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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]