Security when working from home

Edit and send documents, compose emails, and organize and participate in video conferences: Most of us are working from home right now. For hackers this means a free-for-all. This is because less well-secured private networks and devices make it is easier to infiltrate the University network or spread malware.

We provide you with 9 tips on how you can better protect yourself and the University against digital viruses.

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Working successfully from home

Working at home is not the same as working in your regular office. In LinkedIn Learning, you will find a new learning path to help you deal with the unique challenges of working from home, to be productive, and to set boundaries.

  • Learn how to deal with typical difficulties when working from home.
  • Learn techniques for time management, focusing, and prioritization.
  • Learn how to establish a sustainable work-life balance.


Learning path working from home Online courses with LinkedIn Learning

Lecturers' manual for recording online courses

If you would like to record online courses, please note the university's regulations regarding technology and data privacy:

Alternatives to presence examinations

Digital Toolbox

Here you will find a list of digital tools we recommend.

Communication

Video conference

Area of use:
Seminar, workshop, conference, virtual classroom, oral examination, paper / lecture / presentation

Function:
Video telephony, chat, desktop sharing

  • DFNconf: Video conference up to 23 participants
    Info

  • webconf: Video conference up to 200 participants with Adobe Connect
    Info

  • Zoom: Video conference up to 100 participants with 40 min in the free Basic license and unlimited for 300 participants in the Education license
    Info

Online-Seminar

Area of use:
live online lecture, live online lecture

Function:
video transmission, chat, desktop sharing

  • DFNconf: Online-Seminar up to 200 participants
    Info

  • webconf: Online-Seminar up to 200 participants with Adobe Connect
    Info

  • ZOOM: Online-Seminar up to 100 participants with 40 min in the free Basic license and unlimited for 300 participants in the Education license
    Info

Team communication

Area of use:
Messenger, chat, audio telephony, video telephony

  • Microsoft Teams: Cross-device messenger, chat, audio telephony, video telephony, file exchange
    Info

  • ILIAS Chat: Chat

  • ZOOM: Video conference up to 100 participants with 40 min in the free Basic license and unlimited for 300 participants in the Education license
    Info

Coordination

Asynchronous voting

Area of use:
Date survey, other survey, simple feedback, asynchronous

Synchronous voting

Area of use:
Conduct polls and quizzes in face-to-face or online events in real time with students

Survey

Area of use:
Evaluation, detailed feedback, and analysis of surveys

  • Questback:
    Info

  • ILIAS survey

Media

Video streaming

Area of use:
Lecture recording, presentation recording, video tutorial

Function:
Upload videos and retrieve them via stream directly or embedded in ILIAS

  • Streaming server p2go
    Info

Live broadcast

Area of use:
Live transmission of a lecture from B1/Audimax and direct streaming

  • Streaming server p2go
    Info

Video recording

Area of application:
Event, lecture, presentation, video tutorial, audio podcast, video podcast

Function:
Screen recording and publishing via streaming server p2go optionally embedded in ILIAS, for small files directly as a download or audio/video podcast. The technology for this is in the lecture halls.

  • Lecture hall recording and recording on your own device with PowerPoint, OBS, Apowersoft Screen Recorder or TechSmith Camtasia :
    Info

Audio and video podcast

Area of use:
Presentation recording, video tutorial

Sources:
streaming server p2go, external URL, small media file from ILIAS

  • ILIAS Mediacast

Interactive video

Area of use:
Show video, comment, and answer questions

Sources:
external URL (youtube, ...), small media file from ILIAS

Publish videos

Area of use:
Lecture recording, presentation recording, video tutorial

  • Streaming server p2go Upload and stream videos directly or embedded in ILIAS
    Info
  • ILIAS Mediacast: Streaming server p2go, external URL, small media file from ILIAS
  • Interactive video: Show video, comment, and answer questions: Streaming server p2go, external URL, small media file from ILIAS

Highlight mouse pointer

Area of use:

Highlight mouse cursor in zoom when screen is shared

3 possibilities:

  • Zoom function: In the screen share of Zoom, the Spotlight function can be selected via "Comment".
  • Windows-internal function: In the settings menu the function "Show pointer position when pressing the CTRL key" can be selected.
  • External program: Cursor Highlighter

Info

GPTalk

Area of use:
Use ChatGPT without a separate account in ILIAS courses, integrate artificial intelligence in teaching

Working in teams

Provide files

Area of use:
Presentation, learning materials, exchange of working materials in learning groups, departments, ...

  • ILIAS files: up to 300 MB

  • Email: up to 50 MB

  • Microsoft Teams
    Info

  • FEX: large files
    Info

  • Nextcloud: 50 GB cloud storage, online shared office file editing
    Info

Submission of files

Area of use:
submission of individual or team work with the possibility of peer feedback, submitting take-home exams

Formats:
Wiki, file

Edit texts / tables together

Area of use:
Collecting ideas, taking minutes, presentation in a group, development work in a team, documentation, learning diary

  • ILIAS Etherpad: Collaborative word processing in real time similar to Google Docs
    Instructions (in ILIAS)

  • ILIAS Wiki

  • ILIAS Ethercalc: Collaborative table calculation in real time similar to Google Tables

  • Nextcloud: 50 GB cloud storage, online shared office file editing
    Info

Blog

Area of use:
Web diary, reflection, scientific articles on a topic, report, internship report

Forum

Area of use:
Exchange of messages, discussions, questions, and answers

  • ILIAS Forum

Group

Area of use:
Division into teams or learning groups with learning rooms for the individual groups

  • ILIAS Group

Didactics

Continuing education

Area of use: advanced
training in IT, marketing, and creativity

  • HERDT campus: E-books for IT
    Info

  • LinkedIn Learning: Video tutorials in IT, marketing, and creativity
    Info

Glossary

Area of use:
Dictionary, definition collections, reference book

  • ILIAS Glossary

Managing resources

Area of use:
managing limited resources: Presentation topics, consultation hours, rooms, equipment, ...

Data collection

Area of use:
assigning topics for speeches or presentations, topic collections, link lists, literature recommendations, distribution of tasks, address lists, ...

Online test

Area of use:
e-examination and self-test (prior knowledge test, tests for exam preparation, and self-assessment)

Learning module

Area of use:
Provision of in-depth, media-prepared learning content

  • ILIAS learning module: Provide content in book form, including test questions or other media elements
    Instructions (on ILIAS)

Portfolio

Area of use:
private reflection on content or the learning process by learners. Later released for other persons.

Additional topics

Informationen zum Urheberrechtsgesetz

Im März 2018 hat sich das Urheberrechtsgesetz geändert – insbesondere die Vorschriften für Hochschulangehörige und -einrichtungen. Die Neuerungen sehen vor, dass man im Bildungsbereich geschützte Werke umfangreicher erlaubnisfrei – unter Angabe der Quelle bzw. des Urhebers – nutzen kann. Privilegiert sind dementsprechend die nichtkommerzielle Forschungsarbeit und Bibliotheken; dies gilt grundsätzlich für alle urheberrechtlich geschützten Werke (Bilder, Monografien, Zeitschriftenartikel etc.). Allerdings sind Artikel aus Tages-/Wochenzeitungen sowie solche aus nichtwissenschaftlichen Publikumszeitschriften von einigen Regelungen ausgenommen.

Übersicht der wichtigsten Änderungen


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