Digital Tools and Platforms for Students

The TeachCenter (external site) is the learning management system of TU Graz. Not every course has an online course, but very many do. Teachers use these online courses to provide files and videos. There you can solve online tasks, submit files or exchange ideas with others in the course forum.

If you are registered for a course in TUGRAZonline (external site) and there is a corresponding TeachCenter course, you will have access to it by the next day at the latest.

In the student calendar in the TeachCenter you find deadlines from TeachCenter courses as well as your course dates and possible exam dates.

You receive notifications or e-mails about events in the TeachCenter. You can manage yourself what you are notified about and how.

More information about the TeachCenter is available in the TeachCenter FAQ for students (external site) .

Digital exams can take place in the “regular” TeachCenter (external site) (for courses with continuous assessment) or in the TeachCenter Exam (external site) (for lectures). The guide Taking exams in the TeachCenter Exam shows how to log in there and what an exam there might look like.

If you just want to try out what an online exam might look like, you can enrol yourself in the course “Test your exam” (external site) in the TeachCenter Exam.

More information about the TeachCenter Exam is available in the TeachCenter Exam FAQ for students (external site) .

Other tools that may be used for exams at TU Graz are KnowledgeCheckR, Gradescope and the Safe Exam Browser.

In exams with KnowledgeCheckR, photos may be taken at irregular intervals during the online exam. Examiners can check them for irregularities. You usually still log in to the TeachCenter Exam and find a link to the KnowledgeCheckR app there.

Gradescope can be used for so-called scanned exams. In this case you usually still write the exam on paper in the lecture hall; only the teachers use this tool to grade the exams digitally.

Online exams that do not take place in the lecture hall may be supervised via video conferencing tools (see the next section). For written online exams you may use the Safe Exam Browser.

TU Graz has two video conferencing systems: Webex and BigBlueButton. They can be used for online courses, submission interviews or exams.

Webex can be used both with an app and in the browser. BigBlueButton, by contrast, runs via the TeachCenter.

Further information on both video conferencing systems (external site) is available in the TU4U intranet (German).

TUbe (external site) is the video platform of TU Graz, where you find videos and streams of your courses.

Usually the TeachCenter course of a course contains a link to the corresponding video series on TUbe, or the videos are embedded directly in the TeachCenter course, for example when there are additional interactive tasks.

With TUbe downloads you can save videos and watch them offline, for example when you want to study on the go.

If your teachers say so, you may use AI tools in courses. One of them is LLMduckt, which gives you API keys for LLMs to use in class.

Of course, teaching at TU Graz also uses other tools and platforms, for example those run by individual institutes.

Plenty of information as well as IT guides (external site) is also available in TU4U (external site) (intranet).