Upcoming courses

Zoom is a programme for distance meetings and teaching. During the course, you will learn how to start using Zoom and you will get familiar with the basic functions and how to use Zoom for teaching and meetings. With Zoom you can share content (for example a PowerPoint presentation), record meetings or lectures on your own computer or to a cloud service, discuss together with all participants or in small groups, and share links and discuss in the chat. 

Bring your laptop or mobile device and a headset with you if possible (BOYD=Bring Your Own Device). Install Zoom on your device before the course. The employees at the University of Vaasa can install the programme through Software Center. Instructions in English: https://it.uwasa.fi/guides/en/all/How+to+Use+Zoom. From the link above, you can also find instructions for installing the program on your private computer or if you are an employee of some other organization.

Instructions for the employees in Åbo Akademi University:In Swedish: https://oldwww.abo.fi/stodenhet/sv/zoom 
Briefly in English: https://oldwww.abo.fi/stodenhet/en/Content/Document/document/38108 

You can participate only on site in Tritonia K320

Final steps for your doctoral thesis, publishing process, using the template, layout of the publication, permissions, and press release.

Moodle in English is a workshop for beginner users of Moodle learning platform. During the workshop we will go through the basic elements in Moodle plus learn how to use Moodle in your teaching with a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content.

Are you interested in learning the basics of image editing? Join us!

We will use GIMP, a free software with huge variety of tools. You can work on your own photos but we will cover how to find visual material online that you can use for your work. We will further discuss how to optimise your images for different purposes; such online use or poster presentations.

Bring your own computer with GIMP installed. On your own computer you can install GIMP from the web. Staff at university of Vaasa can install GIMP from Software Center.

Give your Moodle course a makeover that helps it stand out. Make your Moodle pages easier to navigate by adding labels, pages and tables. Make them nicer with colors, pictures, banners and thumbnails that work as links.

Bring your own device! (BYOD)

Learn how to use the Quiz Activity in Moodle to make quizzes for rehearsal, student-paced learning and examination. Quizzes can be automatically graded or teacher-graded. All questions are saved in a question bank and can be reused in multiple quizzes.

Learn how to make videos by recording your computer’s screen. Bring your own laptop.

Do you frequently use mathematical symbols and formulas in your text? Or are you a humanist or a qualitative researcher wishing to have more control over your references and their layout? Or do you simply want to get rid of RefWorks? Do you need a writing tool which enables you to control all settings? Overleaf is an online LaTeX writing tool which separates contents and layout. You make your settings and write on the left side of the screen, and the finished PDF version will be updated in real time on the right. You can access and write your text through the browser using a computer, a tablet or a smartphone with the same result, and you can easily share your text with colleagues and supervisors.

If you are a researcher in the University of Vaasa, note also that the university has a template in Overleaf for texts aiming at the University of Vaasa series!

Scientific writing starts with doing research. A word processor may not be enough since you need somewhere to store your sources and data. Scientific writing also needs tools for outlining and restructuring text.

Bring your own device!

This course is part of ”Researcher’s Toolbox”.

In this course we will take a closer look at note taking apps and services. Have you ever been wondering where to keep your information snippets, then this course is for you. Note taking doesn’t need a full-fledged word processor! There are also a lot of apps available for distraction free writing and scientific writing as well as for journaling and blogging.

Microsoft Forms was developed with the teacher in mind. It’s an easy to use tool for assessing student progress and collecting feedback. Forms is part of Office365. Watch introduction video

In this course we'll take a look at some of the most useful presentation tools available. We will learn some power features in PowerPoint and even look at some alternatives to PowerPoint, e.g. Prezi and Sway.