A number of questions arise when planning and teaching courses. These may be simple questions such as what do module officers do or how are credit points calculated? In addition, there are a number of practical details: How do course planning and registration work? What is my role as an instructor in the exam registration process? Who do I contact about lecture hall equipment or how do I set up a digital classroom on ISIS? After managing these initial details, you then have to prepare teaching materials and make these available. Here, too, questions arise such as whether you have to prepare all of your own materials or if you can use available materials which are freely accessible. There are a number of service offices at Technische Universität Berlin providing further support.
In many cases, the advisors for studies and teaching in each faculty or central institute are the first point of contact for instructors: For instance when implementing a new course or module, creating a module description, and organizing student course evaluations.
TU Berlin’s General Study and Examination Regulations (Allgemeine Studien- und Prüfungsordnung - AllGStuPO) provide regulations which apply equally to all degree programs. These regulations include information about general study objectives, modules, course formats, and exam organization.
Program-specific study and examination regulations (StuPO) supplement the general regulations and provide concrete information about when the program is offered, its structure, the final thesis, as well as as a module catalogue in an annex.
Moses is a system used to schedule and manage courses and their modules, exams, and tutorials. Instructors enter their availability as well as the type of classroom they require. On the basis of this information and the degree schedules, timetables are calculated that can be reviewed and amended in Moses by instructors. Afterwards, the timetable is published in the University’s course catalogue. Moses also allows users to enter sub-activities (for example homework criteria) for a course. To use Moses you require a TUB account, which you receive when you commence work at the University.
You can find information about current courses in the course catalogue available in Moses. The flexible search feature allows you, for instance, to search for courses offered by an academic chair or taking place in a specific room.
The ISIS learning platform allows teachers to provide students with materials in virtual classrooms, upload exercises, and hold exams. The platform has a number of other communication and collaboration features as well as several practical applications to help you organize your teaching, such as defining groups or assigning topics. ISIS was developed on the basis of the open access software moodle and is maintained by innoCampus. Courses on how to use ISIS, such as designing classrooms to promote learning, are offered by the Center for Scientific Continuing Education and Cooperation.
“First Steps: ISIS” in the “Digitale Lehre an der TU Berlin” wiki
If you would like to record your lecture or need assistance doing so, you can contact the uniCam team at innoCampus.
Would you like to record videos to supplement and enrich your face-to-face teaching? The University has a comprehensive digital infrastructure and a wide variety of support offers to help you achieve this.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed teaching and learning materials. These not only include books but a variety of other course material such as videos, multimedia applications, and podcasts as well. The University Library has put together a selection of relevant portals with Open Educational Resources where you can find materials to integrate into your courses as well as make your own teaching material available to others.
There are number of people and offices you can contact in the event of a mishap, malfunctioning equipment, or disruptions to central IT services at TU Berlin.
All instructors at TU Berlin interested in improving their teaching skills or gaining new ideas for their everyday teaching can attend trainings on university teaching offered by the Center for Scientific Continuing Education and Cooperation.