Aalto University offers approved, security-checked IT tools for teaching and collaboration between employees and partners, such as Microsoft Teams and Zulip chat platform.
For example, Slack, Telegram or Signal are not approved tools.
What tool to use when you want to...
| I want to... | Tools |
|---|---|
| Collaborate on a document or presentation | Office365 tools, Google tools |
| Share documents | Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Dropbox, Google Drive |
| Share a document to a dedicated person | OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive |
| Share a document to a team | Teams files, Teams chat |
| Meet online | Teams, Zoom, Google Meet |
| Find a suitable time for a meeting | FindTime add-on in Outlook |
| Make a questionnaire | Forms, Webropol, Google Forms |
| Take and/or share notes | Notebook |
| Find stuff in SharePoint or Teams | Use search on the top of the screen |
| Make/share a to-do list | Planner, To-Do, Google Keep |
| Make/share a Kanban board | Planner, Jira |
| Edit a video | Panopto |
| Share videos | Panopto, Stream |
| Collaborate on a whiteboard | Flinga, Microsoft Whiteboard, Google Jamboard |
| Create an online comment board | Presemo, Zoom chat, Flinga |
| Have a threaded discussion, discussion groups | Google Groups |
| Messaging app | Teams, Google Hangout |
| Organise a webinar | Zoom, Teams live event |
| Interactive online presentations with multimedia content | Sway |
| Create web pages | SharePoint, Wordpress, Drupal |
| Visualise metrics | Excel, PowerBI |
| Collect a list | Lists, O365 Forms, Excel, Google Sheets |
| Make flowcharts and diagrams | Visio |
You can find the Aalto community members' own channel as a Teams application and as a browser version at social.aalto.fi. There are already dozens of communities, from campus gems to book clubs and pet channels, as well as from everyday artificial intelligence to sports and learning languages and other new things - welcome along!
Teams and Zoom are tools for video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration. Panopto is a software and media service that is designed to capture, edit, stream, and share video presentations and recorded lectures. You can not use Panopto for online meetings.
Panopto is a versatile video platform for recording, editing, streaming, and sharing lectures and presentations.
Presemo is a fully web-based classroom participation system.
Aalto Dropbox is a cloud storage and collaboration platform available for Aalto employees. Aalto Dropbox suits well especially those who use Dropbox within research groups or collaborate externally already with Dropbox. Additionally, if you’re already using Dropbox for your work and with your aalto.fi email address, by joining Aalto Dropbox you’ll get all the benefits from Dropbox Business and won’t have to pay for the features individually.
Enables teamwork with both Aalto staff members and people outside of Aalto University.
Aalto Blogs provides students and staff members an opportunity to keep a free public blog.
Webropol is an electronic survey system that is available to students and staff members at Aalto University. The system can be used to perform electronic surveys and implement statistical and quality-related analyses of data.
