Hybrid teaching is understood to be synchronous teaching in combination with digital and traditional classroom formats. The particular challenge is to offer participants equivalent learning conditions in presence and online.
The e-learning team advises you on the preparation and implementation of your teaching, both technically and didactically.
On 4 April 2022, the new hotline 33334 "Hybrid Teaching Technology" will be launched on a trial basis.
During lecture hours Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., trained e-tutors will support you with questions and problems with video conferencing, streaming and recording in the equipped lecture halls 1-12 and seminar rooms at Campus Augustusplatz.
Which premises are suitable for hybrid teaching?
In order to enable teachers to hold hybrid courses, i.e. to supervise students simultaneously in presence and online, there are seminar rooms and lecture halls equipped with video conferencing technology (whiteboard, camera, room microphones).
At the Augustusplatz Campus and the Jahnallee Campus you will find lecture halls and seminar rooms equipped with technology for hybrid teaching as well as lecture halls for video streaming and recording (cameras, loudspeakers, microphones).
Current information for lecturers on spatial planning and the coronavirus can be found on the intranet site of the University of Leipzig:
How do I learn to use the technology?
In a hybrid teaching-learning setting, a limited number of students are present in the lecture theatre or seminar room, while the other part of the students is either connected via audio and/or video (synchronous), is working on another task or is working on learning content at a different time (asynchronous). For each of these teaching-learning scenarios, decisions for a suitable didactic design must also be made with regard to technical and organisational considerations as well as data protection law.
The best way to learn how to use the technology is to attend a two-hour training session. It explains how the technology installed in the seminar rooms works, what possibilities it offers for your face-to-face and online participants and how your course could be structured to effectively use the hybrid setting and accompany it didactically.
How can I organise everything around my teaching?
The Moodle teaching-learning platform is a useful service for organising your teaching. You can think of the teaching-learning platform Moodle as a virtual seminar room. You can also store your course documents there. Furthermore, it is possible to expand your teaching with digital components (e.g. forum, online assignment, self-test, surveys). Moodle can be used to organise materials and information clearly and to actively support students in their learning processes.
If you want to store and share your slides for a longer period of time, store them in your Moodle course. If you only want to make slides available for a short time, you can use the storage cloud.
In addition, the study portal "AlmaWeb" and the enrolment system "TOOL" are available to you for organising your teaching.
The service offers users:
- virtual course rooms to support and manage your courses, to store working materials and to document learning activities
- arrangement of working materials and learning activities with different didactic scenarios
- functionalities for cooperative and interactive teaching-learning methods, for collaborative work as well as for self-directed learning
- Admission of participants via login or password
- Access to the platform with the extended university login
The service offers users:
- the possibility to temporarily store data
- regular storage size of 5 GB
- Synchronisation on several end devices via app or website
- the possibility of uncomplicated sharing of documents within and outside the University of Leipzig
- Rights management at user level (write/read/upload)
- password security and time limits on releases
- Compliance with IT security and data protection standards
- Version history
How can I communicate with my students?
There are various ways to communicate with your students, from an email, to a chat, to video conferencing. You can send messages to all enrolled students in your course via Moodle. In addition, there is the functionality Forum to write announcements for the participants or to discuss topics.
You can also use the Almaweb email distribution list of the university campus management system to send a message to the registered students of your course.
With chat and video in Rocket.Chat, you can communicate directly with individual students or groups.
A forum facilitates exchange between participants and/or trainers and can therefore be an important tool for communication in your course and about its content.
- Forum as a discussion platform: You as a trainer have the role of moderator.
- Announcement forum: You as the trainer can post announcements, the participants are only recipients and cannot reply.
- Trainers' forum: If you run the course together with other trainers, you can use the forum to exchange information without participants being able to read it (by hiding it from participants).
As a lecturer at Leipzig University, you use the campus management system "AlmaWeb". For the initialisation of your events in "AlmaWeb", the study office of your faculty is your first point of contact.
Via Almaweb you can send an e-mail to the student mail address of all participants of your event or generate an extended list of participants with the student mail addresses.
You will find access to Almaweb (Uni-Login) as well as instructions on how to use the participant lists on the Almaweb homepage.
