User Satisfaction Survey 2020 – The Results are online!
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In October and November 2020, we conducted our annual user satisfaction survey, in which all customers were able to rate the IT Center’s services and support. We also requested suggestions for improvements and – due to the special situation – asked questions about the IT Center’s handling of the Corona situation. Read the rest of this entry »
Onboarding – digitally and with heart
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Digital onboarding together and with heart.
The IT Center is a central IT facility of RWTH Aachen University that supports the university’s core processes and provides IT services. Regardless of whether a service is provided specifically for a single customer or in the same way for many customers, corresponding processes must be developed or analysed and optimised. The customers and users of the (IT-)services provided by the IT Center include not only students, employees and institutions of RWTH Aachen University, but also other universities and external research institutions and companies. Digitization, cloud, high-performance computing, 5G and the associated IT infrastructure – the developments in the IT industry are unstoppable. In order to drive these developments forward in the long term, the IT Centre is constantly on the lookout for new employees. Read the rest of this entry »
Eight NFDI consortia with RWTH participation are funded by the DFG!
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We celebrate the approval of funding for eight consortia with RWTH participation!
As recently announced by the Joint Science Conference (GWK), a total of ten consortia will be funded. Eight of them have RWTH participation. The funding decision was science-led by the GWK.
The people behind RWTHjupyter – a developer interview
Welcome to RWTHjupyter!
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At the beginning of the year, we announced that the RWTHjupyter service had entered the pilot phase. The goal is to ensure a stable process in the subsequent regular operation by building up experience, taking over operations and setting up support structures.
But have you ever wondered who are the people behind RWTHjupyter that have made it this far?
Today we introduce you to one of the developers: Steffen Vogel works as a research associate at the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS) and has been there from the beginning. We were allowed to interview him about the development of RWTHjupyter.
Many countries, many languages – one EC! The IT Center EM 2021 Riddle VI
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After several overtimes, surprising results and the farewell of our national coach Jogi Löw, the quarter-final opponents are now known, and the final is already within reach.
Even though the German team was already eliminated from the tournament on Tuesday, we are still looking forward to the exciting matches in the quarter-finals today and tomorrow!
Digital Summer Party 2021
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The IT Center did not let itself be deprived of the annual and popular summer party, even in spite of the home office! So, on June 25, in a relaxed atmosphere, a social gathering was also made possible digitally.
The party team of the IT Center opened the summer party with a few words about the schedule. Professor Müller also took the opportunity to welcome all employees and to thank the party team.
Time to say goodbye, L2P!
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The time has come: After 14 years, it is with a heavy heart that we say our final goodbyes to L2P.
Until 2019, L2P was the central teaching and learning platform at RWTH Aachen University. In the course of “Digitalization Strategy for Teaching” it was decided to switch to Moodle as an open source software. After a successful test and pilot phase, RWTHmoodle was implemented into university-wide operation in the summer semester 2019 and since then L2P has only served as an archive. Read the rest of this entry »
#moodletrouble² – The chronology of a malfunction
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As some of you may have noticed, RWTHmoodle was unavailable to RWTH Aachen University employees and students for a total of two days in the second week of June 2021. As we already reported on our channels during the malfunction, a serious database error was the cause. We would like to take this opportunity to briefly explain how this error occurred. Read the rest of this entry »
Many countries, many languages – one EC! The IT Center EM 2021 Riddle V
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After an eventful group phase with one or the other surprise and exciting games, we are now looking forward to the games in the round of 16.
Now it’s up to the teams: Recharge the batteries, set focus and ultimately bring the round into the square and thus survive the first knockout round! Read the rest of this entry »
FAIR Data Spaces – Establishing a shared cloud-based data space for business and science
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Together with the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) e.V., Atos Information Technology GmbH and with various NFDI consortia, the cloud-based data space “FAIR Data Space” for business and science is being created and built.
