The basis for a good online course is good planning. Therefore, please remember to first plan a rough structure for the semester and then consider how you would like to implement this planning with the digital tools (e.g. as Flipped/Inverted Classroom, see Blended Learning Formats).

Use the infographics further down on this page to find out how you can plan, implement and conduct your course (media-) didactically.

Not everything on ILIAS is self-explanatory. But you will see that you will quickly find your way around once you familiarize yourself with it:

• Getting a Quick Start with ILIAS
• All about ILIAS Items and Tools
• All about the Main Menu and Important ILIAS Functions
• Course

Use suitable communication tools (mail, forum, chat) in your ILIAS course room to accompany and support your students and for common subject-specific exchange. If necessary, offer online consultation hours to compensate for missing office hours in person.

Learning materials can be made available to students in various formats online in a course on the ILIAS learning platform.

If you have planned to include presentations/lectures in your seminars, you can produce e-lectures. For example, this could be done by adding sound to your PowerPoint slides on the desktop, creating learning videos, or using suitable YouTube videos. Self-created podcasts are also a contemporary format for word contributions.

Encourage students to also make their learning results available in these formats in the course, e.g. by using the Mediacast object.

In interactive videos, you can integrate questions of comprehension or reflection, or jump to label-specific comments.

Here, you can find information about available/recommended video and authoring tools. Choose a tool that is easily available for you and brings you as little technical effort as possible. Even with simple means a lot can be achieved!

You can integrate podcasts in mp3 format, e-lectures (and learning videos) in mp4 format (or, depending on the authoring tool used, in HTML format) into your ILIAS course and provide further online resources for self-learning (e.g. web links, pdf files).

Encourage your students during  self-study phases to intensively deal with the learning content by including collaborative learning activities in your scenario.

ILIAS offers a range of learning tools for this purpose, with which students can interact or create common learning outcomes (e.g. Etherpad, Forum, Upload-Folder, Wiki, Blog, Data Collection). In small groups, students can e.g. work together on problem-based tasks using appropriate tools.

Results of work submitted via ILIAS can also be commented and evaluated constructively and critically by students in an automatically assigned peer feedback process.

The creation of a multimedia e-portfolio can be used as a learning diary and to accompany and document practical and research projects.

A shared learning experience is especially important in seminars, especially to maintain the motivation of the students. The contact time required for this can be made possible, for example, through regular (e.g. biweekly) online meetings.

Make these online meetings as interactive as possible and involve the students in the active design of these online presence sessions.

Find out more about the web conference systems available at the University of Freiburg and their application scenarios. Select the web conferencing system best suited to your needs from the overview. Detailed information on the individual systems can be found on the pages linked there.