Stud.IP Dokumentation

Personal data, type, security and areas

The next step in setting up a course primarily specifies the responsible people and regulates who may later participate in the course.

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1. Course lecturers
Now please specify the course lecturers. Normally, that would be you. If there are additional lecturers, you can search for them in the system. Enter their names in the Search box and click on the Magnifying glass icon (DO NOT PRESS "ENTER”!). All the lecturers of the home institution as well as the accompanying institutions will be found.

2. Tutors

You can select your assistants here. Tutors have permissions similar to those of the lecturers in courses; they can therefore, for example, upload references, prepare schedules, etc. However they cannot change basic course data such as “lecturers” — only you as the lecturer can do that. Use the search features as described in 1. to enter an assistant. Incidentally, only research assistants registered at your institution are on the list. You cannot designate students as tutors.

3. Type of course

In the area of teaching (instruction) you can, e.g., specify whether it is a basic or advanced study course, or whether it is a lecture or seminar course. The course is later classified, e.g., in a university prospectus according to this data.

4. Kind of course

In this field you can use your own freely defined description or classification. The following are conceivable, depending on what you consider to be most meaningful: "field trips", “practical meeting” or “block course”.

5. Fields of study Fields of study (optional, only when the course is in the “Teaching” (instruction) area please state the field of study in which your course best fits. If the field of studies is not listed here, you can search for it. If that doe not help either, please contact your system administrator, he will be glad to insert the field for you.

6. Security

You can now stipulate who shall have access to your course. This specification concerns read and write access. Read access means that someone can view all the materials and discussions in your course, but cannot directly participate. Write access accordingly means that someone can, e.g., write their own Postings in the course’s Forum.

• Free access

means that someone who discovers Stud.IP in external pages can browse around in your course. This person is not registered and therefore has no name. These “nobodies” are absolutely not permitted to write. If you do not want someone from outside the university to look at your work, set the access to the standard setting:

• Registered in Stud.IP

In order to allow only those participants whose names are known and who have re-registered by mail to read and write in the system or activate the following option:

• Only with password

to assign a password to the course. You will later be requested to stipulate a password without which no one can participate in the course. This is an effective method for limiting the number of participants as well as for excluding “troublemakers” from the course in the Teaching (instruction) area because no one can enter the course without having given the correct password. You can inform your students of the password, e.g., in the first course session. If you plan to set up a course in the area of Research or Organisation, you should always implement password protection; otherwise, all participants in Stud.IP could follow committee discussions.

If you selected participant limitation in the first step, you do not have to enter anything here in this case.

7. If you are satisfied with your entries, click on Continue.