Quickstart Guide for Employees

UniAccount

Your UniAccount is your digital identity and thus the central access to all IT services of the university, especially to the UniNetwork.

E-mail

In combination with your UniAccount you will receive an email address with initially 2 gigabytes of storage space.

E-Mail Web-Zugang (opens in a new window)

Digital Process Handling

The document management system (DMS for short) at the University of Kassel enables completely electronic processing of processes as well as the processing and filing of digital and digitized documents.

Document Management System (opens in a new window)

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eLearning

With the eLearning platform Moodle, students and lecturers can easily and conveniently exchange materials, dates and information about their courses. Moodle is operated together with the Service Center Lehre (SCL). For questions regarding courses or operation, please contact the SCL.

Content and web management

The University of Kassel uses the content management system (CMS) Typo3. This allows the uncomplicated
Internet presences of faculties, institutes, departments and facilities can be created and managed easily.

Telephone Services

To ensure that you as an employee can be reached by telephone as quickly as possible, you will find detailed instructions on the respective telephone models and the necessary settings in the ITS manual

CampusCard

The card for (almost) everything - borrowing books, paying in the canteen or scanning and printing study documents.

Internet / WLAN

The ITS provides access to the Internet via WLAN, usable at all university locations and beyond.

Video and web conferencing

The University offers various video and/or voice communication platforms to support teaching and University operations.

Printing and scanning

With "Follow-Me-Printing" you can pick up your printouts at any central copying system. Likewise, you can use the central copying systems for scanning.

Collaboration

The SharePoint collaboration platform enables employees to work together cooperatively, e.g. within projects. SharePoint offers groupware, document and project management functionalities. However, the data remains
on servers at the University of Kassel.

Support of the end devices

ITS provides support and procurement of terminal equipment such as computer hardware and telephones for the following departments and facilities:

- Department 05
- UniKassel Transfer
- Administration

For the other departments and facilities, support and procurement is decentralized.

Scientific data processing

The IT Service Center operates a Linux cluster for
scientific applications with high computing and
storage requirements. The Linux cluster is a network of networked computers running a
computers running under a Linux operating system with an
access computer and computers for actual job processing,
on which the application programs run.