Information for Faculty Members

• Working Online with Students (26 March 2020)

  MOODLE

  You have a wide range of possibilities to interact with your students via Moodle .

  Lecture notes and other documents can be shared via a Moodle course.

  • Online tasks can be created with the activity Assignments, which allows students to upload documents (e.g. homework or other assignments) to which you can also provide online feedback.
  • Group work can be carried out using forums, wikis or an etherpad (digital notepad that enables collaborative writing).
  • Quizzes can be used for formative assessment.
  • By the way: Students can also apply for their own Moodle course, offering them the opportunity to work together online.

   

  MAHARA

  You can also use Mahara to work with your students online. With Mahara you can:

  • Make your teaching content available to your students in a digital folder and enrich it with various types of digital media, such as blogs and videos and arrange this content flexibly in views (small websites) and bundle individual views thematically in collections.
  • Share views and collections for specific people, for whole groups (e.g. your student groups), via secret URL for external users and completely public on the Internet.
  • Organize your students into groups so that they can work together to develop, document, reflect, and present content.

   

  EDUVOTE

  You can use the online voting with eduVote to:

  • Anonymously poll the knowledge or opinions of students during your online courses.
  • Present the distribution of answers to students in the form of a diagram.
  • Integrate instant surveys or series of surveys, for example, into your PowerPoint presentation.

  Before you can use eduVote, you need to register yourself once with your university account. To do this, click on the following link and enter your university e-mail address: eduVote Registration . Please note that registration is only possible with an "@hm.edu" ending email address. You will then receive an e-mail with your personal password. As a registered teacher, you can use the e-mail address and password to start an instant survey or a survey series whenever you want.

  Further information on the eduVote website .

  
  

• How to Deliver Live Lectures Online (31 March 2020)

  Tip for sharing the screen in videoconferences regardless of the system: In video conferences, please share only the relevant window or program if possible. Otherwise there may be problems due to signal feedback.

  Note on data efficiency: Activate a video streaming only if it is really necessary. When video transmission is active, reduce the resolution if possible.

   

  BIGBLUEBUTTON

   

  BigBlueButton is a web conferencing system especially designed for teaching large groups with a range of functions that allows group rooms, shared notes, private and public chats and collaboration on shared documents. Furthermore, there is the possibility to record lectures.
   

  Please see the chapter "Legal notes regarding the recording of lectures"!
   

  The server is currently in extended pilot phase and is available for testing at https://bbb3.hm.edu . Problems and short-term failures due to ongoing configuration work on the system cannot be ruled out. For test use in teaching until 31.3.2020, please send an e-mail to zentrale-it@hm.edu with the following information: Name of instructor, planned dates for online testing and number of participants. The start of regular operation will be announced here.
   

  WEBEX

   

  For the transition period, until the MUAS own infrastructure for online teaching has been established, a number of WebEx licenses are available to enable lectures to be held for larger groups in the form of web conferences. These can be applied for from the Zentrale IT.
   

  JITSI MEET

   

  An MUAS internal Jitsi Meet server is available at https://conf.hm.edu as an internal conference server and for teaching small groups up to 20-30 people (depending on the network connection and the capacity of the moderator's computer). Login with your university account.
   

  Please see the chapter "Legal notes regarding the recording of lectures"!
   

  The same application is available at the LRZ under Jitsi Meet . The LRZ mentions small groups up to 15 persons for the group size. Since this is an offer LRZ, it can be used with a university account. On the website of the LRZ there is more information about this and other web conference services.
   

  Hints for Jitsi Meet:

  • The application runs best with Google Chrome Browser, on other browsers proper functionality is not guaranteed. Important: Even the Safari browser on Mac does not run satisfactorily!
  • An integration of PowerPoint presentations is possible via application sharing. Important: First start the presentation and then release the correct window (presentation window)! Otherwise we recommend using PDF files.
  • Attention: The number of participants depends strongly on the number of video streams and is determined by the performance of the client computer. Recommendation: Only the presenter switches on video (Start/Stop Camera), the other participants switch off their own camera and microphone if not needed.
     

  DFNConf/PEXIP
   

  DFNConf/pexip is a web conference service for up to 23 participants. It is possible to present your own screen, an application or a file. Sessions can also be recorded directly.

   

  ADOBE CONNECT
   

  Adobe Connect web conferencing software can be used for larger groups and offers a wider range of functions than DFNConf/pexip.

  However, due to the very high frequency of access throughout Germany, disturbances are likely to occur!

