Facilities
The doctoral programme officer books the necessary facilities for the duration of the course and registers the course in OPTIME and SISU. The room rents are excluded from the course budget if teaching is done in the University of Helsinki facilities. Please, do not make your own lecture room bookings for the courses!
Program
The course organizer prepares the program. The doctoral programme will advertise the course to doctoral researchers in the doctoral programmes in health sciences. The course organizers are also encouraged to use their own targeted channels for further advertisement.
Speakers/lecturers
The course organizer invites and instructs speakers and lecturers. For travel arrangements, please contact CWT travel agency. The University of Helsinki’s partner travel agency is CWT, which offers the following booking channels:
More information on travelling in Flamma: https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/group/matkustaminen
Course page and Moodle area
When the course is created in Sisu, a course page is generated in the university's Course Search. On the course page you can add course materials such as course program, links etc. On the course page, you can also create a Moodle area for the course. Moodle can be used to distribute course material, organize discussions, collect doctoral researchers’ assignments and inform about grades.
Course registration
Doctoral researchers at the University of Helsinki are required to register to courses in Sisu. Lecture and lab courses are aimed at the doctoral researchers of the University of Helsinki. If there are seats available, other participants might be accepted.
Credits
- The course organizer and the doctoral programme agree on the number of credits before the start of the course. Course organizers should keep in mind that 1 ECTS equals 27 hours of work.
- The course organizer collects the participant lists daily during all course meetings. It is also the teacher's responsibility to collect participants names during online (Zoom, Teams etc.) teaching session
- The course organizer approves credits for doctoral researchers who have fulfilled all course requirements.
- Grading should pass/fail, and the criteria should be informed in the beginning of the course.
- Course organizer grades and registers the credits in Sisu. The doctoral programme can provide paper certificates for participants outside the University of Helsinki.
- Please note that the course results (grades or pass/fail) should be informed to doctoral researchers within one month after the course. The credits should be registered within one month after that.