Launch Event
At the beginning of your study programmes, we invite you to a launch event, which is offered either as in-class or online mode, depending on the programme you have chosen. This event offers you the opportunity to familiarise yourself not only with RPTU and DISC, but to also get to know the departmental and administrative coordinators of the institution and the study programmes as well as your peers. In addition, you will receive important information about the course of your programme.
At a later time your programme team will provide you with further details concerning the launch event of your programme.
Consultation & Support
We will support you throughout the course of your distance programme - from admission to graduation. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions or require a consultation. We are always happy to help!
Please contact your DISC contact persons for general programme questions.
The Subdivision Distance Student Affairs is happy to answer any specific questions related to study and examination matters.
Online-Campus
Each programme has an own virtual learning environment in our learning platform OpenOLAT that will accompany you for the duration of your course. Here, you can e.g. communicate with fellow students, access all important deadlines and dates in one central location, receive information from us during the semester, sign up for courses, upload the written assignments and much more.
Online Programme Management
In RPTU's online portal, you can use the QIS self-service function as an information portal that encompasses the following online services:
> Study administration:
Checking your re-registration status and fees paid/open, printing study certificates (e.g., data sheet, enrolment certificate).
> Exam administration:
Information on registered exam performances, display and printout of “Notenspiegel” (performances already taken with corresponding grade).
Study Costs
Payment by instalments: The semester fee can generally be paid in instalments if requested in due time.
Employer payment: In exceptional cases, you can request for each semester to make the invoice to the employer. Please get in touch with the contact persons of the respective degree programmes at DISC for more information.
For accepting your place and enrolling in your study course please note the information given in your admission letter.
From mid to late September you will receive by post your matriculation certificate together with your data sheet and student ID. On your data sheet you will find your initial password, which you need both to activate your RPTU account (see step 3) and to register in the QIS Online programme management (see step 5).
All students enroled at RPTU receive a student account of the Regional University Computing Center (Regionales Hochschul-Rechenzentrum Kaiserslautern-Landau, RHRZ), enabling them to use the online services provided by RPTU. Please activate your RPTU account once you receive your matriculation certificate (at the latest, at the beginning of the semester). The email address assigned to this account is required for the use of the Online-Campus as well as for any programme-related communication.
To activate your RPTU account you will need
- your matriculation number and
- your initial password (see data sheet).
Activation can be made here.
We will send you more detailed information about your (cohort) course in the Online-Campus (OpenOLAT) in time before the beginning of the semester. With this information you can enrol in the relevant course.
Please note that you register in the Online-Campus (OpenOLAT) with your RPTU email address to get access to your course.
In advance, you can get further information: Getting started with OpenOLAT
To use QIS you will have to
> install a VPN-Client, that is provided by RPTU and then
> register in QIS by using your matriculation number (=login/user name) and the initial password from your data sheet (see step 2).
If you have completed your registration in the Online-Campus (OpenOLAT) (see step 4), DISC will activate you for the first semester of your cohort course. Activation normally takes place not before October 1st and - at the latest - at the beginning of the lecture period (second half of October).