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Moodle 5.0 is coming! Update in November 2025
The new version Moodle 5.0 was officially released in April 2025. With this major release, the learning platform is more powerful, modern, and user-friendly than ever before. The update to Moodle 5.0 will take place at our university on November 24, 2025. We would like to inform you now about the planned steps and opportunities…
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Video series AI – Basics
A five-part video series explains key aspects of artificial intelligence in an easy-to-understand way. Topics range from technical basics and social issues to practical applications in organization, creativity, and research. The focus is not only on opportunities, but also on challenges: How can AI be used responsibly? What ethical, legal, and cultural issues do we…
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2FA/MFA mandatory for Microsoft365 services
Dear students, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a security method that provides an additional layer of protection for digital accounts and applications. Instead of relying on a single authentication element, such as a password, MFA combines multiple factors to ensure that only authorised users can access a system.You probably already use MFA for private purposes such…
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Unipark is back online
Unipark is now available again. Login and access to surveys are possible again. We apologize for any inconvenience caused to all users during the downtime. For any requests for deadline extensions, we hereby confirm that Unipark was unavailable from May 21 to June 5, 2025.
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Semester ticket starting from the summer semester 2025
Starting from the summer semester of 2025, students will use the Deutschlandticket via the S-Bahn Berlin app. The latest information is available on the central website for the semester ticket.
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HAWKI – AI at the HWR Berlin
The HWR Berlin would like to give all members of the university the opportunity to engage constructively with generative artificial intelligence. With the start of the winter semester 2024/2025, a new IT service, HAWKI, will initially be available to teachers and students, providing data protection-compliant access to the GPT-4o (Open AI) language model via the…
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Adobe Acrobat licences for professors
From the end of 2024, the HWR Berlin will provide professors with an Adobe Acrobat licence. This is initially a test phase to determine how many professors require an Adobe Acrobat licence. If you, as a professor, require a licence, please contact the IT hotline.
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New Certificate Provider
After Sectigo terminated the contract with GÉANT (European research and education network) unscheduled as of 01/2025, a new provider was found. DFN has commissioned HARICA, an established trust service provider from Greece, to provide browser-based certificates. HARICA is part of the Greek university network GUnet and has been supported in all operating systems and web…