In order to create high-quality, modern software that meets today's requirements, ad hoc approaches in which "you just program away" are outdated and no longer productive. Instead, a clearly structured approach is required, which is defined and supported by the methods of software engineering. The challenges in software engineering are manifold. They reach from the collection of the requirements over the system Design up to maintenance and advancement of the software. In a software development process, moreover, many people are generally involved who have different training and experience. They need a common language that everyone can understand and speak, so that an exchange is possible. At the same time, this language should be as precise as possible and not have the ambiguities of a natural language. Modeling languages have been developed for this purpose. Especially the Unified Modeling Language (short: UML) is considered to be the dominant language in the field of software system modeling.

The Modeling with UML course provides an introduction to modeling with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for people with programming experience. Specifically, the structure diagram, sequence diagram, state diagram, activity diagram and use case diagram are taught to give a comprehensive overview of the diversity of the language.

This MOOC was developed by the Business Informatics Group of the Vienna University of Technology as part of the eInformatics@Austria project and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research as part of the initiative "Digital and Social Transformation in Higher Education".