Founded by the Student Union of Helsinki University of Technology (TKY), nowadays maintained by Aalto University Student Union (AYY), the news group http://news.tky.fi/ will be shut down on 31st Aug 2013. The service is currently old fashioned, minimally used and is no longer an official communication channel of the Student Union.

AYY offers mailing lists for associations and the University is responsible for all internet learning environments. Thank you for all the “nyyssi” years!

Additional information: viestinta@ayy.fi / Member of the Board, Tuukka Pykäläinen +358 400 66 33 57

Aalto University’s Noppa – Course Portal will be launched on 13th of June at http://noppa.aalto.fi.

Noppa is a portal for course webpages and it is a easy-to-use tool for students and teachers for everyday work on courses. On course webpages course staff can publish e.g. a course overview, course timetables, teaching materials, news to students and course results.

Noppa for students:.

– You can easily find all the course descriptions and practical issues concerning courses from one place (courses and course descriptions for the academic year 2011-2012 will be updated to Noppa on 1^st of August 2011)
– Own personalized homepage where you can see all the couse news and important events with one glance
– You can follow course news in a way best suited for you (from Noppa, with email or with RSS-feed).
– You can see your exam results easily from Noppa

Noppa is a part of web services for teaching and studying

Noppa is a part of web services for teaching and studying. Noppa’s role is to serve as a portal for course webpages. With these services, every service has its own main role and purpose. For example course registrations are still carried out in Weboodi. There are also different interactive tools available for courses, teachers and students, for example e-learning environments Moodle and Optima, studentwiki, Aalto-wiki, Blog-service and Adobe Connect Pro web conferencing solution.

All the services are within Aalto login.

Web services for teaching and studying from student perspective

We joyfully announce that AUS’s channel (OUBS) is now looking for a new name and You can propose it! Is it Mary or Matthew, or perhaps Aalto-lady or The Box?

Proposals may be submitted electronically by 5.5. or by visiting the Aalto May Day 26.4. starting at 18 at the Senate Square (Senaatintori). There AUS’s communication group X collects proposals. You can identify the group X’s for the bunny ears, and everyone who submits a proposal will receive a sweet surprise 🙂

All participants who have given their contact information will participate in a lottery where the prize is 70 euros Tiketti -gift card.

The Aalto University Student Union (AYY) will organise a design contest for a calendar cover on 21 March–29 April 2011. AYY’s student calendar will be published and distributed to all student union members in the autumn of 2011, so the artwork of the designer will end up in the hands of thousands of Aalto University students. The design contest is open to all AYY members. In addition to fame and glory, the designer of the best cover will win a 100 euro Stockmann gift card.

Competition entries

The cover can be illustrated or a photo. The cover is in colour (4/4). The mandatory elements in the design include the text ”Calendar 2011–2012” and AYY’s logo. AYY’s logo  is available on our website.

Each designer can participate with the maximum of three (3) cover designs.

The cover size is 90 mm x 167 mm. In addition, 10 mm on the left side must be reserved for wire binding and 10 mm on the right side for the fold-over.

Designs must be submitted as PDF-files which are ready for print by email to the address viestinta@ayy.fi no later than 29 April 2011.

The design file must be named so that it includes the number of the design and the designer’s name (e.g. 1_AExample.pdf). The maximum file size is 10 Mb.

Copyrights

Copyright issues concerning the competition:

• Designers retain the copyright of their designs.
• The winner designer agrees to give the Student Union the authority to use the design in the Student Union’s calendar and use it for possible non-commercial purposes without a separate request.
• The photographer must have the rights for the photo and its publication. The photographer makes sure that the persons in the photo and other right holders have given their consent to the publication of the photo. The Student Union does not ask for a separate permission, and the photographer is liable for possible complaints.
• The organisers have the right to publish the awarded design on their website and in connection with the publication of the results and other contest information.