Regional University Computing Center Kaiserslautern-Landau

Rangee - Video conferencing

General information on the conference services available at RPTU (in particular Jitsi, Zoom, DFNconf, Skype for Business) can be found on the Conference Services page.

Always start web conferences locally

To achieve good quality for video conferences, use the local Chromium browser to participate in web conferences.

You can access the website of the respective video conferencing service directly via the Rangee start menu. Click on the Rangee logo in the bottom left corner and select "Chromium browser" and e.g. "OpenOLAT".

If you have started a FreeRDP session, for example to work on the terminal server, make sure that you do not open the browser in the FreeRDP session, but via the Rangee start menu.
If you do not see the Rangee logo in the bottom left corner, first switch off the full screen mode with the key combination <Ctrl><Alt><Enter >. (see General operation - Switching full screen mode)

Have you received an invitation email for a video conference?

Then proceed as follows:

Opening an invitation email in the Chromium browser

Click on the Rangee symbol at the bottom left and select the "Chromium browser" folder to start the browser locally(!).

  • If you use Outlook/Exchange, select "Outlook" under "Chromium browser".
  • If you use Communigate, select "Communigate" under "Chromium browser".

The corresponding webmail portal will open (email.uni-kl.de or mail.uni-kl.de).

Log in there and open the invitation email.

Follow the invitation link

You will find a link in the body of the e-mail that you can use to take part in the web conference.

  • Jitsi, BigBlueButton or DFNconf:

    Click on the link in your invitation email. The Jitsi, BBB or DFNconf conference will then open directly in your Chromium browser.
    If a corresponding prompt appears, allow Chromium to access your microphone and camera.
  • MS Teams:

Click on the link in your invitation email to join the MS Teams meeting.

Allow MS Teams to open the xdg-open application by clicking the "xdg-open" button.

MS Teams will then open and you will join the meeting.

  • Zoom:
    Click on the link in your invitation email to join the Zoom meeting.

Allow Zoom to open the xdg-open application by pressing the "xdg-open" button.

Zoom will then open and you can join the meeting.

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