links has been simplified
• participent administration: dropdown menu to get easier access to the group section and other options for managing participants

In line with the life cylce of course rooms with connection to RWTHonline, the winter semester 2019/20 course rooms were deleted on November 2, 2022.

In line with the life cylce of course rooms with connection to RWTHonline, the summer semester 2019 course rooms were deleted on May 2, 2022.