Karl Franzens Universität Graz Success Story

Karl-Franzens University of Graz Ensures Academic Quality with Solutions from OpenText

Process-oriented content management ensures continuous governance of the assessment process.

"We have achieved the maximum goal of our project: guaranteed fair examinations and assured quality of the academic output."

— DR. WOLFGANG WASSERMANN, MANAGER, KFU GRAZ IT DEPARTMENT

Challenge

• Lengthy plagiarism checks
• Quality assurance for academic output
• Preserving the university's reputation

Solution

• OpenText Content Server
• OpenText Email Management for Microsoft Exchange
• OpenText Web Site Management
• OpenText Workflow

Value

• Continuous governance of the assessment process
• Time saving through automating key parts of the process
• Transparency for students and lecturers
• Significant cost savings through using the existing ECM infrastructure
• Guaranteed fair examinations and assured academic quality

About the Organization

Karl-Franzens University (KFU) of Graz has been committed to academic ideals since 1585. These ideals are the basic conditions for producing excellent graduates, researchers, and research results. Over the course of the university's centuries-old history, important figures have shaped the academic life of the university; for example, Ernst Mach and Nobel Prize winner Erwin Schrödinger. With over 30,000 students, the university is the second-largest university in Austria. Each year, over 2,600 students graduate from one of the more than one hundred various majors offered.

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