Stud.IP at our University

Stud.IP is the central component of the e-learning infrastructure at the University of Göttingen for teachers and students. Access to content and numerous supporting tools for teaching and learning is provided via Stud.IP.

Use of Stud.IP

There are many possibilities for using Stud.IP. A wide range of processes is supported that allow teachers and students to organize themselves, communicate, and work together on gaining knowledge. Stud.IP is open to everyone at the University of Göttingen.

Detailed information about using Stud.IP is available via the listed websites and documents in the menu on the right.

Below we would like to briefly introduce you to the three functions you will definitely need to inform your students and give a note about data transfer from EXA.

1. Unlock course

Courses imported from UniVZ are locked; as long as you do not unlock the course, students cannot register. So first, the course must be unlocked. At some faculties, this is done centrally by faculty administrators, but usually, you have to do this manually for your own courses.

You unlock the course in the course management under “Access permissions.” Set the green arrow to “none” to unlock the course. Alternatively, you can also configure registration procedures.

We have created a short video for you on this. (Video in German, Video in English)
An illustrated guide can be found here: Stud.IP help for unlocking

Please note:

If the course remains locked, students cannot register. Not even if you set a start date for registrations.
Please also unlock courses that are not offered at the beginning of the semester. This way, you can inform the registered interested students directly during the semester. Both at the beginning about the cancellation of the course and later in the semester if the course can start late after all.

2. Send a message to all participants of the course

Open the course to whose participants you want to send a message and click on the tab "Participants." Click the link at the top “Send system message with email forwarding to all participants.” A message field will open. Fill in subject and message and click send.
We have created a short video for you on this. (Video in German, Video in English)

3. Post a news item in the course

You have several options to provide information for your students in your Stud.IP course. One of the easiest ways is to post a course news item.
We have also created a short video for you on this. (Video in German, Video in English)

As the most important communication medium, we recommend sending notifications via Stud.IP to the participants of the course about all changes to dates, web conference rooms, etc. (see above).

Updating course descriptions, course dates, and schedules

The dates are automatically imported from UniVZ. The schedule is generated from these dates. To add or change dates, please contact the UniVZ admin of your department. You cannot add new dates directly in Stud.IP because they are overwritten nightly with data from UniVZ.

It would be desirable if the data in the course catalog in UniVZ were also kept up to date. However, in the current situation, this will not be possible immediately in all cases.

Therefore, the student representatives have requested that you inform your students about all deviations and changes to the course description, dates, and locations (e.g., the virtual conference room) via the above-described ways in Stud.IP.

Here you find pages with further information for your start in Stud.IP.

Stud.IP FAQ

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Stud.IP Start for teachers

Stud.IP Start for learners

With these possibilities, communication with the students should succeed. If you still encounter problems, you can contact your local administrators or our central support at support@uni-goettingen.de.