Sisu HELP

[in Finnish]

Date for version installation: 2 May 2022

The short summary below describes the changes introduced in Sisu’s new version from the viewpoint of Aalto University’s operations.
The version introduces improvements and new features to Sisu’s student, teacher and administrative staff interfaces.

Funidata is currently developing Sisu’s functionalities for Open University as well.

New features and improvements

Students

  • Rights to study are grouped under headlines Degree education, Open university education, Other non-degree education.
  • The course search in student's user interface has been made more accessible.

Teachers

  • The code of the courses on the My Teaching tab acts as a link to the course brochure.
  • Quotas are displayed on the Registered students tab of the course implementations. Quotas are not yet in use at Aalto University and should not be added to implementations.

  • When selecting students over others or marking them as rejected in a course implementation, it is no longer mandatory to give justifications.

  • Atteinment date for implementations is by default the last day of the course in Sisu
  • Assessment by csv import is possible using the English date format (e.g. 7 Apr 2022)

Administrative staff

  • Language of the completed studies (study module, course, assessment item) can be modified through students' completed studies
  • Students' rights to study are grouped under headlines Degree education, Open university education, Other non-degree education
  • Credit transfer and custom course credit applications have a link to student's information and study plan.
  • Custom course credit application: language of learning will be the default in the decision. Can be modified when registering the decision.  
  • Registering a substitution for single course without student's application is possible.  
  • Quotas are displayed on the Registered students tab of the course implementations. Quotas are not yet in use at Aalto University and should not be added to implementations.

  • When students in a course implementation are selected over others, marked as rejected, marked as confirmed or removed from implementation, it is no longer necessary to give justifications.

Translations of terms

Administration

  • New foreign institutions to the codes

Features that will be deployed later at Aalto University

  • Sisu’s features for Open University students will be deployed at Aalto University at a later stage.
  • Quotas for course implementations will be introduced at Aalto later.

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