IT security needs more than one factor - multi-factor authentication is coming Multi-factor authentication (MFA), which is already familiar from everyday life and is used as a general security standard, e.g. for online banking, is now being gradually introduced at the University of Bonn. In order to find out what is behind MFA and in what form it is carried out at the University of Bonn, we asked the team of experts in the University IT and Data Center, which designs and coordinates the introduction of MFA at the university, five questions:

With the move from Zoom to "Zoom X", the University of Bonn has kept its promise to find a data protection alternative to the Zoom US servers. Since March 2023, all university members have not only been able to benefit from a significantly improved data protection basis, but also from constantly new features. Two new features will be activated on September 1, 2023: the Zoom whiteboard and direct messages (during a Zoom meeting). The whiteboard is the new digital canvas in Zoom X, on which ideas and results can be collected and recorded together. With the whiteboard, meetings can now be designed collaboratively and interactively. Whiteboards can be prepared before the meeting and shared after the meeting. You can find out which settings have to be made in your Zoom account for the Zoom X whiteboard in the instructions in the HRZ documentation (accessible only in BONNET or via VPN): Whiteboard

The eCampus team is again offering a wide range of webinars in the winter semester 2023/2024 to support you in digital teaching.For beginners and new employees, there are introductions to the use of eCampus. In other webinars you can learn more about specific tools and formats such as eLecture and eTests. Here you can view all courses for teachers and staff in the winter semester 2023/2024.

The Open Access Service Center now offers researchers of the university a new repository for the publication of research data: bonndata. bonndata is a general, not subject-specific repository, which is made available to all researchers of the university and complies with the FAIR principles: F - Findable A - Accessible I - Interoperable R - Reusable The repository bonndata is based on the software dataverse and can be adapted to specific requirements, both for individual researchers and for entire special research areas, clusters of excellence, institutes, etc., in order to publish the research data in a professional manner. In contrast to bonndata, RADAR, the repository used so far for the publication of research data, is exclusively used for non-public archiving. Are you curious about bonndata? Feel free to attend the next HRZ Cafe on August 09, 2023 at 1pm and/or the next lecture in the Coffee Lecture series on August 30, 2023 at 12:30pm (via Zoom). A demo of bonndata will take place as part of these events. All detailed information about bonndata can be found on the service website and in the user guide (Confluence). For those who would like to try out the system, the Service Agency Research Data also offers a sandbox version.

Looking for images for studies, research and education without Watermarks? The University of Bonn has taken out a "Colourbox Educational" campus licence, giving university students and staff access to millions of images, illustrations and videos. Students, teaching staff and university employees are each allowed to dowload 30 free pictures per month from Colourbox and use them for research and teaching. These downloads may be used for seminar papers and assignments, course and teaching materials, presentations and lectures.

In the HRZ's own course room and online, courses on many IT topics will also be offered to all university members in the upcoming semester.

A new root certificate authority has been active since July 15, 2023, so the WiFi Eduroam profile must be reinstalled on all end devices so that you can continue to use Eduroam. What to do now? Reinstall Eduroam in just two steps! Detailed information and instructions for the Eduroam new installation on your device can be found at WiFi eduroam reinstallation.

The authentication for the MATLAB software available with the campus license is done via Shibboleth with your Uni-ID and the associated password. Already registered users who use an email address that does not belong to the @uni-bonn.de domain to access the MathWorks account, must change their email address by August 1, 2023 and enter with their personal university email address. How do you update your email address for login? Sign in with your usual credentials Open the "Profile" drop-down menu Select "Edit Profile" Change your email address and click "Update" in the lower right corner If the registration with your previous login email address does not longer work, you must register again. You can find instructions on how to register in the HRZ documentation on Confluence. However, should problems occur, please contact lizenz@uni-bonn.de.