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Author Timo Ovaska in Tip of the week Posted on 03/02/202531/01/2025
Educational Media Specialists Now Available in the Book a Specialist Service!

Educational Media Specialists Now Available in the Book a Specialist Service!

Need help integrating video and media into your teaching? Looking for guidance on creating engaging and accessible educational content? Great news: our educational media specialists have joined the Book a Specialist

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Author Esa Salmio in Tip of the week, Tips and tools Posted on 27/01/202527/01/2025
AI supported translation tools used in Aalto

AI supported translation tools used in Aalto

AI tools can help teachers a lot with course content translations. Find Tools and tips for multilingual teaching in Teacher’s Handbook and what are the AI

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Author Antti Huittinen in Tip of the week Posted on 20/01/202519/01/2025
Dear Aalto AI Assistant, what is this image about?

Dear Aalto AI Assistant, what is this image about?

So you decided to make your notes as a messy mindmap about that presentation you were participating in last week? And now, it is time to summarise… And you also got

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Author Kalle Kataila in Tip of the week Posted on 13/01/202513/01/2025
Generating visuals and images for your learning materials and presentations with AI

Generating visuals and images for your learning materials and presentations with AI

The Aalto AI Assistant (ai.aalto.fi) now includes generative AI capabilities for creating images. By selecting the DALL·E 3 model and simply describing the image you want, you

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Author Veruscka Xavier Filgueira in Tip of the week, Uncategorized Posted on 09/12/202407/01/2025

Using rubrics as a tool for assessing, for learning or both?

A rubric is an assessment tool that explicitly lists the criteria against which student work will compared and describes the levels of

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Author Jaana Brinck in Tip of the week Posted on 22/11/202425/11/2024
Optimizing Group Work in MyCourses: A Teacher’s Perspective

Optimizing Group Work in MyCourses: A Teacher’s Perspective

The image is created by Adobe Firefly with a prompt: Group work in Moodle.

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Author Esa Salmio in Tip of the week Posted on 18/11/2024
Change in MyCourses Grade letter default settings

Change in MyCourses Grade letter default settings

We’ve noticed that some teachers prefer using grade letters for final course assessments because in some cases it is just a nice and simple way to grade. In Moodle, the default

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