User Guides

In the TeachCenter you can provide students with digital materials, activities and teaching and learning videos. This page also shows you how to create openly licensed and accessible materials and how to integrate AI into your courses.

This page offers guides to tools and platforms for holding exams digitally (online exams) or for using digital tools to supervise, review and grade exams.

Here you will find guides to tools and platforms that enable you and your students to interact or work on tasks together, whether in online teaching or in the lecture hall – video conferencing systems, for example.

This page gives an overview of the platforms and tools you are likely to use as a student during your studies at TU Graz to receive learning materials, take exams, or interact with teachers and fellow students.

Here you will find further offers, services and platforms that can support you in implementing your digital teaching.

The Accessibility Toolkit is a tool for accessibility in the TeachCenter that can help teachers analyse accessibility in their TeachCenter courses as well as identify and solve potential problems.

BigBlueButton (BBB) is a freely available open source software for video conferencing, which you can use directly via the TeachCenter.

BigBlueButton (BBB) is a free and open source software for video conferencing.

The Choice activity in the TeachCenter enables teachers to ask a question and to give students a set of possible responses to choose from.

H5P allows you to create interactive learning content and interactive videos. The web-based open-source tool is included in the TeachCenter.

CodeRunner is a question type in the TeachCenter (Exam) that allows students to write programme code, which is then graded depending on whether it passes previously defined test cases.

The TU Graz TeachCenter Exam is the exam instance of the TeachCenter.

You can use the Exam Printer to print a quiz created in the TeachCenter (Exam) as a PDF, including a customised cover page, e.g. for an in-person exam. In the process, you can use your existing question bank in the TeachCenter (Exam).

STACK questions can be used in a TeachCenter quiz and offer computer-based assessment for mathematics..

KnowledgeCheckR is an artificial intelligence (AI) based system for knowledge creation, maintenance, distribution and examination.

Gradescope is an exam tool by Turnitin, which allows you to create different kinds of exams and can be used via the TeachCenter Exam. TU Graz offers licences for this tool.

The quiz activity in the TU Graz TeachCenter (Exam) provides the option of holding secure online exams with Safe Exam Browser (SEB). Safe Exam Browser, a separate software, can be used to restrict the access to unauthorised resources such as external apps and websites.

With the „Assignment“ activity, students can upload files directly to the TeachCenter, for example for homework or exams. You can view and grade files directly in the TeachCenter, or download them for offline grading.

Using the Git activity, teachers can create and manage GitLab repositories for students in the TU Graz Teaching GitLab directly via the TeachCenter. Students can access their repositories directly via the TeachCenter.

With LLMduckt(opens in new tab),, you can give your students at Graz University of Technology access to API keys for various AI models as part of your courses. Access is managed via a TeachCenter course.

Assignments, exams and self-assessments can be carried out directly via the TeachCenter (Exam) and graded directly in the TC (Exam).

Participants in a course can be divided into groups and participate in certain activities that are only accessible to their group. If students are already divided into groups on TUGRAZonline, by default they will be synchronized like this in the TeachCenter.

Students and teachers in the TeachCenter are normally synchronised automatically with TUGRAZonline, both for regular courses and exams.

You can use the import function to copy content from one TC course in another one. This is useful, for example, for courses that are similar, or courses that take place in the winter and summer semesters and are therefore split between two courses but should remain the same.

With the Learning Goal Widget, you can graphically display learning objectives in the TeachCenter for students. Students can mark their current knowledge level for self-checking and see which material in the course belongs to which learning objective.

In Mahara, teachers at TU Graz can create digital portfolios (collections of images, texts, documents) and share them with other people or groups. It is possible to join groups and create and share joint portfolios, forums and files. Teachers can thus use the platform to create networks within the teaching community at TU Graz.

The following guide explains how you can activate or deactivate notifications for messages, forum entries, announcements and login notifications.

