Source: Own Illustration
In the summer semester 2025, the RWTHmoodle team will be testing two course templates for the first time. These offer a pre-structured course environment that lecturers can customize and use directly. These course templates are intended to facilitate the design of learning spaces for teachers and make getting started with RWTHmoodle even more efficient.
Two key aspects for more flexibility
The two templates focus on different aspects:
- Learning room organization and structure – for a clear, uniform and well-structured course design.
- Multimedia and interactive learning – with a focus on the integration of media and interactive elements.
Both course templates are available for the standard topic format (classic section view) and the single-topic format (tabbed view).
Support for Teachers Through Structured Course Design
Source: Own illustration
The course templates are intended specifically to support teachers who have little experience with RWTHmoodle in creating clear, uniform and didactically meaningful learning spaces.
The course templates can be loaded into the learning room as a course format in the learning room settings and guide you through the required learning room elements in clearly structured steps. Brief descriptions explain the purpose of the element and what design alternatives are available. Predefined elements, which you can adapt to your own requirements, allow you to get started with teaching quickly.
Test Phase and Further Development
We based the development of the course templates on the feedback we received from lecturers in the annual user surveys. Course templates with a focus on learning space organization and material provision were particularly frequently requested as a support service.
The course templates can be activated on request as part of a test phase. Your feedback will help us to improve the templates and further expand our support services for teachers in a targeted manner. Further course templates on specific Moodle topics are planned in the future.
More information on the templates can be found in the RWTHmoodle documentation. If you are interested in a test in your own learning rooms, please send a request to Ms. Sandra Jaeger (CLS). Please note that the course templates will only be available in German in the summer semester 2025.
Responsible for the content of this article are Valentin Koser and Harald Schnurbusch.
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