Moodle
Over the years, Moodle has proven its worth as a reliable learning platform at Leuphana University, consistently supporting both teachers and students in their academic endeavors. It is an interactive online learning space that supports face-to-face teaching, asynchronous learning resources and fully-fledged self-study courses. With its wide range of functions, Moodle is a multi-faceted didactic tool that can be adapted to meet the individual needs of both teachers and learners.
Moodle is a versatile online learning platform that offers a wide range of features to conduct a variety of teaching and learning scenarios.
For example, Moodle is ideal for implementing blended learning concepts, such as providing digital materials and self-study assignments in preparation for face-to-face interaction between teachers and students in a seminar.
Moodle can also be used as a virtual space where students can collaborate and discuss content each other. Teachers can support this form of collaborative learning by setting up forums, wikis and other group activities, and by monitoring learners' progress outside the actual seminars through comments and feedback.
Competency-based assessment can be promoted by assigning specific learning objectives and competencies to your Moodle courses. These can be assessed during the course using a variety of built-in assessment formats. These include multiple choice tests, open questions and portfolio work.
Students can receive automated and immediate feedback on their current status after each competency assessment through learning paths, progress indicators or badges..
In addition to the features mentioned above, Moodle also offers a wide range of other options such as interactive exercises, quizzes or surveys, and the integration of videos, podcasts or other multimedia elements, which you can use to tailor the learning environment to your needs and those of the course participants.
You can simply log in to Moodle with your Leuphana account.
Moodle is linked to myStudy. Lecturers can create a Moodle course via their courses in myStudy in the ‘Online Teaching’ tab and choose from three pre-structured templates, each of which is suitable for different purposes. Moodle courses that are not linked to a myStudy course can also be requested directly in Moodle via the ‘Support → Kurs beantragen’ tab.
If you have any questions about registration, course creation or certain Moodle activities, we recommend our FAQ for digitally supported teaching (in German) as a starting point. We have collected the answers to the most frequently asked Moodle questions there.
If you are not yet familiar with the settings, options and functions of Moodle, you can also visit our Moodle tutorials (in German - you need to be logged into Moodle). There you will get an impression of how you could design your courses and you can try out various Moodle activities yourself before learning how to integrate them into your own courses. (Please note that the tutorials are currently being revised and are still based on an older Moodle version).
We also offer an introductory course (in German) that you can register for yourself
The Teaching Service offers individual feedback and consultations to teachers who would like to receive feedback on their courses or have specific questions about Moodle. Together with you, we look at the structure and design of your course, give suggestions for technical implementation and share practical tips for use in everyday teaching. You can talk to us about specific scenarios that you would like to implement or simply receive feedback on the overall concept of the course. We are also happy to support you if you are creating a Moodle course for the first time and want to fill it. To arrange an appointment (usually we allow for 45-60 minutes), please contact us at lehrservice@leuphana.de.
The Teaching Service organises regular meetings in the Leuphana Moodle Network for lecturers at Leuphana. You can find more information about this on our website on networks for teaching staff.