With the Offline Quiz activity, you can generate exam papers for paper-based multiple-choice exams in the TeachCenter (Exam). You can also use existing questions from the question bank. The completed exam papers are then scanned, uploaded to the TeachCenter (Exam) and automatically graded.

BigBlueButton and Webex are video conferencing tools that can be used for oral exams, meetings to discuss student submissions, or to supervise written exams.

The legal framework for online exams is written down in the Statute Part Legal Regulations of TU Graz.

This guide shows you how you can let students see their results at a post-exam review of an online exam (TeachCenter Exam, KnowledgeCheckR).

In your TeachCenter course, it is possible to set certain conditions for accessing sections, activities, and other content. These must be met in order for students to view or open the activities and content. Depending on the scenario, these restrictions, as they are called, can help structure the course and guide the students‘ learning path.

With the Scheduler activity you can easily organise and manage appointments in the TU Graz TeachCenter and make them available to students, which can be used, for example, to coordinate office hours. Students can book appointments for themselves (or in groups).

With the attendance plugin, you can create appointments directly in the TeachCenter and record the attendance of your students on these dates. You can choose from various status options. It is also possible to grade attendance.

At Graz University of Technology, you can record attendance digitally using an attendance plugin in TeachCenter or the external tool Digital Attendance List (DAL). This guide explains how to use the Digital Attendance List (DAL). Students can check themselves in via QR codes, or teachers can take attendance manually.

In TU Graz TeachCenter Exam, students can take online exams. The structure and features of TU Graz TeachCenter Exam are very similar to those of the „regular“ TeachCenter.

Students can use the student calendar in the TeachCenter to view all the dates of courses and exams for which they are registered. Deadlines for assignments and the like are also displayed.

Since November 2020, the policy on Open Educational Resources (available in German; OER for short) has been applied at Graz University of Technology. The purpose of this guideline is to present TU Graz’s OER policy for the promotion of open educational resources.

At TU Graz, you have the option to take exams and carry out self-assessments with „quizzes“ in the TeachCenter.

LTI can be used to connect the TeachCenter to the MOOC platform iMooX and to Metacampus, the learning management system of the UNITE! university alliance. Content from the provider system can be embedded in the system where the course is actually held, and students‘ grades can be transferred.

On TUbe, the video portal of Graz University of Technology, you can save videos in your browser with TUbe Downloads. You can then (continue to) watch these videos later when you are offline.

With the „TUbe Recorder,“ you can record your camera and screen directly from the TeachCenter to create simple instructional videos. The recorded videos can be published directly on TUbe.

In this user guide you will learn how to upload videos from the TU Graz TeachCenter directly to TU Graz TUbe, embed them in your TeachCenter course and manage them easily via the TeachCenter.

In the TU Graz OER repository, you can upload Open Educational Resources (OER) such as presentations that are not part of a TU Graz TeachCenter course. Any member of an Austrian higher education institution with an OER certification can upload files after initial activation.

Some rooms at TU Graz are equipped with a Cisco Webex video conferencing system. The video conferencing system (VCS) allows you to have some of the students participate in the course from another room at TU Graz (e.g. lecture hall) or from home. However, the system can also be used as a whiteboard or to share your screen in face-to-face classes without a videoconference.

Random questions are not a question type, but a way to randomly select questions from a question bank, i.e. a category, and add them to a quiz .

If students do not have a webcam, but proctoring via webcam is planned for an online exam, e.g. exams with KnowledgeCheckR, they can also set up their smartphone as a webcam.

Problems in video conferences? Try these hints and tips before contacting the support team.

Webex is a videoconferencing tool that offers the possibility to participate online and synchronously in courses as well as meetings. With it, audio and video lectures from teachers can be received and questions can be asked in the chat or directly via audio.

In this user guide, we present features of Webex that might be useful in teaching. We recommend using Webex instead of BigBlueButton (BBB) for larger courses (>100 without camera, >30 with camera). In order to use these features of Webex, you need to have a TUGRAZonline account.