What happens after I registered?

You registered using your @st.ovgu.de email adress, let us assume assume john.doe@st.ovgu.de. We take the part before the @ as your user name, so here john.doe.

Directly after registering you will receive an email with a link. When you follow that link you can set your password. From that point on, you can log in with your user name or email adress.

All participants of the course have to be assigned to an exercise group. After first logging in and setting your password, you will be asked to choose an exercise group.

{::comment} choose an exercise group.

The actual assignment du exercise groups happens only after the first lecture when everyone hat a fair chance of choosing their favourite group. {::/comment}

Before the lecture starts, you will not see anything else beside this page!

Further Questions

I forgot my password…

When Logging in follow the link Forgot your password (below) and enter your email adress, e.g. john.doe@st.ovgu.de, or your user name, e.g. john.doe. – You will receive an email similar to the one you received when creating your account. With that you can reset your password.

The link in the mail is not working…

Those links are only valid for a limited amount of time (currently 20 minutes). This applies to the link you receive after registering as well as every link you receive when resetting your password.

After that you need to get a new email. Proceed as if you had forgotten your password (see above).

Do I receive any further information via mail?

You will not receive any automatically generated emails except those for confirming your registration and when resetting your password.

Over the semester the website will be updated and new contents will be published (e.g. lecture slides, assignments, corrections, …). We try to mark updates as clearly as possible — but ultimately you are responsible for staying up-to-date.

Should we require to contact you personally, we will only use your @st.ovgu.de email adress. Please ensure that you check this inbox regularly, even if you use another email as primary account.