Student’s Moodle environment
Moodle is an online learning environment that includes, for example, course materials, assignments and discussion areas.
UEF currently has one Moodle environment: eLearn Moodle. In addition, some courses can be held in Digicampus Moodle, which is a learning environment shared by Finnish universities. The teacher in charge of the course will tell you where the course is located and what the enrolment key required for registration is.
- eLearn Moodle (opens in a new tab) – a learning environment for the courses that are included in the UEF’s credit system.
- DigiCampus.fi Moodle (opens in a new tab) – is a Moodle-based learning environment, commonly used by Finnish universities. There are MOOC-courses and courses carried out jointly by universities and colleges in the DigiCampus Moodle. You can also visit the DC-help website (opens in a new tab) for more instructions. You can log in with HAKA identification or Google account. Please remember to always use the same login method so you won’t have multiple profiles.
For more information on the UEF user account and its activation, see the web page of IT Services (opens in a new tab).
Taking Moodle into use – UEF staff and students
UEF staff and students are identified through their UEF user accounts.
1. Signing in with the UEF account varies slightly between different Moodle environments:
- eLearn Moodle (opens in a new tab)
- Click “UEF Login”
- You will be redirected to Microsoft 365 authentication
- Enter your username as: username@uef.fi
- Enter your password
- DigiCampus.fi (opens in a new tab)
- Click “Login with HAKA account”
- Select University of Eastern Finland from the list
- You will be redirected to Microsoft 365 authentication
- Enter your username as: username@uef.fi
- Enter your password
- After identification, you will be directed back to Digicampus Moodle
You can also use your Google account with Digicampus Moodle. Please remember to always use the same login method so you won’t have multiple profiles.
2. If the identification is successful, you will be redirected to Moodle. At the first login, you may be asked for your basic information. Moodle will have access to your name and email automatically and you can’t change them (if your name or email is missing or incorrect, please contact servicedesk@uef.fi or support@digicampus.fi).
3. Read and accept the student’s copyright agreement. You can’t use Moodle, if you don’t accept this.
4. After that, the dashboard of Moodle will open, and Moodle is ready for use.
5. On the left, under “My Courses”, are the courses to which you have been granted access/you have registered.
Course registration
Once you have logged in to Moodle, your recently accessed courses and overview of your courses are shown. The courses shown here are the ones you have already enrolled in.
From the course overview, you can choose whether you want to see all your courses, your ongoing courses, your future courses, or your past courses. You can also star courses and remove them from the view, which only affects your own view.
The person in charge of the course can give you the link to the course and the enrollment key, for example, through Peppi, via email or at the first meeting. After this, you can join the course in three ways:
1. You can search for courses by clicking “Search courses” on the top right corner. Write the name of the course and click the magnifying glass. When you find the course, click it’s name and then click enroll me. If the course has an enrolment key, enter it first.
2. The person in charge of the course can also send the link to the course and the enrolment key directly to you (by email). Click the link and enter the key.
3. If the course is in the eLearn Moodle and integrated with Peppi:
- Register to the course on Peppi.
- After that, the teacher will accept your registration.
- Peppi will automatically add you to the course on eLearn Moodle, and the course will appear under “my courses” listing.
- You must have logged in to the eLearn Moodle before Peppi can add you to the course. If you log in for the first time, there will be a slight delay before the course appears on your Moodle.
- Please note that the course won’t appear on Moodle until the teacher has set it visible. If the course has not begun, it could still be hidden and will appear on Moodle when the course starts.
Please contact the teacher if the course does not appear on the eLearn Moodle after a slight delay, even if you have registered to the course on Peppi and the course has started.
You only have to enter the enrolment key once when you register to the course. After joining a course, you can find it on the left under the heading “my courses”.
If you are joining as another teacher, ask the person in charge of the course to add you and to give you the teacher’s rights.
SEB – Moodle Safe Exam Browser exams
The Moodle exam can be implemented as a closed SEB exam, where the student uses their own computer, but access to other pages and materials is blocked during the exam.
The Safe Exam Browser is used in the SEB exam. The browser can be installed on Windows and MacOS devices. SEB cannot be used for exams on Android, Chromebook, Linux or iPhone devices.
The SEB exam is usually held under supervision in a auditorium or in a class.
Student instructions for participating in the SEB exam (opens in a new tab)
If the SEB browser does not work on your computer, you can borrow a computer for the exam from the computer lending machine.
Computer lending machines, 4 hours/booking
- The computers do not have chargers, they are charged in a computer lending machine
- The SEB browser is already installed on the computer
- Computer lending machines can be found
- Canthia 2nd floor, Oppari
- Snellmania 1st floor, Library
- Karelia 1st floor, Service Desk (library)
Moodle app
Note: Signing in to Elearn with the Mobile app does not work at the moment. The service provider is looking into it. (updated 24.8.2023)
1. Download the Moodle app (App Store, Google Play) to your mobile device.
2. When you use the app for the first time, type https://elearn.uef.fi/ (opens in a new tab) as the address.
3. Log in
Moodle and browsers
We recommend that you use Moodle with Mozilla Firefox, which is an officially supported browser. Google Chrome also seems to work well with Moodle, although it is not an officially recommended browser.
Safari (Mac users) and Internet Explorer 10 (Windows users) are non-recommended browsers. These browsers have had problems, for example, with downloading files.
Do you have questions?
Contact servicedesk@uef.fi