Title: Opiskeluohjeet ja arviointi - Study Instructions and Assessment
Course: Study PrepProg Finnish Language 1 > Section: Johdanto

Here are instructions for studying in the course and a description of how assessment is carried out.

Study Instructions

Guide the student: how will the course progress, where discussions are held, what are the learning tasks on this course and where are they located. How, where and when are assignments returned, what should the students focus on on the course…

Assessment

This course has 8 learning tasks that are designed to support your learning process and help you achieve the learning outcomes of this course.

Successful passing of the course requires completing all 8 learning tasks with passing grades.

Learning methods

The student works mainly in the Moodle learning environment and in Zoom online meetings. The student participates in joint online meetings twice a week and also studies independently regardless of location. To study online, the students need a computer, an internet connection, a headset with a microphone, and a webcam.

Student’s workload

5 credits equals 135 hours of student work. The course includes approximately 32 hours of online contact teaching, as well as group work and independent studies. Successful completion of the course requires active participation of at least 60 % in online contact teaching. Active participation in online meetings requires that the student has an audio and video connection during the meeting.

Learning materials

The learning material can be found in the online learning environment Moodle. During the course, both open online materials and teachers' own material are utilized. No textbook is required for the course.

Additional information for students

Communication between teachers and students takes place in the Moodle course discussion area.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

The course cannot be completed by exam.

Objects, timing and methods of assessment

Tasks to be assessed:

1. Identifying phonemes
2. Reacting to greetings and introducing oneself
3. Reading out (personal information and numbers)
4. Listening comprehension (food and drinks)
5. Writing assignment and discussion of your daily routine
6. Text comprehension (family and friends)
7. Discussion and reaction task
8. Activity in the course

Students must do the tasks themselves and any kind of cheating in the learning tasks is prohibited. For example copying a task or producing a text using a translation programme or artificial intelligence is considered cheating. In case of cheating, the learning task in question will be graded failed.

Accepted learning tasks cannot be retaken. A failed task can be retaken once according to a schedule defined by the teacher. Tasks that are graded failed due to cheating, cannot be retaken.

All numerically assessed tasks are evaluated on a scale of 0 to 3. In addition to the above-mentioned tasks, the final assessment of the course is influenced by the student’s activity in the course. Course activity consists of active participation in online meetings and in all the learning tasks of the course.

- 0: failed – the task has not been done or it does not follow the instructions, the task is not linguistically understandable
- 1: accepted – the task mainly follows the instructions, but it can be incomplete in content or linguistically
- 2: good – the task has been done according to the instructions and it is linguistically mainly clear
- 3: excellent – the task has been done with care according to the instructions and it is linguistically clear and fluent

The course is assessed on a scale 0–5. The final grade is influenced by student’s activity during the course and learning tasks (see above), which are assessed on a scale 0–3.

The student may get a maximum of 24 points for the tasks. The final grade is formed on the basis of points as follows:

- 0–9 p = 0
- 10–12 p = 1
- 13–15 p = 2
- 16–18 p = 3
- 19–21 p = 4
- 22–24 p = 5

Assessment scale:  F-5