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Tip of the week 10/2023

Use Turnitin Draft Coach for assistance during the writing phase of your assignment

Turnitin Draft Coach is a tool that helps writers during the writing phase. The Draft Coach service operates within Word Online, and you’ll need to log in using your UEF credentials. You can find instructions for enabling Draft Coach in the Turnitin plagiarism detection system course (course key for the course is “turnitin”). With Draft Coach, you can check both the originality of your text and the references within the text and sources. In addition, Draft Coach includes an English language proofreading tool.

Draft Coach provides the familiar originality report found in Turnitin. Draft Coach identifies similarities in the text from extensive databases, such as the internet, student papers, and publications. Draft Coach does not report or archive work anywhere. It is designed to assist students in addressing any potential issues before submitting their assignments. You can use Draft Coach instead of the assignment check in the Student Turnitin course in Moodle.

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Tip of the Week 9/2023

Help us find the best way to develop the future of electronic exams!

WHAT? University of Eastern Finland, Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Turku University of Applied Sciences are in cooperation preparing a procurement of a software for supervising electronic remote exams.

WHY? The software enables taking proctored exams from anywhere, without the need to travel to the campus. The aim is to guarantee fair and equal exam situation for everyone and provide more flexible opportunities for taking an exam for students who study remotely.

HOW? This is Your chance to participate in the process! We encourage You to answer this short survey and share Your experiences to help us develop better online exams and find the best solution for proctored exams for both students and teachers.

WHEN? Please answer the survey by 24.9.2023 and join in developing the future of electronic exams!

Open the survey here.

You can change the language of the survey to English from the drop-down menu on the top-right corner of the page.

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Tip of the Week 8/2023

Panopto video service – benefits & tips

Have a good academic year! Panopto video service is one of the newest digital learning environments in UEF. You can find the service from https://uef.cloud.panopto.eu/ or via UEF’s App menu.

Panopto provides great tools for creating video materials to your courses either via browser or via Panopto app, which is available for Mac and Windows. You can easily record “talking head” type of videos, either with your PowerPoint slides or other materials, or without it. Also, it is a great tool for recording screen casting type of videos.

There are multiple benefits of using Panopto, for example automatic caption, easy sharing of videos, great search engine and analytics tools.

Also, Panopto is available via UEF eLearn Moodle as activity type.

Panopto’s support page on UEF Heimo: https://studentuef.sharepoint.com/sites/heimo_en/services/elearning_support/Pages/Panopto.aspx

Panopto has a lot of useful online resources available at https://support.panopto.com/s/.

  • Online documentation
  • Video tutorials
  • Forums
  • Webinars

Jani Lemmetyinen, Development Manager, Digital Learning Environments