The academic calendar lists teaching, examination and re-examination periods.

Teaching 10-11 means you teach from 10:15-11. The 15 minutes delay is the ”academic quarter” that allow students and instructors time to move between activities on campus. Teaching 10-12 means that you have a break 11:00-11:15, so you teach 10:15-11:00 and again 11:15-12:00.

Time and location will be published in the timetable prior to semester start.

How do I change the number of hours for my course?

• The number of hours is specified in the course description. If the number of hours must be changed, it must therefore be changed in the course description.
• For master level courses there should be at least 5 hours scheduled per week and for bachelor’s courses at least 6 hours per week.

How do I communicate restrictions to the schedule?

In the previous year, the course coordinator will receive an email asking you to report restrictions. You will be asked in approximately October of year x for changes and restrictions to the schedule in the fall of year x+1. You will be asked in approximately March of year z for changes and restrictions to the schedule in the spring of year z+1.

On this study portal, you will find the information that is given to the students: Web portal for students

• AU Course catalogue
• Twice a year teachers receive a call for changes to the course description. Then you may submit changes. Ideally, you first formulate the objectives (learning goals) of the course then you design a form of examination that is customized to measure in detail to what degree the student satisfies the learning goals. Finally, you select a course contents and teaching method that helps them to perform well at the exam. 
• See https://stll.au.dk/en/resources/learning-objectives-taxonomy-and-course-descriptions/
• See more about constructive alignment and the video “Teaching Teaching – Understanding Understanding”:https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Teaching+Teaching+%E2%80%93+Understanding+Understanding .
• There has been some discussion about the benefits and drawbacks when hand-ins/projects during the course counts towards the final grade. This may be a source of student stress. At the end of this PDF document is an appendix, “Continuous Testing”, listing some proposals for best practice in this regard. 
• Changes to exiting courses and descriptions of new courses are submitted using the Course Catalogue Editor https://cce.au.dk/.
• Expect the deadline for fall courses to be in the previous December/January and expect the deadline for spring courses to be in the previous June/August.  Note that the deadline for information used in scheduling the courses (number of weekly hours etc.) is earlier.

• Brightspace (joint learning management system at Aarhus University) https://educate.au.dk/en/teaching-with-technology/technical-guides/brightspace/.
• Note that all ordinary courses in the course catalogue will be set up automatically in Brightspace.
• Brightspace course pages for unofficial courses like PhD courses, TA teaching courses, can be requested here.

• The Department of Computer Science has a mail alias for the lecturers and it is very important that all lecturers are on the mail alias.
• Please send an email to Helena Luna Bach hlb@cs.au.dk to get on the laerer.cs@maillist.au.dk alias.

• https://bachelor.au.dk/datalogi (select “uddannelsens opbygning”)
• http://bachelor.au.dk/en/itproductdevelopment/ (select “uddannelsens opbygning”)

• One ECTS is equivalent to 28 hours of work (EU definition is 25-30 hours of work).
• A 10 ETCS course requires the student to work 280 hours all included (classes, homework, examination, preparation).
• The workload should be distributed evenly. For a 10 ECTS semester course the workload is 15 hours weekly over the 14-week teaching period and the remaining 70 hours are spent in the 1-week mid-semester break, the 2-week break between the teaching period and the examination period, and during the examination period preparing for the examination.
• Ideally, the course website (slides for the first lecture) explains to the students how they are supposed to spend their time. As an example you may specify that the 15 hours weekly during the 7 weeks of teaching are spent like this
  • 4 hours of lectures
  • 3 hours of exercise classes
  • 2 hours for preparing lectures
  • 2 hours for preparing exercise classes
  • 4 hours for solving homework assignments
• If there are study café hours associated with the course, then the preparation and the home work can take place in the study café
• Deadlines for project work in a course should be within the teaching period, so the breaks and the examination period is free to prepare for the examinations in this and other courses

• Centre for Educational Development offer various support, including
  • Online Teaching / Examinations: help and guidelines
  • Teaching with technology
  • Courses: e.g. teacher training https://ced.au.dk/en/courses/.
• The Department offers Introduction to Science Teaching to all teaching assistants each semester.

• The teacher of mandatory courses and in some cases elective courses may have help from teaching assistants (TAs)
• The teacher is expected to conduct weekly meetings with the TAs to ensure a common understanding of the goal of the exercise classes, rules for grading hand-ins, etc. Preferably, solutions to exercises are distributed to the TAs at the weekly meetings including explanation of the points of an exercise and possible pitfalls. At the meeting, pros and cons of solution alternatives may be discussed as well. This allows the TAs to concentrate on helping the students as opposed to spend their paid time working solutions out themselves.
• TAs get paid for 10 hour/week. At most 4 of these hours can be exercise classes.
• Most bachelor’s courses have the participants divided into classes with 20-25 students per class for so-called “theoretical exercises”. In such case, one TA is assigned per class.
• For Master’s courses, you don’t get a TA, when less than 40 students sign up. For 40-59 students you get one TA (but no TAs if you are already two persons teaching the course). For 60-79 students you get 2 TAs if you are 1 person teaching the course, if you are more teachers you will only get TAs by special agreement.
• If you need extra TAs beyond the above principles, you must apply by answering an email call sent out twice a year (May & November) before the TA hiring for the next semester. Exceptions may be when developing a new course, developing new material, use of special software packages requiring support, restructuring a course etc.

