Applications and services in support of teaching
Teaching and Learning Activities
The Educational IT Services section (EduIT) supports contemporary, learning-effective and innovative teaching at ETH with a well aligned portfolio of tools, services and support. The portfolio (system status) supports lecturers and students throughout the entire didactic practice of higher education, from learning objectives to the design of learning activities, teaching, examinations and evaluation. The tools in the portfolio are integrated into eDoz (lecturer portal) and myStudies (student portal) as well as into the electronic course catalogue, the digital semester apparatus and the administrative processes and tools administrative applications of the ETH teaching, examination and evaluation area.
Moodle
Moodle is a highly innovative and extremely versatile open source learning management system (LMS) that has been developed by a very active global community for years. Moodle's tools support lecturers in the interactive design of learning activities and the clear provision of learning content. As the central platform for digital teaching and learning at ETH, Moodle also integrates numerous other on-premise and cloud-based applications to create an extremely versatile extended toolbox. Moodle thus allows the implementation of a variety of contemporary teaching scenarios such as blended learning, interactive lesson design, flipped classroom, peer feedback or numerous variants of formative and summative performance assessments, thus enabling future-oriented and effective university teaching. More information about Moodle
ETH EduApp
The ETH EduApp is an interactive smartphone application for studying and teaching at ETH Zurich. The EduApp enables students at ETH Zurich to organise a smart study routine and at the same time promotes interaction in the classroom. Furthermore, lecturers can create clicker questions for their courses as well as course channels for general feedback and semester feedback. More information about the ETH EduApp
JupyterHub
In a single document - a JupyterNotebook - text, multimedia files and mathematical formulas, executable code as well as the results and plots of the calculations can be combined and displayed in an appealing way in the browser. With these diverse functionalities, JupyterNotebooks and thus the JupyterHub can enrich and simplify teaching in a wide range of disciplines. The focus can be on calculations, data evaluation, visualisations or a simple introduction to programming.
One click takes you from a course page in Moodle to a JupyterNotebook, which opens in the browser without the need for time-consuming installation and configuration of interpreters, compilers or similar.
More information about JupyterHub
Moodle-MS Teams Integration
With the "Moodle-Microsoft Teams Integration", ETH lecturers can create an MS Team for their classes and have it integrated into Moodle. All students enrolled in the Moodle course are automatically added to the MS Team and kept synchronised. Microsoft Teams is a platform for collaborative work with the Microsoft Office programmes Word, Excel and PowerPoint. MS Teams also offers chat and video conferencing functionalities. More information the Moodle-MS Teams Integration
PolyBook
PolyBook offers students and lecturers the opportunity to work together on documents such as lecture notes or scientific articles in a teaching context and to publish them in an attractive presentation. PolyBook enables the integration of multimedia elements and the display of formulae in Latex/Mathjax format and is directly integrated into Moodle. More information about PolyBook
polybox
Polybox offers local cloud storage for all ETH members. Polybox also enables synchronous and asynchronous collaboration with Collabora in common Office formats in the web browser. A Moodle integration is available. More information about polybox
LabBuddy and Labster
LabBuddy and Labster are tools for the immersive preparation of laboratory practicals in the natural sciences. They enable students to prepare experiments in the lab independently and at their own pace. Good preparation increases safety in the lab and lab time can be used more effectively. Access is via Moodle.
Kaltura
The Kaltura video platform makes it possible to upload videos of all kinds - for example videos for flipped classroom scenarios - and integrate them into Moodlek courses. The videos are stored on a special streaming platform. Like other media, they can then be integrated anywhere in a Moodle course. external page More about Kaltura.
IVS - Interactive Video Suite
The Interactive Video Suite (IVS) is a specialised video player in Moodle that uses interactive features to encourage more engagement with videos, enabling deeper learning. With the Interactive Video Suite (IVS), you can transform videos in Moodle into a lively exchange format between teachers and learners. Whether dialogue-oriented in the form of video comments with single-choice tests or drag and drop questions directly in the video. IVS can be quickly and easily integrated into any Moodle course. More information about IVS
Digital course resource lists
With the digital course resource lists, you can create a literature or document list for the respective course in Leganto and link it to your Moodle course. All elements of the list are compared with the ETH Library catalogue. In this way, you can easily set up and maintain a digital course catalogue for your students.
Select Survey
Select Survey is a web-based, easy-to-use tool that offers all the necessary functions for creating, conducting and analysing surveys and evaluations as part of Bachelor's or Master's theses in compliance with data protection regulations. More information about Select Survey
Design of digital examination scenarios
Digital examinations at ETH Zurich are conducted in various requirement-specific scenarios. They take place in subject-related examination environments in the ETH computer examination rooms or in auditoriums and seminar rooms on the students' laptops (Bring Your Own Device performance assessments).
Efficient and reliable creation, implementation and evaluation is guaranteed for all examination scenarios. The Moodle exam module maps the actual exam workflow for digital exams and provides a variety of task formats such as short answer, multiple choice, drag & drop, free text or file upload. Safe Exam Browser (SEB) secures the examination environment and ensures that no unauthorised resources can be accessed. In addition to the usual examination supervision in the room, SEB Server enables data protection-compliant recording of examination processes.
For digital examinations on student laptops (BYOD performance assessments), a standard setup based on these components is available.
For digital examinations on ETH-computers, a modular approach covers the entire range of examination scenarios through to the design of authentic, subject-related examinations with complex, practical tasks. Additional tools and work resources such as subject-specific software ('third-party applications'), web-based programming environments (Jupyter Notebooks, CodeExpert), lecture notes, complex case studies, work templates, student notes and project work, research databases and other internet-based resources can be integrated into these SEB-secured examination environments. More information on digital examinations
Evaluation of examinations and courses
EvaSys - Teaching evaluation online
Teaching at ETH Zurich is regularly evaluated by students. The student survey serves to improve teaching and student learning. Examinations and course units are assessed using the commercial software Evasys, which enables teaching to be planned, carried out and analysed quickly and effectively. More information about EvaSys
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