Not only since the corona pandemic made new teaching formats necessary at universities, too, has digitisation in the field of study and teaching been on the advance. The possibilities are manifold, the need for information correspondingly high. On these pages you will find an overview of the most important questions (and of course answers) concerning digital teaching at the University of Erfurt.
Access to the examination software WISEFLOW is activated again.
In order to be able to use e-learning platforms, video conference systems and the other online offers of the University of Erfurt, the following three requirements should be met – in addition to Internet access and an Internet-capable terminal device. They also apply to first-year students, international students and guest students.
A video tutorial on the basic setup of a FLOWassign under WISEflow is now available in the WISEflow section of the UEDL room. (14.01.2021)
The recordings of the two workshops from 6.1.2021 and 7.1.2021 are now available as opencast videos in the Moodle topic block on WISEflow.
The digital regulars' table has a new rotation to enable more colleagues to participate. During the A-weeks (i.e. from 15 January) it will always meet on Fridays at 1.30 pm and during the B-weeks (i.e. from 6 January) it will always meet on Wednesdays at 7 pm. Click here to go to the regulars' table.
The eTEACH Network Thuringia has announced new training dates around digital teaching.
The University of Erfurt offers numerous digital services that are linked to the university account (= no private account required). Registration is therefore carried out with the university e-mail address or user name. Access off campus is via Shibboleth – a procedure for internet-based applications for authentication and authorisation.
The University of Erfurt uses the e-learning platform Moodle for digital teaching and the organisation of courses. Via this platform, students can register for certain courses and view contents such as literature lists, grades, etc. Moodle is thus at the heart of the provision of digital teaching formats at the University of Erfurt.
E.L.V.I.S.® is the abbreviation for the Erfurt Teaching and Information System, which is supervised by Department 1: Registrars' Office. It is the central tool for students at the University of Erfurt, where, among other things, course bookings (of courses) and grade reports as well as the course catalogue can be accessed.
"BigBlueButton" offers a webinar solution that includes many elements to activate students during sessions. In its functionality it is similar to the tool "Webex Training". It is available integrated in Moodle and can be seen as an alternative to "Webex Training".
Webex (Cisco) is a video conferencing system that can be used by members of the University of Erfurt. For example, lectures or digital office hours are offered with the help of Webex.
At the University of Erfurt, enrolment in certain courses is done via various enrolment systems. Moodle allows the enrolment in online space for a (teaching) event, in which, among other things, materials for the course can be stored.
>> see Moodle
The enrolment procedure for social sciences at the Faculty of Political Science is used by students in the Q-Phase (from the 3rd semester) to enrol for BA seminars in political and social sciences. The registration takes place via the university e-mail address.
The Faculty of Philosophy provides an online registration system for enrolment in courses at the Faculty of Philosophy as well as in courses at the Language Centre. To register, you will need your matriculation number and e-mail address.
Gigamove is a service (of RWTH Aachen University) for the exchange of large files. You log in with your university login and can upload files up to 2 GB. The addressee receives an e-mail from you with the link to "pick up" the data. Please note: Files larger than 2 GB must be split into small file packages.
The University of Erfurt provides this cloud storage service to the university's academic staff in cooperation with the TU Berlin. It offers the possibility to store personal data on a file server accessible via the Internet (in the cloud) and to access this data at any time and from various devices.
You can share files and folders with other people or make them available to other users. The service provides 5 GB of storage and clients for Windows, Linux, Mac and apps for iPhone/iPad and Android.
The University Computer and Media Centre (URMZ) provides the collaboration service Microsoft SharePoint to support group work. The URMZ is responsible for the administration of the client provided by the TU Ilmenau.
Against the backdrop of the corona pandemic, the University of Erfurt has decided to hold examinations in the summer semester 2020 – and, if necessary, beyond – as online examinations.
This will be based on the Corona Mantel Act passed by the Thuringian state parliament and a statute based on it, which enables and regulates the implementation of modified examination formats. Following a data protection impact assessment, the university acquired a licence for the examination software WISEflow from the provider UNIwise in the summer semester.
With the university account, students have the opportunity to use various software offers also on private devices – from Microsoft Office 365 PlusPro and the virus protection software Sophos to Citavi and SPSS.
The internal service area contains internal announcements, job offers and events as well as help topics, documents, applications and contact persons, thus primarily addressing employees.
Nevertheless, students or persons with guest logins also have the opportunity to use these pages. We would like to invite you to use the news area and especially the offer of templates, forms and help topics!
The Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt and the Erfurt University Library preserve unique collections of manuscripts, old prints and maps. The Digital Historical Library Erfurt/Gotha provides research-relevant, particularly valuable or frequently used parts of the historical holdings via the internet.
Digital Historical Library Erfurt/Gotha
Thuringia's digital library includes electronic publications, lecture recordings and electronic semester libraries.
Whether electronic journals, e-books, literature administration programmes or open access – the university library has various digital services, which can also be used off-campus via Shibboleth.
You can find all information on the pages of the University Library.
In addition, as usual, it is possible to search for literature on a topic or a specific book in the library's online catalogue or in the Discovery search portal.
Erfurt University Library provides various online manuals. For example, you can make yourself fit for research (Fit für die Recherche) or find out about special offers in info pieces (Info-Stücke) and e-tutorials.
contact: information.ub@uni-erfurt.de
Within its podcast #Werkstattgespräche the "Hochschullernwerkstatt" dedicates several episodes to the topic "Digitisation of higher education teaching". Among others, members of the Task Force "Digital Teaching" as well as lecturers and students of the University of Erfurt have their say.
to podcast (German only)
The Task Force Digital Teaching, founded in the summer semester 2020, invites teachers and students to inform themselves about and discuss the topic of digital teaching.
Information for students (Moodle room "Uni Erfurt Digital Studieren")
Information for teachers (Moodle room "Uni Erfurt Digital Lehren")
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