Author Archives: Anna-Liisa
Adding a video to Moodle from YuJa
YuJa is a media management system. It is in use both at the University of Oulu and the Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Oamk). (Read more about YuJa) Using YuJa via Moodle You can access your media files in YuJa smoothly through Moodle. It is enough that you log into Moodle and YuJa will be […]
How to schedule Out-of-office messages in MS Teams
Open Teams. Open your profile menu and choose Manage account. Choose General and scroll to the view down to Out of Office. Click the Schedule button. Turn on automatic replies, write a message to the text field and set the timing. In this example, the message is sent only for people in the same organization. Please […]
Accessible online services benefit all – and accessibility is obliged by the Finnish law
Accessibility improves the usability of services for all Accessibility and usability are closely linked: an accessible online service is typically more usable to all users. In other words, accessibility makes the service more convenient to use also for those who do not specifically need accessible services. For users who need accessible services, accessibility can be […]
Zoom online meeting tool (NORDUNet) – basic information and links to instructions
Zoom is a web conferencing tool where you can e.g. share your screen with other participants. Use Zoom for remote education and guidance, web conferencing and webinars. Basic information about Zoom Our Zoom service provider is CSC. NORDUnet Zoom is used by universities (and research) in the Nordic countries. The service is located on the […]
Oamk’s Windows Virtual Desktop – how to start using the remote desktop from your own computer
NB. When you use a virtual machine, you should always save your work in the cloud or to an external hard disk, because the pricing is partly based on the used disk space. Also, if you save your work to the virtual machine, you might lose it when you close the virtual desktop because every […]
Zoom: How to listen to the English simultaneous translation in a meeting/webinar
If the webinar/event is in Finnish and a simultaneous translation in English is provided: See Zoom’s own instructions in English Make sure you have the latest version of the Zoom app. The host of the meeting/webinar will start the interpretation session. Once the interpretation session has started, you will see the interpretation function in the […]
(suomi) Zoom: Simultaanitulkkaajan ohje
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(suomi) Simultaanitulkkaus Zoom-kokouksissa ja webinaareissa (järjestäjän ohje)
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Oamk student account (user name & e-mail address)
To be able to use the Oamk online services, such as e-mail, you need a personal Oamk user account (user name and related password). The user name is a public identifier, which is shown at the email address before the @-character. The email addresses of the Oamk students look like this: uname@students.oamk.fi. How the user […]
How to make an accessible PowerPoint presentation
Files shared in the public sector online services must also be accessible: the law applies to all files published on or after 23 September 2018. Therefore, it would have been wise to prepare accessible files for some time already. Note: if you are a student and the teacher has not specifically required accessibility in the […]