Highlights & stories regarding digitalisation
Digital transformation happens everywhere - in teaching, learning, research, creative practices, collaboration, services and at the campus.
FITech Network University gained extra time for free ICT courses
The university courses open to all in the field of ICT will be continued until the end of 2023.
For teachers: Remote teaching -webinar sessions in the autumn 2021
Teacher services organizes a series of webinar sessions. Please join us on Wednesdays at noon.
Two important things about handling course enrollments on Sisu
The enrollment speed cannot be used as a selection criterion. The basic enrollment requirements must not be removed.
IT Services refined their common daily management principles
After reviewing and analyzing the current situation, the ITS management team jointly decided to refine their management principles from the perspective of agile performance.
Mashrura Musharraf, Assistant Professor of Marine Technology, studies intelligent ships
“Maritime automation needs to be developed so that the systems are safe and meet human needs,” she says.
Leap for Learning: a new milestone has been reached
It is important to celebrate significant milestones. Now is a great time to look back on the journey to Sisu's deployment and thank all our colleagues for their great work.
Sisu has replaced Oodi and registration for courses held in period I begins in Sisu on 16 August 2021
Sisu has replaced Oodi as the core information system for teaching and studies at Aalto University on 9 August 2021.
Aalto University to send an SMS to students and staff before and after Sisu’s service break
Aalto University students and staff will be informed of the start and end of the service break of both Oodi and Sisu by text message (31 Jul - 8 Aug).
Companies are shifting from crisis management to new growth – challenges include shortage of experts and the aftermath of a digital leap
There are bottlenecks on the road to emerging growth, and accelerated digitalisation isn't making things easier. When an organisation moves from the office to Teams, something gets left behind.
Leap for Learning – quarterly review
Process owner quarterly review was held with ITS partners on 9 June. Resourcing for autumn, roadmap planning and strategy implementation was discussed.
Accessibility support for Sisu at Aalto University
Accessibility issues have been found in Sisu, the new student information system that will be fully deployed in August. Aalto University is committed to providing students with individual support until the issues have been resolved.
Future learning will consist of flexible studies and digitally supported study experience
For years, Aalto University has been building a foundation, which will enable even longer digital leaps in the future. Follow a video series about our digitalisation journey.
New study support functionality is being developed with agile methods
Pilot experimentation of the functionality together with end users helped to find points of development that could see immediate development.
Hybrid way of teaching experiment
LES Teacher Services tested hybrid way of learning in the course where teachers discussed about pedagogically smart and innovative teaching methods.
AllWell? results in Power BI
The 2021 AllWell? well-being survey was conducted in February among all 2nd-year bachelor’s degree students and 1st-year master’s degree students at Aalto University. From this year onwards, results can be found from Power BI!
Leap for Learning projects' update for the summer
Leap for Learning projects (Sisu, Service Platform and LES Process Re-Building) prepare for Sisu master break and the deployment of new service platform features.
Student Dashboard got a new name
Service Platform is introducing a daily dashboard for the students. The name of the service is MyStudies.
How can researchers make use of cloud services?
Microsoft Azure, which is in use at Aalto University, provides IT services for researchers that can be selected according to personal needs and resources.
Pre-study on teaching resource management highlighted the need for common tools and methods
An extensive preliminary study regarding the resource planning of university teaching was conducted last year by Learning Services (LES).
For teachers: Remote teaching -webinar sessions in May and June 2021
Teacher services organizes a series of webinar sessions. Please join us on Wednesdays at noon.