Course Parameters (instructions)

If you have created a new course, you will automatically be taken to the next template.

For existing courses, open the “Course Administration” app and click on the respective item in the respective column that you would like to edit.

• The course number consists of exactly 9 digits and should not be confused with the module number, as a course can be part of multiple modules.
• The first digits (usually the first two digits) of the course number represent the department offering the course. These can be found in the courses already created in your department. You can view these by opening the application “Course Administration” using the organizational filter (respective department) in a new window in your browser. You will now see all the courses offered by the respective department, allowing you to view the numbers and enter them into the template. 
• After entering the initial digits for the department, click the 'Next Available Course Number' button to complete the course number to 9 digits.

Enter the number of semester hours per week here.

The course type indicates the type of lecture, e.g. lecture, lecture with tutorials, seminar. A detailed list is displayed as a drop-down menu.

You can use the course categories to specify properties for a course or exclude certain properties. You can use the course search to filter by course category. This gives students an overview.

Categories:

• Set up: If you have created a new event, you must first set up these categories. To do this, click on the link in the “Course Cat.” column (course category). This opens an editing window. Now click on “Create New Assignment” at the top of the page. One or more categories can be added to each course.
• Editing: You can change the element using the editing pen. You can now edit the element. Then click on save & continue (back to the overview of the category groups) or save & close.

The following categories can be assigned to your course:

• Online course offerings
  • This course category is voluntary and can also be deleted.
• In-person courses
  • This course category is voluntary and can also be deleted.
• ILIAS
  • The “ILIAS Course Category” feature is used to specify whether an ILIAS course should be set up for a course and, if so, with which scenario.
  • There are four different scenarios for ILIAS courses (ILIAS course, with subgroups, per course group and no ILIAS course) stored in C@MPUS. Please read the instructions for setting up ILIAS courses [de] carefully. 
  • Please note: Once the course has been created in ILIAS, the selection cannot be effectively changed without deleting courses that have already been created. 
• Course survey
• Use
• The course survey is a criterion in the course registration process. 
• The evaluation regulations stipulate that all courses must be evaluated at least every two years. However, alternative methods of evaluation can also be used.
• If the course is canceled, has fewer than six participants, or cannot take place for other reasons, and you have already received a link to the registration form, you can use the form to indicate why the evaluation will not take place.
• Procedure: 
• Approximately four weeks after the start of the lecture period, course information is exported from C@MPUS and imported into EvaSys.
• Teaching staff who are registered in C@MPUS will receive a link to the registration template by email. (For events with two lecturers, both will be contacted. For events with three or more lecturers, only the first person listed in C@MPUS is contacted. Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to exclude individual lecturers.)
• Up to six optional questions can be added to the core questions, or the survey can be canceled using the registration form.
• After closing the registration form, teachers receive the specific questionnaire in PDF format, which they can print out.
• The completed forms are sent back to the QE (Quality Development Office, Evaluation Department), where they are scanned and evaluated.
• Teaching staff receive the evaluation promptly via email.

Here you can allocate the people who are holding or supervising the course.

Using the person allocation template, you can initiate the process 'Allocate new people to a Course' by clicking the green plus symbol labeled 'Add'. In the column “LF” (teaching function) you can select whether you wish to add a lecturer or a supervisor.

• Lecturers (V) are teachers who are responsible for the course and hold appointments. They can:
• Cancel appointments
• Change course descriptions
• Register, deregister and reregister participants
• Assign course categories
• Supervisors (B) are employees who are involved in a course. They
• Are not visible to students
• Can cancel appointments
• Register, deregister and reregister participants

You can also enter the number of semester hours per week (SSt) per lecturer. This field must be filled out, but can be 0.

Please save your changes.

Assign planned posts if a person is not available in C@MPUS:

• Create a planned post: Call up the Person Allocation template. Clicking the green plus symbol 'Add' allows you to either search for planned posts (select the 'Planned Post' radio button) or click on 'Create Post' in the 'Add further persons' box.
• Replacing the planned post with a real person: In the Planned Post template, you can assign a real person to the post. Click on the link in the column "Planned Post". This opens a new window. In this template you can search for the real person and then assign them to the planned post.

If the courses exists more than once, the link “same course” is displayed in the gray menu box at the top right.

• Courses with identical content in the same semester or in other semesters or academic years.
• These courses are tied to the same identity codes.

• Courses with identical content offered multiple times in the same semester to accommodate a large number of students.
• e. g. Very large lectures or identical seminars with different lecturers.

Note:
For parallel courses and course groups, students can only be allocated a place in one of the parallel courses or course groups.

When should parallel courses be used, and when are course groups the better option?

• Course groups
• If courses are identical except for the dates and lecturers.

• Parallel courses:
• If courses are offered by different organizations.
• If courses have different course descriptions.

• Courses held simultaneously in the same room, such as 'split courses' (Gabelungsveranstaltungen), where different student groups attend together initially and then separate after a shared session.
• In the case of courses held jointly, dates can be created for both courses at the same time.

Define a joint course:

1. In the Course Parameters template, click on the joint course link at the top left of the ribbon.
2. In the newly opened window, click on 'Edit' in the ribbon at the top of the page.
3. In the next window, click on "Operations" at the top of the ribbon and on 'Add Course'.
4. You can then search for the joint course (course title or number) and add it by ticking the checkbox.
5. Then click on 'save'