09/28/22 | Very good! It was really fun.

09/24/22 | I learned a lot in the seminars and was also motivated to continue dealing with the topics beyond the seminar content.

09/19/22 | In general, the courses were very informative and interesting.

09/19/22 | I found all seminars very good and would definitely recommend them to others. The organization was great and the teachers were understanding.

08/26/22 | Enjoyed super well

08/23/22 | super!

04/06/22 | Was fun!

04/01/22 | The seminars were very interesting and practical. I can only recommend them (and have already done so).

04/01/22 | I took all the seminars in one semester and was not sure at the beginning if I could really do it. Now I have to say it was the best decision. The block seminars were very well prepared and it was always interesting.

04/01/22 | Through the seminar I was able to learn the very good basics of creating a website and apply them practically. Despite the Corona pandemic, the online event was well implemented. The milestones are good, so you are motivated to follow the lecture content instead of a one-time delivery.31.03.2022 | It was great, even the 3x online and the rest with portfolio and videos. This was ideal for me, since I live in Mönchengladbach. Content-wise I came along well and found the topics exciting.

03/31/22 | Was great :)

03/31/22 | Great seminar! I really learned a lot. Great that it was based on videos.

03/22/22 | Thank you very much for the seminars, which were very easy to understand even for people not familiar with the subject!

03/17/22 | All seminars have helped me personally. A special benefit were the courses of Susanne Kurz. These are to be recommended. Thank you very much!

02/23/22 | I took the IT certificate at the University of Cologne in 2019 and 2020 and am now studying the Master Cultural Data Studies in Marburg. In the process, I noticed how enormously the certificate and especially the courses I took with you help me keep up as a formerly pure humanities student (BA Art History and Theology) in an interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Master.
Without your enthusiasm and teaching of the basic IT skills, I would never have had the skills on the one hand, and the confidence on the other hand, to even start this Master.
However, as it is, I am still enthusiastic about the DH field and am able to learn more and more based on the knowledge gained from the certificate courses. I often tell my fellow students that I have this opportunity at the University of Cologne and how grateful I am for it, so I thought you should hear it too:
Thank you very, very much. You have helped me a lot.

02/22/22 | I would like to thank you for this interesting time, in which I could learn a lot. I have now completed all four courses and found each one very good!

02/21/22 | The course was a great experience for me, which will definitely stay with me. I enjoyed both courses very much because of your refreshing manner. Thank you very much and all the best.

02/04/2022 | I chose three of the four seminars to be taken as block seminars and I am very pleased with the design. Although they were block seminars, the sessions were designed in such a way that everyone could follow the content and could always ask questions if anything was unclear. Here again many thanks to the lecturers.
The seminar Digital Objects actually took place in presence. I was able to arrange it so that I could always be present on site. This was better for the group work and the general exchange. Unfortunately, not all course members were able to be on site. The last Zoom sessions (due to the current situation) were very well designed by Ms. Kurz. The videos were very helpful and easy to understand.
I recommend this module to anyone who wants to learn basic IT skills.

02/03/22 | I enjoyed all four courses very much and I find that the online format worked without any problems. Thank you very much!

01/31/22 | I really enjoyed both courses! I would take them again anytime and recommend them to others.

01/21/22 | Very exciting! Partly also very tight in terms of content

01/03/22 | I liked the courses very much. On the one hand, it was interesting in terms of content, but above all, I found the interaction between course instructor and students very pleasant.

09/09/21 | Learned a lot of new things! Unfortunately, the large amount of topics only allows a very general introduction.

09/05/21 | Very understandably explained, so that I could learn a lot in a short time without prior knowledge!

09/02/21 | Thank you very much for the different seminars of the IT certificate for teachers and your patience!

08/12/21 | The seminars were great!

08/01/21 | Very nice and informative seminar!

07/30/21 | Took all four courses online during the pandemic. Communication with the lecturers was excellent, communication with fellow students was not. Content was well taught and very real and relevant due to the references to practice (especially Tool&Methods WP + Digital Objects) Will recommend it further, thank you.

07/22/21 | Basically I enjoyed attending both seminars and learned a lot. A good start for all without previous knowledge. For my feeling you are welcome to add more seminars to your offer. I would gladly attend more in-depth courses at any time. :)

07/15/21 | One of the few seminars in which I find online instruction very useful and would like to have it for the next semester as well.

