19th meeting of the FaRaFIN

Hello people,

we invite you to the 19th meeting of the FaRaFIN on Monday, 04.05.2020.
Time: 17:00
Location: https://discord.gg/EmnmkaQ

If you come online, please write in the text channel when you come and when you go. We have to write this down in the protocol.

At this meeting we will get a report from the press commission and the spokespersons. Just have a look at the agenda and feel invited! ;-)

We are looking forward to see you!

Study with children or relatives in need of care

Hello people,

the following survey is aimed at students who have to look after children or relatives in need of care in addition to their studies. It is especially about the support by lecturers and the university, but also about when your events take place:
https://survey.farafin.de/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=754846&lang=en

Best regards
your FaRaFIN

Survey for Electives Subjects

Hallo Leute,

die Fakultät würde gerne besser verstehen, wie sich die Leute auf verschiedene (Wahl-)Pflichtfächer verteilen. Dafür haben wir eine kleine Umfrage vorbereitet. Da geht es insbesondere darum, wie viele Fächer ihr pro Semester belegt und inwiefern ihr diese nach Regelstudienplan besucht habt.
https://survey.farafin.de/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=159244&lang=de


Viele Grüße
Euer FaRaFIN

PS:
Die Umfrage bezieht sich natürlich auf das letzte Semester. Wir werden auch in der Umfrage selbst die Texte anpassen.

Informations for the new DKE and DE students

Welcome to the new DKE and DE students! ☺

An employee of our faculty (Claudia Krull) has prepared a welcome and information video for you. With your OVGU account, which we hope you have already received, you can log in under the following link and watch it: https://mediasite.ovgu.de/Mediasite/Play/d2c4678470a74d3091c63e12553a5a651d

It is in English and we hope that it will help you to get started with your studies here.

If you have any questions, please contact us!

Have a nice day! ☺

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.

Corona-News 2.0 | student crisis team

Dear fellow students,

we have received numerous emails with problems from you and were able to answer most of them. Once again the call: Write us about your Corona problems, especially if you have lost your job due to the crisis or if you are not able to earn money at the moment: crisis@farafin.de Also the Stura and the rectorate need hints from us, the students to be able to react.
Some information:

1. Prof. Mossakowski and the Examination Office have made the arrangement that theses can be submitted as PDF files as long as copy shops are closed throughout Germany. However, it is then necessary to hand in the bound copies later. You also have to send a signed sheet with thedeclaration of non-use of aids by e-mail to the examination office.
2. A decision is in preparation which should allow the defence of the theses via video conference tools. This will hopefully be adopted by the Faculty Council next week.
3. Some courses of other faculties (e.g. the FHW) start already on Apr. 06. (as online courses). Please pay attention if this concerns you.
4. You can currently validate your student cards for the next semester in building 6. Especially affected by the coming months are our freshmen. We are working on distributing important information to them.

Dear first semester students: If you have acute worries about the start of your studies, please contact us. We try to help. We are currently trying to implement and enforce some measures in the background to make the coming semester easier. We hope to be able to tell you about them in the coming week.
We will keep you up to date.

On behalf of the crisis management team,
Jonas Hielscher (Faculty Council), Lydia Munick (FaraFIN), Kilian Pößel (FaraFIN), Dominik Weitz (Examination Committee)

Current use of MVB with imma certificate and ID card

Dear fellow students,

until the official start of the course [i.e. until the attendance events / currently 20.4.]
the MVB will accept a current certificate of enrollment in connection with a
ID card/passport as sufficient proof.

The above is currently valid. At the same time once again the clarification of the MVB for the general handling
outside the corona crisis, when everything is back to normal, in the following:
"As a general rule, we do not accept a certificate of enrollment in conjunction with an
ID card will not be accepted. Students who use our transportation without a valid student ID card
without a valid student ID, must present it within one week at our customer center for a service fee of 9 EUR.
customer center. Later, the full 62 EUR will be due as an increased transportation fee. At
the beginning of the semester, the ID card should be validated before the start of the semester, if the journey to the
to the campus by bus and train."

Best regards,

Kilian Pößel

Corona-News | student crisis team

Dear fellow students,
the next semester will present us with unprecedented challenges and problems. Lectures and seminars will probably be held online and we still have no idea how exams will be organized and when theses can be defended again. Some of us are doing everything to make the concerns and needs of us students heard in the executive committees in order to find acceptable solutions for us. We have formed a student crisis team at the FIN to coordinate all efforts. At the moment our main goals are:

1. To guarantee teaching for the coming summer semester and, if possible, with a uniform solutions for online teaching.
2. The expeditious organisation of examinations, if necessary in alternative examination forms that do not require attendance in the faculty.
3. The early resumption of final examinations, e.g. with the help of video conferencing solutions.
4. General relief for students in this exceptional semester, e.g. in the form of cancelled votes and preliminary examination performance.

In the near future, many more topics will be added, such as the problems of international students with entering the country, access to laboratories while maintaining all necessary protective measures, deadline extensions, not counting the whole semester as a semester for Bafög and study duration and much more. We need your help, so that we know what is bothering you the most. Please write to us about your problems and worries for the coming semester so that we know what we have to bring
forward. The crisis committee has set up a special e-mail address for this purpose: crisis@farafin.de. If you don't tell us about your problems, we can't do anything for you and everybody would be alone in these really difficult times. We try to keep you informed about decisions and new information through all our channels
(Telegram, email, website, Facebook and others). Here is a first batch of information that may not have reached you yet:

1. At the moment it looks like the next semester will take place, although in a significantly different form than usual.
2. For all (!) courses of the whole university it is necessary to register in the LSF in the coming semester. In the next days (until Apr. 06.) the functionality is activated in the LSF. Please register then, but only where you really want to go. Your student e-mail address, which is stored in the LSF, will then be used by the teachers as an initial contact possibility.
3. On behalf of the dean's office, a working group is currently working on a central solution for lectures, seminars and exercises, in form of video conferencing tools.
4. There is still no idea when examinations will be resumed. However, we will discuss this issue with the dean's office.
5. The permanent information page of the university: https://www.ovgu.de/corona.html

We are trying to achieve the best possible results for all of us during the crisis. Stay healthy.
On behalf of the crisis management team,
Jonas Hielscher (Faculty Council), Lydia Munick (FaraFIN), Dominik Weitz (Examination Committee)

Usability Testessen

Hallo FIN-Welt,

am 25. März findet das nächste Usability Testessen statt.

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Zur kostenlosen Anmeldung klickt einfach hier [https://usability-testessen.org/stadt/magdeburg/] und seid dabei!

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