Howspace is an all-in-one digital facilitation platform specifically designed for facilitator-led workshops and events. Ordering Howspace Workspaces ICT services are responsible for creating workspaces. Make an order by email to howspace@oulu.fi. Please include the cost center number and a name for the workspace. Both Oamk and University of Oulu staff can freely order workspaces. (For […]

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is in use for people from other organisations, who collaborate with the University of Oulu or Oamk using our Microsoft 365 environment. This applies e.g. to people who have been invited to join our Teams or who have access to a shared content, such as files, on Oulu University or Oamk OneDrive […]

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. Each university has its own IT device vendors for the staff. In addition to these IT device vendors for […]

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/

The university’s AVD environment (Azure Virtual Desktop) runs on the Microsoft Azure cloud service. The service consists of virtual servers operated by the university’s ICT Services. The service is primarily intended for use of students, but staff can also access the service. You can use AVD remote desktops without VPN connection: You need a working […]

Personal home pages could be created in any web server to which one has a user account. In practice students have  user accounts of Paju 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 […]