Tools – WissensWert

A close-up of a stack of several books. The books are bound in various colors and have many small, colored sticky notes (bookmarks) in pink, yellow, blue, and green on their right-hand edges, protruding from the pages.

Bringing Order to Citation Chaos: Reference Management as a Key Competency in Teaching and Student Life

Anyone who has ever written a term paper, a bachelor’s thesis, or an academic essay knows the struggle: files are scattered across different folders, important sources are hard to find, and the bibliography ends up with gaps. What initially appears to be a simple organizational problem is actually a matter of academic rigor and work efficiency. Reference management software offers a robust solution to this problem. Teaching students how to use such programs is an integral part of university teaching practice.

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Screenshot of a Wekan Kanban board for the “Sustainable Mobility” project: Two colored swimlanes (“Group 1: Quantitative Survey,” “Group 2: Qualitative Interviews”) with columns labeled “Open,” “In Progress,” and “Completed,” and color-coded task cards such as “Post survey online,” “Research literature,” and “Write final report.”

Wekan – Organizing Tasks and Projects with Kanban

Utilities

Wekan is an open-source Kanban tool that allows you to clearly visualize and organize tasks and work processes. In particular, it helps teams plan tasks collaboratively, coordinate responsibilities, and make work progress transparent and easy to track. Wekan is also well-suited for personal work organization.

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On the Hunt for Plagiarism, or “I Recognize That Style”

Unterstützungsangebote, Utilities

Even in the age of artificial intelligence, reliable checking of texts for plagiarism is essential.
To this end, the University of Bremen provides the PlagAware tool to all staff members. No installation is required to use it; PlagAware can be accessed via any standard web browser. This article answers the most important questions regarding its use.

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