Kategorie: ‘Studies & Teaching’
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.
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.
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
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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RWTHmoodle is able to recycle
Reuse Materials, Activities, Configurations, and the Design of Course Rooms with the Import Function
Did you invest a lot of time last semester to make the course room neat? Did you spend a long time working on the right course format, creating and configuring various activities and arranging them in such a way that everything is structured?
RWTHmoodle can also recycle thanks to the practical import function!
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In the Beginning was the Course Format… the Tool of Choice for Designing the Course Room
RWTHmoodle offers innumerable possibilities for designing course rooms. And here it goes, the agony of choice.
With this blog post we want to simplify the decision making process a bit by presenting the course format and its configurations. Why is the course format so important here?
Die RWTHapp effizient nutzen – so wird’s gemacht!
Jedem Erstsemesterstudierenden wird schon in den ersten Tagen an der RWTH Aachen dazu geraten sich die entsprechende App seiner Universität herunterzuladen. Dass das sinnvoll ist, wird sowohl Studierenden als auch Mitarbeitenden schon beim ersten Blick in die App klar.
Startmenü & Kategorienansicht der RWTHapp
Quelle: Eigene Darstellung
Storm “Sabine”: Examinations Will Be Rescheduled
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The University Management has decided that all examinations on Monday, February 10, 2020 will be cancelled, in reaction to the severe weather warning issued by the Deutscher Wetterdienst DED and in close coordination with the “Unit for Extraordinary Events” of the Städteregion Aachen.
Students who, as a result of storm “Sabine,” have difficulties getting to the University campus will thus not be disadvantaged. All written and other examinations scheduled for Monday will be rescheduled to a later date. All classes and teaching-related events will take place as usual. All university employees have been contacted by email and asked to contact their supervisors in case they encounter any difficulties in reaching their workplace due to the storm.
Source: https://www.rwth-aachen.de
RWTHmoodle at the “RWTHtransparent 2020” – a Look into the Future
Last Friday the RWTH Aachen University invited to its annual event RWTHtransparent. In addition to a review of the past year’s successes, the RWTHtransparent also gave its guests a look at future developments at the university. The various information stands provided information about the diverse range of services for teaching and about current research projects.
RWTHmoodle at the “RWTHtransparent”
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