Fénix+ – Iscte-Informática

What do the colors mean when I swipe my Iscte card in an RFID card reader?

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Target Audience: Iscte-IUL Community

Answer/Solution:

Student attendance readers – These readers are located in classrooms, auditoriums and laboratories and are used to record students’ attendance at lessons.
- - Green – Attendance is recorded.
  - Red – Attendance is not recorded. The student must check that the card is associated and active.
Room access readers – These readers are located outside classrooms, auditoriums and laboratories and are used to open doors.
- - Green/Yellow – Authorized access. The door should open.
  - Red – Unauthorized access. The user must check that the card is associated and active.

I’m an external teacher. How do I get the Iscte card to use when opening classroom doors?

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Target Audience: Iscte-IUL External Teachers

Answer/Solution: Go to the IT Helpdesk to request a service card (not personalized).

I don’t have an Iscte student card. What should I do?

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Scope: Iscte-IUl Students

Students must apply for an Iscte student card at a CGD branch.

I don’t have/lost an Iscte card. How can I get a new card?

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Target Audience: Iscte-IUL Community

Answer/Solution: You should go to a CGD branch and apply for a new Iscte card.

I’ve been given a service card. How long is the card valid for?

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Target Audience: Iscte-IUL Emplyoees.

Answer/Solution: The card is temporary. You should go to a CGD branch to regularize the situation.

Which doors can I open with the Iscte card?

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Target Audience: Iscte-IUL Community

Answer/Solution:

Profile	Classrooms Auditoriums IT Labs	Meeting Rooms	Meal Rooms
Student	Yes*	Yes*	No
Teachers or Researchess	Yes	Yes*	Yes
Technicians	Yes*	Yes*	Yes

* Only when you book a room.

Do I have to swipe my card in the RFID student attendance reader in class?

PT

Target Audience: Iscte-IUL Students.

Answer/Solution:

- Yes, so that your class attendance can be counted.
- For class attendance to be counted correctly, the card must be swiped at the reader within the following period: 10 minutes before the start of the lesson until 10 minutes before the end of the lesson.

In other words:

- In a class from 8:00 to 9:30, the card must be swiped at the reader from 7:50 to 9:19;
- In a class from 9:30 to 11:00, the card must be swiped at the reader from 9:20 to 10:49.
- If the RFID reader’s LED turns green or yellow, the presence has been correctly recorded.
- If the LED turns red, the presence has not been correctly recorded.

Further Information: the RFID reader is located inside the classroom.

I’ve been given an Iscte card and it’s already registered in the system. How long does it take to become active?

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Target Audience: Iscte-IUL Community

Answer/Solution: As a rule, the Iscte card becomes active, i.e. can be used, after 5 minutes. If this doesn’t happen, there will be a new activation during the night.

What is a Shift?

Atualizado/Updated: 2025-05-23

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Scope: Iscte-IUL Community

A shift is a set of classes of a certain type (laboratory, theoretical, theoretical-practical, etc.) that take place during the teaching period of a curricular unit.

What is a Competence Unit?

Atualizado/Updated: 2025-05-23

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Scope: Iscte-IUL community

Name used when a teaching unit is created in the Fénix system, anchored in a scientific area and not yet part of a course syllabus.

When it is associated with a course syllabus, it is called a course unit.

What is a Curricular Unit?

Atualizado/Updated: 2025-05-23

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Scope: Iscte-IUL Community

According to Decree-Law no. 74/2006, it is a teaching unit with its own training objectives that is subject to administrative registration and assessment, translated into a final grade.

What is an Execution Unit?

Atualizado/Updated: 2025-05-23

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Scope: Iscte-IUL community

This refers to the execution of a course unit in a given academic period, when associated with a course syllabus.

For instance, the curricular unit “Introduction to Computer Science“, in the “1st semester“, of “1st curricular year” of the “Licenciatura em Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática“, off the acdemic year 2012/2013.

CGD gave me a service card (not personalized) and it doesn’t work. How can I solve the problem?

Atualizado/Updated: 2025-05-29

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Target Audience: Iscte-IUL Community

Answer/Solution:

- You should contact IT Helpdesk via the usual channels to request that the service card be associated with your user.

Additional Information: The door opening readers (placed outside the rooms) turn red, as do the attendance readers (placed inside the rooms).