Kategorie: ‘Studies & Teaching’
RWTHonline – No Witchcraft!
A few key data in advance: RWTHonline is the Campus Management System (CMS) of the RWTH Aachen University for the organization of studies and teaching. Exactly, it is the linchpin for your study planning and combines different functionalities in one application. The website can be reached via the link online.rwth-aachen.de and it is recommendable to save it under favorites or bookmarks. RWTHonline helps you with the most important business processes concerning your student career from application to graduation. In addition to the approximately 45,000 students, 4,000 employees of the RWTH also use the system to organize their studies and teaching.
The welcome page of RWTHonline
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RWTHonline Survey 2020 – Your Opinion Matters!
This week a special RWTHonline survey for students of the IT Center has started. We would like to hear from you how you would rate the usability of RWTHonline and our support for RWTHonline.
Through our annual user satisfaction surveys (unfortunately only available in German) you gave us already a lot of critical feedback about RWTHonline, which was already used to improve this service.
Thank you for participation!
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Nice to know: sciebo
In today’s “Nice to know” article we would like to introduce another special service that you can use as a member of the RWTH Aachen University: the cloud service sciebo.
Sciebo – the campus cloud
Sciebo is a free cloud storage service for research, study and teaching. The service enables the automatic synchronization of data on different end devices. You can not only share your data with other users, but also work together on documents. Each user has 30 GB of free storage space available. For research projects, project boxes of up to 2 TB are provided. Employees can even increase the quota of 30 GB to 500 GB on their own.
Welcome to sciebo
Source: Sciebo
Old Link, New Structure – Our RWTHmoodle Documentation is Now Available in IT Center Help!
How do I create a course room? Who can use RWTHmoodle? And how do I upload a video?
RWTHmoodle in IT Center Help!
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For these and many more questions about RWTHmoodle we have built up a comprehensive documentation since the start of the teaching and learning platform in summer semester 2019. Here, our users can find many answers and, with the help of click-through instructions, create and try out activities in the RWTHmoodle course rooms themselves.
MoodleMoot Global goes online
Like many other events, this year’s MoodleMoot Global was dominated by the COVID 19 pandemic. The conference, which was originally planned as an on-site event in Barcelona, was therefore held completely online for the first time, offering the global Moodle community the opportunity to exchange information despite distance rules, travel bans and other restrictions. The members of the community met from July 6th to 10th on a specially created Moodle instance. Among the more than 1000 participants from over 120 countries were representatives of the IT Center and the Learning Platform Management Department of the Center for Teaching and Learning Services at RWTH Aachen University.
Over 1,000 participants from over 120 countries took part in this year’s MoodleMoot Global!
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(Deutsch) Freie Software für freie Lehre! – Gemeinsame Erklärung der deutschen, communitygestützten Open-Source-Bildungsplattformen
Acceptance point for DFN certificate applications is still open!
Since May 14th, 2020, the personal acceptance point for DFN certificate applications is open. Here you can come by personally and submit your certificate applications quickly and easily – no matter whether you have an application fo a user, group or server certificate. You will find the personal acceptance point at the IT Center Seffenter Weg 23, at the upper entrance.
Application printed out, appointment booked, hygiene rules observed? Then you can start!
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(Deutsch) RWTH Aachen schließt Rahmenvertrag zur Ermöglichung von Microsoft Azure Services ab
(Deutsch) Remote Lehren und Lernen – Digitale Lehre im Online-Semester
Our Services & the HomeOffice – RWTHmoodle 1×1
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.
