In our wiki for lecturers, you will find a compilation of all important information for the start of the semester.

In the wiki for lecturers, lecturers in hte Master's program "Sociology - European Societies" will find comprehensive information on, among other things

• Performance requirements per module 
• Guidelines for active and regular participation 
• Guidelines for module examinations 
• Information on oral examinations 
• Information on Master's theses 
• Start of semester

Campus Management:

Newly hired faculty members will receive an email after signing their contract with a link to activate their FU account online. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your departmental office or the FUB-IT user service at service@fu-berlin.de. 

You can use this FU account to log in to Campus Management (CM) and Blackboard. 

Please note: To use Campus Management, your account will usually be activated by the key user of your department after you have signed your contract. If this has not been done for some reason, you will not have access to CM even if you have a valid FU account.  For more information, see the FAQ “I don't have access to Campus Management despite having a valid FU account.” 

For lecturers without an employment contract, the key users of the department will activate the corresponding FU account for use of CM. See also the FAQ “How do lecturers obtain an FU account?”

Initial telephone and personal support is provided locally by the PolSoz departmental office, which can be reached by email at studienbuero@polsoz.fu-berlin.de and by phone at 030 838-71822 and/or -63929.

Technical support is also available from the Campus Management Hotline at cm-hotline@fu-berlin.de and/or by calling 838-77770.

There is a very helpful Blackboard Wiki that addresses many questions and answers about Blackboard, such as

• I can't see my course on Blackboard - what can I do? 
• Students can't see my course on Blackboard - what can I do? 
• How do external sutdents get access to my Blackboard course? 
• How do I manually add students to my Blackboard course? 
• How can I merge two Balckboard courses into one? 

Unforatuntely, this Wiki is only in German so far.Therefore, please reach out to the teaching planning team of the Institute at lehresoz@polsoz.fu-berlin.de if you need help.

In the wiki, you also find the contact information for support.

In addition to the contact information provided on the IT service portal, you can also reach them as follows: 

Phone: (0)30/838-54900
Email: support@cedis.fu-berlin.de

You may not have the necessary permissions to access Campus Management. Please contact the responsible key users in the Department of Political Science and Sociology:

Lecturers and other external instructors require an FU account to use email or systems such as Campus Management, Blackboard, and Webex.

They will be created as lecturers in the system by the key users of the respective department and will then also receive an email with a link to activate their account. If this has not happened by the start of your employment, please contact the key users in your department.

For the PolSoz department, your contact persons are:

Yes, you may accept external students from other institutes/departments/universities or exchange students in your course, provided there are still places available in your course. However, priority is always given to students enrolled in the degree program in which your course is offered. 

External participants cannot be registered in Campus Management. At the end of the course, you will provide them with a signed certificate of achievement to submit to the relevant examination office. Students are responsible for submitting the correct certificate of achievement to you for signature. 

For your information: The relevant forms for students within the department and exchange students of the Master's progrm "Sociology - European Societies" can be found here.

Teaching evaluations are conducted at the department every three semesters for the individual programs. The Quality Assurance Department informs the respective instructors and oversees the implementation. Instructors receive a QR code and a link that lead to the evaluation.

Unscheduled (voluntary) course evaluation 

If you would like to voluntarily evaluate one of your courses outside of the regular evaluations, please contact Quality Assurance in good time (before the scheduled evaluation period).

More information and the relevant deadlines can be found on the department's quality assurance page:

https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/qualitaetssicherung/lehrevaluationen/index.html

Contact persons at the department 

Marvin Momberg, Verena Schulze-Knoll und Jennifer Nickel

Email: leva@polsoz.fu-berlin.de

For courses that can be booked via Campus Management, grades and attendance confirmation are issued by the respective instructors via the SAP system.

To register in the SAP system, you need an account at Freie Universität Berlin. This also applies to all lecturers. For more information, see the FAQ "FU Account for Lecturers". 

Examination results and attendance certificates in paper form are only issued to students who cannot (yet) be managed via the SAP system: 

• Exchange students 
• Students from other universities 
• Students in non-modularized degree programs

To issue examination or attendance certificates, please use the examination and/or attendance certificate (paper form).

With the new Panopto platform, lecturers and staff can record, manage and publish video and audio files for teaching purposes. Find out more here.

The institute has a license for Unipark.

If necessary, please contact the institute's administrative office.