...and E-teaching. Oftentimes commercial and proprietary solutions for filesharing, video-meetings and other services are used at the University with disregard for privacy and data protection. Service providers with headquarters outside of the EU must be considered as potentially compromised. This page shall collect and recommend alternatives provided by either 1. our institution 2. organizations Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is a member of 3. other public and trustworthy infrastructure
A verbose description with some more detailed explanations may be found at https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/studium/digital-studieren/ this is a condensed reference:
Tools Reference
| Commercial Service
Do not use! |
University equivalent
DSGVO compliant |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| GoogleDocs/Dropbox[1]/mega.nz | https://cloud.uni-weimar.de | Nextcloud based solution provided by TU-Berlin |
| WeTransfer/Hightail[2] | https://gigamove.rz.rwth-aachen.de/ | Large file transfer provided by DFN / RTWH-Berlin |
| Skype/zoom | https://meeting.uni-weimar.de | BigBlueButton[3] |
| https://www.conf.dfn.de | Pexip provided by DFN | |
| https://edumeet.geant.org | edumeet provided by GÉANT | |
| https://jitsi.fem.tu-ilmenau.de | Jitsi[4] provided by TU-Ilmenau | |
| https://meet.weimarnetz.de | Jitsi provided by Weimarnetz | |
| doodle/appoint.ly | https://terminplaner.dfn.de | Meeting time scheduler by DFN |
| https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de | Meeting time scheduler by TU-Dresden |
- ↑ https://www.drop-dropbox.com
- ↑ http://send.firefox.com may be a privacy conscious alternative if for some reason other university options fail
- ↑ For BBB Firefox/Chrome/Chromium is recommended, known problems with Safari
- ↑ For Jitsi Chrome/Chromium is necessary and headphones are strongly recommended, known problems with Safari and Firefox
Teaching
Documentation for useful screencasting tools and setup: teaching