  The Zentrale IT is currently working at full speed on an MUAS internal solution with integration into Moodle, which will be made available in the coming weeks. For the transition period, we are working on one or more data protection compatible, commercial and centrally financed cloud solutions.

  Important: for these solutions, the use of the data in a privacy sensitive way should be in the priority, i.e. students should not be forced to enter their real names or email addresses. Further information on which cloud solutions are offered centrally and how to use them will be added here gradually over the next few days.

  The use of free or paid services such as MS Teams, GoToMeeting, Zoom etc. or Skype via private licenses is not permitted for online lectures, as data protection issues are critical and the license terms usually only allow permission to use meeting content for personal, i.e. private, not business purposes.

  
  

• Legal Information Regarding the Recording of Lectures (31 March 2020)

  Please inform your students regarding recordings of Online Live Lectures as follows:
  

  
  

  The following lecture will be recorded. The recording includes image and sound within the web conference, so that the recording can be made available to students later on. If you do not consent to your picture and audio recording, please do not switch on the camera and microphone. In this case, you can ask questions about the course by e-mail from your teacher.
  More information(in German).

  
  

• How to Create and Distribute Videos (19 March 2020)

  In case you would like to use your own video lessons, you will find information on how to create and distribute them here .

   

  STREAMING SERVER

  • Professors, lecturers and staff members can use the streaming server of the University of Applied Sciences Munich to distribute their videos for the purpose of teaching at the university and made available to students for example via Moodle. You can decide who can access the videos. For further information, please refer to the streaming server documentation .
     

  POWERPOINT

  • There is an easy way to record a PowerPoint slide show with comments (choose Slide Show > Record). Important note: Please save the recording as a video file.
     

  OPENCAST STUDIO

  • With Opencast Studio you can easily record your screen, webcam, or both together and download the finished video. To upload it to our streaming server, it has to be converted to mp4 .
     

  SNAGIT

  • You can also use Snagit screen capture software (for Windows and Mac). Currently, you can get a trial version that allows you to save recordings without a watermark and runs until the end of June 2020. Some tutorials of how to use Snagit can be found here .
     

  CAMTASIA

  • Or use Camtasia screen capture and video editing software (for Windows and Mac). The software can capture your webcam image, sound, and computer screen. You have the possibility to use a free trial version for 30 days (videos produces with trial version are watermarked). Some tutorials of how to use Camtasia can be found here . If you are interested in a license, please contact your faculty.

  
  

• Using Teaching Videos from Other Sources (17 March 2020)

  Instead of creating video content yourself, you can also use existing instructional videos. You can find instructional videos on various topics at SmartVHB and LinkedIn Learning . Or use other platforms and content relevant to your subject area such as Open Educational Resources (free educational materials).

  
  

• Use of Existing Online Content (18 March 2020)

  Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern - vhb

  • You can use open courses in open.vhb.org as a whole course or as an integrated part of your own course.
  • Lesson units in the repository smart.vhb.org can also be integrated into your own course.
  • Here you will find an overview of vhb offers SoSe2020
     

  oncampus
  This educational platform makes its self-study courses available free of charge.

  Open Educational Resources

  OER are free learning and teaching materials with an open license. Here are some links to help you find the suitable material for your course in English. You can provide links to useful material in your Moodle course.

  See the German webpage for links.

  
  

• Sharing & Using Online Teaching Materials Across Institutions (vhb) (19 March 2020)

  The Virtual University of Bavaria (vhb) is providing lecturers of the member institutions temporarily the option of providing online courses (blended learning units) across all institutions. The only requirement is that the learning content must be accessible via the institution's Learning Management System (Moodle). Here you will find an overview of the Learning Management Systems used by the member institutions.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  If you would like to make a contribution with your online courses, please contact geschaeftsfuehrung@vhb.org or projektmanagement@vhb.org.

  
  

  
  

  You can also use the units provided there for your own teaching.

  
  

  
  

  In the vhb's course programme , you will find a new category ("Zusätzliche Online-Lehrangebote der Trägerhochschulen") under which the courses offered via the vhb's single sign-on system can be found.

  
  

  
  

  If you have any questions, please contact Antje Nissler at MUAS.

  
  

• How to Make Documents and Files Available (12 March 2020)

  You can make files available for your students via a Moodle course. For very large files (from 100MB) it is recommended to use the LRZ Cloud service Sync+Share instead.

  Please use the streaming server for video files. More information in section How to create and distribute educational videos.