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Latest posts in the Opit blog
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. |
Present for you from Oasis
Everything starts when we stop. May you have calmness of mind to look at the trees, the stars, the sky and feel the ground. Or |
Podcasting for teaching
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More than a course: experience the ONL223 community and approach
Source: ONL website Aalto University has participated for several years in the Open Networked Learning course sending in teachers and staff members as attendees as well as facilitators and |
Anonymous assessment – why and how?
It has been shown that a student’s prior good or poor performance might affect when grading unrelated assignments. The effect is called halo effect and it is one of the unconscious |
A new template in blogs.aalto.fi service
Blogs.aalto.fi is a service for all Aalto users. Anyone can create a blog related to studying, teaching or research. The blog can also be used for group work, as a learning |
Importing materials from one course to another in MyCourses, new features
It is easy to import activities and materials from a MyCourses workspace to another. You can import activities, like assignments, quizzes and recourses like files and folders. Import has a couple |
As easy as chalk on a blackboard – Using the Blackboard 2.0 for drawing, writing and presenting in a lecture hall
Blackboard 2.0 is a digital tool developed at Aalto’s Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis that simulates a real life blackboard with extra features that are useful |