The Literature Review Seminar

LRSem 2023 WiSe

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Process

• FlexNow: Seminars must be created for each semester (decentral exams), a seminar paper and presentation are mandatory
• Grading: the team assistant registers students for the seminar, enters grades, and submits them online.

1. Announce the seminar (4 months before)

Start: December (summer term), May (winter term)

• Professor: Announce seminar on the website for the next semester (without dates/rooms).
• Team Assistant: Create the course in FlexNow.
• Professor: Update information in UnivIS (add keywords „WI-Seminar“ and „WI-Seminare“), check information on the website.
• Professor: The seminar should be announced in the Fachschaft WIAI newsletter{: target=“_blank”}

Deadline: mid-May (summer term), December/January (winter term)

2. Prepare the seminar (1 month before)

Start: March (summer term), September (winter term)

• Team Assistant and Professor: Set dates and request lecture rooms.
• IT department: Create the VC course, two weeks before the semester starts (automatically based on UnivIS).
• Professor: Create a reminder for the evaluations.
• Team Assistant: Add moderator and session dates in VC.
• Professor: Activate course in VC (visible to students).

Deadline: April (summer term), October (winter term)

3. Offer the seminar

Start: April (summer term), October (winter term)

• Professor: Schedule evaluations in the pen-ultimate week (30.21.evaluations).

4. Grading and documentation

Grading

• Create reminder for the deadline.
• Use the grading scripts{: target=“_blank”} to assign grades and prepare FlexNow import
• Have failed exams reviewed by a second professor (?)

Entering Grades into FlexNow

• Team Assistant: Enter grades in FlexNow (or create certificates if exam is not yet available in FlexNow (script{: target=“_blank”})).

  • Login: FlexNow{: target=“_blank”} - Lehrstuhlmodul - Prüfungsteilnehmer / zentral organisiert / Veranstaltung auswählen / Teilnehmer laden
  • Formular zum Ändern einzelner Teilnehmer: Noten eingeben (Punkte müssen nicht eingegeben werden), speichern und weiter
  • Oder CSV: export (utf-8), add grades/points via vlookup, import (csv-format: semicolon, no quotes)
    • Im oberen Bereich: Teilnehmer laden, drucken, exportieren via LV-Semester: “Noten endgültig freischalten und verbuchen” (14.01{: target=“_blank”}). After the activation, changes can only be made through the examination office (wiai.pruefungen@uni-bamberg.de)
  • Only store grades as PDF (not as csv)?
  • Klausuren entsprechend der Reihenfolge im PDF sortieren.

• Grades are archived at 14.03{: target=“_blank”}.

Sending exams to the examination office

• Professor: Exams are sent to the examination office (in person): Silke Nüßlein{: target=“_blank”}, Kapuzinerstr. 25, 00.01

Documentation

• Professor: Analyse the evaluations, store the files, and document the improvements (see evaluations).
• Professor: Report teaching efforts at the end of the semester.
• Professor: Archive presentation protocols (projects and seminars: digital is sufficient).

Deadline: End of August (summer term), March (winter term)