Managing your teaching

A course page is the place for all the practical information that students need to complete a course. You can use the course page to present the content and methods of your teaching, distribute materials and links and send messages to your students. If you use the Moodle / MOOC platform in your teaching, inform the students of the link to the Moodle / MOOC course area and course key on the course pages. 

A course page is automatically generated for all instruction events in Sisu. The course description in Sisu and timetable information on Optime are automatically added to the page. It is the teacher’s responsibility to add all other necessary information on the page for the students.

Instructions and tips on modifying your course pages are available in the user manuals of the systems.

You can see your ongoing teaching on the frontpage of Sisu when you log in to Sisu and change yourself to the user role of a teacher in the drop-down menu under your name.  

You can find your own teaching’s information from Sisu after the academic administration has created the structure of the teaching in Sisu and marked you as the teacher for the implementation. You do not need separate access rights for viewing and managing your teaching. 

You can announce your office hours through the Flamma teacher page. Your office hours will be published in the Instructions for Students.

Optime contains a calendar of your teaching for the current and the next academic year. In addition to your own teaching, you can use Optime to view the teaching of a specific course or degree programme as well as the booking situation of teaching facilities. Please note that unlike WebOodi and My Teaching, Optime also includes teaching that has not yet been confirmed.

You can find more information in Flamma about the features and functioning of calendars in Optime.

In Optime, a data collection form can also be created for teachers about their obstacles regarding teaching times and facilities, as well as on their preferred teaching hours. You can read more about the questionnaire and how to answer it in the Instructions for teaching page Answering the data collection form in Optime.

On the teacher role page in Flamma, you can see a list of courses you teach and add your office/telephone hours for students to see.