07/19/21 | I really enjoyed the seminar with you and I really wanted to tell you that. For someone who got in there without any prior knowledge, I was able to come along very well and learned a lot with you and I really didn't think that was possible. Unfortunately, I will probably be changing universities next semester, so I won't be able to take the advanced course, but if I do stay at the University of Cologne, I will definitely sign up. Thank you very much for the great semester with you!

03/15/21 | It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot.

03/17/21 | Thank you for the great seminars, which have significantly increased my interest in IT!

03/17/21 | Thank you very much for the successful event, both in terms of content and pedagogy. It is unfortunate that something like this is discontinued.

03/21/21 | These courses not only taught me a lot that I can put to good use in my professional life, but they were also a lot of fun. Thank you for offering this!

03/22/21 | The seminars were all fun and well balanced in difficulty as well. Even the forced digital semesters did not detract from the seminars. The lecturers were all friendly, competent and helpful.

03/23/21 | Very nice and competent lecturers, great that there are also guest lectures on various topics. Personally, I would have preferred to focus more on CMS systems instead of digital collections, as this is more in line with my professional interests.

03/28/21 | The seminars were very enriching and have brought me further in some aspects, opened me a very wide new subject area. I have already sent a detailed feedback to Mrs. Kurz.
One more idea that came to me.21 | Offering another seminar on "problem solving" would be super. (E.g. on the questions: What do I do if my PC.... crashes/no longer starts/ gives the error message xyz/ ....)

03/30/21 | I found the seminars very intensive and instructive! Sometimes a bit fast from the pace.

03/31/21 | Thank you very much for the great offer. The contents of the seminars were sometimes complex, but were very well didactic by the lecturers.
I hope that this offer can be continued - also despite the uncertain funding situation - and that other students can also benefit from this offer.

04/03/21 | Thank you very much for this interesting offer! I really have the impression that I have learned a lot and that I now know my way around websites and computers a bit better. The courses built on each other very nicely; it was easy to apply the contents of the courses to the other courses.

04/06/21 | All courses were a lot of fun, I learned a lot of new things and would definitely recommend all courses to others.

04/13/21 | I liked it very much.

04/14/21 | Once again, I would like to thank you for the instructive and enjoyable seminar program. I am looking forward to taking new skills with me into my traineeship and, if applicable, to obtaining further professional opportunities through the certificate and attestations. Thank you very much!
PS: Please write on the envelope that it should not be bent. The letter carrier likes to do that otherwise. Thank you! :)

11.03.21 | Many thanks for these great and helpful seminars - they will certainly help me in the future.

10.04.21 | Good seminars, unfortunately only available at the end of my studies.

13.04.21 | Thank you very much for this opportunity. I got a lot of contact with different tools and programs through the seminars, which practically enrich my teaching.

13.04.21 | I liked it very much.

26.04.21 | Everything top!
Short info: I did the first two seminars in the bachelor and the last two last semester in the first master semester. Mrs. Kurz knows about it.

28.04.21 | The seminars were really good. I got a lot out of the seminars and it is a pity that they are not continued as IT Zertifikat Lehramt.

29.04.21 | Please write on the letter that it should not be bent. Unfortunately the certificate arrived totally banged up. :( Many thanks in advance!

30.04.21 | For me as a teacher the seminar was a great experience. Not only did I learn many new things, but also the personal experience of participating in a seminar with student teachers at the University of Cologne was enriching.
I have successfully completed all four modules and hope to have ticked the right box above.

30.04.21 | The seminars helped me a lot to find my way better in the "IT world". It was an enrichment and I think it is really bad - especially nowadays - that the seminars cannot be offered in this form in relation to teacher training.

24.06.21 | This seminar was really a positive experience. I was able to learn a lot and the work on my own website gave me great pleasure. I would like to emphasize especially positively that the seminar contents were uploaded in the form of retrievable videos. This gave each student the opportunity to understand and learn the content at an individual pace. If I didn't understand something, I could simply pause the video or rewind it by a few seconds to better comprehend what was said/shown. This is the big advantage over a live seminar/webinar.

04/16/21 | "Looking forward to the data protection workshop. Too bad there are only 3 workshops. :) "
"Thank you for the workshop and the good orga!"
"Many, many thanks. It was very exciting!"

