Online platforms for organizing your studies
In addition to the services offered by the Student Records Office, there are several tools you can use to manage your studies online. You can create your schedule, see your grades, download seminar notes, manage e-mail, catch up on lectures on the video portal and much more.
Below is an overview of the student portals.
The online administration portal campo provides online access to services offered by the Student Records Office and the Examinations Office. It includes features for registering for modules and examinations. You can also use campo to manage your personal details, register for examinations and obtain an overview of your grades. You can also print out your official documents and certificate of enrollment via campo.
FAUbox lets you share multiple folders over all your desktop and mobile devices and therefore is one easy way to sync, share and backup files.
FAUdir is FAU’s central information system. It contains a directory of all people and institutions at FAU.
At FAU each student receives their own e-mail address. You can use it after activating your student user ID in IdM. You can access this mailbox (‘Faumail’) using webmail at or by using an e-mail program such as Outlook or Thunderbird.
If you do not want to actively use this address, you can also change the settings to have your e-mails forwarded to another address at the given URL. Instructions can be found here.
The FAU video portal (www.fau.tv) offers a wide variety of videos of lectures or seminars and other videos relevant to your studies. Over 1400 ‘courses’ are currently online.
The video portal was developed in-house by the Erlangen Regional Computing Centre and can be accessed via a web browser without any additional software. Limited access content can at present only be viewed via the video portal in connection with StudOn.
The freely-accessible videos are usually also available via Apple Podcast.
IdM, short for ‘Identity Management’, is the central user management system at FAU, and the IdM portal is the first point of contact for managing your ‘digital identity’. You IdM user account is used to access various web services at FAU, such as StudOn and campo.
Logging on to the IdM portal allows you to view your own user data and information about your degree program.
First semester students have to activate their user ID – which is on the information sheet from the Student Records Office and on your student ID card – via the URL provided.
In the catalog of the University Library you will find the complete holdings of all FAU libraries as well as media from other academic libraries in Bavaria. In addition to online resources such as e-books, e-journals, and databases licensed by the University Library, you can also access free online data sources via the catalog.
StudOn is FAU platform for online learning and course management. Students can register for courses via StudOn and access or store seminar handouts, reading lists and general information.
StudOn also allows direct exchange between students and lecturers in forums, chats and Wikis. StudOn is also used for online examinations. Students can log on with their University user account.