The Paderborn University and Teaching Assistance System(PAUL) is responsible for online applications, course registration and exam registration. After successful application to the university, you can create a PAUL account using your IMT-TAN (see IMT subsection). You use this to register for courses during the registration phases. The examination registration phase then follows during the course of the semester, during which you can register for your desired examinations. As every student can withdraw from the examination up to one week before the examination date without giving reasons, this step is also completed with just a few clicks via PAUL.

PAUL also offers a number of organisational features: For example, a timetable is automatically generated for you once you have successfully registered for the courses. The internal messaging system also offers lecturers the opportunity to announce schedule changes or publish lecture material. To make sure you don't miss anything in this regard, we recommend activating forwarding to your university e-mail address under My data.

You will come across these two offices from time to time during your studies.

The Registrar's Office is your contact for enrolments and transfers, certificates, re-registration, applying for semesters off and exmatriculation.

The Examinations Office, on the other hand, deals with separate examination registrations, transcripts of records, registration and submission of theses, certificates and diplomas.

The Electrical Engineering student council will help you prepare for exams by lending out exams, supervising the Elabor and organising the popular festive activities among students. There is also always the opportunity to meet new fellow students in the student council room (P1.5.16.1).

The Student Advisory Service, on the other hand, is responsible for organisational and legal matters relating to your studies. So if you have any questions about examination modalities or the organisation of your semester plan, just drop by during the consultation hours.

The Centre for Information and Media Technology(IMT) manages the university's central IT services. To be able to use these services without restrictions, you should first create an IMT account. For a detailed description of the services, see the next point.

Once you have successfully registered with IMT, you can activate and manage a range of services. Firstly, you have access to a 200MB IMAP mailbox with your university email address. You can use this e-mail service with various e-mail programmes or simply via your browser.

To be able to use the library's many online resources, you must first have access to the Virtual Private Network(VPN). You can obtain the certificate for this in the IMT user administration.

The same applies to accessing the university's WLAN network. This can be obtained either unencrypted using the IMT login(webauth) or encrypted using an IMT certificate(eduroam).

Our institute provides students with pool rooms and a learning centre with appropriate software equipment (e.g. MATLAB). To gain access to these rooms, you must apply for an access card with your existing IMT login from the Computer Science Computer Operations Group (IRB).

In addition, all students have the opportunity to obtain licences for Microsoft products free of charge. To do this, the Microsoft DreamSpark service must be activated in the IMT user administration.