06.04.21 | In addition, I just wanted to thank you again "personally". Looking back, this is of course always easier said, but the course really made me want more :) !

03.04.21 | Thank you very much for the two courses. What I learned in your seminar will definitely be useful for my future job.

11.03.21 | Thank you very much for these great and helpful seminars - they will definitely help me in the future. :)

08.03.21 | Thank you very much for your great engagement in the course, I learned a lot of new things, which seemed rather dry and boring to me at the beginning, but which are very essential for the future and the sustainability of knowledge.

05.03.21 | Learned a lot! If it was a little less specialized (in parts) I would recommend this to every student (maybe even at the beginning of my studies).

25.02.21 | I would like to thank you for both seminars, which I found very enriching. I especially enjoyed all the practice in the Tools and Method course. I was very happy to have chosen the certificate during the Corona time, because it was possible to work well despite the home office.

21.02.21 | I would like to give a feedback about the IT certificate and combine it with a thank you for the exciting semester. I wrote my master thesis this semester and meanwhile took the 4 IT courses. Looking back, it was a busy and work-intensive semester. Nevertheless, I am very glad to have taken the IT courses, because they helped me not to become a complete "subject idiot" this semester and bury myself exclusively in books. Basically, the 4 IT courses gave me an insight into a world that was mostly foreign to me and sparked my interest in IT topics.

I know from a fellow student who also took the 2nd course this semester that she is even considering changing majors and going in the direction of IT because of the IT certificate.

What was very positive each session was your engagement and good humor - that carried over frequently! (Since I only joined the course for the second session on 11/11, I also remembered the digital disguise as a first, humorous impression).

11/19/20 | Other than that, I'd like to say thanks already, I learned really cool new tools and am already using the LinkedIn page (actually didn't know we had access to it before).

08.09.20 | At this point I would also like to thank you for the great events. I have taken away some new things that I will certainly apply in other contexts. Despite the corona-related restrictions, you have prepared and conveyed the content very well. I only find it a pity that we could not print anything with the 3D printer. ;)

07.09.20 | The IT certificate is a great thing and I wish you and your team for the future continued success and enjoyment with this program! I am very happy to have had this learning opportunity and proud of the challenges I have overcome in the project work.

01.09.20 | Thank you :-) I am looking forward to the next IT Certificate courses!!!

04/30/21 | The seminars have helped me a lot to find my way better in the "IT world". It was an enrichment and I find it really bad - especially in this day and age - that the seminars can no longer be offered in this form in relation to teacher training.

04/30/21 | For me as a teacher the seminar was a great experience. Not only did I learn many new things, but also the personal experience of participating in a seminar with student teachers at the University of Cologne was enriching.
I have successfully completed all four modules and hope to have ticked the right box above.

04/29/21 | Please write on the letter that it should not be bent. Unfortunately the certificate arrived totally banged up. :( Many thanks in advance!

04/28/21 | The seminars were really good. I have taken a lot from the seminars and find it a pity that they are not continued as IT Zertifikat Lehramt.

04/26/21 | Everything top!
Short info: I did the first two seminars in the bachelor and the last two last semester in the first master semester. Ms. Kurz knows about it.

04/13/21 | I liked it very much.

04/13/21 | Thank you very much for this opportunity. I got a lot of contact with different tools and programs through the seminars, which practically enrich my teaching.

04/20/21 | Good seminars, unfortunately only available at the end of my studies.

03/11/21 | Thank you very much for these great and helpful seminars - they will certainly help me in the future.

08/25/20 | it was totally fun to take all the certificate courses!

05/12/20 | I would like to thank you very much for the informative and fun DOP course! And of course for all the other courses within the IT certificate. I think it's great that the Institute for Digital Humanities has made it possible for me (and others) to acquire this knowledge as part of my studies at the university.

04/27/20 | As a general feedback, I am happy to share that I found these courses to be really great. The straightforward personal communication with you and the other instructors cleared a big first hurdle. The courses themselves showed me that I have a great enthusiasm for IT and programming even without any special technical knowledge, which surprised and pleased me personally. I also found their fast and flexible approach to the current situation very successful, I found the courses online very good and I would wish if the university could offer more such offers regardless of health crises. This would certainly have allowed me, as a student with a child in my previous studies, to attend a few more seminars that were inconvenient for childcare times. So thank you again!

