Kategorie: ‘Support, Services & Updates’
Our Services & Home Office – Remote Communication
In order to provide you with information about our services in this special situation and in the time of initial restrictions, situational mobile work from home and others, we have prepared a mini-series on our blog. We will give you tips and tricks as well as recommendations for use, which will simplify your work at a distance.
Today is all about communication. We all know that communication is the linchpin in the last weeks. To keep it up as usual, you need access to mails, the telephone and possible audio and video conferences.
Home Office & Communication – You can’t do it without.
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RWTHmoodle at a glance for lecturers
The summer semester 2020 is just a few weeks old and yet it is already a very special one. Due to the corona pandemic, all courses will be held online this semester.
For lecturers and students at RWTH this is a special challenge, but especially the teaching and learning portal RWTHmoodle offers many great opportunities for communication with students and for teaching and learning content. There, lecturers can use virtual course rooms and thus exchange information with students and make learning materials available.
Here are some tips and tricks about RWTHmoodle for lecturers
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In this article you will learn more about the different functions of RWTHmoodle which are especially important at the start of the digital summer semester. Beside the descriptions of the different features you will find links to helpful pages of the IT Center Documentation Portal and further information.
Opencast for video upload
With the streaming server of RWTH it is easy to provide recorded lectures or other video material in the course rooms. These videos can then be viewed by the students in the course room. Video material of up to 10 GB can be uploaded. Follow the link.
Managing tasks and duties
If you do not want to organize student submissions by e-mail, you can use the activity “Task” in RWTHmoodle. In this way, tasks can be set, submitted and evaluated completely digitally. All this is displayed in the course room in a simple and clear way.
Notify and inform students
To keep students up to date with the latest developments, there are a few options in RWTHmoodle. We recommend the forum “Announcements“. It allows students to be notified about new announcements by e-mail. However, the announcements remain permanently visible in the course room via the forum.
Create student folder for submissions
The Student Folder activity is a great option for sharing content and materials between students. If lecturers include such a folder, students can also upload materials in the course room and share them with others.
Allocate consultation hours by appointment planner
With the activity of the “Appointment Planner”, the allocation of consultation hours is no longer a problem using the digital way. Booking online is very easy once the activity has been activated by the lecturer.
Restrict access and visibility
If requirements for the view of certain materials should be fulfilled in advance, this can be easily controlled via RWTHmoodle. Both the previous completion of a task, the membership in a group or a certain time: All this can be set to limit the access to files, follow the link here.
Designing tests
To create tests in course rooms in RWTHmoodle you need to activate the activity “Test“. It allows you to create and run tests for students and thus allows easy retrieval of knowledge despite spatial distance.
Designing interactive course room elements with H5P
H5P makes it easy to integrate interactive elements into the course room. These include dictations, cloze texts, pictures, memory games and the possibility to conduct a quiz. All this is activated with just a few clicks and provides a varied alternative to the other content.
If there are still questions that cannot be answered by the tutorials or if there is a general need for advice about RWTHmoodle, the CLS “Learning Platform Management” department now offers online consultation hours. These can be booked under the following link:
https://www.buchsys.de/cls-aachen/angebote/aktuellerzeitraum/RWTHmoodle-Sprechstundeonline.html
We hope you have gained a good insight into the most important functions of RWTHmoodle for lecturers and wish you a smooth implementation of your teaching concept in this very special semester.
Responsible for the content of this article are Susanne Kubiak and Liza Schwarz.
5G-Industry Campus Europe an der RWTH Aachen – Das IT Center jetzt auch beteiligt
Seit Oktober 2019 hat sich am Aufbau eines 5G-Forschungsnetzes an der RWTH Aachen so einiges getan. Zuerst wurde die Förderzusage des Bundesministeriums für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (BMVI) erteilt. Mit dieser Zusage ließ auch der Aufbau des 5G-Netzes nicht lange auf sich warten. Die notwendigen Frequenzen sind ebenfalls der RWTH Aachen durch die Bundesnetzagentur zugeteilt worden.
