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This page is a collection of system help and guidelines about Aalto University learning and Student Information systems used by teachers, students and staff.

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Support and training for teachers


General guidelines and policies
System instructions

General system information and webinars

Learning management systems

Student information system

  • Sisu
    The student information system.

Collaborative whiteboard

  • Flinga
    Flinga whiteboard for collaborative knowledge building and Flinga Wall for collecting and voting ideas.
  • Presemo
    A tool for instant feedback during a lecture or online session.

Video and online meeting/collaboration


Is it Panopto, Zoom or Teams?

Learning Assessment and Online Examinations

  • EXAM
    The EXAM system in use at Aalto University is a modern electronic examination software developed and used by a consortium of Finnish Universities.
  • Using MyCourses for examination
    Electronic examinations can be done also in MyCourses.
  • Rethinking exams- rules and legislation 03/2021 webinar-slides
  • Gradescope
    Streamline grading and feedback in digital and paper-based assignments and exams.

Originality Check

  • Turnitin
     The tool for teachers and students to check the similarity of submitted text compared to text in the comparison database. Turnitin is also available to students during their theses writing process. The tool is available via MyCourses.

Feedback

  • Course feedback
    The Course feedback system collects course feedback.
  • Presemo
    A tool for instant feedback during a lecture or online session.
  • MyCourses
    MyCourses tools to get feedback during a course.

Mobility

  • MoveON
    The platform to manage international mobility and partnership processes.

Time management and planning

  • Asio
    Space reservations (booking.aalto.fi) and University course planning and scheduling system for Learning Services (LES).
  • Vihta
    The time-booking system for the staff of LES.

Other systems

  • eAge / Nintex
    Electronic services (Sähköinen asiointi) .
  • Opi Analyzer
    The reporting tool directed towards the specialist staff of Study and Student Services.
  • AIMO
Projects

Latest posts in the Opit blog

Artificial-intelligence-based text generators and education
iStock image from Pixabay.

Text-producing artificial intelligence (AI), Chat GPT in particular, has been a hot topic of discussion in the media as well as among teachers and educators the last

Importing Grades from Excel to MyCourses

Excel is a popular tool among teachers for organizing and editing grades. It offers several custom calculation options and is relatively easy to use. MyCourses allows teachers to export grades, but

Best practices for creating engaging online learning videos: Do’s and don’ts

Since the Lumière brothers’ invention of movies in 1895, moving images have been utilized for educational purposes. However, with the advent of technology and the rise of AI-driven platforms like Netflix

From teacher to teacher

Henrik Wallén dives deep into MyCourses’s Gradebook and tells how he uses the calculation feature and the csv file to export final grades to SISU.

How to utilize psychologists´ support for your teaching?

Teachers and programme leaders: did you know that Aalto’s study psychologists and the career counselling psychologists provide support also for teachers? Ask ideas and viewpoints how increase student wellbeing in your

Visualise your lectures using lightboard

A lightboard is a powerful tool for online teaching as it allows instructors to easily create high-quality video content for their students. The lightboard is essentially a transparent board that is

MyCourses’ Calendar updates and fixes

The MyCourses’ Calendar displays not only information about the activities on your MyCourses’ pages, such as assignment deadlines, but it also shows all course events as described on Sisu. Responding to

Get machine-generated captions within seconds for your videos

Besides improved accessibility for people who are deaf or hard of hearing captions on videos increased engagement and watch time, as people tend to watch videos longer when they have captions

Need for a virtual tour or interactive media?
Aalto University is piloting the easy-to-use ThingLink service for creating virtual tours and interactive media.
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