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What is OMA?

OMA is Metropolia’s intranet environment.  You sign into OMA with your Metropolia username.

OMA contains, for example, the following services:

  • announcements from Metropolia (general, teachers, international office)
  • electronic Individual Study Planning (ePSP, this is mostly for degree students)
  • enrollment for courses
  • transcript of records
  • tools for communication between students and teachers
  • workspaces for courses
  • information about student services

Student’s desktop in OMA

  • Moving between desktops: click the symbol/    on the top left corner and switch to the other desktop
  • Common desktop  
    • Workspaces, announcements, study-related info, study tools, contact information
  • Student’s desktop  

    • ePSP – designing and editing your PSP (personal study plan), this is mostly a tool for degree students
    • Credits – transcript of records
    • Calendar – reservation system, schedule machine, meeting times
    • Studies – study guide

How to enroll for courses?

First check the schedules and finalise your course selection. Make sure to select only courses that are available for exchange students. You can only choose courses from your own degree programme and the courses listed under Studies available for all exchange students.

Check if you need to enroll for the courses yourself or if the teacher/departmental coordinator will do that for you. Practices vary from one programme to another.

  • Choose student’s desktop  , MY STUDIES, and then ePSP (electronic Personal Study Plan)
  •  Enrollments tab

  • Enrollment ongoing (courses belonging to your PSP* will be shown here during the enrollment period) & Enrollments.
  • You can search for courses during the enrollment period by clicking the + Search for courses icon
  • Write course name or course code and click Enter or Search
  • Choose Enroll
  • The teacher of the course will also need to confirm that your participation is accepted

*Please note about the PSP: your PSP will be empty because you are not a degree student. You don’t have to add courses to your PSP, since exchange students plan their studies with the Learning Agreement. If you want, you are of course allowed to also use this tool, but we don’t check the PSP, we only check the Learning Agreement. You only have to use the Enrollments tab to enroll for courses.

*You do not need to send your PSP for approval!

NOTE! CANCELLING ENROLMENTS! If you do not participate the course you have enrolled for, you are obliged to cancel your participation in the courses.

Make cancellation as soon as possible so that the place in the course can be given to someone else. It is also very important for the teachers to know how many are participating as this influences planning for their teaching. Failing to cancel participation at early stage, may result as mark “0” for the course, which will be showing in your final study transcript.

Metropolia email account and Eduroam

Metropolia email

You can check your Metropolia email at https://mail.metropolia.fi. Login with your username (short format) and password.

Metropolia’s email can be used from abroad only with Metropolia’s VPN. When in Finland, no VPN is needed. If you are not able to set up your email before arriving to Finland, don’t worry. You can also do it during the orientation days.

See Metropolia’s IT Services website for instructions to setup Metropolia email on Android and on iPhone. Remember to check your emails regularly once the semester has started: all the official information will be sent to this email.

Eduroam

You can use Eduroam on every Metropolia campus. To sign in, your username has to be in the form of username@metropolia.fi. More information on Metropolia’s IT Services website.

Updating your Learning Agreement

All Learning Agreement DURING MOBILITY/ changes sections will be signed at the same time. You will be informed about the deadlines in the orientation.

Once your final course selection is clear:

  • Bilateral students:
    • Use the Learning Agreement During Mobility form (Word)
    • Fill in the changes, sign it and upload it to Mobility-Online
  • Erasmus students:
    • If your home university supports digital Learning Agreements, prepare your Learning Agreement according to your home university’s instructions. The document will be transferred to Metropolia for signing.
    • If your home university does not support digital Learning Agreements, use the second page of your PDF Learning Agreement called “Changes to”. Mark thre only the courses that you delete or add and sign the document. Upload the document to Mobility-Online. Send the signed Learning Agreement to your home university and once signed by them as well, upload it to your Mobility-Online.

Check your enrolments in OMA; if some enrolment(s) need to be deleted, inform your International Relations Adviser.

Checking schedules in the schedule machine

  • https://lukkarit.metropolia.fi
  • Note that some courses might not yet be uploaded there
  • Search for a course by the Group ID, course code or course title
  • For example, try searching the Finnish for exchange students
    • Type the name of the course under Search word
    • Click the small basket icon
    • Click View schedule

Schedule_machine2

  • Try also searching for the schedule of third year full-time/daytime students in your own degree programme
  • In the schedule view, you can
    • Browse through different weeks and see the timing of the course by clicking the arrows
    • In the coloured timeslot box, see the classroom for each course, the implementation code and the names of the teachers/contact persons
    • If you click the timeslot box, more detailed information will open up for you, for example information on the enrolment period during which you should enrol on that course
    • On the Settings page, you can save your schedule

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Adding workspaces in OMA

  • https://oma.metropolia.fi
  • Log in with your personal username and password
  • Switch to the Student’s Desktop from the upper left corner
  • Change the language into English
  • Click Show workspaces

  • Choose Search  (Join/Resign)
  • Add the workspace Metropolia incoming exchange students
    • Type “Metropolia incoming exchange students” in the box Search
    • Click Search
    • Click Join the workspace

Check other possible workspaces you should join from the Degree Programme.