Kategorie: ‘Support, Services & Updates’
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.
The End of an Era – The IT Center’s Printing Service Locks Its Doors
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For many decades, the IT Center’s Printing Service has provided professional printing solutions for the departments and chairs at RWTH Aachen University. Unfortunately, the Printing Service as we know it will soon be a thing of the past. In this blog post, you’ll learn what’s behind the Printing Service’s closure and what happens next.
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.
IdM Role and Group Management: View Your Own Roles Faster
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Effective immediately, all members of RWTH Aachen University can view their own roles directly in the IdM Role and Group Management. The homepage displays all roles that have been assigned to you via Role and Group Management.
This makes it easier to access your own roles and groups: You no longer have to navigate through the IdM Selfservice to do so. Previously, access to the IdM Role and Group Management was only available to individuals with the “Role Management” role.
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.
