An electronic document signing service – Oamk Sign –  is now available at the University of Applied Sciences (Oamk). (To know how personal data is processed in Oamk Sign, please read the GDPR privacy notice) Oamk Sign is suitable for electronic signing of almost all internal documents (such as decisions) within Oamk. The electronic signature implemented with […]

Zoom collects attendance lists of participants in online meetings. The list is available for review by the founder of the meeting. The list shows: the name of each user, the logged-in users’ email addresses, and the time of arrival and departure of each user, and duration of presence in minutes per user. To view attendance […]

Open your email. (You can set your signature either in the Outlook desktop version or the browser version. These instructions are for the browser version.) Open Settings (the cogwheel icon) from the top row options. Choose View all Outlook Settings (it’s the last item in the view). Choose Email, Compose and reply and type your signature […]

Zoom is a web conferencing tool used in the University of Oulu and Oamk. It can be used for remote meetings, webinars, remote education and one-to-one video calls. Zoom meeting attendees can use microphones and webcams to transmit audio and visual content to the other attendees. In addition, Zoom features a chat where participants can […]

You have three options for how others see you in a Zoom meeting: just your name, your name + profile photo or your name + the image from your webcam It’s up to you to decide what you want to show. If you log in to our Zoom, your name information will automatically include your name […]

New documents shared in higher education institutes’ e-services must be accessible. Start by making your file accessible already in Word. If the file is stored in an electronic archive used by the university, the file must be accessible and also archivable. With the correct settings, you can convert a Word file to an accessible and […]

Besides online services, any files shared in the services must also be accessible by 23 September 2020 (applies to most services in the universities). 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. Files based on old […]

The length of the password must be at least 12 characters, preferably more. Anything under 16 characters is considered a short password, actually nowadays the right term should be passphrase. There should not be any á, ä, ö or å etc. letters in the password, since there might be problems with these characters (if used in […]

Oamk Student, please reactivate your RFID card after 20.5.2024 In the spring, we migrated all Oamk M365 accounts to the same M365 tenant as the university. At the same time, the login process for printers changed, and you will need to reactivate the RFID card/sticker/tag you use for printers. Note that you now use the […]

Microsoft Teams is a workspace within a network. It acts as the “digital hub” of Office 365, bringing together conversations, web conferences, content and apps in one place. Teachers can create communal classrooms in Oamk’s Teams, and all Oamk employees and students can create professional learning communities in Teams and communicate with each other. You […]