Karlsruhe

The software, which is presented here, is generally available to our students, employees, staff and lecturers. Details regarding the use of the software can be found in the description. We always assume that compliance with the specific legal licenses for the respective software is a prerequisite.

LibreOffice is a powerful office suite which is mostly compatible with other office software providers such as Microsoft Office. LibreOffice is a free software, which means it is free to download, free to use and free to distribute. You do not have any administrative burden with regard to licensing, can use the programmes freely for every private, educational or commercial purpose and share the software with your family, friends, fellow students etc.

Moreover, it is "less chatty" than other Office products - in particular, it does not contain any integrated Cloud "services" - however it is also (slightly) less powerful and has a smaller Distribution capacity than MS Office. Our opinion: Try it out! For everyday student life and also for study work and bachelor's theses, it is more than sufficient. The content is what counts anyway ;-)

Additional information and the download can be found at:

http://de.libreoffice.org

Office 365 is a rental software (software subscription) from Microsoft, which contains Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, Access and Lync. The software may be installed on up to 5 PCs or MACs, updates are included automatically and cannot be avoided or obviated.

Students, who are

enrolled for study courses at the DHBW Karlsruhe, have the possibility to procure the free Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus for a rather small provisioning fee. The software package can be utilised for 365 days following activation, after which it expires automatically. When you are still enrolled at the DHBW Karlsruhe after the expiry date, then you can still purchase the package again. This offer is only valid for enrolled students at the DHBW Karlsruhe. In order to authenticate yourself, utilise your normal login data which you also use for logging in to the PC rooms or in the WLAN at the DHBW. Windows 10 Edu is also free of charge for students.

For staff

who have the Microsoft Home Use Program, these staff in eligible companies will receive a discount on their annual subscription to Office 365 Home or Office 365 Personal, which they can therefore use on their own personal devices. An Office 365 annual subscription provides you with premium versions of Office applications on all your devices (Office 365 Home - up to 6 people, Office 365 Personal - 1 person). The offer comprises monthly exclusive feature updates and 1 TB of cloud storage per person. Create, use, organise and protect everything which is important for you. Utilise Office 365 to create perfect documents, spreadsheets and presentations with intelligent and always up-to-date functions. Securely synchronise and share data, all in the premium applications which you know and trust.

Office 365 for students  

Office 365 for staff members

MATLAB is a specialised programming environment for numerical calculations and visualisation. It has been available within the valid framework agreement for all universities in Baden-Württemberg and for the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University as a possibility for all staff members, all students and also for the active external lecturers at the DHBW to utilise MATLAB, Simulink and many additional toolboxes and to use the MATLAB-Simulink products from MathWorks on their own computers free of charge.

Registration is described in the following instructions. To be able to obtain, install and activate the software, there is a necessity that you utilise your DHBW email address:

•   Students xxx@student.dhbw-karlsruhe.de
•   Lecturers xxx@edu.dhbw-karlsruhe.de
•   Staff members xxx@dhbw-karlsruhe.de

Install MATLAB Simulink and all the toolboxes you desire and then activate the software via the installation programme. Download will be executed via your MathWorks Account.

A detailed description of the installation, including, screenshots, can be found in the official installation guide for MATLAB Simulink at www.mathworks.de. In case of questions regarding the operation and utilisation of the software, please research the (very good) training course material and tutorials on the homepage of MathWorks; DHBW Karlsruhe staff cannot offer any support for this.

Note: The licence generally runs until May of each year. Should you receive a message about the expiry of your licence during your subscription period, then please proceed as described below: (here an example for 2014).

Matlab Portal for DHBW in the MathWorks state licence for Baden-Württemberg

•   Provides access for single users
•   Provided and maintained by MathWorks
•   Minimal IT time and effort for software implementation and support
•   User self-administration and self-service
•   Centralised location for MATLAB resources
•   User authentication via email

https://de.mathworks.com/academia/tah-portal/dhbw-30886933.html

Using Beck Online from the DHBW network is possible as free of charge and without registration.

Free registration is required outside the DHBW network: Connect to your University of Applied Sciences with the VPN and open the page https://beck-online.beck.de/login. Click on "Register for free": (Should you have already created a personal account at your University of Applied Sciences, then you can login directly with your user name and password).

Enter your personal data, select a user name and click on "Register for free". Please note that you have to enter a valid email address for your University of Applied Sciences, to which you have access to.

After submitting the form, you will receive an email with a link to activate your access. Please note that the link contained in the email will lose its validity after 24 hours. Here you can assign a password and can then use the access immediately as long as you are still connected to your University of Applied Sciences.

Connect to your University of Applied Sciences with the VPN and open the page

F*EX (Frams' Fast File EXchange) is a service which is intended to exchange large (very large, huge, gigantic, ...) data files from user A to user B. A registration at BelWü is required for the sender i.e. the sender must be a staff member*, lecturer* or student* of the DHBW. The sender uploads the data file to the F*EX server via an upload form and the recipient automatically receives a notification email with the download URL. As soon as the data file has been (!) successfully downloaded once, then it is deleted from the F*EX server again. The data file will remain on the server for a maximum of 10 days and is subsequently automatically deleted. The whole procedure may look like something out of the last century, however it works well - especially for very, very large data files.

F*EX (Frams' Fast File EXchange)