Auch das IT Center unterstützt künftig die 5G-Initiative an der RWTH Aachen.
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Welcome to RWTH Aachen University
Welcome to RWTH!
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We, the IT Center, would like to welcome you, dear newly enrolled students. We all know that every beginning is exciting and sometimes a little difficult. As if it wasn’t enough to begin a new phase of life as a first semester student, you are even rushing into a digital first semester.
Done: RWTH achieves another milestone
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Another milestone on the way to becoming an NHR data center has been reached: RWTH Aachen University – together with Technical University Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) – would like to become part of the National High Performance Computing Network.
In the Joint Science Conference (GWK), the federal and state governments have agreed to jointly promote not only research buildings and large-scale facilities but also high-performance computing at universities. The aim is to create a coordinated network of several National High Performance Computing Centres (NHR), which will provide resources and services for high-performance computing for all German universities.
ACI Expertenrunde – das IT Center war vor Ort
Auch wenn zur Zeit auf Grund der aktuellen Situation keine Veranstaltungen stattfinden, möchten wir Euch heute einen kleinen Rückblick zur Expertenrunde zum Thema Einsatz von Cisco “Application Centric Infrastructure” (ACI) geben und die Hintergründe sowie Zusammenhänge aus Sicht des IT Centers erläutern.
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Austausch bei Erfahrungen mit Cisco ACI
Am 12.02.2020 und 13.02.2020 fand in Köln eine Expertenrunde zum Thema Einsatz von Cisco ACI statt. Dabei handelt es sich um die von dem IT Center genutzte DataCenter-Netzwerklösung, welche die Netzwerkkonnektivität für die fast 1.300 virtuelle Maschinen des IT Centers und seiner Kunden bereitstellt. Auf der Konferenz fanden sich ausgewählte Nutzende aus dem ganzen Land zusammen, die dort ihre Erfahrungen miteinander teilen konnten. Die ausgewählten Teilnehmenden stammten aus verschiedene Bereichen, wie beispielsweise aus dem Bank- und Versicherungswesen, der Privatwirtschaft aber auch aus dem öffentlichen Dienst.
Multiple Choice – The new question type STACK for quizzes in RWTHmoodle
Electronic self-tests with automatic evaluation of answers given by students are a good option to give students regular opportunities to practice and to enable them to check their learning progress independently. Subjects with a high proportion of mathematics, however, face a major problem: closed task formats such as multiple choice questions, in which the answers are merely selected from predefined options, do not adequately reflect the demands placed on students.
Microsoft Teams für Mitarbeitende der RWTH Aachen
Angesichts der aktuellen Lage arbeitete die RWTH Aachen in den letzten Wochen mit Hochdruck daran, Lösungen zu den dabei aufkommenden Herausforderungen zu finden. Um die Verbreitung des Virus zu verhindern, arbeiten die Beschäftigten der RWTH vermehrt nur noch allein in Büros. Andere bleiben sogar ganz zu Hause und arbeiten im HomeOffice.
Teambesprechung in MS Teams Quelle: Eigene Darstellung
QMS für Kundenzufriedenheit – Warum Ihr auf uns bauen könnt
Qualitätsmanagement liegt uns am IT Center sehr am Herzen. Mit allen Mitteln setzen wir die selbstaufgestellten Anforderungen der Konformität mit individuellen Ansprüchen unserer Kunden um. Hierzu gehört die Unterstützung bei der Nutzung unserer Services, wie auch die entsprechende Beratung und natürlich auch die sofortige Information über Systemstörungen. Unsere Devise ist eine stetig hohe Erreichbarkeit zu garantieren und transparent zu kommunizieren, wie natürlich auch die schnelle Bereitstellung der angefragten Services.
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Provide an electronic reserves collection – with the literature section
Literary texts, historical sources, textbooks of all kinds or current research essays – despite the increasing number of video offerings, texts still play a prominent role in university teaching. However, not all texts that are needed in teaching are available as electronic resources quickly, easily and, above all, accessible to a large number of students at the same time.
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