Learning Management System

Moodle is the central Learning Management System (LMS) at the TU Darmstadt. It offers a wide range of functions for designing online learning spaces. In these virtual spaces, learning materials are available and learning activities are offered. Access is given via TU-ID.

Access to Moodle

News

What´s possible with Moodle?

Due to a variety of constantly expanding functions, the range of possible uses and designs of a Moodle course is wide! Typical scenarios are:

  • Provide your students with course-related material and use Moodle to facilitate communication within the course.
  • Through the support of different tools for communication and collaboration, students can be actively involved in the course.
  • Through the help of online tests, you can let students check their knowledge so that they can better prepare for exams.
  • You can give feedback on submitted texts and files and grade them. You can set deadlines for the submission.
  • It is also possible to work with and in groups.
  • You can also time all your course content (learning materials and learning activities) and make them visible depending on other activities, e.g., tests.

Recommendations and tips for Moodle use in online teaching

Moodle is linked to the video platform Panopto.

This makes it easy to integrate videos into a Moodle course.

Learn more

Tip: Get to know Moodle in a Moodle course!

To the Moodle self-study course "Moodle Basic Functions" (in German)

  • The login to Moodle is via TU-ID.
  • Normally, a Moodle course is assigned to a lecture or seminar.
  • Moodle courses are not public. They are only accessible to participants of the course (to protect intellectual property).
  • There is a well considered role concept in Moodle. The “lecturer” create and design the courses and the “students” participate in them. In addition, there are roles for “assistants” and “tutors”.
    • Overview of the roles in Moodle
    • Important: The roles are assigned separately for each course. It is possible that you have the role of “lecturer” in one course room and the role of “student” in another Moodle course.
  • People who do not have a TU-ID can participate via the guest access, but only with reading rights (the course room must be public for this). Alternatively, it is possible to apply for a guest TU-ID. With this one the Moodle access is automatically available.
    Staff members of the TU Darmstadt can apply for a guest TU-ID for someone else via the IDM portal.
    Information on the topic of guest access

FAQ & Instructions for Moodle

Overview flyer “Moodle for teachers” (opens in new tab)

Flyer: Information on Moodle Course Management for the Offices for Student Affairs and Lecturers (opens in new tab)

Moodle FAQ: Login to Moodle

Moodle FAQ: Find Moodle courses in the catalogue

Moodle FAQ: Create a Moodle course

Moodle FAQ: The TUCaN-Moodle interface

TUCaN FAQ: Apply for a virtual Moodle course room via TUCaN

Moodle FAQ: Set availability / visibility of a course

Moodle FAQ: Upload learning material

Moodle FAQ: Files larger than 50MB – Media Portal

Service of the ULB: “Digitaler Semesterapparat”

Service of the ULB: Electronic media (in German)

Moodle Docs Anleitung: Einstellungen und Möglichkeiten für ein Forum (DE)

Moodle Docs Guide: Settings and options for a forum

Moodle FAQ: Enabling group chats for students

Moodle FAQ: Etherpad

Moodle-FAQ: Aktivität Nachgefragt

Moodle Docs Guide: Activity “Hot Question” (= “Nachgefragt”)

Course life cycle (click on image to enlarge)
Course life cycle (click on image to enlarge)

Moodle provides an important basis for digital teaching at TU Darmstadt. Large amounts of data are generated during use. To ensure a fast, reliable and clear learning platform, there is a life cycle for Moodle courses.

As soon as a course is older than eight semesters, a multi-stage check and clean-up process is triggered – see the “Course life cycle” diagram. At the end of this process, the course is backed up and deleted, unless it is still required.

Find out more details in the Moodle FAQs on the “Course life cycle”.

You can also back up a Moodle course yourself at any time or save single content via the “Sharing Cart” block.

Moodle is used as a central LMS at over 200 German-speaking universities.

Behind the Moodle system, which is based on open source, is a worldwide community that promotes the constant further development of the learning platform. This community is driven by its own needs and makes it attractive for universities to use Moodle as a learning platform and to become involved in the community.

The Moodle-using universities in the German-speaking world are in active exchange with each other and meet at least once a year in the context of the MoodleMoot conference. Overview: Moodle at German-speaking universities (in German)

Links & Downloads

Moodle of the Department of Computer Science

Flyer für Studienbüros (DE) (opens in new tab)
Moodle 4 Neuerungen (DE) (opens in new tab)

Help and Services

Moodle Support : By mail , By phone 06151/16-71130

FAQ for lecturers

(in German)

FAQ for students

(in German)

Moodle trainings

currently online via Zoom

Counselling & Support

on didactic and technical design options for the implementation of your ideas

Self-study course: Moodle Basic Functions

(in German)

What is possible with Moodle?

Example course showing the wide range of functions in Moodle

Further Centrally Managed Moodle Systems

Moodle Exam

For e-exams at the TU Darmstadt

Moodle Guest

For events & networking with universities nationwide

Moodle Metacampus

For activities & programs within the European Unite! network