Highlights & stories regarding digitalisation
Digital transformation happens everywhere - in teaching, learning, research, creative practices, collaboration, services and at the campus.
The Sisu front page for students redesigned
The Sisu front page for students has been revised to serve the different target groups and the varying user needs.
Opin.fi beta has opened - We welcome staff feedback!
Opin.fi is a new shared service that brings together the open study offerings of all Finnish universities in one place. You can now provide feedback on the service.
Sisu is part of Aalto students’ everyday life
Sisu is part of Aalto students’ everyday life. Sisu is being developed on the basis of user feedback.
Opin.fi helps you to find open studies and learning opportunities in Finland— be among the first to try our new service
The beta version of Opin.fi will be available to users in October 2024! Explore the service and contribute to its development.
Learning Services – enabling success: beta version will be available to learners in October
Workday training covers Opin.fi and delves into how non-credit offerings are added to the service.
Sisu is a part of Aaltonians' everyday life
The use of Sisu is part of Aaltonians’ everyday life. Sisu is developed based on user feedback.
Open doors to learning: Adding study options (no credits awarded) to Opin.fi service
We are now looking for academics who are interested in sharing their created content or materials with a wider audience on the Opin.fi service! Explore the training where the basics of Opin.fi are explained. You will also know how to add non-credit-bearing study options to the service.
Learning Services – enabling success: development work update August 2024
Next Opin.fi Basics training as well as a training session on entering offerings 9, September. Aalto account grace period will be shortened to 2 months. Update on Sisu development work.
Autumn 2024 Opin.fi Trainings
We are organizing training sessions related to Opin.fi service in the autumn semester of 2024. The trainings will focus particularly on informal and non-formal offerings such as events and other content. Target group is mainly academics and LES.
Learning Services – enabling success: projects' update June 2024
Give anonymous feedback on Sisu’s accessibility. The master's thesis process management functionality on the service platform is scheduled to be launched in August.
Share information and events from Aalto University for lifewide learners on Opin.fi
Opin.fi and nonformal & informal offerings
Aalto AI Assistant and an extensive AI service guidance has been published
Aalto AI Assistant, our own ChatGPT, is now published for the whole Aalto personnel. Similar service is planned for students as well, in early fall 2024. Also, check out the new extensive guidance pages regarding Aalto's internal AI services, as well as list of AI projects and AI services' roadmap.
Learning Services – enabling success: projects' update May 2024
Validity period of Aalto user ID to be shortened after the end of right to study
Collaboration with Aalto brings significant financial benefits to Neste
As a result of the collaboration, Neste is now using digital tools in its fuel research alongside traditional testing.
Completed: MyCourses maintenance break Wed 12 June, 2024 at 9.00-19.00
MyCourses maintenance break on 12 June 2024 starting at 9.00. During this break service is not in use.
Workshop day for teachers: 360° environments and podcasts
On Tuesday 4.6. a workshop day consisting of 360° environment creation and podcast production provides a way to get to know these media in practice. Feel free to join both workshops or one of them according to your time and interest.
Learning Services – enabling success: projects' update April 2024
Opin.fi first demo videos of the service have been released. The Master's thesis management process in the service platform applications will be launched in autumn 2024.
Opin.fi implementation is progressing, and the first demo videos of the service have been released
The schedule for the launch of Opin.fi has been clarified regarding the offerings to be included in the service. The progress of the launch can also be tracked through the 'logbook' on aalto.fi, where we will update the most important current news about the launch of Opin.fi. Additionally, getting to know the service is now easier, as videos showcasing the learner's and administration's views of the interface have been released.
Vili Lehdonvirta: The digital world isn’t a separate dimension in some virtual cloud
Vili Lehdonvirta has joined Aalto University as a professor at the Department of Computer Science. He also continues to work half-time at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute.
