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 […]

Oulu Campus Navigator functionality has stopped on 31.3.2025, it has been replaced with the MazeMap app.

When you make a calendar entry, i.e. an appointment or a meeting (appointment or meeting: see Microsoft’s own manual for making a calendar entry), its status information is shown in the calendar as reserved by default (busy). All members of the same organization will be able to view your calendar, but with the default settings, […]

Moodle is the official online learning environment of University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Oamk). To use it, you have to login first. The teachers can build different kind of courses in the Moodle learning environment. The teachers can share materials and links to students via Moodle, as well as give assignments […]

With your Unioulu/Oamk user account, you can access a couple of services for recording and/or sharing videos. Recordings of video lectures and conferences How to create video tutorials or video lessons Sharing videos Ensure you have permission to share the video Make sure your video is accessible Recordings of video lectures and conferences You can, […]

The main purpose of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is to prevent the abuses of the user accounts. In practice MFA means that you verify, in other words approve your sign-ins on the phone, which has been connected with MFA. Because your phone is needed for the verification, no external quarter is able to abuse your user […]

Using OpenVPN client for remote connections of the university or Oamk services requires you to perform the following prior actions: First, create a vpn profile file. Instruction for the university: Creating openvpn profile (UO) and for OAMK: Openvpn profile creating (OAMK) Download the profile file to your computer, e.g. Download folder. If your own device […]

The secured e-mail should be used whenever confidential or delicate information is sent by e-mail from University of Oulu or Oamk to outside or from outside to these universities. N.B. In the universities internal e-mail traffic in M365 service an additional protection is not needed. The contents of this instruction: Secured mail inside the universities […]

The shared ICT services of Oulu universities provide assistance with IT matters. IT support helps you with IT issues related to the services offered by the universities. It’s always a good idea to check if your problem might be due to a planned outage or a temporary disruption that is already being addressed. There might […]

The contents of this instruction: Rules of IT service use In brief Rules of IT Service Use as a whole Usage authorisation User ID Users’ rights and responsibilities Other clauses E-mail rules In brief E-mail rules as a whole E-mail addresses Use of e-mail and e-mail addresses Service provision and administration Other clauses Use of […]