CANVAS

Canvas is WU's learning management system and supports instructors with a wide range of tools and services:

Provision and structuring of content and materials

• Creation of modules and delivery of learning content to provide students with an optimal learning environment

• Creation of multimedia assignments and quizzes to make learning interactive

• Organization of groups and creation of group tasks to promote cooperative learning processes

• Integrating video and audio formats into learning environments

• Easy reuse and sharing of materials

Assessment and feedback of partial performances

• Assessment of tasks in SpeedGrader and performance overview in the grade book

• Using rubrics

• Mapping and calculating assessment-relevant partial performances

• Multiple feedback types (incl. peer feedback and peer rating for groups)

Communication and interaction with students

• Multiple communication channels

• Encourage interactive discussions

• New opportunities for collaborative work among students

• Use of surveys, polls, and voting

Keeping track of events

• Personal schedule overview

• Keep track of open to-dos (e.g., grade assignments)

• Individual notifications for news and activities

• Organizing timeslots for consulting hours

Contact: Digital Teaching Services

Controlpanel

• Change passwort for your WU account

• Set up email forwarting to a non-WU address

• Register a WU cell phone

• Subscribe to info channels

Contact: IT Services Support Center

LEARN

WU's learning and information portal

Contact: Digital Teaching Services

• View class lists

• Add and drop students from your classes

• Send emails or text messages to selected students

• View grade lists and enter grades

Contact: Teaching Coordination

Course evaluation

Conduct course evaluations using LEARN

• Order and edit evaluation questionnaires

• Conduct online evaluations

• Accessing and publishing evaluation results

• Evaluation-Guide


 

Contact: Evaluation & Quality Enhancement

Mailing lists

• Subscribe to various WU email mailing lists

• Recommended for WU teachers:"unilehrer.innen" mailing list

Contact: Mailing lists

Turnitin Originality plagiarism detection software for:

• Mandatory review of final theses, including display of results in myWU

• Plagiarism check for documents submitted as part of assignments in Canvas

Contact: Plagiarism

For multiple-choice exams

• Compose and administer multiple-choice examinations

• Change points distribution and grade settings

• Automatic analysis of results and answer statistics

• Issue raw data for transfer to other applications

Contact: Digital Teaching Services

ROOMS

Book rooms and manage reservations for rooms throughout the campus

• Reserve rooms for classes or in-house meetings

• Overview of all rooms on campus - CampusGIS

• further information


 

Contact: Teaching Coordination (ROOMS for WU courses)

Syllabus/VVZ 

Publish information in the online course catalog (VVZ)

• Complete required course information and publish

• Provide additional information (optional)

• Edit and re-use syllabi from previous semesters

• Syllabus-Guide

Contact: Digital Teaching Services

Survey tools

Create and conduct online surveys

• Use the Checkbox Tool on LEARN to create short surveys to coordinate dates, topics, etc. with your class

• Use IT service's open source LimeSurvey tool to create more comprehensive questionnaires

• Checkbox-Guide

• LimeSurvey-Guide

Contact LimeSurvey: IT-Services Media Development divison

Contact Checkbox: LEARN-Support

Video conferences

Holding video conferences by computer and in specially equipped conference rooms

• Web-based conferences using Microsoft Teams or Zoom

• Video conferences in specially equipped conference rooms

Contact: IT-Services Media Development division

Lecture recording and Lecture streaming

Courses can generally be recorded and streamed in any classroom using the MS Teams or Zoom video conferencing tools. Classrooms equipped with cameras are particularly suitable for this purpose.

• Lecture recording

• Lecture streaming

• Teaching rooms with cameras

• Didactical use cases for the use of lecturecasts (german only)

Contact: Digital teaching Services

Smartboard

Interactive Whiteboard, standard in all seminar rooms

• Write on digital surface

• Add notes to slides, web pages, etc

• Save edited boards

• Add empty screens for use as a whiteboard

• Instructions for Smartboard

Contact: Digital Teaching Services

Monitor ("interactive pen display")

• Monitor with interactive pen for writing directly on the screen

• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) and SPSS pre-installed

• Ports for auxiliary devices

• Instructions for Monitor

Teaching equipment rooms are available campus-wide from which utensils such as flipcharts, bulletin boards, paper rolls and other teaching materials can be taken. In the spirit of the "fair-use policy", please return the borrowed teaching materials to the teaching material rooms after the course unit and do not leave them in the teaching rooms.

The following teaching material rooms are available on campus:

• D1.1.071

• D2.0.394

• D2.0.009

• D3.0.240

• D4.0.141

• D5.1.011

• EA.5.046

• TC.0.66

• TC.3.29

• TC.3.45

• TC.5.47

Various devices and accessories can be borrowed free of charge for courses and teaching events.
Rental equipment for the course (e.g. notebook, document camera, Wacom tablet) with reservation:

• Order via the WU Service Desk




• Pick up/return at the IT Service Desk in the Teaching Center (TC) or contactless.

Equipment and accessories without reservation, such as microphones, wireless presenters, starter kits (includes whiteboard and SMART Board pens, the SMART Board sponge, and magnets), webcams, HDMI cables, and adapters:

• Pick up directly before class at the IT Service Desk in the Teaching Center (TC).

Contact: IT Services Support Center