Kategorie: ‘Support, Services & Updates’
Basics at RWTH: E-Mail
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As part of our blog series “Basics at RWTH”, today we are introducing you to the RWTH e-mail service, which is essential for your daily communication in everyday university life. We have compiled the most important information for you so that you can get started quickly and easily with your e-mail inbox – if you haven’t already done so.
RWTH Welcome Week – On Site For You!
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This year, RWTH Aachen University is once again welcoming new international students with the traditional Welcome Week. The events offered them an ideal opportunity to get to know the services and processes at RWTH better.
We at the IT Center were also there on September 25, 2024, as a point of contact at the Freshers’ Fair as part of Welcome Week. In this blog post, you can find out how the successful exchange with students went.
Welcome to the Winter Semester 2024/2025!
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How can time pass so quickly that we are already seeing each other again for the new winter semester? Or that we are meeting for the first time.
Whether “old” or “new” – we would like to welcome you all to the winter semester 2024/2025.
Studying has become much more digital in recent years. Laptops, tablets and smartphones have become indispensable.
Are you already connected?
Basics at the RWTH: The ConnectMe Coupon Procedure
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Have you enrolled and signed your employment contract? Congratulations and welcome to RWTH Aachen University!
So that you can now use all (IT) services at RWTH, you need a username in the form ab123456. You will receive this after registering in Identity Management. We explain how this works in this article.
RWTHmoodle – Find the Right Guide for You
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The RWTHmoodle service is indispensable in everyday study life, both for students and lecturers. It is therefore particularly important for all those involved to ensure suitable access to detailed documentation.
With this in mind, our RWTHmoodle help has been comprehensively revised. Due to the large number of available instructions, it was often difficult in the past to quickly find the right documentation. To simplify this, we have developed a clearly structured and more user-friendly navigation that provides easy and targeted access to the desired Moodle help.
Changed Opening Hours on September 27, 2024
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Due to an internal event, the IT-ServiceDesk will only be open for you during limited opening hours on Friday, September 27, 2024.
MoodleCafé – Exchange Format for Good Teaching With RWTHmoodle
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Are you looking for good practice examples for the use of RWTHmoodle in teaching? Then visit the ‘MoodleCafé’.
In this new digital exchange format, lecturers from different departments at RWTH Aachen University will present concrete examples of how they use specific functions such as StudentQuiz, PDF annotation or gamification to benefit their teaching. Take the opportunity to familiarise yourself with previously little-known functions in RWTHmoodle, exchange ideas about challenges and solutions and benefit from the positive experiences of your colleagues.
Security in E-mail Traffic 3: LDAP Address Book
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The LDAP address book (LDAP = Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a type of database or directory that an email application queries via a predefined path (server name, port, branch/search base) in order to find out the user certificate of an email address, for example. If such an LDAP address book is integrated into your own email application, encrypted emails can be sent directly, for example, provided the recipients have published their user certificate in the LDAP address book. Not every e-mail has to be sent encrypted, but you can select this option if you wish and after successful setup. Read more about the encryption of emails in part 2 of the blog series.
Security in E-mail Traffic 2: Encryption
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It regularly happens that personal data or other sensitive information such as temporary passwords, application documents etc. need to be transmitted quickly. The choice often falls on the exchange by e-mail. However, this data must be protected against unauthorized access by third parties. In order to still be able to use e-mail, the e-mails must be encrypted. We will show you how this works in the following blog post, along with other relevant information on the subject. Go back to the first blog post in our series to read more about digital signatures.
Storage Space Reduction on OneDrive & SharePoint Online
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Microsoft products play a major role in everyday university life, especially for many students. Services such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote are part of the Microsoft licences included in the Microsoft federal contract that RWTH Aachen University has concluded with Microsoft. This gives students (and employees) the necessary rights to use the software.
Due to new votes and licence changes on the part of Microsoft, the storage space for OneDrive and SharePoint Online on the tenant for students has been redefined.
You can find out what has changed for you and how to proceed in this blog post.
