Teachers

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Diversity-sensitive teaching - tips and methods

A university that has set out to become a "university for all" absolutely needs the support of its teaching staff in order to make everyday university life inclusive.
However, it is not always easy to deal confidently with health restrictions and diverse life situations during your studies.

The Service Center "Studies and Disability" is your central point of contact for this topic. In addition, every department has a Disability Officer who can clarify any issues directly at a decentralized level. In principle, it is also advisable for lecturers to consult the information material for affected students. However, for a quicker overview, we have compiled some sources of information specifically for lecturers.

If you need to talk to us or have any questions, please contact the Service Center or the Representative for Studies and Disability.

Library services

Creating accessible documents

Accessible documents make it easier for all users to access the content they contain.
You can find help on designing accessible documents on the pages of the Literature Conversion Service.

Offers of the ServiceCenter Lehre

Special workstations

  • In addition to the actual PC workstations, the E-Assessment Center (Henschelstraße 2) has two special workstations. The special workstations are located in the administration office of the E-Assessment Center.

Workstation A (for visually impaired students) has

  • a particularly large monitor
  • a screen magnifier with integrated light
  • a cold light reading lamp
  • an 80 mm Braille display from Focus
  • Jaws
  • Magic

Seat B (for the hearing impaired) has

  • an LA hearing loop

Both special workstations are located on larger and electrically height-adjustable tables, so that there is enough space for both work assistants and wheelchairs. Students who require a lot of quiet and privacy can also make use of these workstations.
In addition, the E-Assessment Center has two further workstations in the examination room with height-adjustable, wider tables that are also suitable for wheelchair users.

Recommendation:
If you would like to use one of these workstations, please contact the E-Assessment Center team in good time. The e-mail address is
All special conditions due to compensation for disadvantages, even in the case of an extension of time, must be discussed and clarified in advance with the lecturer or the examination office so that they can be taken into account when taking the exam."

Further helpful information can be found on the website of the E-Assessment Center.

How to activate subtitles for your own use:
1. log in to the Zoom web portal.
2. click on Settings in the navigation area.
3. click on the Meeting tab.
4. under In Meeting (Advanced), click the toggles for Manual closed captions or Automatic closed captions (live transcription) to enable or disable them.
5. when a confirmation dialog box appears, click Enable or Disable to confirm the change.
Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at the account level and must be changed there. In this case, you must contact your Zoom administrator.
6 (Optional) Select the checkboxes to enable additional features:
- Manual subtitles
- Allow use of closed captioning API tokens for integration with third-party closed captioning services
- Allow view of full transcription in the meeting side panel: If this option is disabled, participants will not be able to view the full transcript in the side panel. You can only display subtitles in the video window of the meeting or webinar. Participants will also not be able to save subtitles.
Note: This function requires Zoom version 5.7.0 or higher.

Instructions Zoom Subtitles

How to activate subtitles for your own use:
1. log in to the Zoom web portal.
2. click on Settings in the navigation area.
3. click on the Meeting tab.
4. under In Meeting (Advanced), click the toggles for Manual closed captions or Automatic closed captions (live transcription) to enable or disable them.
5. when a confirmation dialog box appears, click Enable or Disable to confirm the change.
Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at the account level and must be changed there. In this case, you must contact your Zoom administrator.
6 (Optional) Select the checkboxes to enable additional features:
- Manual subtitles
- Allow use of closed captioning API tokens for integration with third-party closed captioning services
- Allow view of full transcription in the meeting side panel: If this option is disabled, participants will not be able to view the full transcript in the side panel. You can only display subtitles in the video window of the meeting or webinar. Participants will also not be able to save subtitles.
Note: This function requires Zoom version 5.7.0 or higher.