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Digital Kickstart for Students

Our manual Digital Kickstart for Students, created at the suggestion of our multipliers, by Jean-Pascal Sopha, Tatjana Wollert, Rebecca Thieler and Felicitas John (DL-Office Team), offers students an introduction to the digital world of the University of Hamburg in the form of a PDF. Feel free to pass the manual on to your students as a digital handout.

The Kickstart is also available as an interactive html script that you can embed in any OpenOlat course. You can find instructions on how to do this in this video tutorial on the Lecture2Go platform.

In every newly opened AGORA room from the “Standard Template” template, the “Kickstart” is already included as a material entry in German and English. Help for creating rooms from templates can be found accordingly in the AGORA help portal.

Further information for students

To ensure a successful start at University of Hamburg and to help students to stay on top of things during their studies, the following list is a compilation of helpful offers and information resources for students:

  • The Campus Center offers a list of relevant contact points, facilities, orientation units, etc. specifically for first-year students to help them organize their studies. It provides collected information for an orientation at the beginning of the study program.
  • The UHH DL-portal provides students with an overview of further offers and a special “Studying digitally”-page. This page offers instructions on how to successfully use digital resources during your studies. All videos from this offer can also be found on Lecture2Go. Furthermore, the DL-portal has provided a very helpful collection of links with all relevant websites for students.
  • Writing Center: The Writing Center of the HUL offers a variety of formats such as workshops, teaching cooperations, events and counseling. It is possible to take advantage of the Writing Center's support both for structured writing at home or when working on campus. You can take part in the Weekly Write-Ins on Mondays and Wednesdays via Zoom (10:00 am-12:00 pm) and on Thursdays in the StaBi (10:00 am-12:00 pm). Further information can be found on the website of the writing center.
  • With UHHGPT, the University of Hamburg is providing free access for students to ChatGPT – an application based on artificial intelligence – as part of a pilot phase. UHHGPT can be used without personal data being transmitted or stored. Also, unlike the free version of ChatGPT, the information submitted is not used to train the underlying AI or chatbot. The confident use of AI can unlock many new opportunities and be beneficial in university studies. A guide to studying in times of generative AI and other valuable links can be found on the DDLitLab website. 
  • PIASTA is a service offered by the Department of International Affairs at University of Hamburg. PIASTA has the task and goal of supporting international students in their studies at University of Hamburg and contributing to the internationalization of the university. To this end, it organizes a series of events and provides language and counseling services. Visit the PIASTA website for more information.
  • Digital Propaedeutic – digital skills: The aim of the Digital Propaedeutic is to teach basic principles and skills for working in the digital environment. Among other things, the blog of the Digital Propaedeutic (DigiPop), collects and provides detailed information and materials on digital research and work in the faculty of humanities. DigiPop can be accessed from the UHH network or via VPN.
  • Interesting courses and exciting lectures at University of Hamburg are regularly published and updated in the Lehre-Navi. You can use the search portal to find courses that are specifically relevant to you.
  • Lots of helpful information on designing digital or analog teaching and learning spaces, ideas for designing new concepts and promoting the acquisition of new knowledge by students can be found on the HUL's page on teaching and learning spaces.
  • The Universitätskolleg has created an animated video about studying at University of Hamburg. The video is available via podcampus.de.

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Tip

Uploading larger files by students

Students can upload larger files, such as podcasts or videos produced as part of a course, as long as the maximum sizes in AGORA/CommSy and OpenOlat allow. In particular, a producer account in Lecture2Go and the attachment tool of the University of Hamburg are not available, as employee IDs are required for this.

For larger files, the tool UHHCloud is available. There, files can be shared with individual users so that they can be exchanged. All information can be found on this page of the RRZ.

Alternatively, the Microsoft Office version licensed by the RRZ can be used to share files within the university with OneDrive. All instructions for free Office registration can be found on this page of the RRZ. The Faculty of Education's Media Centre has compiled instructions for sharing files from a student’s perspective.

 

Upload larger files for research and teaching

The instructions for teachers can be found in our “Methods and instructions” section under the item “Uploading larger files for research and teaching”.