Tools for corporation

The services are cooperation platforms for the creation and publication of content and for cooperation between university staff and students and external organisations.

- Flamma’s workgroup areas are a closed service under the university’s administration.
- Teams is seamlessly integrated with Office365 and suited for both internal use at the university and cooperation with external stakeholders.
- Wiki areas are intended for use requiring open publication or for coworking situations where a lighter user identification process is sufficient.
- Miro is a versatile whiteboard tool that can be used both for remote facilitation and as a virtual whiteboard for group work.
- Eduuni was designed for cross-organisational cooperation with organisations outside the higher education network as well.
- Viva Engage (previously known as Yammer) is an internal communication forum for university staff and students. The use of Viva Engage at the university will end during 2025.

Flamma’s workgroup areas offer a tool for collective writing and editing. Files, graphs and comments can also be added to the pages. The content is divided into separate areas, and the administrators of the areas can assign access rights as needed. The service can be used as a workspace for projects and teams, for example. The content cannot be openly published and the service always requires users to log in using their credentials from the University of Helsinki or other higher education institution (Haka, eduGAIN).

Microsoft Teams is a diverse and adjustable cloud-based group tool suited for both internal use at the university and cooperation with external stakeholders. The tool is not suited for processing confidential information (see section Responsibilities).

Teams provides both instant messaging and video call features between two parties as well as permanent discussion channels for different groups in the cloud.

Wikis are websites for the creation and publication of personal content and for cooperation between everyone at the university, visitors and external organisations. Wikis may be openly published sites or contain openly published sections. The wikis offer a tool for collective writing and editing. Files, graphs and comments can also be added to wiki pages. The content is placed on individual wiki areas whose access rights the administrator of the area may specify as they like. The service can be used as a workspace for projects and workgroups or for the group work of various classes, for example. The public wiki service of the University of Helsinki is based on the XWiki software and the Flamma Workgroups is based on Confluence software. Visitors may sign up for the service, but it is important to note that the identity of such users has not been confirmed.

Miro has established itself as a recommended whiteboard tool at the university. The university's enterprise license allows one user to have practically an unlimited number of boards and participants. There are hundreds of ready-made and free templates (in English) for different purposes.

Eduuni is a service environment for electronic work and networking, allowing work across organisational borders, even with participants from outside the higher education community, as the service allows the use of consumer cloud service credentials, such as Google and Microsoft. Eduuni consists of Microsoft SharePoint workspaces where workgroups specified by users can work on and share documents and other materials. Registration to Eduuni requires creating a personal Eduuni-ID. Your own work e-mail address is used for registering the Eduuni-ID, but you can choose how you want to log in. You can use the organisation’s own user account if the organisation is a member of the Haka or Virtu trust network. Google or Microsoft credentials can also be used in the service. The Eduuni service is produced by the IT Center for Science CSC. Further information https://en.eduuni.fi/.

Viva Engage has been the shared forum of university staff and students. The service will be discontinued in 2025. The service is no longer in active use and the current users should switch to, for example, Wiki or Teams.