IT in Schools

One tap on the iPad – and students in Bremen are in the city library. A well-thought-out interaction between school IT, data protection, and pedagogy creates direct access to extracurricular educational resources. A library card can be more than just a piece of paper – it is a key to education, participation, and reading promotion. [...]

In recent years, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MBJS) in Brandenburg has continuously modernized the digital school landscape. The focus is on specialized administrative procedures for school management, made available to schools in Brandenburg through a dedicated school portal. The key component for centrally managing identities in these applications is the identity management [...]

In this guest article, we would like to report on how we have future-proofed the IT infrastructure of around 50 schools in Oldenburg, how we have overcome challenges and which solutions have convinced us, and which exciting projects still lie ahead of us. As the school IT department for the city of Oldenburg, we look [...]

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, [...]

Digital education needs a reliable technical foundation - and this can only be created if you have it in your own hands. For us in Lübeck, it was therefore clear that our school IT must be centrally manageable, secure and independent of large IT groups. This is precisely why we rely on the open source [...]

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 […]