It is 2020. We are in the middle of a pandemic
and lectures at the HWR Berlin only take place digitally.
While a year ago students were looking for their event rooms at the university, sometimes without orientation,
they are now looking for links to digital rooms.
To make your search easier, the following video offers some tips on where the access links to online lectures can be found.
First of all, it should be mentioned that lecturers proceed differently.
So there is no standard place where you can find the links to the lectures.
However, you will often find them on Moodle.
Of course, the most important thing is that you have your timetable.
You know which lectures take place on which day.
Let's assume:
Monday at 12:00 you always have Economics.
You will then find this module in your course overview on Moodle.
If you click on the course, you will get a view like this.
Here you can see the title of the course.
Further down you will find the rubrics under which your lecturers upload slides, literature and other material
that you need for your studies.
The course always starts here with the forum "Announcements".
"Announcements" are forum posts by the lecturers
that you can read but not reply to.
Click on them to see all the announcements you have made so far.
An overview of these is already shown here on the right-hand side.
The first line always shows the date on which the message was written.
Below that you see the sender,
i.e. the teacher of the course, and the last line is the subject.
Often teachers give out the link for the course in this way.
Pay attention to the subject line.
Here, for example, the subject is "Access link for course"
and the message that opens when you click on it probably contains a BigBlueButton link
or access to Microsoft Teams.
On Tuesdays you have another course at 10:00.
Your timetable says: "Fundamentals of Business Administration".
You open Moodle again and click on the module in the course overview.
The view is very similar to the one of the other course.
The title is different, obviously, and above the option "Announcements" there is a welcome text.
Often the link is given directly here, which is then usually valid for the whole semester.
This is a link to a BigBlueButton room and below there is also the access code.
The third variant becomes clear at our next lecture.
It's already Thursday and Marketing takes place at 13:00.
The first step, as always, is to go to Moodle and search for the module "Marketing" in the course overview.
If we click on that, we see this view again.
But it is noticeable again: The contents are sorted differently.
The topics below the announcement and the welcome text are sorted by the individual events.
If you find the date of today, the link can also be attached directly below it.
If you click on it, the course room opens.
In addition, it is possible that you will only be notified by e-mail.
So check your e-mail inbox daily to avoid missing any important information.
And have you already found the link to the next course?
If you still have questions, please contact the E-Learning Centre at elearning@hwr-berlin.de
or come to one of our consulting hours.
You can find the link in the video description.
Thank you for watching.