E-learning

Especially due to the Corona pandemic, many new online platforms have found their way into studies. There are a variety of free programs and platforms that enable video conferencing, voice chats and collaborative work.

• https://meet.lrz.de/ Jitsi hosted by LRZ, a tool for video conferencing. Anyone who has an LRZ ID (i.e. all students at the LMU) has access. All you need is a browser, Google Chrome is recommended
• https://discordapp.com/ free but proprietary software that allows chats and voice conferences and in which you can share your screen
• https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/ free license with campus login, enables video chats and screen sharing

Collaboration programs - enables real-time editing of texts:

• https://hackmd.io/ enables working together on documents: creating documents using Markdown. You can create a note by clicking on "use for free" at the bottom of the page
• https://demo.codimd.org/ exactly the same, just a different name. You create a new Nouit by clicking on "new guest note" in the top left
• https://cryptpad.fr/ enables working together on documents in the style of Word
• https://www.overleaf.com/ joint editing of LaTeX documents. An account has to be created
• https://docs.google.com/ requires Google account, enables collaborative work on documents, presentations and spreadsheets.
• https://git.fs.lmu.de/ enables collaborative work on projects with version control. The login works with the campus login

The university also offers the following for students:

• https://login.emedien.ub.uni-muenchen.de/ E-media access to the university library with which you can access e-books, magazines, databases, etc.
• https://syncandshare.lrz.de/login This cloud is available to every student at the LMU
• https://cloud.physik.lmu.de/index.php/login Physics students get 10 GB of free cloud storage on Nextcloud
• https://www.studisoft.de/ free use of Microsoft Office programs. Info here
• http://www.teams.portal.lmu.de/ web-based collaboration software that allows you to work together on content in groups. Info here
• there may be further offers at the faculties and at the LRZ: https://www.lrz.de/services/swbezug/lizenzen/

There are also many Whatsapp and Telegram groups managed by the students themselves, Discordchannel, Slack-Channel (for computer scientists) and other communication platforms that serve the exchange. We have access to some of them. If you want to be added, contact us at gaf@fs.lmu.de with subject: subject and semester.
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