Online platforms for organising your studies

Manage your studies online

In addition to the services offered by the Student Records Office, there are several tools you can use to manage your studies online. You can create your study plan, see your grades, download seminar notes, manage e-mail addresses, catch up on lectures on the video portal and much more. Below is an overview of the student portals.

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campo

The online administration portal ‘campo’ is the virtual counterpart to the Student Records Office and the Examinations Office (see Examinations/Examinations Office). It includes functions for student, examination, and class administration.

You can manage your personal account details, register for examinations and obtain an overview of your grades via www.campus.fau.de. You can also print out your official documents and certificate of enrolment via mein campus.

You can also apply to FAU via campo.

www.campo.fau.de

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FAUcard

The FAUcard is a multifunction chip card that also acts as your student or doctoral candidate ID.

It combines the following functions: student or doctoral candidate ID, library card for the University Library, electronic purse and ID for electronic access control. The card will be sent to your German address approximately six weeks after you enrol at FAU.

Note that the FAUcard must be validated before it is used for the first time and at the beginning of each semester. You will need to use the validation stations at the University for this. If you want to use the payment function of the card, for example to pay for a meal at one of the University restaurants, you must add money to the card. You can use the cash-to-chip machines at the University for this.

More information on the FAUcard is available on the FAU website.

FAUmail

At FAU, each student receives their own e-mail address. You can use it after activation of your student user ID in IdM. You can access this mailbox using webmail at https://faumail.fau.de (German only) or by using e-mail programmes such as Outlook or Thunderbird.

If you do not want to use this address actively, you can also change the settings to have your e-mails forwarded to another address at the given URL.

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IdM

IdM is short for ‘Identity Management,’ the central user management system at FAU and the IdM portal is the first point of contact for managing your ‘digital identity.’ Via this website, you can manage your user ID which will also allow you to use other web services at the University such as StudOn, mein campus, and campo and obtain an overview of your personal user account and degree details. First semester students have to activate their user ID — which is on the information sheet from the Student Records Office and on your student ID card — via the URL given below:

www.fau.eu/idm

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Online catalogue (OPACPlus)

The online catalogue of the University Library includes the printed media of all libraries at FAU and allows access to all licensed e-media and databases. In addition, searches can be made in free data sources as well as in the Bavarian library catalogue B3Kat.  The catalogue shows the availability of the media, links to full texts and allows ordering and reserving media. Integrated in the catalogue is access to the library account, where borrowed media can be renewed.

In the online catalogue, you can also access the document delivery service FAUdok and interlibrary loan for literature that is not available at FAU.

Information on further services can be found on the University Library homepage.

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StudOn

StudOn is FAU’s platform for online learning and course management. Students can register for courses via StudOn and access or store seminar handouts, reading lists and general information. StudOn also allows direct exchange between students and lecturers in forums, chats and Wikis. StudOn is also used for online examinations. Students can log on with their University user account: www.studon.fau.de.

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UnivIS

UnivIS is short for University Information System. As the name already indicates, it is FAU’s central information system. It contains a directory of all people and institutions at FAU and information on current job offers.

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Video portal/online-lectures

The FAU video portal (www.fau.tv) offers a wide variety of videos of lectures or seminars and other videos relevant to your studies. Over 1400 ‘courses’ are currently online.

The video portal was developed in-house by the Erlangen Regional Computing Centre and can be accessed via a web browser without any additional software. Limited access content can at present only be viewed via the video portal in connection with StudOn.

The freely-accessible videos are usually also available via Apple Podcast.

campo
The online administration portal ‘campo’ is the virtual counterpart to the Student Records Office and the Examinations Office (see Examinations/Examinations Office). It includes functions for student, examination, and class administration. You can manage your personal account details, register for examinations and obtain an overview of your grades via www.campus.fau.de. You can also print out your official documents and certificate of enrolment via mein campus. You can also apply to FAU via campo. www.campo.fau.de
FAUcard
The FAUcard is a multifunction chip card that also acts as your student or doctoral candidate ID. It combines the following functions: student or doctoral candidate ID, library card for the University Library, electronic purse and ID for electronic access control. The card will be sent to your German address approximately six weeks after you enrol at FAU. Note that the FAUcard must be validated before it is used for the first time and at the beginning of each semester. You will need to use the validation stations at the University for this. If you want to use the payment function of the card, for example to pay for a meal at one of the University restaurants, you must add money to the card. You can use the cash-to-chip machines at the University for this. More information on the FAUcard is available on the FAU website.
FAUmail
At FAU, each student receives their own e-mail address. You can use it after activation of your student user ID in IdM. You can access this mailbox using webmail at https://faumail.fau.de (German only) or by using e-mail programmes such as Outlook or Thunderbird. If you do not want to use this address actively, you can also change the settings to have your e-mails forwarded to another address at the given URL.
IdM
IdM is short for ‘Identity Management,’ the central user management system at FAU and the IdM portal is the first point of contact for managing your ‘digital identity.’ Via this website, you can manage your user ID which will also allow you to use other web services at the University such as StudOn, mein campus, and campo and obtain an overview of your personal user account and degree details. First semester students have to activate their user ID — which is on the information sheet from the Student Records Office and on your student ID card — via the URL given below: www.fau.eu/idm Display external contentAt this point content of an external provider (source: YouTube) is integrated. When displaying, data may be transferred to third parties or cookies may be stored, therefore your consent is required.You can find more information and the possibility to revoke your consent in our privacy policy.I agree
Online catalogue (OPACPlus)
The online catalogue of the University Library includes the printed media of all libraries at FAU and allows access to all licensed e-media and databases. In addition, searches can be made in free data sources as well as in the Bavarian library catalogue B3Kat.  The catalogue shows the availability of the media, links to full texts and allows ordering and reserving media. Integrated in the catalogue is access to the library account, where borrowed media can be renewed. In the online catalogue, you can also access the document delivery service FAUdok and interlibrary loan for literature that is not available at FAU. Information on further services can be found on the University Library homepage.
StudOn
StudOn is FAU’s platform for online learning and course management. Students can register for courses via StudOn and access or store seminar handouts, reading lists and general information. StudOn also allows direct exchange between students and lecturers in forums, chats and Wikis. StudOn is also used for online examinations. Students can log on with their University user account: www.studon.fau.de.
UnivIS
UnivIS is short for University Information System. As the name already indicates, it is FAU’s central information system. It contains a directory of all people and institutions at FAU and information on current job offers.
Video portal/online-lectures
The FAU video portal (www.fau.tv) offers a wide variety of videos of lectures or seminars and other videos relevant to your studies. Over 1400 ‘courses’ are currently online. The video portal was developed in-house by the Erlangen Regional Computing Centre and can be accessed via a web browser without any additional software. Limited access content can at present only be viewed via the video portal in connection with StudOn. The freely-accessible videos are usually also available via Apple Podcast.