Pilot project for the digital workplace of the teachers starts

The pilot project for the digital workplace of the teachers has started. The open source solution DPHOENIXSUITE is another important module of the digital educational platform, with which the state also relieves schools from administrative, technical and data protection tasks.

for the project Digital Bildungs platform has been well progressed. Central building blocks such as learning management systems ( Moodle , itslearning ) and safer instant messenger (Threema) are successful. In a next step, a pilot project for the digital workplace of the teachers based on an open source solution, DPhoenixsuite . "With this piloted pilot, we provide our teachers a service for email, data storage and office tools," says Cultural State Secretary Sandra Boser and adds: "This is how we want to offer the teachers a comprehensive digital workplace-and that is: all the data always remains in Germany." The State representative for data protection and information security (Lfdi) is also closely integrated into the process and welcomes this procedure.

The DPHOENIXSUITE is a product of the IT service provider Dataport . The data center of Dataport-just like that of the IT partners involved-is operated in Germany. Dr. Johann Bizer, CEO of Dataport, says: “Schools need a modern, reliable and crisis-resistant equipment with information technology. Last but not least, this has shown us in the past few years in pandemic, in which school operations without digitization would have been very difficult to maintain. That the state of Baden-Württemberg decided that the open source solution DPhoenixsuite for the digital workplace in one To test pilots is an important step in promoting the digitization of schools under the sign of digital sovereignty. ”

Teachers of administrative, technical and data protection tasks relieve

The teachers in Baden-Württemberg therefore get another option for safe business communication. You can also use applications for word processing, spreadsheet or a tool for creating presentations. The DPHOENIXSUITE also offers data storage for saving, sharing and mobile access to files. "This is another important module in the context of our digital educational platform. With this we can not only provide powerful applications for everyday school life, but also relieve schools and their teachers from administrative, technical and data protection tasks," says State Secretary Boser.

until the DPHOENIXSUITE can be used across the board, but now the pilot must first be successful - including its evaluation. The evaluation decides whether the tried -and -tested solution based on the DPHOENIXSUITE meets expectations and needs and provided all teachers in public schools. The pilot project is expected to run until the end of January 2023, followed by the evaluation. The project is divided into two phases: First, teachers from five to ten schools of all school types are activated for pilot operation. In a second phase, the pilot group is growing around teachers from another 20 to 30 schools. The users at the pilot schools already selected are supported with various accompanying measures in the course of the pilot project.

dphoenixsuite

The Tools DPHOENIX Mail (full-fledged e-charging service, works web-based [access via Internet browser] and includes standard functions of an email application) and DPHOENIX office (Office tools, works as a web office that can be created and edited online) Together with data storage. It supports real-time collaboration with several users and the individual processing of documents. In addition, microsoft formats and opendocument formats are supported.
bundled information about the DPHOENIXSUITE can also be obtained in our FAQ . The modules that we want to set up for the "digital workplace of the teachers" are so-called "groupware services" (email for teachers; ox), an online storage (Nextcloud) and Office programs (Collabora Online).

Dataport is an IT service provider for public administration and accompanies the public sector as a partner in all digitization projects from the first idea to safe operation. Dataport cooperates with providers from the region and supports the federal IT cooperation. Dataport is supported by the states of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein as well as by the municipal IT network of Schleswig-Holstein. Dataport has around 4,400 employees and generated sales of 1.04 billion euros in 2021.

Govdigital

About the membership of the state of Baden-Württemberg in the cross-border cooperative Govdigital by Bitbw is the possibility that the Ministry of Culture can move into the DPHOENIXSUITE. Govdigital was founded in December 2019 and is a nationwide cooperative to integrate innovative IT solutions in the public sector.

In addition to the approximately 1,500 schools that use the Moodle learning management system, around 1,200 schools have now accessed their access data for the ITSLEARNING learning management system (please note that the Main Personnel Council Gymnasium unfortunately a use is still rejected). In both of them is integrated in both with bigbluebutton a video conference tool, an online office application also integrated in Itslearning. This will also follow for Moodle. The safe Messenger Threema is in use for more than 50,000 teachers. The identity management system (IDAM) as a central introduction to the educational platform and right -wing management was transferred to a pilot after a successful test, was tried out and evaluated with schools. Next in the spring of 2023, the gradual provision of the IDAM for schools is now.

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