Completing a credit

Check together with your supervisor before submitting the application if you have already completed studies that are suitable, which have not been added to your study plan in Sisu. In some cases, there might be a suitable credit in your completed studies that can be added to the plan in the free edit mode instead of a custom course credit (see Applications concerning the content of a study plan). 

If you do not have a corresponding credit or the corresponding credit should still be completed in order to achieve the learning outcomes, do this: 

1. Agree about doing a custom course credit with the coordinating teacher of the study module or the course that requires completion. The coordinating teacher defines what kind of a credit you are required to perform for the completion. Completion methods can be e.g. an exam, an essay or a portfolio. 
2. Add the custom course credit in your study plan in Sisu as a study draft. This way your supervisor will also see that you are completing your studies. If necessary, you can ask for advice from your supervisor who can see your up-to-date study plan in Sisu. 
3. When you have completed the assignments required for the custom course credit and the teacher has approved the credit, you can submit an application for the registration of the credit through the study draft in Sisu. See the technical instructions for submitting the application. 
4. The application is forwarded to the course’s or the study module’s coordinating teacher for revision, and you will receive a mark of the completed credit in Sisu within two months. 

If a notification “Selections against the rules” appears in the study module where the custom course credit has been added to in Sisu, this is because the custom course credit deviates from the normal content of the module. To remove the error message, you must apply for approval for the content of the module in accordance with these instructions. 

Apply for a custom course credit if some of the following apply to you:

• you have a study module whose every required part you have completed, but the amount of credits of the module is still incomplete
• you wish to substitute only a part of a certain compulsory course with a course that you have completed at another Finnish or foreign university and complete the credit to correspond the whole course according to the teacher’s instructions.

Note! A custom course credit cannot be used for updating expired studies.

Applying through a study draft

If you already have a study draft of the course, open the application on the Structure of studies page as follows:

1. First, click the ‘Study draft’ link in the study draft that you are applying for inclusion for.
   
2. Then click the Suggest credit button.
   
3. Select ‘I am applying for a custom course credit’ from the radio buttons and click the Continue button.
   

Applying without a study draft

If you are proceeding without a study draft, click the button with three dots in the upper right corner of the structure view. Select the option ‘Request a custom course credit’ from the drop-down menu.

Suggest a credit

1. First, check or select the location for the custom course credit in your study plan. If the location has not been selected yet or you wish to change it, click the link next to the planned location. Depending on the case, the name of the link is either ‘Change’ or ‘Select a location for the credit in the structure’.
   
2. Then type the name of the custom course credit in the text field, for example the heading of an essay assignment.
   

Add the information of the custom course credit

Fill in the information of the custom course credit in the text fields of the view that opens:

• Grounds for applying for the credit
• Name of the coordinating teacher
• Agreed amount of credits
• Content of the credit and required assignments

Add attachments

Next, add attachments by clicking the Choose files button in the bottom corner of the page or by dragging the files in the light grey field that says “Drop files to attach”. Finally, click the Continue button in the bottom right corner of the application.

Choose how you want to be informed of the decision

Now, a heading Assessment and decision will appear at the bottom of the application. Select how you wish to be informed of the decision. We recommend that you choose the electronic decision if you do not necessarily need the decision on paper. Click the Submit application button in the bottom right corner of the application. After this, you can print out the application. The Print button is in the upper corner of the application, on the left side of the Cancel application button.

Notification of the decision

You will get a notification of the decision in Sisu’s frontpage and messages. The application can also be found from the My profile page. After your application has been approved, the completed course will be shown as completed in your study plan.