Girls'Day is back on April 25, 2024 and we at the University IT and Data Center are taking part!
We are pleased that we can once again offer an exciting range of activities and an interesting program for Girls'Day - Girls' Future Day - the nationwide orientation day for career and study orientation for girls from 8th to 10th grade.
The aim is for the girls to get to know professions and study subjects on this day in which the proportion of women is below 40%. Like so many IT departments, the University IT and Data Center is clearly male-dominated. That should change!
The lecturers of the HRZ are looking forward to your registrations for the following IT courses via eCampus from April 15, 2024.
- Table processing
MS Excel I - Basics - 15.05. - 17.05.2024, 09:00 - 12:00
- Graphics editing
Image editing with GIMP - 08.05. - 22.05.2024, 13:00 - 16:00
As last announced in the message dated 20 March 2024, the ability to retrieve emails using certain email clients was blocked today.
If you use one of the following e-mail programmes to retrieve your university e-mails, this is no longer possible with immediate effect:
- Outlook-App for Android and iOS,
- "Neues Outlook für Windows" (included from version 23H2 in Windows 11),
- Windows Mail (predecessor of the "New Outlook")
- Outlook für macOS (when using IMAP with CloudSync),
- Google-Mail (Cloud- and POP3 direct access),
- Edison Mail,
- Newton,
- BlueMail (under certain conditions on mobile phones),
- Spark and
- Xiaomi Mail.
What to do now?
Should you use one of the applications mentioned above, please change immediately (as mentioned in the news from March 20, 2024) to another product and change your Uni-ID password afterwards.
The HRZ will block the retrieval through cloud based E-Mail programmes from the 30.03.2024 by enforcing appropriate technical measures. This means that afterwards you will not be able to receive or send e-mails through the aforementioned applications.
Security risks also with cloud-backup
Please note that backup applications from Google and Apple are also categorised as highly problematic and must not be used, when they lead to outflow of university data (incl. login-data) to external cloud storages.
To create accessible video teaching material, the eCampus team offers a transcription service. Teachers of the University of Bonn can order the subtitling of their teaching material via the contact form in Confluence (only accessible in BONNET/ via VPN). The provision and all further details are clarified after consultation with the eCampus team.
For the official introduction of the Uni Bonn app for the summer term 2024, the most frequently asked questions have been compiled by the support team at the University IT and Data center (HRZ), the Student Registry and the General Students' Committee (AStA) and clearly displayed in a new FAQ section on the University of Bonn website and on the website of the University IT and Data Center.
The detailed FAQ section answers questions from the areas of general information, technology and support, questions about logging in with the Uni-ID, the student ID and the "Deutschlandsemesterticket".
Do you have a question that has not yet been answered in the FAQ section? In the FAQ section you will also find the right contact person for your topic. You can reach the support team at the University IT and Data Center by e-mail.
The University IT and Data Center operates now GitLab, a new IT service for collaborative version management of software or other text-based data.
GitLab can be used for research projects for which own projects/Git repositories can be created. The system offers central management and bug tracking functions and a wide range of tools for automating processes (CI/CD) and various options for publishing software.
GitLab is available free of charge to all holders of a Uni-ID, i.e. employees and students of the University of Bonn. Read access is also possible worldwide as long as the viewing rights of a group or project have not been restricted. The GitLab instance is operated on its own servers and is completely independent of gitlab.com, i.e. data does not leave the University of Bonn (as long as corresponding repositories are not explicitly made visible university-wide or publicly).
Due to the current situation, we would like to draw your attention once again to the danger of phishing and other emails with malicious content.
There are currently E-mails in circulation that request a "confirmation of the e-mail account" and allegedly come from "Uni Bon" (sic). These are phishing emails! Please do not click on the links and delete these emails immediately.
After Educast.NRW was discontinued (see news from December 1, 2023), the university's own video platform "eCampus Video" is now up and running. The migration of videos from Educast.NRW to eCampus Video was successful. Currently, 9523 videos are already available for studying and teaching. The existing videos on eCampus are therefore still available. The platform can be accessed either directly via its own web interface or via the "Opencast" object in eCampus.
Further information on the new video platform "eCampus Video" can be found on the eCampus website.