Information concerning COVID-19 measures [January 27]
Dear students,
due to the rules for social distancing and the scarcity of rooms on campus that would enable us to adhere to these distancing rules to keep health risks to a minimum, the department will offer its courses in an online format in the summer semester 2021. We will stick to the days and time slots that are announced on PULS for each of the classes. In addition, each instructor will announce on PULS which online format they have chosen for the course: We will offer a mix of (a) asynchronous classes, where you have a relatively flexible time frame (usually a week or two weeks) to access material (such as texts or video lectures) for each lesson on moodle and complete weekly/biweekly assignments; (b) synchronous online classes, where meetings will be held via zoom (and these will always take place during the time slot allotted to the course on PULS); and (c) a mixed format with mostly asynchronous assignments, but occasional Zoom meetings (which will, again, take place during the time slots announced for the course on PULS).
When planning your courses, we thus suggest that you plan them according to the time slots given for each course on PULS and according to the online format that suits your needs and technical equipment. This also ensures that you have no collision in scheduling the synchronous zoom-meetings, as well as the occasional zoom-meetings of the mixed-format classes.
We hope that this helps you and all of us to plan the winter term with less stress and uncertainty, and we look forward to a new semester of teaching and learning together. Please also see our Code of Conduct and our Digital Code of Conduct .
If any questions or troubles concerning your studies or study life arise, do not hesitate to contact your student representatives via email at fsranglamuni-potsdamde or via our public Discord. Office hours only by appointment via Zoom or Discord (Mo- Fr). They are very happy to assist you however they can.
In addition, please refer to the central website posted below as a starting point for up-to-date information on the solutions that our university is developing regarding deadlines and the organization of examinations:
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/studium/corona
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/headlines-and-featured-stories/detail/2020-03-13-information-for-university-of-potsdam-members-regarding-the-coronavirus-sars-cov-2
Most importantly: stay healthy and stay safe!
