The Literature Review Seminar

LRSem 2025 SoSe

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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. Students do not need to register on FlexNow.

1. Announce the seminar (4 months before)

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

• Team Assistant: Create the course in FlexNow.

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At the end of the semester:

• Professor: Announce the seminar on the website for the next semester (without dates/rooms).
• Team Assistant: Update information in UnivIS (add keywords „WI-Seminar“ and „WI-Seminare“), check information on the website.
• Note: If the course is mentioned on the website, it should automatically be in the Fachschaft WIAI newsletter{: target=“_blank”}{: 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).
• Have the seminar announced on Instagram{: target=“_blank”}
• Professor: Create a reminder for the evaluations.
• Team Assistant: Add moderator and session dates in VC.
• Professor: Summarize the feedback from the last course and explain how it was addressed.
• 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)

• Team Assistant: Add the presentation (exam) dates to the department calendar
• Professor: Set deadline for protocol submissions (upload in VC).
• Professor: Set the date for the presentation.
• Professor: Add presentation dates to the calendar
• 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

Entering Grades into FlexNow

• Team Assistant: Enter grades in FlexNow (or create certificates if exam is not yet available in FlexNow (script{: target=“_blank”})).
• Professor: Archive grades presentation protocols (projects and seminars: digital is sufficient) at 14.03{: target=“_blank”}.

Documentation

• Professor: Analyse the evaluations, store the files, and document the improvements (see evaluations).
• Professor: Report teaching efforts at the end of the semester.

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