Kategorie: ‘Studies & Teaching’
Welcome to RWTH: Get Off to a Strong Start in Your Studies With TreMoGe
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A warm welcome to RWTH Aachen University! To help you get off to a good start in your studies, make sure your smartphone, tablet, and laptop are set up and ready to use for RWTH’s most important IT services.
Spotlight on Moodle Tools: The Organizer
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Whether for oral exams, exam review sessions, or office hours, scheduling appointments between students and instructors is an important part of the academic experience. The RWTHmoodle “Organizer” plugin is a helpful tool for this purpose. It allows you to plan and manage appointments. In addition, learning space managers can enter grades.
In this blog post, you’ll learn how the plugin works and how you can use it as a student or instructor.
Pilot Phase for RWTHmoodle Plugins in the Winter Semester 2026/27
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The 2026/2027 winter semester is just around the corner, and for all instructors and learning space managers, this means that new RWTHmoodle learning spaces need to be created. Once again this semester, we are looking for testers for plugins in the pilot phase.
In addition to the thoroughly revised course templates, the Sharing Cart and Learning Map plugins are once again available for testing.
Data Backup in RWTHmoodle
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Twice a year, learning spaces are deleted from RWTHmoodle. During this process, all learning spaces older than three years are deleted. We will notify you of the deletion well in advance via email and a banner on RWTHmoodle. This November, it’s the turn of the learning spaces from the 2023/24 winter semester. When learning spaces are deleted, all content is also deleted. To save yourself trouble and time, you should back up all important learning materials beforehand. Find out about the data backup options available to students and instructors in this blog post.
Kube3: Cross-National Kubernetes Infrastructure for Universities
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How can universities jointly develop modern cloud services while maintaining their digital sovereignty? This is precisely where the Kube3 collaboration comes in. Universities and research institutions from Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) are working together to establish a cross-state Kubernetes-as-a-Service (KaaS) infrastructure. The goal is to develop common standards and future-proof solutions that can be used by all participating institutions in the long term. The NRW portion of the Kube3 federation will initially run through spring 2028.
RWTHgpt: Image generation is finally available!
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Good news for everyone who uses RWTHgpt: RWTH’s generative AI service now also supports the creation of images. This means that students, faculty, and administrative staff can now not only generate text but also create and refine their own graphic content directly in RWTHgpt.
Whether it’s illustrations for courses, visualizations for presentations, learning materials, concept sketches, or creative graphics for projects: The new image generation models support a wide range of tasks in academic studies, research, and day-to-day work at RWTH.
Activity Spotlight: The Test
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Moodle offers a wide variety of activities to support students in their learning. The “Test” is one of the most frequently used activities in RWTHmoodle. It allows you to create online quizzes with various question types—from multiple-choice and matching questions to math problems. Tests are particularly useful for ongoing assessment of learning progress and self-assessment throughout the semester.
In this post, we’ll introduce you to the most important features of the Test activity and show you the options available for creating quiz questions.
RWTHapp: Your Certificate of Enrollment Now Available Directly in the App
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Whether for BAföG, a part-time job, student housing, or other organizational matters: For many students, the certificate of enrollment is one of the documents they need on a regular basis. With the latest update to the RWTHapp, you can now access your certificate of enrollment directly in the app. This means a frequently requested feature is now conveniently available on your smartphone.
CLAIX-2025: Next Milestone for HPC at RWTH Aachen University
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With CLAIX-2023, a major step was taken in 2023 toward a modern, energy-efficient, and scalable High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure at RWTH Aachen University. Now, CLAIX-2025 marks the next milestone, bringing significant additional CPU computing power to strengthen the field of traditional HPC simulations. In addition, a targeted expansion in the field of machine learning (ML) marks an important step forward. The new system went live on July 13, 2026, and seamlessly complements CLAIX-2023 as part of the proven 1-cluster concept at the Tier-2 level.
Your Opinion on the RWTHapp Matters
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For many students, the RWTHapp is an integral part of daily student life. To find out how satisfied you are with the app and what features you’d like to see in the future, we conducted a survey in early May. The results provide fascinating insights into the app’s usage, usability, and potential future developments.
