IT in Odisee

ICTO student tips

On a regular basis, tips are sent to students by ICTO.

These student tips cover a wide range of topics, including:

  • e-pubs and e-books
  • IT and Education - ICTO
  • the learning centers
  • Microsoft 365
  • Service Desk
  • the learning platform Toledo
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e-pubs / e-books

  • 1. Printing my courses. How do I do that?

    Through Standard Bookstore, you only order your paper textbooks. Teacher's courses you get for free in two formats. Many students still want a paper version of their course. But printing an e-publication: how do you do that?

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IT and Education

  • 5. This is how the exam platform Ans works

    Soon the first exams will start for certain courses. So time to bring this information to your attention. All the more so because we are putting the new exam format Ans into use. Learn more.

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  • 4. Classrooms and study areas. How to book.

    As a student, you can find study spaces on campus and in the campus environment. Not only during exams, but throughout the academic year. There are various quiet work spaces, areas to do group work. And, of course, there are the learning centers.

    You can read more about that, and about the range of study spaces per campus, both in Odisee and beyond, here.

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  • 3. IT and odisee. What you need to know at your start

    As a new student at Odisee, you already received the e-course 'As a student starting with educational technology at Odisee' during the welcome week. If you missed it, you can find it here, with lots of extras. Get off to a flying start.

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  • 2. The Odisee dashboard. How does it work?

    The Odisee dashboard is your daily digital starting place, where communication and information come together. In this student environment, you will find all the applications you need as an Odisee student every day. We would like to give you the highlights.

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  • 1. Translating web pages, how do you do it?

    Suppose you come to a web page written in another language. And no translation is provided. Read here what you can do in that case.

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Learning Centers

  • 2. Question for the learning centers, how do you ask?

    Do you have a question for our learning centers? Ask it through a ticket. And be helped quickly. Here you can read how this works.

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  • 1. Lean Library

    Lean Library is a browser extension that works with Odisee's library system and gives you quick access to articles, e-books and other subscriptions. Curious?

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Microsoft 365

  • 4. OneDrive, your personal space

    OneDrive gives you a personal space to store, share and edit all your documents from anywhere. Find out how it works here.

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  • 3. Inclusion. What do Windows and M365 offer?

    Inclusion is highly valued by Odisee. In addition to the many facilities that are offered, there are often offerings that simply "are there. Just think of the accessibility settings in Windows and the "Dictation" and "Inclusive Reader" features in the Microsoft 365 suite. We briefly introduce them to you.

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  • 2. How to easily add your personal class schedule to your calendar with TimeEdit?

    Always want to have the most recent class schedule without having to surf to My Admin or Toledo all the time? Then have your personal class schedule automatically synchronized with your own Google, Outlook or iCloud calendar.

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  • 1. How to hide a Team?

    Last academic year, you were a member of a lot of Teams in Microsoft Teams. But maybe you no longer need some of them this year? How do you make sure those disappear from your list?

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Service Desk

  • 1. I have an IT problem, now what?

    The IM (Information Management) service has a status page 'status.odisee.be'. That complements 'servicedesk.odisee.be' where you can go with all your IT-related questions. But how do you use both platforms?

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Toledo

  • 3. Notifications in Toledo. Learn to deal with them.

    Both at the top of the Toledo portal and at each tile, you see counters at the unseen notifications for Communications (plane) and for Updates (mailbox). How exactly does this work?

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  • 2. The Toledo courses. Working together

    With this student tip, we let you know that starting this academic year we will be using Ultra courses, Toledo's new course environment, in all courses in Toledo.

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  • 1. The Toledo home page. get to know

    From 1 to 10, we briefly list the highlights of the learning platform. Do you have them all with you?

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