Methods & Instructions

CTOUCH displays with touch functionality are standard equipment in the seminar rooms in the Philturm and in GW buildings. These can be used in particular as digital whiteboards and as playback devices in teaching, as they can play audio and video files.

Here you will find all the information, support materials, and event and educational information you need:

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Generative artificial intelligence (gAI), for example in the form of chatbot systems, has become an integral part of the digital world and is now a critical factor in university teaching.

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Here you will find practical examples and configurations in a PDF guide and a short video tutorial on a camera model that is also available in our hardware lending.

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Here you will find a practice-oriented collection of materials and tips from Dr Philipp Schmerheim, Institute for German Language and Literature, on the topic of accessibility in teaching.

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Here you will find basic information on data protection in teaching and, at the bottom of the page, the most important contacts for further questions and comprehensive advice and support services.

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On this page we provide an overview of the possibilities and tools available at UHH for conducting seminar evaluations.

On this page, you will find instructions on how to record audio-voiced teaching units in PowerPoint.

The use of teaching materials for digital teaching requires careful consideration of copyright law. Lecturers and students are right to ask themselves what they are allowed to use and share digitally and what they are not. To help you answer these and other questions, we would like to provide you with various sources of information on this topic.

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On this page, we collect legal framework conditions as well as other resources and information on the topic of digital exams.

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The Teaching Navi from DUTy: The DUTy team has published the Teaching Navi (in german) as a search portal for teaching staff.  It contains articles on the creation of teaching from the various faculties at the University of Hamburg. The articles contain self-learning materials, events, videos or other formats that can be used by the teaching staff. These can be filtered, which makes a quick search possible. A FAQ section summarises the most important questions and their answers. (lmm, 27.02.23)

The HUL glossary of higher education didactics: The HUL team has published a glossary of higher education didactic terms (in german) under the title "What is actually ...? With a maximum of 100 words, concepts are explained in a simple and understandable way. Thanks to the explicitly designated URL to each of the terms, you can even link directly to them in your own contexts if needed.

The HUL team will continue to expand the glossary in the future.

The online archive of HERDT|Campus: The RRZ, in cooperation with the Hamburg State and University Library, is now providing access to the HERDT|Campus (in german) for all members of the UHH with an active user ID. This is an online archive on IT. (12.01.2023)

DL.MIN|stream: The monthly livestream of the Digitalisation in Teaching MIN (DL.MIN) team on interesting topics from the field of digital teaching and learning. The broadcasts take place on the first Monday of each month at 15:00. (31.05.2023)

Quick guides for digital teaching in the UHH e-learning portal: The eLearning network of the UHH, to which the eBüro of the Faculty of Humanities also belongs to, has developed short instructions (in german) for the development of digital teaching offers. These explain, for example, how you can digitise events on your own using already available resources.

Tip of the week from the EW Media Center: Every week, the Faculty of Education’s Media Center publishes a new post that reveals eLearning-related tips and tricks (in german).

Tips for the didactic design of online teaching from the HUL: online teaching from the HUL: The team of the Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning (HUL) has compiled a collection of didactic tips and tricks, can be viewed on the pages of the HUL (in german).

Regular Training Offerings:

• HUL workshops: The Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning (HUL) offers an extensive workshop program (in german) on the topic of digital teaching. Since January 2021, the HUL Teaching Impulses team has also been providing easy-to-implement suggestions for (not only digital) teaching in interactive web sessions 
• MMKH webinars on media production: MMKH has switched its training operations to online events. Following the respective date, the event will be available as recordings, provided that the participants have given their consent. Webinar descriptions as well as registration information can be found online on the MMKH homepage (in german).

More instructions:

• (09.2022) Tips for designing synchronous hybrid teaching: In this basic text on synchronous hybrid teaching, written by Gunda Mohr from the HUL, you will find concrete application tips and examples for typical synchronous hybrid events and how to ensure a good course of the event. It also discusses the didactic approach and shows where there is support within the UHH. The document (in german) can be found on the HUL website.
• (22.10.2020) Mini handout –- in 5 pages, the HUL team has put together what elements are useful at the first appointment and how you can make those elements digital  (in german) (PDF Download).