Students can practice what they’ve just learned with the help of academic assistants during term-time, either during normal consultation sessions or at a pre-agreed time.

Q&A and practice sessions

Consultation sessions

Teaching staff will be on hand during additional consultation sessions for the sole purpose of answering questions from first and second-semester students and providing personalised support on a variety of topics.

Overview of consultation sessions (german)

Practice sessions

Extra maths, chemistry and physics lessons are held during the first semester to ensure that students can keep up with the lectures. Participants work through tasks either independently or in groups, and teaching staff are available at all times to provide support.

Tutorials

Arrangements can be made for students who are further along in their studies to provide semester-time support to new students in the run-up to exams.

Tandem rendez-vous

«Treffpunkt rendez-vous» is intended for anyone who would like to improve their communication skills in a another language.

Tandem learning involves two people with different native languages practising together. They can share their own cultural experiences, practise correct pronunciation, and learn how to perform daily interactions in the other language.

Information and registration

Language Services

The Department Transversalis (ATV) provides proof-reading and translation services for employees working with English texts (e.g. scientific articles and papers, websites, presentations and posters).

Language Services

The English Link Site - the best English links on the Net

e-learning and blended learning

E-learning methods are used as supplementary teaching tools and lecture handouts are uploaded to the learning platform Moodle.

e-Learning platforms

Moodle

MSLS community centre

biotechLAB.net forum

ItkA! – the interactive learning tool

e-Learning units (in German)

Mathi-Fitnessstudio

Energie-Kurs

Kalorik-Kurs

IT / notebooks and tablets

Laptop problems? Our support team, manned by students who are experts on computers in general and the IT solutions used at ZHAW in particular, can help with the following:

/ Problems accessing the Internet/ Security issues/ Operating system or software queries

Any issues which cannot be resolved are passed on to the ZHAW Service Desk ZHAW Tel: 058 934 66 77

Notebook and tablet support-team

Student manuals/downloads

ZHAW counselling services

Diversity

We provide our students and staff with the support they need to integrate their individual requirements as fully as possible into university life.

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Disabled students

Our aim is to provide equality of access for students with disabilities or long-term health conditions by ensuring that they can study independently and make the fullest possible use of the relevant infrastructure.

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