Cross-Institutional Studies for Finnish Higher Education Students

Enrollment for Metropolia’s courses is done via the cross-institutional study service through your home institution’s study information system. You must register separately for each course you plan to take. You can find the registration period, course details, teaching methods, and any prerequisites in the course-specific description.

Before enrolling for cross-institutional studies, make sure your planned studies are approved according to the guidelines of your home institution. You can only enroll if you have enrolled for presence at your home institution.
If your right to study at your home institution ends before you complete the course, your right to complete studies at Metropolia will also end.

A separate quota is reserved for cross-institutional students in each course. Make sure to enroll as early as possible to secure your place.

Once your registration is accepted, activate your Metropolia user ID. With the ID, you can access services such as the Moodle learning platform, the OMA online service, and Metropolia student email (for more information see "User ID and services").

As your enrollment has been approved, activate your user ID at https://password.metropolia.fi/. This can be done with banking credentials or a mobile certificate. If you have neither one, you can collect a one-time password to activate the user ID from Metropolia’s Student and Admission Services’, by presenting an official identity card to them during their opening hours.

With the user ID, you can access to the following services:

• OMA portal (e.g. personal student information, course workspaces and grades)
• Email. You can log in to your e-mail at https://mail.metropolia.fi/. Please use your username and password. Emails related to the studies are sent to the metropolia.fi email.
• Moodle e-learning platform.
• Computers and network disks at public spaces
• Office 365 during your studies
• Metropolia Cloud services during your studies
• Helpdesk services (IT support)
• Library services e.g. e-materials

Email

Once your study right is valid activate your Metropolia user ID and follow your metropolia.fi -e-mail. You can log in by e-mail at mail.metropolia.fi with your username. E-mails related to the studies is sent to the metropolia.fi e-mail. Only a automatic message sent from the system will come to the e-mail address of your home institution.

Course workspaces in the OMA service

All courses have their own workspace in the OMA service. The workspaces are listed in OMA at the top of the front page, below the house icon. Student is automatically a member of the workspaces for the courses he or she has enrolled and accepted in.

Teachers use workspaces for informing students about current matters, course materials and literature. The emails from the workspace are sent to the students' Metropolia email address.

If some other e-learning platform (e.g. Moodle) is used on the course, information about this will be found in the workspace. The same OMA user ID also works in Moodle, but the teacher usually needs to give the key to the Moodle workspace if it's not an open one.

Please also read the general announcements on Metropolia's OMA-intranet.

Virtual studies

Instructions for the completion of a 100 % virtual courses can be found from the course description and in most cases from the course workspace in OMA (requires Metropolia ID).

Course key

If you need a course key to log in to a course, you can check it in the course workspace in OMA. If needed, you'll get more information from the teacher.

While completing cross-institutional studies, instructions and rules of the higher education institution organizing the course apply. The studies are completed using method(s) described in the course description. In the description you will also find information about the content of the studies, teaching methods and evaluations.

For questions related to completion or the content of the studies, please contact the course teacher.

The following competence scale is used in evaluation:

excellent (5)
very good (4)
good (3)
very satisfactory (2)
satisfactory (1)
fail (0)

or optionally just pass or fail (H/0)

Teacher will give the grade within four weeks after the end of the course and course components or other separate performance.

Assessed studies will automatically transfer to your home institution from your Metropolia's study right. The performances of the parts of the course will not transfer and they can be checked on your transcript at Metropolia.

If you are dissatisfied with the assessment you have received, you may present a verbal or written rectification request to the teacher who performed the assessment within 14 days of being informed of the assessment. If you are dissatisfied with the decision on the rectification request you can lodge a written appeal with Metropolia’s Examination Board within 14 days of having been notified of the decision. Instructions for this can be found on Metropolia's website.

If you wish to cancel your registration to cross-institutional studies, you may do so within the enrollment period at your home institutions' ePSP. Otherwise the cancellation will be informed to our Student and Admission services at studentservices [at] metropolia.fi (studentservices[at]metropolia[dot]fi). In the email, inform your name and studies the cancellation concerns.

More information about our campuses can be found on our websites:

• Arabia Campus
• Karamalmi Campus
• Myllypuro Campus
• Myyrmäki Campus

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