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Information for the examination period

Dear students,

there is new information about the examination period and especially about the examination forms in WiSe 20/21.
On the university website (https://www.ovgu.de/unimagdeburg/en/alternative_pruefung-p-110902.html)* you can read the informations.
*Note: The boxes can be ticked.

Possible are currently:
- Oral presence examination (individual examination)
- Classical homework or seminar papers
- Electronic oral exam
- Electronic written examination (unsupervised; referred to as "schriftliche Ausarbeitungen" in the General Regulations).

Electronic exams (with video supervision) will also still be possible according to the Ministry's regulation for distance exams, which is expected to be valid from February 2021.

We will of course keep you informed as soon as possible!

Regulations for examinations of the WiSe 20-21

Dear representatives of the StuRa, dear student representatives of the University of Magdeburg,

as agreed, today you will receive initial information on the implementation of examinations in the winter semester 20/21.

Basically, all students will be offered exams.

The basic arrangements that have been made in consultation with the deans and deans of studies are as follows:

• The planned presence examinations until 15.03.2021 will be replaced by an alternative form of examination.
• Depending on the pandemic situation, presence examinations may be held after 15.03.21. If necessary, it is possible that smaller presence examinations will already be held in the week before 15.03.21 under strict hygiene regulations. This will be discussed with the faculties in mid-February.
• In order to provide for equalization, written examinations can take place in the non-examination period and the examination period will be extended until 09.04.21.
• Oral exams in attendance may take place throughout the period.

Next Monday, January 18, 2021, more necessary information, dates, contact persons and modalities will be published online at https://www.ovgu.de/corona.html. Students of the degree programme in Human Medicine shall observe the regulations that apply separately to them.

All the best,

Jens Strackeljan & Susanne Schmidt

Information on written examinations in the winter semester 2020/2021

Dear students,

Below we have some information for you regarding the exam season.
However, we would like to emphasise that this is not final information! The official final information will hopefully be sent to your university mail via the student distribution list by Tuesday! So make sure you check it regularly.
If you already have questions about your exams for certain courses, please contact the lecturers!

Dear FIN students,

as promised at the meeting of the Faculty Council on 13.01.2021, the following is the information provided by the FIN Dean of Studies, Prof. Günes, on the OVGU's discussion to date on written examinations in the winter semester 2020/21. If new information on this is available, we will forward it to you immediately.

The essence of the meeting of the Senate Study Commission on 14.01.2021, without being able to answer all questions, is as follows:

• No written face-to-face examinations (written exams) until 15.03.21.
• Alternative online forms of examination are possible
• Oral face-to-face examinations are possible
• Oral online examinations are possible
• Written paper == Examination without supervision
• Type and method of examination must be announced 2 weeks in advance
• A Moodle course will be started where questions about the exams will be discussed and shared
• There will be a written explanation from the Rectorate early next week"

Re-registration 2021

⚠️ Re-registration for the summer semester 2021 ⚠️

➡️ This will take place between January 12, 2021 and February 8, 2021.
➡️ Re-registration will be provided via the myOVGU portal (https://myovgu.ovgu.de/).
➡️ The semester fee is 129,90€ (77,00€ 'Studentenwerk' fee; 41,40€ semester ticket; 11,50€ student body fee). If applicable, the amount increases if second tuition fees have to be paid.
➡️ For more information on re-registration, please visit https://www.ovgu.de/rueckmeldung.html

Information from the dean

Dear members of the FIN,

On behalf of the faculty management, I wish you a happy and healthy new year!

Unfortunately, we still have to deal with the effects of the Corona pandemic and as you could see from the Rector's email of January 08, 2021, our university will remain at level 4 of the stage plan until the end of January 2021. (After that, a new decision will be made and action will be taken according to the situation.) For us as a faculty, this means that, in order to avoid contacts, all teaching rooms such as seminar rooms, laboratories and also learning areas on the floor corridors will remain closed to all students and staff.

