This page is intended to serve as a guide for teachers for the implementation of future-oriented courses at TU Vienna. Recommendations and standards for digital teaching at the TU Vienna are formulated.
Basically, courses can be differentiated into examination-immanent and non-examination-immanent LVAs. 

In the case of examination-immanent LVAs, partial performances are to be made in the course of the semester, which then result in an overall assessment.

Non-examination-immanent LVAs conclude with an examination at the end of the semester or in the following semester.

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For information on LVA assessments and exam feedback, visit the corresponding homepage under Teaching at the TUW- LVA Assessment

Types of courses

Examination-immanent courses

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This includes lectures with the designation UE (exercise), VU (lecture with exercise), EX (excursion), LU (laboratory exercise), PR (project), SE (seminar).

non- immanent Examinaton courses

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Usually, LVAs with the designation VO (lecture) are to be classified here. These courses end with an examination. In general, attendance is not compulsory.

The TU Vienna sees itself as a face-to-face university of the future and therefore promotes every form of holding a course. In this way, teaching can be tailored to the needs and requirements of the students and interactive and practice-oriented teaching can be made possible. The format in which a course is held refers to the form in which the majority of the course is held.

The format of the course must be specified in the course announcement in TISS as a mandatory field before the start of the semester. This is a drop-down selection.

A differentiation is made between four basic formats:

The four delivery formats of courses

attendance

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In the attendance mode, courses take place exclusively on-site at the TU Vienna. This mode does not include online units. However, it is possible to provide an additional recording of the course.

Online

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Online mode describes the delivery of a course exclusively in an online format. This can be held both synchronously and asynchronously, but pure asynchronous online teaching is not recommended. The central tool for handling online teaching at the TU Vienna is TUWEL, opens an external URL in a new window. LectureTube and LectureTube Live are available for recording and streaming lectures.

A list of rooms that have this equipment is kept up to date in coLAB, opens an external URL in a new window.

hybrid

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The hybrid mode describes a synchronous format that combines presence and online format. Only a part of the students is on site at the TU Vienna, and the other part is connected via livestreaming. This concept is particularly suitable for large courses that are held in the form of a blackboard lecture. The use of LectureTube, TUWEL and Zoom is recommended for this purpose. Recordings of the course can also be made available asynchronously so that students can watch certain sequences again at their own pace while learning.

Different concepts for handling can be found in the collection of concepts in coLAB, opens an external URL in a new window and on the page digital supported teaching.

Blended Learning

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This term covers teaching formats that are delivered synchronously and asynchronously as a combination of face-to-face and online. Blended learning means that learning content and activities are provided both in a classic classroom environment and online. This allows students to access them flexibly and according to their own needs - when and how often they want. In the face-to-face events, the focus can then be on interaction and exchange with the students.

For further information, please contact EDIN - the e-didactic reference book of the TU Vienna.

EDIN- blended learning or method mix in teaching, opens an external URL in a new window.

Delivery formats for examinations

In principle, examinations can be held in all possible formats.

The following should be noted in general:

  • Examination dates must be announced in TISS at the beginning of the semester. The examination modalities and assessment criteria must be communicated transparently via the course page in TISS before the start of the course, as well as the planned format of the examination.
  • In any case, special attention should be paid to clear and early communication to students.
  • Electronically assisted examinations offer an opportunity to increase student examination activity and save resources and teacher time. However, students may find themselves in a situation that is new and unfamiliar to them and may be correspondingly unsettled. Therefore, it is important to inform them about the process early on and explain the tools to be used to them in advance. Delays due to identity checks and setting up the examination environment must also be taken into account in the planning.
  • For exam-specific questions (e.g.: use of aids), please contact the relevant institute.
  • The format of the examination of a course may differ from the delivery format and must be stated separately in the course description.

General questions about exams

1. In the first step, the master data is entered (course administration, search for course and click on 'Execution/ Examination'). 

  •  Select the menu item 'Create examination'. 
  • To enter the master data, complete the necessary points (marked with *) and then click on Save master data.

! It is especially important to check the semester of the subject matter or to adapt it to the desired semester of the subject matter !

  • Entering the master data for an examination date
  • After saving the master data, the additional input options are activated. 2.

2. select examiner or assistant

If the examiners and, if necessary, the assistants are selected here, they will be available for selection when grading and the examination date will appear in the TISS calendar with the assigned persons.

  • Add lecturers or teaching assistants with the green plus, then click Save.
  •  Select examiner/assistant

3. edit/create appointment

Appointment editing is used for lecture hall reservation (see Help Overview Appointment Reservation) or also for the location description for the examination. Only when an appointment has been created (whether with or without lecture hall reservation) is it possible to set up examination slots.

  •  Appointment selection (important for the creation of slots)

4. optional: creation of slots

When setting up examination slots, students can register for an examination at a specific time (slot), thus no manual allocation is necessary. The number of persons per slot, the duration of the slot and, if desired, the specification of a break slot are necessary entries.

  •  Activation of slots

After clicking on Create, the slot allocation is displayed. The number of participants can be changed separately for each slot. Slots can be deleted or created again; the number of participants can also be changed here. The total number for the exam registration restriction is automatically adjusted. If a mistake is made, all slots can be deleted and created again.

  •  Editing slots

In order to create more slots (without changing the duration), the appointment must first be extended by the corresponding time units. The additionally created slots are displayed and can then be activated (click on 'Create'). 

5. optional: creation of a whitelist

Either only students on the whitelist (can be imported as CSV) are allowed to register for exams or students on the whitelist are excluded from the admission requirements. The admission requirements for the course are defined at the time of course registration and refer to the text of the course regulations.

  •  Creating a whitelist

The room reservation mask in TISS also contains a corresponding field to store the format of the holding for dates.

General questions about online exams

If technical problems occur over a longer period of time (e.g. poor connection or connection failure) during the examination and are beyond the student's control, the examination is either to be cancelled and this is not to be counted towards the permissible number of examination attempts, or, if the interruption is only of short duration, to be continued. In the case of a continuation, the last question asked must be replaced if it has not yet been answered.

Any disruptions in the course of an online examination must be recorded in the examination protocol according to the type, scope and duration of the disruption.

Details can be found in the Online Examinations Policy under §6., opens an external URL in a new window

The TU Vienna recommends TUWEL, opens an external URL in a new window, opens an external URL in a new window (TU Wien E-Learning), the learning management system based on the open source software Moodle, as the central tool for handling electronically supported examinations. With this platform it is possible to process versatile tasks in the area of face-to-face teaching, online examinations and hybrid as well as blended learning formats.

Written online examinations can take place asynchronously, independent of location (students can work on their seminar papers or examination assignments flexibly from their own terminal device), as well as synchronously on campus in the specified examination rooms.

 

This topic has its own contribution in TU coLAB with exemplary contributions and cheat sheets from the digital Teaching & Learning department. 

The link, opens an external URL in a new window will take you directly to the article after you have registered on coLAB.

Yes, additional deadlines for submissions via TUWEL can be granted in exceptional cases and set individually in TUWEL. The decision on the extension of a submission deadline lies with the respective LVA management.