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Scope of Services
You can obtain an overview of the authorizations assigned to your Central User Account (university account) at any time via our
- Web form for identification data query (Students Account)
- Web form for an identification data query (Staff Account)
Depending on the user group, the Central User Account gives you access to a number of personalized IT services:
Authentication services
| Service description | Homepage | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Shibboleth | Web login (Shibboleth) | personal Uni-Account; for external IT services: students, doctoral candidates, tariff employees, civil servants (planned: apl. Prof., Honorarprof., PDs, Habilitands, lecturers) |
| Two-factor authentication | 2FA-Portal | personal Uni-Account, 2FA token (on request) |
Basic IT services
| Service description | Homepage | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Webmail for students, webmail for employees | Web mail for students Web mail for staff |
personal Uni-Account (for functional accounts only on request) |
| Mailing lists (Sympa) | Mailing list management | valid email address |
| Office PC – not usable with Uni-Account! | – | AD Account |
| Windows PCs in PC rooms, libraries, lecture halls and seminar rooms | – | personal Uni-Account (for functional accounts only on request) |
| Home directory H:\ (5 GB) | – | – |
| SFTP access to home directory | – | – |
| SSH access to home directory | – | set login shell via web form |
| Copiers in mixed mode (slide-in card reader, Q-Pilot software), see also instructions of the University Library |
– | Copy card / Ucard / Employee ID card; for scan-to-mail: register card number via web form |
| Copiers for staff-use only (contactless card reader, SafeQ software) | – | Copy card / Ucard / Employee ID card; assignment to cost center (upon request), for scan-to-mail: register card number via web form |
| Wi-Fi access (eduroam) | – | Students (including guest students), employees (if necessary also external persons) (functional accounts only on request) |
| LAN access | – | Students (no guest students), employees (if necessary also external) (functional accounts only on request) |
| VPN access | Cisco VPN | Students (no guest students), employees (if necessary also externals) (functional accounts only on request) |
| Teamchat (Matrix) | Matrix | – |
Central IT Services
| Service description | Homepage | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Marvin - integrated Campus Management System (iCM) | Marvin | Students, doctoral candidates; lecturers (only with VPN access) |
| Research Information System (FIS) | FIS | Research activity, FIS authorization (by personal data administrator) |
| ILIAS - Digital Learning Environment | ILIAS | personal Uni-Account |
| Website maintenance [German] in the Content Management System (CMS) | CMS legacy system, CMS2 | CMS training, editor rights (on request) |
| Sync&Share - data exchange platform (2 GB online storage) (old description) | Sync&Share | University members; service will be discontinued soon! |
| Hessenbox - data exchange platform (30 GB online storage) | Hessenbox | University members with personal Uni-Account, external people as guest without own storage (functional accounts only on request / yearly invoice) |
| Babysitter exchange | Babysitter exchange | – |
| Hazardous substances register | Hazardous substances register | – |
| BITE – Recruiting management | BITE | Access only on request |
| ZEUS – Time tracking | ZEUS X | Access only on request |
| Planio - Project management software (Redmine) | Planio | Access only on request |
| GitLab – Version management | GitLab | Students (no guest students), employees (on request) |
| MaRC3 - Linux HPC cluster | – | Access only on request; usage agreement must be signed by working group, no BAFA embargo may exist for user's country of origin |
Media, software and training
| Service description | Home page | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Electronic media (books, journals, subject databases) | – | only for studies / research / teaching / administration; not for external users; depending on provider: VPN access or Shibboleth access for external IT services |
| Software offer (download center, virus protection, literature management, campus and state licenses) |
– | only for studies / research / teaching / administration; not for external users; depending on provider: VPN access or Shibboleth access for external IT services |
| participation in IT trainings of the University Computer Center | – | personal Uni-Account |
| Booking of individual/group workstations in the University Library | Room booking | personal Uni-Account |
| Web-Konferenzen (Übersicht) mit DFNconf, BigBlueButton | see service description | participation possible without Uni-Account; administration requires Uni-Account |
| see service description | personal staff account required for administration (only civil servants or tariff employees) |
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| see service description | personal Uni-Account required for administration (functional account is possible, but not recommended) |