Another option for communicating with your students is the university-wide service Individual or Group Chats with Rocket.Chat. With Rocket.Chat you can choose to create individual or group chats and communicate directly with your students or with the group. You can send text messages and media files.
You also have the option of starting a video conference with the participants from the individual or group chat.
The service offers users:
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a substitute for on-site communication such as: offering consultations and office hours, working in small groups (students), interest-based and low-threshold communication, the public collection of questions and answers ("FAQs").
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direct communication or contact in groups (also in several small groups).
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chat and exchange with all registered members of the University of Leipzig possible
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own, separate channels (e.g. for institutes, working groups, departments, etc.)
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Exchange of messages, photos, audio files and links (a clear summary of these media is possible in special groups)
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simple browser application, desktop client (Windows, Mac, Linux), without being installed on your own device
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mobile app (Android, iOS)
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the retention of chat messages of one year
How can I supplement my teaching with multimedia teaching-learning content (slides, videos, online content)?
To create classic slides, as a university member you can use the Microsoft Office 365 package for staff. With PowerPoint, you can create your teaching content as slides and record it as a video.
If you would like to make teaching content accessible on a website or give this task to students, then use the service Create teaching-learning content as web pages with Mahara.
The service offers users:
- the use of local Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise on up to 5 devices simultaneously (plus 5 smartphones and 5 tablets).
- the option of installing Microsoft Professional Plus on the primary university device.
The service offers users:
- provision of the platform
- maintenance and update support of the platform
- media didactic advice on the use of Mahara
- Mahara can be accessed via the Moodle homepage after logging in.
In which virtual space will I teach?
Depending on the underlying scenario - from confidential consultation hours and seminars to conferences and public lectures - the requirements for the video conferencing system needed differ both in technical and didactic requirements. Depending on the intended use, whiteboards, breakout rooms, the possibility of telephone dial-in, recording function or integration into the central learning platform Moodle are useful additional functions. When choosing a suitable video conferencing system, factors such as security, data protection, stability and scalability of the system must always be taken into account.
Zoom is a software package that enables video conferences - so-called meetings - to be held with up to 300 participants. In addition to private and public chat functions and the transmission of video and audio sources, Zoom offers the possibility of screen sharing, polls and virtual group rooms. This allows you to implement digital courses and other online meetings (committees, working groups, etc.). All employees and students of the University of Leipzig can log in with their official e-mail address, set up a video conference or take part in one as part of fulfilling the University's statutory duties.
The BigBlueButton (BBB) video conferencing system offers the possibility to hold ad-hoc audio and video conferences quickly and easily. The system has an integrated open and private chat, a shared whiteboard, an online survey tool and the possibility to share presentations, videos or your own screen.
The web conferencing system of Leipzig University offers the possibility to hold audio and video conferences and has basic features like an integrated public and private chat, a shared whiteboard and the possibility to share presentations, videos or your own screen. Also use the integrated polling tool to activate your participants or the shared notes for collaborative work.
How can I get feedback during the event?
Even while you are teaching face-to-face, there are useful digital tools that you can use. For example, the feedback tool ArsNova. By using mobile devices (laptops, smartphones), AsrNova can be used as a feedback tool in seminars, lectures or other events. If you want to know whether the auditorium can follow your lecture, you should use the feedback function of arsnova.voting.
This service offers users:
- Live feedback on learning speed or comprehension questions
- Digital questions without interrupting the lecture
- Other innovative question formats
- Peer instruction
- Interactive lecture
You can carry out complex surveys with LimeSurvey. LimeSurvey is an online survey application that allows you to develop and publish online surveys and store their results in a database without any programming knowledge.
This service offers users
- create individual online surveys or questionnaires
- 30+ question types
- 80+ languages
- DSGVO compliance
- Data export to Excel, CSV, R, Stata, SPSS, Word, & PDF.
- Instructions for use
- Technical support
- Access with Uni-Login (after activation)
Who can help me with didactic questions?
In addition to testing out the technical possibilities, you will have the opportunity to receive advice on higher education and media didactics.
The service offers users:
- University didactic advice on your teaching-learning scenarios
- Media-didactic conception of your teaching-learning scenarios
- Recommendations for the preparation, implementation and follow-up of your hybrid event.
If you have any questions or suggestions on this topic, please write to us an email.