With RWTHmoodle at RWTH Aachen University, e-learning 2020 is easily possible from home.
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Today’s article in the mini-series “Our Services & the HomeOffice” deals with the use of RWTHmoodle and the digital course rooms.
Course rooms & participants
To apply for a digital learning room for your course, you can simply contact the “LV-Coordination” of your chair or institute. This person can order the desired course room. Lecturers of the corresponding courses are automatically authorised as “Manager” if a TIM-CAMPUS-Coupling exists.
Instructions for creating course rooms.
Automatic booking of “lecturers” and “assistants” as managers.
As “Manager“, you have the possibility to add manually further persons to the course room besides the students who were automatically authorized due to a confirmed place in RWTHonline.
Automatic booking of students in the course rooms.
Explanation of the roles and rights in RWTHmoodle.
Instructions for adding and removing people in the course room.
Instructions for booking external persons in the course rooms.
To provide materials from previous semesters you can use the import function in the course room. It is also possible to create many different, interactive working materials and activities.
Instructions for importing and reusing
Instructions for creating resources or activities.
If you want to make videos available in the course room, you can do this easily in two steps with the RWTH streaming server: Upload and embedding.
Instructions for uploading videos to the streaming server.
Instructions for embedding videos in the course room.
If you wish to contact students directly, you can use the “Announcements” activity in RWTHmoodle or you can use “Quickmail” to send e-mails comfortably to the participants of your course room.
Instructions for creating an announcement in the course room.
Instructions for sending e-mails via the course room (Quickmail).
Support
If you need support for continuing online courses during the digital semester, you can find support at the IT-ServiceDesk. Furthermore, the Learning Platform Management department of the Center for Teaching and Learning Services (CLS) also offers a RWTHmoodle consultation hour in which individual questions can be discussed personally. (Please note these pages are currently only available in German.) It is also worthwhile to take a look at the CLS’s advice on distance and online teaching at the RWTH.
More information is available at any time:
https://www.itc.rwth-aachen.de/corona
Responsible for the content of this article are Liza Schwarz and Nicole Filla.
