The planning of teaching

These guidelines support teachers in the pedagogical planning of courses  based constructive alignment. These guidelines present ten steps, which serve as a checklist for the design.

When you are planning your courses, please note that the students’ workload should correspond to the study credits they are awarded for the course.

Attendance on a course can be specified as mandatory if it is pedagogically justified or the teaching cannot be arranged otherwise.

This instruction presents the facilities available for teaching and provides information on their use, booking and equipment specifically from the perspective of teaching.

Exams are one way of assessing your students’ learning. These instructions describe the different forms of taking the exam and give instructions for organizing different exam sessions. You can also find instructions for creating exams in the Examinarium electronic examination system and the Moodle learning environment.

When choosing course completion methods, the scope of the course and the student workload should be taken into account.

These guidelines provide information about teachers’ copyrights, including related agreements and the openness and use of teaching materials. 

Ask your students to provide feedback on your courses. In the course feedback, you should focus on questions that indicate what the student has learned during the course.

On this page you will find information about work life orientation and career planning, which are included in all degrees at the University of Helsinki. You will also find information on different forms of working life and expertise studies, such as portfolio work and traineeships.