Guidelines issued by the Office for Studies of the Masaryk University
Rector’s Office No. 2/2020
Organisation of Teaching in Autumn Semester 2020
(in the version effective from 1 October 2020)
These Guidelines regulate the parameters and course of teaching (Section 9 of Study and Examination
Regulations of Masaryk University) and examinations in the autumn semester 2020 based on the valid
internal regulations of Masaryk University and current measures issued by state authorities of the
Czech Republic in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the purposes hereof, synchronous teaching means online teaching in real time, with or without
recording.
Section 1
(1) Lectures in the autumn semester 2020 shall be primarily held online by means of digital
technologies. Lectures shall be delivered in the synchronous mode (at the time according to the
schedule for in-person teaching) or in the asynchronous mode using a video or audio recording
made in advance and with the support of teaching/learning materials.
Instruction in the form of seminars shall be held online similarly to lectures; it may also be
replaced with another form of performance of study duties where a sufficient degree of
interactivity is maintained.
(2) The ban on personal presence of students in the instruction shall not apply to the following
cases:
a) clinical and practical instruction and training;
b) laboratory, experimental and artistic work where 15 persons at the maximum are present;
c) individual consultations;
d) examinations and other forms of verifying knowledge where 10 persons at the maximum are
present;
e) individual visits to libraries and study rooms.
(3) The guarantor of a course that is taught online in the extraordinary mode of using digital
technologies in the autumn semester 2020 shall specify this fact in the IS MU.
(4) When transferring to the remote form of teaching, the course guarantor shall be responsible for
such use of digital technologies that will ensure the compliance of the course with the
accreditation terms. A mere provision of learning materials for self-study shall not be considered
adequate.
(5) The course guarantor is entitled to change the manner of completion and the method of
evaluation of the course during the course implementation. Students must be notified of such a
change no later than 3 weeks before the first regular deadline for completion.
(6) With regard to 1st
year students, the guarantor of the degree programme in cooperation with
teachers shall organise regular synchronous teaching in the relevant scope, supplemented with
a sufficient offer of individual consultations.
(7) The website is.muni.cz/samostudium/ shall be updated for the purposes of teachers’ support.
Michal Bulant
Vice-Rector for Education and Quality
Brno, 25 September 2020
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