In the first-come, first-served procedure, participants are selected according to the date and time of registration ("first come, first served"). As an option, "provisional enrolment" can be selected, where the teacher decides who is actually accepted. If necessary, you can also specify whether a waiting list should be kept, from which students are automatically moved up.

Advantage: simple. There is nothing to do except indicate the maximum number of participants and, if applicable, the above options when registering for the course.

Disadvantage: unfair. Students who can be online when the course is activated have an advantage. Students with a poor internet connection, with supervision tasks or students who are working at the time are at a disadvantage. Students in their first semester in particular, who may not receive their access data until much later, are at a clear disadvantage.

Students must be given the opportunity to take all the necessary courses for a module.

Registration for a course is linked to conditions such as the semester or subject of study. If these conditions are not met, selection by first-come, first-served or lottery is not possible:

Advantage: Students from higher semesters can be given a "right of first refusal" to complete their degree programme on time. Students from the "main degree programme" can be given preference.

Disadvantage: The conditions must be clearly formulated and technically feasible.

Persons with the specified conditions, e.g. semester or subject, are given preferential treatment. This option can be useful in connection with the lottery procedure

In some courses, there are discrepancies between the number of students registered on StudIP and the number of students actually taking part, which is often significantly lower. This makes it difficult to plan and organise the courses and costs time and money. In addition, interested students may not be able to take part as it is not possible to move up. This general problem arises from the university's enrolment procedures for courses. There are several ways to achieve an improvement under the given conditions:

Only provisional registration is possible in StudIP. A final registration is made by the lecturers. After a reasonable period of time, the lecturers will ask for re-registering students by email to confirm whether they have actually taken part. If not, the students are asked to deregister again

Advantage: Legally unproblematic, as the action remains with the students.

Disadvantage: Not necessarily effective, as some students do not read their university emails.

Only provisional registration is possible in StudIP. A final registration is made by the lecturers after participation in a preliminary meeting. This has the advantage that students must attend a preliminary meeting and thus show their serious interest in the course. Students who do not attend the preliminary meeting are not finally registered by the lecturers.

Advantage: The period between the preliminary meeting and the start of the course can be chosen in such a way that targeted preparation for the course is possible.

Disadvantage: Teachers must plan and organise a preliminary meeting and manage the list of participants manually. The provisional registration must be entered when registering for the course. In StudIP, the registration modality should also be indicated in order to avoid legal problems. A corresponding text that makes the conditions of participation transparent should be included when registering for the course.

Students cannot deregister themselves. This may create a moral hurdle to registering for the event "just like that".

Advantage: simple
Disadvantage: Not necessarily effective, as the problem may still exist. Participants cannot deregister themselves, which can also lead to more work for the teachers.