Courses and support sessions by EduLab

Microsoft Teams is a communication tool where you can hold video meetings, chat and store files in various teams. On the course we will have a look at the software’s interface and essential features including settings, how to schedule meetings through Outlook, features of a team, joining and adding members to a team and shared files.  

Contents:

• Discussion (Chat)
• Adding tabs to a team or a chat
• Applications
• Video- and voicecalls
• Sharing your screen in a meeting
• Joining a team based in an other organization's Teams
• Mobile applications

Videos used in teaching need to be accessible, meaning that the information conveyed in them should not rely upon the viewer’s ability to only see or hear. The videos can be made accessible by conveying the information in more than one medium: by ensuring that spoken content is represented visually using e.g. subtitles. On this course, we will discuss how to take accessibility in consideration in videos, from the planning stage to finished clip. 

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.

A key part of research is data management. Various data are generated during the research process. At the planning stage, it is worthwhile to identify services that can be used in your research project, such as collaboration platforms, applications, services, data archives, etc. During the course we get acquainted with available open data resources and services like FSD, Fairdata.fi, EU Open Data Portal and DMPTuuli.

This course is also part of TOFO4040 Researcher’s Skills.

We will discuss the content of the current accessibility requirements and have a look at how to make Office-documents accessible. 

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)

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.

This course is also part of TOFO4040 Researcher’s Skills.

Professional and academic publishing forms part of the basis for the evaluation and funding of higher education institutions. Bibliometrics is the scientific field concerned with measuring scholarly publications, authors and citations. 

During the course we get acquainted with citation databases (i.e. Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar) and tools for bibliometric evaluation (like the JUFO-classification, h-index and Impact Factor), as well as the reseacher visibility and impact (i.e. researcher profiles and networks).

This course is also part of TOFO4040 Researcher’s Skills.

On the course we will look into the versatile possibilities of using videos in teaching. We will discuss available video resources and the process of making educational videos by yourself. 

In the course we will use the free software ShotCut https://www.shotcut.org. 

Staff members from University of Vaasa are able to download the software from Software Center. Instructions.

Please watch Introduction and Overview and/or ShotCut Tutorial 2018 - All Beginners Need to Know to Get Started With the ShotCut Video Editor and install the software on your computer beforehand.

This course is an introduction to survey tool Webropol. We will go through its basics features, different types of questions and multilingual questionnaires with focus on using it in teaching and research.

Webropol is in use at the University of Vaasa.

This course is also part of TOFO4040 Researcher’s Skills.

NOTE: The course consists of two sessions, 2 x 1,5 hours

Session 1: Wednesday 21.4.2021 10:00-11:30

Session 2: Wednesday 28.4.2021 10:00-11:30

Course description:

Everyone wants to be productive. When it comes to computers there are a lot of useful tools you can use to speed up your work. Learn how to find your files and applications, arrange windows on your desktop, become a keyboard shortcut master and more…! And why not share your own productivity hints with your colleagues?

NOTE: The course consists of two sessions, 2 x 1,5 hours

Session 1: Wednesday 21.4.2021 10:00-11:30

Session 2: Wednesday 28.4.2021 10:00-11:30

Course description:

Everyone wants to be productive. When it comes to computers there are a lot of useful tools you can use to speed up your work. Learn how to find your files and applications, arrange windows on your desktop, become a keyboard shortcut master and more…! And why not share your own productivity hints with your colleagues?