Student's digital skills

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Student’s Digital Skills is a compulsory course for all undergraduate students pursuing a first-cycle degree at the University of Helsinki. The University provides students with numerous digital services and tools necessary for studies. With this in mind, the course content includes information about navigating within the University’s digital learning environments, which is especially useful in the initial stage of studies.

These instructions provide the links and material needed for the completion of the course. If you have any questions concerning the course, please contact us by email at digiskills@helsinki.fi

Course completion instructions in a nutshell are available at the end of these instructions in the section “Completing the course”. Material for the course is available on these platforms:

  • Moodle – Course completion instructions, entry level tests and completion of a final exam
  • Sisu – Registration for the course.
  • Student’s Digital Skills learning material website – This is where you will find course material for independent study.

Completion of the course

Student’s Digital Skills course is completed through self-access studies and online exams. You can complete the course entirely independently on your own computer whenever you wish between 7.8.2023 and 7.6.2024. The course is most beneficial when completed at the beginning of the studies.

The course completion has been divided into two parts:

  • DIGI-A Student’s Digital Skills: Orientation (2 cr)
  • DIGI-B Student’s Digital Skills: Advanced skills (1 cr)

It is recommended that the orientation part of the course be completed during the orientation period or period I. The course is available to all students, but if you are pursuing a first-cycle degree, it is a compulsory component of your general studies.

Registering instructions in a nutshell

  1. First add the course DIGI-A to your study plan in Sisu. You will find instructions for adding a course into your study plan on the page Sisu instructions: Study plan.
  2. Start registering from the study plan. Open the course brochure by clicking on the course code. Select the completion method before selecting the course unit. In course description choose Completion method 1 (Online course for self-study) and implementation: Online course in English, DIGI-A Student’s digital skills: orientation 7.8.2023-7.6.2024.
  3. After you have selected course unit proceed to the Registration page to confirm your registration.
  4. Check the status of your registration on the Registration page.
  5. Note: You will be able to log into the course Moodle space  sometime within 1 to 24 hours after your course enrollment. You will find a link to the Moodle course platform on the course page or you can also find it in your Moodle My courses.

The registration for DIGI-A's online course is available from 7 August, 2023 to 6 June 2024. The Moodle course platform and exams are available from 7 August, 2023 to 9 June 2024.

More detailed instructions:
How do I register for my courses and exams?

Sisu-instructions: Registering for teaching and exams

You will be able to register for DIGI-B's online course after the completed orientation course is registered for you in Sisu.

DIGI-B Student’s Digital Skills: Advanced skills (1 cr)

If you have previously completed any of the orientation courses DIGI-A, DIGI-000A, DIGI-100A, DIGI-200A, DIGI400A or AYDIGI-500A you may take the course “DIGI-B Student’s Digital Skills: Advanced Studies”.

The following section lists the degree programmes where the advanced Studies course is substituted by a course from the degree programme in question.

  1. First add the course DIGI-A to your study plan in Sisu. You will find instructions for adding a course into your study plan on the page Sisu instructions: Study plan.
  2. Start registering from the study plan. Open the course brochure by clicking on the course code. Select the completion method before selecting the course unit.In course description choose Completion method 1 (Online course for self-study) and implementationOnline course in English, DIGI-A Student’s digital skills: orientation 7.8.2023-7.6.2024.
  3. After you have selected course unit proceed to the Registration page to confirm your registration.
  4. Check the status of your registration on the Registration page.
  5. Note: You will be able to log into the course Moodle space  sometime within 1 to 24 hours after your course enrollment. You will find a link to the Moodle course platform on the course page or you can also find it in your Moodle My courses.

The registration for DIGI-B's online course is available from 7 August 2023 to 6 June 2024. The Moodle course platform and exams are available from 7 August, 2023 to 9 June 2024.

More detailed instructions:
How do I register for my courses and exams?

Sisu-instructions: Registering for teaching and exams

The degree programme -specific codes for the advanced skills course

The content of the Student’s Digital Skills course varies somewhat between degree programmes,

The following degree programmes offer their own course in place of DIGI–B Student’s Digital Skills: Advanced skills (1 cr)

  • Bachelor's Programme in Mathematical Sciences: TKT500031 Computing Tools for CS Studies or MAT20016 Latex Course
  • Bachelor's Programme in Physical Sciences: MAT20016 Latex Course
  • Bachelor's Programme in Chemistry: KEK405 Chemist’s Digital Skills
  • Bachelor's Programme for Teachers of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry: MFK-418 Subject Teacher’s Digital Tools I
  • Bachelor's Programme in Computer Science: TKT500031 Computing Tools for CS Studies
  • Ba​​chelor of Science: Chemistry, mathematics and statistics and physics study tracks: MAT20016;
    Computer and data science study track: TKT500031
  • Medicine and dentistry: DIGI-300M Student's Digital Skills: Advanced Skills – Medicine (Meilahti), 1 cr

Course substitution

The substitution of the Student’s Digital Skills course or parts thereof is possible only with equivalent studies completed at the University of Helsinki or the Open University (the ICT Driving Licence and Student's Digital Skills). However, the completed credits to be used for substitution may not be more than ten years old at the moment you graduate. Further information is available by email at digitaidot@helsinki.fi.

Accessibility statement

The accessibility statement for Student's digital skills explains how well the course material complies with the Act on the Provision of Digital Services, what shortcomings there are in the accessibility of study course material and how you can give us feedback on accessibility problems. Read the accessibility statement here.