• All courses are evaluated at the end of the semester, and you actively participate in the evaluation of your course and interact with the students, see https://educate.au.dk/en/teaching-with-technology/technical-guides/brightspace/managing-a-course/course-evaluation/
• The Head of Department and the Chairman of the Education Committee will receive the complete course evaluations and may contact the lecturer for a dialogue on how to remedy possible problems.

• Students may buy books at Stakbogladen Naturfag.
• Please let the bookshop know which books you want the students to buy several months before teaching starts.
• Books for you or for TA’s are ordered via the bookshop. You have to supply account/payment information when ordering. Your research group coordinator can help with this.
• If you require customized compendia, you may negotiate a printing of a custom collection with the relevant publisher (most publishers offer such deals).
• Alternatively, you may make your own compendium for printing locally, see http://trykkeri.au.dk/en/. In this case you must respect the copy right rules negotiated with the university.

• If you fall ill on a day, where you have lectures and if it is not possible to find a replacement lecturer, you may have to cancel the lecture. With only few attendants rescheduling may be an option.
• In any case, please notify participants via email using the course administration system.

• A "project work" activity is 5 or 10 ECTS and the number of participants are normally 1-3 master students.
• The activity is supervised by a tenure track ass. / assoc. / full professor at the department.
• A "project work" activity must follow the course description for "project work in computer science" / "project work in IT-product development", see the course catalogue https://kursuskatalog.au.dk/en?search=Project work&department=15
• Concerning formalia:
• The participants include the project work in their master's contracts and sign up for it like any other course.
• In addition, the students must make a project work contract using the web service https://kontrakt.nattech.au.dk/ before the start of the project. The contract contains a project description (pdf document) and specifies supervisor and dates. For restriction on dates and submission time, see the newest course description https://kursuskatalog.au.dk/en?search=Project work&department=15.
• The student hand-in the project work report through digital exam.

The academic calendar lists teaching, examination and re-examination periods

• The Study Administration plans time and place for all written and oral exams in courses.
• The main supervisor plans time and place for the oral defense for master’s theses, bachelor projects, project works and vocational training projects.
• The teacher finds the co-examiner/external examiner. See External examiner / co-examiner -bullet below

Time and location are listed in the examination schedule.

• https://timetable.scitech.au.dk/adgang
• Contact Sille Stenild stenild@au.dk to get username and password.

• The course description contains detailed information about the form of examination in the specific course, see the course catalogue. The course description must be followed! This includes
  • Project work
  • Vocational training project
  • Bachelor's project
  • Master’s thesis
• For changes to the course description, see “Course description bullet”.

• External co-examiner. If the course description specifies external grading then an external co-examiner from the list https://services2.brics.dk/censor/ must participate in the grading. An external co-examiner cannot be used within 2 years from the latest AU employment. This also applies to adjunct faculty, external lecturers, and employment at other faculties within AU.
• Oral examination. At oral examinations there must always be at least two examiners or examiner+co-examiner present.
• "Law on access to documents" applies to examiner’s notes: It is compulsory for the examiner and the co-examiner to take notes during grade deliberation for use in case there is a complaint. The student and other citizens can claim these notes according to the law on public access to documents. The law on access to documents also applies to other notes that have been taken during an oral exam, and to the examiners corrections and comments to written exams - therefore use courtesy language. The notes must be kept for at least one year and in addition until the processing of any complaints has been completed.
• Internal co-examiner. The requirement for an internal co-examiner is the same as the requirement for an examiner. You must be ass., assoc. or full professor.
• No mutual co-examination. This requirement applies to both internal and external coexaminers. When there are several teachers on a course, they may conduct the exam together. For Master’s theses mutual co-examination is also acceptable.

• If a student passes an exam, then the grade cannot be improved by retaking the exam.
• If a student fails an exam, then he/she may retake the exam up to a total of 3 examination attempts.
• In special circumstances, the Study Administration may grant a 4th examination attempt.

• The course description specifies whether to use pass/fail grades or the 7-scale.
• The Danish grading scale (7-skalaen) is described in karakterskalabekendtgørelsen
  • 12: For an excellent performance displaying a high level of command of all aspects of the relevant material, with no or only a few minor weaknesses.
  • 10: For a very good performance displaying a high level of command of most aspects of the relevant material, with only minor weaknesses.
  • 7: For a good performance displaying good command of the relevant material but also some weaknesses.
  • 4: For a fair performance displaying some command of the relevant material but also some major weaknesses.
  • 02: For a performance meeting only the minimum requirements for acceptance.
  • 00: For a performance which does not meet the minimum requirements for acceptance.
  • -3: For a performance which is unacceptable in all respects.
• The grading is absolute and based on the objectives (learning goals) stated in the course description. However, Danish grades are translated to the relative ECTS grade scale, where the distribution of pass grades is expected to be approximately