Big Data and Analytics

Important

Process needs to be adapted.

Field	Value
Title	Big Data and Analytics
Semester	2026-SuSe
Lecturer	Gerit Wagner
Link: LMS	Cavas
Link: Website	Website
Status	upcoming
Student Evaluations
Improvement Issue
Status of Revisions	N/A

Process

flowchart LR
    A[<a href="#announce">1. Announce the course</a><br/>4 months before] --> B[<a href="#prepare">2. Prepare the course</a><br/>1 month before]
    B --> C[<a href="#offer">3. Offer the course</a>]
    C --> D[<a href="#grade">4. Exam grading<br/>and documentation</a>]
    D --> E[<a href="#repeat">5. Repeat exam</a><br/>following term]

1. Announce the course

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

• Team Assistant: Create the course in FlexNow.

At the end of the semester:

• Professor: Announce lecture on the website for the next semester (without dates/rooms).
• Team Assistant: Update information in UnivIS (add keywords „WI-Seminar“ and „WI-Seminare“ for seminars), check information on the website.

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

2. Prepare the course

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 lecture announced on Instagram
• 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 course

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

• Professor: Schedule evaluations in the pen-ultimate week (30.21.evaluations).
• Team Assistant: Order exam materials (Prüfungspapier, Mantelbögen).
• Professor (Team Assistant): Prepare the exams (Deadline: day of the exam), information is typically provided one month before the semester ends (E-Mail: “Prüferbestellung”). Use the exam checklist.
• Scheine (Formular), Scheinklausur-anmeldungen bei Erstellung der Klausurbögen berücksichtigen
• Add exam dates to the calendar

4. Exam grading and documentation

Before grading (day of the exam)

• Professor: Cases of cheating (Unterschleif): immediately enter it into FlexNow and send the exam to the examination office (do not grade it)
• Professor: Cases of missed exams (Versäumnisklausuren): immediately enter it into FlexNow, archive the exams for 1 year.
• Professor: Send the exam sheets, protocols (Anwesenheitslisten), and two empty exams to the examination office immediately after the exams are completed.
• Team Assistant: Empty exams (Versäumnis-Klausur): archive for one semester.

Grading

• Create reminder for the deadline: approx. 15. September (summer term), ??? (winter term). Grade early because colleagues may be on vacation before the deadline (not available to review failed exams).
• Add bonus points if any and if exam is passed. Otherwise, note the bonus points and add a note “kann nicht angerechnet werden”.
• Do not dispose of empty exams
• Use the grading scripts 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)).
• Professor: Archive bonus exercises (if any).

Sending exams to the examination office

• Professor: Exams are sent to the examination office (in person): Silke Nüßlein, Kapuzinerstr. 25, 00.01

Documentation

• Professor: Analyse the evaluations, store the files, and document the improvements (see evaluations).

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

5. Repeat exam

Students have the possibility to repeat the exam in the following term (even if the lecture is not offered again). Registration for students in FlexNow is created by the examination office. (true???)

• Professor: Upon notification by the examination office (E-Mail: “Prüferbestellung”), create the repeat exam. Student registrations are available in FlexNow.
• Repeat relevant steps of Exams and documentation (step 4)

Students can review their exams and grades in person (Einsichtnahme) on the dates set by the examination office (link).