Athena is the learning platform that is offered by IT Services and is in use in most deparments.
In Athena, teachers plan the pedagogical work for both campus-based courses and distance learning courses. Other areas of use include support for collaboration between teachers.
Athena includes the following functions:
- Planning function for structuring the course
- Intended learning outcomes
- Calendar
- Automatically generated groups
- Communication
-Via bulletins
-Internal messaging function with notifications
-Discussion forums - Assignments
-Text comparisons in Urkund
-Anonymous submissions
-Peer review
-Group hand-ins - Tasks (does not require submission)
- Test tool (self-marking tests)
- Collaborate in a shared document
- Surveys (simple questionnaires)
- There is also a mobile app.