Latest news for teachers
Welcome to Teachers' Dialogue event on January 22nd!
You are warmly welcome to join the first Teachers’ Dialogue of 2021 session on Friday 22 nd January from 10.00 -11.30 am – please book your calendar right now and register to the event. Theme for this event is Assessment and feedback.
Leap for Learning project status up-date in December
Progress with Sisu personal study plan modelling in Sisu .Leap for Learning steering group decided to reorganise service platform streams.
Book a session with a digispecialist to continue in spring 2021!
Are you puzzled by how to change your course to an online course? Book your online personal session with a digipedagogical specialist to get help with remote teaching.
MyCourses maintenance postponed to 7.1.2021, service out of use
MyCourses is updated to a new version January 7th 2021, service out of use.
How to prevent disruption in Zoom and Teams meetings
How to prevent disruption in Zoom and Teams meetings
Degree regulations revised:Â AAC confirms reforms, effective 1 August 2021
The University Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) confirmed Aalto’s degree regulation reforms as a whole when meeting on 17 November.
Pedagogical training in spring 2021
Aalto university offers pedagogical courses to support pedagogical skills of faculty members.
Finnish universities draft common guidelines for remote exams
With the increased need for remote examinations this year, a means has been sought to ensure that students can make steady progress in their studies and have their learning assessed without bias.
Guidelines for recording lectures
Aalto University is committed to enhancing students’ learning experience in online courses as well. With this in mind, the teacher may record live lectures. What should the teacher and student be aware of when giving or participating in a live lecture? Details are available at opit.aalto.fi.
Leap for Learning project status up-date in November
Personal study plan in SIsu is a tool that helps students in planning and guides them during their studies.
Updated conditions for giving out student information 27 November
The conditions in the consent form for disclosing students’ personal data and contact details will be updated.
Instructions for Teachers: Captioning Video Lecture
According to the Act on the Provision of Digital Services, from 23 September 2020 onwards, all new videos uploaded to the university website must be accessible. These include all Aalto University event, presentation and lecture videos, which must be captioned in the language of the presentation. Read instructions for teachers.
Leap for learning project update: from idea to projects, from planning to deployment
Information about coming changes and their schedules (e.g. related to Sisu) will be published on Leap for learning pages in aalto.fi from November onwards. The projects in Aalto Service Platform are moving towards demos, testing and piloting.
Flow of Studies II to improve course sizes, teaching schedules and periods
The work of the Flow of Studies Task Force II has been a general success. The task force plans to publish a final report of its results on for the purposes of further action and decision-making.
TEE 2020 achieved peer reviews of degree programmes beyond school borders
The Teaching and Education Evaluation (TEE) 2020 has completed its self-evaluation and peer review reports on the degree programmes.
Degree regulation reform: draft of regulations to be discussed
The schools’ bachelor’s and master’s degree regulations will be replaced by shared degree regulations for all of Aalto University as of 1 August 2021.
New aalto.fi hub to help teachers - please give us feedback
The aim is to make teaching-related services easier to find. Help us develop the hub by giving feedback.
Two new Exam studios taken in use on 20th of October
Two new exam studios in Otakaari 1 M-wing , 3rd floor is now in use. OK1M321 with 8 exam workstations and OK1M327 with 9 exam workstations will increase the exam capacity to approx. 900 two hour exams/week.
Maintenance break on Into Wed 7 October starting at 8 am.
The maintenance break will last approximately five hours and Into (into.aalto.fi) will be unavailable during that time.
Name competition for a dynamic course feedback app launched!
As this online learning pilot project enters to a phase of larger scale piloting, the app needs a student friendly name.
