Electronic course reserves via ILIAS
As a lecturer at the University of Cologne, you can set up e-semester repositories for your lectures and seminars via ILIAS and provide your students with centralized online access to the most important teaching materials.
Support for lecturers
We support lecturers at the University of Cologne in setting up e-semester repositories by:
- scanning articles and parts of books from the USB collection
- offering the hosting of multimedia learning objects
- providing assistance with copyright issues
You can find further information and access to the electronic course reserve collection in your ILIAS course via the Electronic course reserve collection tab.
If you have any questions or problems, please contact ILIAS support.
Note on copyright
Compliance with third-party copyrights and exploitation rights is your responsibility as the client.
§ Section 60 of the German Copyright Act (UrhG) regulates the legally permitted uses for teaching, science and institutions and also covers the provision of materials in electronic semester apparatuses.
According to Section 60a UrhG "Teaching and learning", the reproduction and making available of
- up to 15% of a work (successive provision of parts of a work and thus circumvention of the 15% rule is not permitted)
- individual articles and essays from specialist journals or scientific journals
- small-scale works with a maximum total length of 25 pages. Illustrations and graphics may be shown or used in full
- out-of-print books (which may be used in their entirety without permission)
Information on access restrictions:
- Materials that fall under § 60a UrhG may not be made freely available on websites of the chair or on any other non-restricted access (cloud-based) platform.
- The accessibility of digitized teaching materials must be restricted to the circle of participants of a course (if necessary, technical assurance of access restriction by password/access key).
- Copyright in science