Moving face-to-face teaching online is a welcome way for maintaining education continuity at the University of Potsdam in the current situation. This page provides a compact overview on how to deliver lectures in virtual teaching and learning environments.

The central e-Learning platform Moodle offers the most common and basic functions.  Moodle offers a variety of possibilities for digital teaching and learning, ranging from the distribution of documents and recordings to the design of tasks or cooperative forms of learning and  assessment tools. 

For virtual classrooms and online streams, the services DFNconf and Adobe Connect can be used. These are provided by the German Research Network DFN. However, DFN does not recommend large-scale use for the time being and points out that the capacities are not sufficient to ensure stable operation in the current situation! 

Asynchronous scenarios (e.g. materials, tasks, communication and interaction in Moodle) are also preferable to synchronous scenarios (e.g. web conferences, online lectures) due to the different technical equipment of the students. You can find instructions on how to create recordings on these pages or use the consultation options (right).

You will also find a variety of handouts and short videos with step-by-step instructions explaining the basic functions of Moodle, the setup of video conferences and virtual classrooms.