IT in Schools

How can centralized school IT be successfully implemented in a rural district with 85 schools? The Wetteraukreis demonstrates how to establish a reliable digital infrastructure using UCS@school, clear processes, and a strong team. Key factors for success include automation, data protection, and direct on-site support. The Wetteraukreis is located north of Frankfurt am Main and, [...]

In the city of Flensburg, we have very successfully implemented a central school IT infrastructure in recent years and decisively advanced digitalization. By implementing UCS@school, we were able to create a central IT infrastructure that improves the learning environment for pupils and significantly reduces the administrative tasks of teachers. Turning a Patchwork into a Functioning [...]

Baden-Württemberg, one of Germany’s federal states, is launching the Digital Workspace for Teachers (Digitaler Arbeitsplatz für Lehrkräfte, DAP) based on Dataport’s dPhoenixSuite. As part of this suite, Nubus with UCS ensures smooth integration between the state’s external Identity and Access Management (IdAM) system and various applications. Baden-Württemberg’s digital education platform, SCHULE@BW, pulls together all the [...]

UCS@school 5.0 v5, the fifth patch level release of UCS@school 5.0, is now available, containing a number of fixes and improvements, some of which I would like to highlight.

Since our last blog article on the future role model, we have made significant progress in transforming the UCS role and rights model. The custom role design, currently under development, is taking shape. In this article, we would like to focus on introducing two promising new components: One of them allows you to evaluate the […]

We are pleased to announce the latest addition to the Univention ID Broker. KNOWBODY, a young and innovative company, now makes sexual education more interactive and personal than ever before. Using videos, short games, 3D animations and even voice messages, students are introduced to the topic in a unique way. Read on to learn more […]

From pandemics to corporate training, new technologies have transformed the landscape of learning dramatically in recent years. It is especially true in the area of learning platforms. Whether used for self-study or to coordinate homework, learning platforms have become an integral part of almost all educational institutions. Many UCS@school users rely on the well-known Open […]

The Univention ID Broker portfolio is constantly growing. We are pleased to introduce another great online platform that enables efficient digital learning in schools and an easy integration by USC@school users.

At Univention, we have been supporting school authorities and federal states, organizations from the private sector and public administration for many years with our powerful identity management. With its role and authorization concept, it is tailored to the needs of organizations with many users in a wide variety of contexts, whether schools, departments or branch […]

Using the UCS@school Kelvin REST API app, you can conveniently create, delete or modify UCS@school user and class objects via a REST interface. Unlike the import function and manual interventions via the web interface, it is less error-prone and can be addressed automatically.