Tools & Data

The interconnection of analogue and digital tools in teaching and research is very complex and poses challenges in the fields of data privacy, copyright and data security. "Tools & Data" provides an overview of useful digital instruments, especially for the domains of sharing knowledge, communication, collaboration and reflection.

BURG Tools

BURGChat

BURGMeet

BURG Box

BURG Google Workspace

Contact

studiumdigitale(at)burg-halle.de

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Project Management

Franziska Eichhorn
eichhorn(at)burg-halle.de

 

Head of Project

Prof. Philip Gaißer (art department): gaisser(at)burg-halle.de
Prof. Jonas Hansen (design department): hansen(at)burg-halle.de

 

Funding

Studium Digitale – A program powered by the project „Hochschullehre durch Digitalisierung stärken“ funded by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre.

Vimeo

Vimeo is an US video portal that allows users to create, upload and share videos as well as create and participate in live digital events. Vimeo is mainly used by professional video makers, artists and companies. … more

Whatsapp

With Whatsapp, all the usual messenger functions can be used: Text and voice messages, sending small files, phone and video calls with up to 32 people, creating and deleting groups. Chats can be end-to-end encrypted. … more

Conference systems at BURG

The conference systems BurgMeet, GoogleMeet and Zoom offer different functions, limits and data security standards. This article provides an overview. … more

Telegram

Telegram is a free messenger that allows end-to-end encryption of individual chats.
Telegram offers standard messenger functions: Text and voice messages, sending smaller files, phone and video calls with up to 30 people, creating and deleting groups. … more

Instagram

Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms and serves to represent yourself and your work, products and companies or institutions to the public. Instagram offers different variations, such as posts, reels or stories. BURG also uses Instagram regularly, although there are a few things to keep in mind. … more

Overview of conference systems

The conference systems BurgMeet, GoogleMeet and Zoom offer different functions, limits and data security standards. This article provides an overview. … more

What is DSGVO?

Universities produce and process large amounts of personal data. This affects students, applicants, teaching staff, employees and external cooperation partners or lecturers. The aim of the DSGVO is to protect this data. … more

Google Meet

GoogleMeet is a video conference tool and part of Google Workspace, for which BURG owns a Google Pro account. Google assures a DSGVO-compliant handling of data and user data. This includes transparency in data processing, storing data within the EU, deleting data that is no longer required and secure encryption of data to protect it from external access. … more

BURG Google Workspace (G Suite)

The BURG owns a Google Pro account with access to Google Workspace where a variety of different services for digital collaboration can be found. For reasons of data economy, we recommend using services that are not provided by our own BURG Box. … more

BURG Box

BURG set up its own cloud on the Rechenzentrum server at https://box.burg-halle.de. The data is regularly backed up. The support provided by the data centre in case of problems is limited, however. The memory space includes 5 GB, but can be extended on request from the data centre. … more

How to store files safely

To avoid problems due to data theft or loss, it is important to know where which data can be stored. This guide provides an overview of the most common file locations and their level of security. … more

Signal

Signal is an open source messenger with end-to-end encryption. Messages and calls cannot be read or monitored. All standard messenger functions are available in Signal: Text and voice messages, phone and video calls with up to 40 people. … more

BURG Chat

BURGChat is a data protective open source solution that is hosted by the Rechenzentrum. … more

BURG Meet

Jitsi Meet is an open source project that allows easy and secure video conferences. … more

Zoom

Zoom is a popular, although controversial, tool that can be used to host limited video conferences for free. … more

Cyberattacks

There are plenty of reasons and opportunities for hackers to break into the digital BURG and steal data. They gain access through phishing, malware, locks that are easy to crack and inappropriate file storage. … more

Phishing / Spam Mails

Phishing emails are scams designed to steal personal data or install malware. … more

Lock your digital door - with passwords

Passwords are the lock to your digital door. Whether they come in the form of digits, patterns, finger or face verification; like doors in the physical world, they are the best protection against thieves. Any of these locks is better than having none at all. Nevertheless, who would lock your front door with a wooden bolt? Or give your key to everyone? Why should you do it with your digital front door? … more

Why software updates are important

Zombies are software programmes that are no longer updated and may contain security vulnerabilities. Systems not updated are at risk of malware such as a virus, trojans and ransomware. … more