Building 29 also remains closed to the public and is only accessible to FIN employees by key or transponder. Students will still not have access to the building, even via chip (if access is required, please make personal contact with the student/staff in question).

Due to the closure of building 29 to the public, delivery services/parcel delivery companies and the like are still asked to either contact the respective orderers or to drop off deliveries at the OVGU post office. Appropriate arrangements have been made with the post office. This announcement is also visible via a notice on the outside doors.

Dear members of the FIN, we all hope that these strict measures will now lead to success and thus the COVID-19 incidence numbers can be significantly reduced. Thank you for your understanding and support!!!

There will be arrangements with the university management about the further procedure at the end of January 2021 and we will inform you then.

Until then, on behalf of the entire faculty management, I wish you to stay healthy!

Best regards
Prof. Dr. Hans-Knud Arndt
Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science

Unterstützung der Admins gesucht

Hallo FINler,

der FaRaFIN bietet unterschiedliche Services an, zum Beispiel das Git, unsere Webseite oder auch die Mailverteiler.
Alle diese Services werden auf unserem Server gehosted und von unserem Adminteam betreut.

Die Admins suchen deine Unterstützung.

Aufgaben des Adminteams:
- Verwaltung unseres Linux-Servers
- Verwaltung unseres Bürorechners (Pop OS)
- Verwaltung verschiedener Services (laufen alle in Docker)
- Mailserver
- GitLab
- Mailman
- Processwire (farafin.de Website)
- Nextcloud

Falls Du Lust hast uns zu unterstützen, schreib uns einfach eine Mail an admin@farafin.de :)

Wir freuen uns, von Dir zu hören,
Phillipp von den FaRaFIN Admins

09th meeting of FaRaFIN

Hello people,

we invite you to the 09th meeting of the FaRaFIN 2020/21 on Thursday, 07.01.2021.

Time: 17:00
Location: Discord (https://discord.gg/EmnmkaQ) in the "meeting" channel

Please write in the text channel when you come and when you leave. We have to note this in the protocol.

At this meeting, the spokespersons and some appointees (including mentoring) will report and we will talk about the pre-courses for the summer semester. Just have a look at the agenda and feel invited ;-)

For some resolutions a simple majority is not enough, there must be a qualified 2/3 majority (i.e. at least 5 "for" votes). These resolutions are: 5.1 presourses for the summer semester
For some resolutions a simple majority is not enough, there must be a absolute majority. These resolutions are: 4.6 Appointee for german mentoring

We are looking forward to see you!

End of year 2020

Dear students,

this year has gone by pretty fast, don't you think? There were many ups and downs. Corona has been hard on all of us. But everyone tried to do their best and we all tried to pull on the same rope!

Our personal challenges and highlights in 2020? These were definitely:
→ the digital game nights
→ the conversion of the pre-courses and introductory week to online / hybrid
→ the FIN Christmas month "A 2020 Remote Adventure"

Of course, we also want to collect feedback from you! For this purpose, we would appreciate if you take 5-10 min and participate in our small survey about the FaRaFIN work: https://survey.farafin.de/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=269525&lang=en

Furthermore, the survey about online teaching in the current semester is still running: https://survey.farafin.de/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=191148&lang=de
Here, too, we depend on your feedback! This is the only way to improve things.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2021!

Accessibility of FaRaFIN during Lockdown

Dear students,

we as FaRaFIN react to the current development in the Corona crisis.
In view of the decision of the federal government and the states over the weekend, we will no longer have any office hours from 16.12. and will therefore no longer be reachable by phone.
Nevertheless, we remain generally available for all inquiries and problems by mail or on our channels! We are also happy to make individual digital appointments in case of emergency.

On our Fara-Discord (https://discord.gg/SrrStqm2fa) you can write to us with general questions in the Consultationhour Channel with @farafin. For private questions and problems that require discretion, you can simply write to one of the FaRa members who is online.
We always try to answer as soon as possible (within 24 hours). Over the holidays it might take longer.

We hope that you will understand it! But this difficult time will pass.

Stay healthy and best regards,
your FaRaFIN