HOWTO Create A New Course

send an E-Mail to electures@informatik.uni-freiburg.de with the following details:

  • Course name: i.e. "Algorithmentheorie", this will be used as the courses title in the Electures-Portal.
  • Semester: i.e. WS2007/08 or SS2008 for the Semester.
  • Name of the professors giving this course, i.e. Prof. Dr. Susanne Albers, Prof. Dr. Thomas Ottmann (give the full name of the professor)
  • What access should be allowed:
    • free
    • IP-Range of the University
    • IP-Range of the FAW
    • Browser based authentication (Which User and Password shall be set?)
  • Name of the directory on the server (under /scratch/lectures), i.e. Algorithmentheorie or MST/FestKoerperPhysik/
  • User or group putting the files in the eLectures-Portal, i.e. User: myfawaccount or group mylecturegroup
  • Useraccount(s) of the user(s) creating the entries on the electures-portal (electures-portal-account). I.e. myelecturesaccount. If you do not already have an electure account, you can register here.
Please pay attention to spell everything correctly.

You can copy and paste the following snippet into your e-mail:

Please create a new Electures-Course for me, using the following details:
Course Name: 
Semester: 
Professors: 
Access: ( ) free ( ) Uni-IP ( ) FAW IP ( ) Browser based Auth
Name of the Directory: 
Filesystem-Username:
Filesystem-Group:
Electures-Portal-User: 

The Server to access the filesystem is portal.informatik.uni-freiburg.de.

You should be able to mount this with the windows explorer as a Net-Drive: \\portal.informatik.uni-freiburg.de\lectures\. If that's not possible with your FAW Account, please contact your local system administrator.