A warm welcome to the new semester!

Dear Lecturers, 

As the new semester begins, we would like to extend a warm welcome to you and, at the same time, introduce you to the diverse range of services offered by Leuphana Teaching Services. Our aim is to provide you with the best possible support in all aspects of your teaching:

• Advice: Our team is happy to offer you personalised advice on all matters relating to your teaching and its further development – simply email:lehrservice@leuphana.de .
• Course design: We support you in designing your courses to be interactive and engaging, and in effectively integrating digital tools into your teaching. On our Teaching Portal, you will find helpful information and resources on teaching design, data protection-compliant tools and their areas of application at Leuphana.
• AI in the teaching context: We are happy to advise you if you wish to use AI-based tools in your teaching. Please also visit our webpages with recommendations for the use of AI in examinations, AI tools and AI-events and links.
• Examinations: We offer support in designing examination formats and assist you in implementing modern examination methods – please feel free to contact: lehrservice@leuphana.de .
• Information: We provide you with comprehensive information on current developments and best practices in higher education.
  • Please subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date and ensure you don’t miss any relevant calls for teaching projects, current developments in teaching, best practices, or internal and external events.
  • Feel free to join the Teams group ‘AI News in Teaching and Higher Education’ to receive relevant information on current AI developments.

We have also listed some of the Teaching Services’ offerings for you here, which you can look forward to in the coming semester: 

Workshop series “AI skills for Lecturers”
We are continuing our series on AI in teaching(in German) covering topics such as:

• Generating teaching materials from text using AI
• Guiding AI-supported student writing
• Research using AI
• Designing future-oriented examinations
• Media design with AI (image, audio and video)

Please visit our website for more information and register for the workshop of your choice.

Workshop series “Challenging situations in teaching”

• Designing and Facilitating Group Work in Culturally Heterogeneous Groups (in English)
• Difficult situations in teaching (in German)
• The Challenge of Neurodiversity (in German)
• LVE: via mystudy (instructions) or by email at leva@leuphana.de. Further information is available on the course evaluation webpage
• Shift!: by email to shift@leuphana.de. Further information is available on the Shift! website  

Please visit our website for more information and register for the workshop of your choice.

Teaching Programme

Networking events for lecturers
The Teaching Service has set up various networks to bring lecturers together, facilitate the exchange of experiences and share examples of good practice: the Moodle network, the myPortfolio network and the network for lecturers with special responsibilities (LfbA). Join the networks and find out more on the Networks for Teachers webpage, where you will also find the latest dates.

Make use of feedback and evaluation!
Feedback and dialogue help you to involve students in your teaching and further develop your teaching: seek feedback and discuss the results with your students. You can choose between the customisable evaluation tools of the Course Evaluation (LVE) (digital questionnaire) or the qualitative feedback process Shift! (moderated dialogue). You can register for the processes until 23 April 2026: 

We look forward to an exciting and successful semester with you!

Warm regards,
Your Leuphana Teaching Service