Although there has been much speculation about
the potential of Augmented Reality (AR) in teaching for
learning material, there is a significant lack of empirical
proof about its effectiveness and implementation in
higher education. We describe a software to integrate
AR using the Microsoft Hololens into UML (Unified
Modeling Language) teaching. Its user interface is
laid out to overcome problems of existing software.
We discuss the design of the tool and report a first
evaluation study. The study is based upon effectiveness
as a metric for students performance and components
of motivation. The study was designed as control
group experiment with two groups. The experimental
group had to solve tasks with the help of the AR
modeling tool and the control group used a classic PC
software. We identified tendencies that participants of
the experimental group showed more motivation than
the control group. Both groups performed equally well.