29.01.2026 –, EDU STAGE Sprache: English
One of the challenges schools face due to the increasing use of digital applications is the associated user management. The City of Cologne, the school authority, offers its schools a service that automatically creates and manages user accounts based on data from the school administration software SchILD. With a focus on the service's architecture, this presentation describes how a school authority can support digitalization in education by relieving teachers of this burden through automation.
Jochen Ortling arbeitet seit 2011 im Produktbereich "Schulen" der Dienststelle "Digitalisierung und Informationstechnik" der Stadt Köln. Neben der Bereitstellung zentraler Fachanwendung für die Verwaltungsbereiche der Schulen, bemüht er sich zusammen mit seinem Team und dem städtischen Supportpartner Netcologne-ITS um die Weiterentwicklung der IT-Infrastruktur & -Services für die pädagogische Arbeit an Kölner Schulen.
Jochen Ortling has been working since 2011 in the “Schools” product area of the City of Cologne’s Department of Digitalization and Information Technology. In addition to providing central specialized applications for the administrative departments of schools, he and his team, together with the city’s support partner NetCologne ITS, focus on the ongoing development of IT infrastructure and services for pedagogical work in Cologne’s schools.