03/13/20 | I really enjoyed the IT classes and I am very grateful that there is this opportunity at the university to get involved with a completely different subject matter. Thank you very much for this chance!

03/03/20 I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you again for your time in your DOP IT class last semester. Your joyful way of teaching made it easier to learn, I always enjoyed coming to the course (which I also often heard from my fellow students) and you awakened a passion for IT in some of them. Thank you very much!

01/20/20 | The IT courses have already landed me a job: I've been working in IT project management at an Internet agency for a few months now. I owe that to you! With your cheerful and appreciative manner, you have awakened and encouraged my enthusiasm for IT. You explain even more complex content in such a way that one understands it and never feels too stupid for anything. You awaken the curiosity to see connections and to develop a better understanding of the digital world, which one has to deal with every day. So I would like to thank you: the courses were a lot of fun and enriched me professionally and personally.

09/17/19 | Thank you very much, Mr. Kiss, I must say, your course last week has created an unexpected pressing desire in me to understand IT contexts better , to know more, even if I have not grown up with it. Thank you for letting me continue to share in your knowledge!

07/05/19 | Carsten Wilms, WDR 5 Wave Line: "Dear Ms. Kurz,
for six years now, you have been supporting the WDR 5 digital editorial team in the search for student assistants. I would like to express my gratitude for this.
The students who work in our editorial department as a result of your placement are all distinguished by special skills: They are very adept at using audio, video and image editing programs and our content management system. And they are very confident and creative in their use of language. With their strong affinity for technological issues, the students provide valuable supply work for our editorial activities on the web and social media.
I am convinced that your highly practice-oriented courses for the acquisition of the IT certificate of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cologne in particular provide the students working for us with special qualifications.
I would be happy to approach you again in the future as soon as we have a need for student assistants again."

"I would like to thank you very much for the great seminar and in general for offering the IT certificate course. I must say that it was a bit stressful and difficult for me to take the four certificate courses in addition to my work and master's final exams. However, I think it was very much due to your teaching and facilitation skills that I managed to pass both the exams and the projects. Thank you very much for that!"

"I would like to thank you very much for the exciting, very instructive and practice-oriented Web Basics course with you. The long journey from Münster was very worthwhile for me, I was able to take away a lot of new knowledge."

" I would like to thank you very much for all the exciting sessions. Personally, the event really helped me a lot and I feel very happy and fortunate! Thank you very much!"

"Extraordinary is the work and commitment that you and your team put into this offer. Because for me it is clear today: the economy needs us humanities graduates! Today more than ever!"

"Thank you again for leading the course: it's nice to have a lecturer who brings it all across in a relaxed and easy-going way ."

"Thank you for the great seminars! It was a lot of fun."

"The IT certificate has been incredibly fun for me in all of this. The AHA experiences were the biggest thing - and of course your enthusiasm! I never once experienced you being annoyed. I really wish I could enjoy my job as much as you do someday."

"Also, I wanted to thank you for your great classes! I really enjoyed learning something new from you every week. Not only because of the content, but because you are an instructor who can also transfer her drive and joy to her audience. You always explain things in such a way that connections become clear and stay in your mind."

"Overall, everything has developed very positively for me (with a mere archaeology degree, things would probably be different) and that's where your courses were a very good starting point. In the meantime, I have been employed at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel for a year, and have recently also been responsible for the technical implementation of a digital edition. Here there are great opportunities for networking and quite free design of my work, in the winter I was for example to the DHd in Bern, also as a speaker at a workshop with. ... Many thanks for that!"

"Thank you very much for the interesting and varied course. It was really fun and I also feel like I understood some things that probably would have remained a mystery to me without your "we'll start simple" explanations :-)"

"The courses in the IT certificate are challenging. There is a lot of hands-on work and you get beyond the normal applications with your own computer pretty soon. The nice thing is: you learn a lot and the vast majority is directly implementable. I feel that taking the four courses has taught me a lot that can be very useful in very different career fields."

"I now work as an online editor and can very often fall back on the knowledge I learned through you. The course was great fun and made me interested in more technology and more knowledge. Thank you for that."

"Humanities graduates have long since stopped working in dusty libraries - even during my studies I was able to successfully use the knowledge I was able to acquire during the IT certificate; and my future employers will certainly appreciate it."

"It's like learning a new language: suddenly whole new worlds open up."

"Thank you for the great seminars! It was a lot of fun."