Schlagwort: ‘RWTHmoodle’
Pilot Phase for RWTHmoodle Plugins in the Summer Semester 2026
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Attention lecturers and course room managers: Plugins for RWTHmoodle will once again be available for testing this semester. This time, the Sharing Cart and Learning Map plugins will be available.
Welcome to the 2026 Summer Semester!
The days are getting longer, lectures are starting—a new semester is beginning! We are delighted to welcome all students and staff to RWTH Aachen University and wish you a successful start to the 2026 summer semester. Studying and working at RWTH is now more digital and networked than ever before. That’s why we have compiled all the important information about central IT services, innovations, and helpful contact points so that you can get started right away! You can find much of this information in our blog series “Basics at RWTH.” You can also find more information and instructions linked under the respective services.
RWTHmoodle – Introduction of Terms of Use
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In order to further increase transparency regarding the use of RWTHmoodle, the IT Center and CLS are introducing written Terms of Use for the platform for the first time. These terms define the framework for using the system and also serve to provide legal protection for the service. Starting March 26, 2026, the Terms of Use will be displayed after logging into RWTHmoodle. These Terms of Use must be accepted once in order to continue using the platform.
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RWTHmoodle Training Courses
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The RWTHmoodle learning platform is an integral part of studying at RWTH. The platform is often used for lectures and seminars to provide presentations, scripts, and texts.
But RWTHmoodle offers many more features to enhance the learning experience for students. To help instructors leverage the full potential of RWTHmoodle, training sessions for the platform are offered regularly. In this blog post, we provide an overview of some of the training sessions offered and explain how you can register.
Review of the MoodleCafé on Course Room Design
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Students will be familiar with this: course rooms in RWTHmoodle either contain summaries of the respective lecture or seminar or are a hodgepodge of content. But they can also look different: clearly structured and filled with all the content that is important for the course. In addition, there are also various options for interactively deepening learning content or submitting assignments. Although forums, assignments, and tests are among the most frequently used activities, Moodle offers much more to facilitate the learning experience for students. The fifth MoodleCafé therefore focused on course room design. Two practical examples were used to show how design principles can be implemented effectively.
MoodleCafé in the 2025/26 Winter Semester
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In the current winter semester, the Center for Teaching and Learning Services (CLS) is once again inviting participants to the digital exchange format MoodleCafé. MoodleCafé offers teachers and teaching assistants at RWTH Aachen University the opportunity to gain insights into successful teaching practices and to contribute their own questions or experiences.
This semester, the event series focuses on the topic “Best Practice in RWTHmoodle – Structured, visually clear, and didactically diverse course rooms”. The aim is to highlight the diverse design options offered by RWTHmoodle and discuss practical examples. Teachers from various disciplines will present their Moodle course rooms and show how structure, didactics, and design interact to optimally support learning processes.
RWTHmoodle – Results of the User Survey Are in!
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This year, you once again had the opportunity to participate in the RWTHmoodle user survey to evaluate the teaching and learning platform. The survey took place from August 4 to 24, 2025, for all persons who were booked into at least one course in the 2025 summer semester. Approximately 38,300 people were invited to participate by email, of whom 1,190 took part in the survey. Read the rest of this entry »
Team UX at the IT Center
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In this series, the IT Center’s UX team reports on its work. When developing interactive systems such as websites and apps, not only HTML, CSS and JavaScript play a decisive role, but also usability and user experience. Put simply, this refers to the question of whether a system supports its users in achieving their goals effectively, efficiently and satisfactorily and what perceptions and reactions result from using a system.
At the IT Center, we also focus on the usability and user experience of our systems. User tests such as the annual satisfaction survey on the RWTHapp are a key tool that we use for this. You can find this year’s results here.
RWTHmoodle – Course templates for a structured and interactive start to the 2025/26 winter semester
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Following the successful piloting in the summer semester of 2025, the development of our RWTHmoodle course templates will continue. In the winter semester of 2025/26, we will provide you with improved and expanded templates and would like to invite you to try them out in your courses.
The goal of the course templates is clear: they are designed to help you structure your learning spaces in a clear and didactically meaningful way. Everyone benefits from the design: uniformly designed learning spaces make it easier to find your way around and provide a better overview of learning objectives, tasks, and individual progress.
RWTHmoodle: Usage Survey 2025
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Since the introduction of RWTHmoodle in 2019, the usage survey for our teaching and learning platform has become a tradition. This year, we want to know how you rate the platform in terms of performance and usability, among other things. Anyone who is booked as a learning room manager in a learning room can also answer questions on the topics of training and AI tools.
Were you booked in at least one learning room as a student, additional participant, supervisor or learning room manager in the summer semester 2025? Then take your chance from August 4 to 24, 2025 to contribute to the improvement of RWTHmoodle and the support services by participating in the usage survey.
