A number of stakeholders are involved across AU to ensure optimal development and support for cross-disciplinary perspectives. In addition, a number of support systems are university-wide.

Organisation of teaching

The organisation of teaching is regulated by the Degree Programme Order, the LEP ministerial order and other rules laid down by AU.

In practice, the organisation and development of teaching takes place at the faculties. The work of the faculties is supported in the Central Administration by several different systems:

• Brightspace: Brightspace is the joint LMS (Learning Management System) at AU.
• EDDI: The EDDI system creates links between administration, data in STADS and the information students receive about degree programme descriptions, including academic regulations and course catalogues. The system thus ensures consistency between the administrative data and the communication provided to students.
• Teaching evaluation: The entire university uses the same evaluation system: Blue. Students and teaching staff access Blue via Brightspace. Teaching evaluation is set up for all courses that are configured with learning spaces in Brightspace. As a general rule, one evaluation is conducted per course. The evaluation is set up in the common learning space. More evaluations may be set up where relevant (e.g. to evaluate different series of lectures separately, or to evaluate clinical placements). The faculties determine their own practice regarding this. Read more about teaching evaluation here[TTL1].
• hour counts: AU has a university-wide system for registering the number of scheduled teaching hours and the proportion of hours taught by  academic/fixed-term academic staf The calculations form the basis for reporting to the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science and are included in the data packages.
• PLAN: PLAN is a joint course and examination administration system PLAN consists of:
  • TermTime: timetabling system
  • ExamTime: exam scheduling system

Organisation of examinations

The organisation of examinations is regulated by the Examination Order, the Grading Scale Order and other rules laid down by AU.

Educational Administrative Systems provides secretariat services to the committee for UVA/EKA, which was  established to ensure collaboration, coordination and common practice across faculties and shared services regarding the following studies administration processes:

• Planning and conducting teaching
• Planning and conducting exams
• Issuing diplomas.

The exam supervision team ensures all practical aspects of on-site exams, e.g. booking of rooms and allocation of exam supervisors, in collaboration with the administrative centres at the faculties.

There are several systems at AU for conducting digital exams. However, a development project is aiming to create a joint digital exam platform – this project is anchored in Educational Administrative Systems, which is also responsible for operation and support of the system.

Educational Administrative Systems is also responsible for operating, developing and supporting the AU diploma-generating system that ensures systematic issuance of diplomas to graduates after graduation. In the long term, the diploma-generating system is expected to be included in a new SIS.

When issuing diplomas from AU, the diplomas group coordinates with representatives from the faculties, Educational Development and Quality Assurance as well as Educational Administrative Systems across the university.

The diplomas group ensures that a diploma is accompanied by a diploma supplement that complies with the rules for such supplements and the latest version of the standard description of Higher Education in Denmark. In addition, Education Development and Quality Assurance ensures that AU issues diplomas in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. The practice for assuring the quality of the content of individual diplomas is laid down by the administrative centres.

Collaboration with external co-examiners is crucial to work on the organisation of exams, and this is anchored at faculty level in accordance with local frameworks and guidelines.

Educational Law engages in ongoing dialogue with the faculties on the development of forms of examination at AU, and is also responsible for maintaining AU's rules regarding exams.

The joint processing of cases concerning exam cheating is handled by Educational Law, which also maintains snyd.au.dk, a site that collects information, processes, etc. Educational Law also carries out the legal review of examination appeals.

Alignment of learning activities and exams

The principle of alignment is crucial to the development of academic regulations, because it ensures consistency between the learning activities in which the students are included and the exams held in this regard.

Alignment helps to support the development of student competencies in relation to the academic objectives and participation in the teaching, because the students tend to focus on the aspects of the course by which they will be assessed at the exam. Alignment in the academic regulations requires correlation between the following areas of concern:

• The qualification framework for programmes of higher education
• The qualification profile
• The academic objectives
• The forms of teaching and working methods
• Forms of examination

CED is a central player in the development of teaching and exams. CED is the Centre for Educational Development at AU. CED offers feedback on university pedagogics to all academic environments at AU.