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Probably many of you have heard about the TIM-CAMPUS coupling before. But what is it and what is it used for?
CAMPUS – our information system
In order to explain this, it is important to know that CAMPUS itself is an information system that provides services relevant to teaching, such as Student management, study program and examination management, organizational and quality assurance services. Most of these services can now be found in RWTHonline. The organizational services such as the telephone book are still used in CAMPUS on a transitional basis. In these are employees registered by the institute publicly accessible with the required official information.
Combining business data
The TIM-CAMPUS coupling links the business data in the CAMPUS entry of a person with those from Identity Management (user administration). Thanks to this link, for example, the official email address of a to lecturers in learning rooms at RWTHmoodle. With this connection who employees also perform roles with specific authorizations such as the new role of the digital RAFAEL workflow for business trips.
Process & requirements
Until now, the TIM-CAMPUS coupling process was triggered by the organizational units in CAMPUS itself. This possibility was deactivated a few weeks ago during the renewal of the IdM core system due to a system change and replaced by an partly automated background process.
If a new employee wants to take on a certain role, it will take up to four working days until the TIM-CAMPUS coupling has been carried out in the background by the IT Center and has run through the affected systems. This is an interim solution that will be replaced by a new process in the course of the coming year.
The prerequisite is that the registered persons have already activated themselves at the RWTH and have a user name (e.g. ab123456). Only in this case the coupling can be established.
Whether the TIM-CAMPUS coupling has been successfully completed, can be seen by the employees at the Selfservice User data –> RWTH data –> CAMPUS Entries. Afterwards, the linked person can accept and perceived the different roles
THIS is the TIM-CAMPUS coupling!
Responsible for the content of this article are Jana Baur & Johanna Klar.
Wieso heißt diese eigentlich TIM-Campus-Kopplung wenn doch das alte TIM System abgeschaltet wird?
Hallo Tim,
vielen Dank für die Geduld. Wir haben für dich Informationen eingeholt bzgl. der TIM-Campus-Kopplung.
Deine Frage ist durchaus berechtigt! Der Begriff „TIM-Campus-Kopplung“ ist im Rahmen der Altsysteme entstanden und wurde genutzt, um die Verknüpfung der dortigen Datensätze zu bezeichnen.
Da dieser Begriff sich nun schon seit einigen Jahren an der RWTH etabliert hat, und für die User merklich kaum eine Änderung stattgefunden hat, war es wenig sinnvoll mit einer neuen Begriffsbezeichnung Verwirrung zu stiften.
Sobald die vollständige Abschaltung vom Campus-System durchgeführt ist, wird es die im Beitrag beschriebenen TIM-Campus-Kopplungen ohnehin nicht mehr geben. Die Verwendung der Bezeichnung “TIM-Campus-Kopplung” ist damit hinfällig und wird dann wohl nur noch verwendet, wenn wir zurückblicken und uns an das abgelöste Campus-Management-System zurückerinnern.
Vielen Dank für Dein Interesse! Wir hoffen, dass wir dir damit weiterhelfen konnten.
Liebe Grüße