Learning Materials

Links for individual course units can be provided. These links should refer to websites which are related to the subject of the course unit. All lecturers of the course unit and their substitutes can mutate data.

There are the following types of learning materials:

Website with detailed information on the programme or context of the course, e.g.:

website of the institute with the detailed programme of the course
private homepage of the lecturer with additional information

All links with video recordings, e.g.:

recording of your own course at ETH
course from the iTunes U resources from another university
YouTube video related to the subject
podcast

Links to web-based learning platforms, e.g.:

Moodle learning environment for the course
link to ELBA tools used in the course
link to the exam in preparation of the online exam
collaboration platform in order to work with external persons
external interactive learning module for certain parts of the course
online quiz for the purpose of repetition

For more information on Moodle, please see Moodle-Course.

Link to a document storage or server with materials, e.g.:

BSCW workspace with documents related to the course
file server
handouts such as scripts or excursion documents

Link to online literature sources, links to libraries etc., e.g.:

course book with the possibility to order
online article related to the subject
script or publication from the ETH E-Collection
free literature on the net (OpenBook)

Link “Access to ETH-Library”

Use of this link allows you to set a direct URL within NEBIS catalogue. We recommend to use the URL presented by use of “Link” - see the image below. Literature can be linked directly from Swisscovery via this link. It is recommended to use the “Permalink” as URL, as this does not change (instead of the link in the address field). The permalink can be found in Swisscovery via “Send to” in the page navigation. After clicking on “Link” the permalink appears. The permalink can be copied directly via the button (see figure).

Enlarged view: Display of "Send to" with permalink on Swisscovery. Below is a button to copy the permalink to the clipboard. — Permalink in Swisscovery

Links which cannot be assigned to any of the above mentioned categories, e.g.:

portal of the international subject community
further information and contents related to the subject

Visibility of learning materials

The visibility of every link can be configured individually:

Visibility of learning materials in Course Catalogue

The following will be published in the Course Catalogue:

the title of a category but only if at least one “public, students and lecturers of the course unit” link is defined in this category
the title “Learning materials” but only if at least one category is displayed