COVID-19: Information for all FIN students

Concerning the start of the summer semester 2020 at the FIN

Dear students of our faculty,

In order to give you a good introduction to the courses of the summer semester 2020 in the current situation, the Faculty of Computer Science (FIN) will make teaching materials available online in digital form. For our first-year students, additional online preliminary courses are also offered by our student council (farafin). We kindly ask you to note the following information.

For first-year students:

• Since a personal presence is not possible for first-year students who are expected to attend all courses of study at the FIN from 01.04.2020, they are requested to inform themselves on the website: https://erstsemester.farafin.de/. Pre-courses are offered online, information is given on the timetable and on the use of the digital teaching environment (LSF, Moodle etc.).

For all students:

• We ask you to register for the courses (Lehrveranstaltungen) that you would like to attend in the summer semester 2020, if possible by 06.04.2020. Information can be found here: https://lsf.ovgu.de. Registered students will be informed in time about the online format of the courses.

- From 06.04.2020 to 19.04.2020, students can already be provided with additional information and materials on the courses in order to familiarize them with the digital teaching contents and platforms and thus enable them to get started with online teaching as easily as possible.

‐ The courses at the FIN, as regulated by a decree of the Ministry of Economics, Science and Digitization of Saxony‐Anhalt, will start on Monday, 20.04.2020.

• The faculty building and laboratories are still accessible to all students via transponder/chip. The hygiene recommendations for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic of the Robert Koch Institute (among others https://www.rki.de/SharedDocs/FAQ/NCOV2019/FAQ_Liste.html) are to be observed, in particular the adherence to a minimum distance of 1.5 m and regular thorough hand washing.
• Until further notice, the Examination Office and the secretariats should primarily be contacted digitally (see also https://www.inf.ovgu.de/pamt.html).

We wish all students a good semester start. Stay healthy!

The Faculty Administration The Dean

Prof. Dr. Andreas Nürnberger

Further information:

• Tools:

- ZOOM campus license will be available (for teachers and students)
- Further tools (e.g. Jitsi, Big Blue Button, Teams) will be tested-> Background: Save bandwidth of single tools, protection against failure of a tool

• Teaching:

- Enrollment should be done uniformly via LSF (if possible until 6.4.). The LSF should at least contain the link to the teaching content in Moodle/eLearning.
- Before 20.4. there should be no preliminary examination work to be done (exercises that are included in the admission to the examination etc.).
- Attendance replacement courses do not have to take place exactly in the slots, it is also possible to do them asynchronously. If synchronous, then they should happen in these slots, whereby these could then possibly be shifted again. Shifts should be kept to a minimum.
- Individual events may not take place because attendance is required (internships, for example).

• Exams:

- Final papers: Defence via video conference possible after request to the examination board
- Oral exams: will be postponed or in cases of hardship (last semester, otherwise unnecessary extension of studies e.g.) Application to the examination board possible

• Winter term 20/21

- In the winter semester 2020/2021, lectures at universities and universities of applied sciences should start uniformly on 01.11.2020.