YuJa is a media management system. It is in use both at the University of Oulu and the Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Oamk). All the students and staff of both universities can store their study or work related media files (especially videos) in YuJa and share them to other services from there. Now, in […]

Howspace is an all-in-one digital facilitation platform specifically designed for facilitator-led workshops and events. Creating a workspace If you already have access to a workspace as its admin or participant, you can create a workspace. Create a workspace from Add workspace in the Me-menu. If you do not have access to any workspace, you can […]

IT device vendor is a self-service machine from which, as a university or Oamk staff member, you can borrow IT devices for up to six (6) hours. You can borrow devices three (3) times a day.  IT device vendors are in common use, meaning both university and Oamk staff and UFOs can borrow from any […]

The University of Oulu and Oamk use Presemo, an online (browser-based) and easy-to-use collaboration tool (activation tool). Presemo offers a variety of activities for lessons, meetings and events, such as: message boards, queries, voting, short tests and instant feedback. Presemo is suitable for classroom as well as for remote and hybrid events. Take Presemo into […]

The primary address of the university student is the organization’s email address with the ending @student.oulu.fi. Forwarding mail to external addresses is not recommended, but it is nevertheless possible for students. Instead, university staff cannot redirect their mail from @oulu.fi addresses, as the university’s email rules indicate that forwarding or redirecting official mail, i.e. emails […]

Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for secure data communication, remote command-line login, remote command execution, and other secure network services between two networked computers that connects, via a secure channel over an insecure network, a server and a client (running SSH server and SSH client programs, respectively). SSH client can perform A […]

Version.oulu.fi is a Gitlab server and it supports static websites that can be published using Gitlab Pages feature. Every Gitlab project on version.oulu.fi can contain one website that will be published in following domain: https://username.version-pages.oulu.fi/repository. You can find guides how to enable it from Gitlabs official documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/

Personal home pages could be created in any web server to which one has a user account. In practice students have  user accounts of Tuomi server and the staff have user accounts of Koivu server. Both of the servers are Apache web servers and the users have a home directory (5 GB) there. You can […]

If you are saving confidential or secret information, you can use the encryption tool of the desktop application or encrypt several files at the same time with a compression software. When using some of the encryption methods, you define yourself the password with which you can later open the files. Remember that the password cannot be […]

Webropol Survey & Reporting is a web based tool to create queries and collect data. You can analyze the results, print various reports, and also transfer data to other programs for further processing. Link to the service: Webropol Survey & Reporting The service operates through the network International; the inquiries can be created in 29 […]