TOPICS
Settling in
- Ready for the new year? Get to know your neighbours, colleagues, and study environments.
Reflect
- How can you improve on last year? Review your progress, goals, and priorities for development.
Academic integrity
- How to make positive contributions to your learning community? Reflect on your values and consider your purpose in academic tasks.
Digital literacy
- What will you do differently? Ongoing awareness and development of the skills involved in using digital media.
Ideas to help you get settled into your new academic year
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid of standing still.
(old proverb)
The start of year or term is filled with the promise of new opportunities, and can be a catalyst for taking action.
This is a chance to take a step back, and reflect on changes you can make to the way you work and manage academic life.
Explore things to try, and perhaps carry out your tasks a little differently, this coming year.
Topics include:
Get into better habits
start your year as you mean to go on
Reach out to others
know your neighbours and colleagues!
Reflect on your goals
how you can improve on last year
Take the plunge
dive in and get yourself involved with more projects
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Topics include
- Get into good habits: start your year as you mean to go on
- Know your neighbour
- What are the goals for the year
- How can you improve on last year
- Take the plunge: dive in
- Get your ducks in a row
Settling in and getting to know others
Find opportunities to make new or stronger social connections. There is always someone for you to speak to.
What are my personal sources of support?
Review the support that is available to you
Managing life as a student
Strike a healthy balance in reaching out to people both in person and online
Navigating your first year | Blog
Recent graduates share the importance of staying true to yourself and your values
Hacks for approaching social situations | Blog
A student's top tips for approaching social situations with confidence
Managing anxieties
Reflect on possible sources of worries and aspects that you can control
Establish good routines
Review actions that can help manage the stresses of studying
Reflect on your priorities and goals
Where would you like to go in your studies, and how will you get there?
Think about adjustments to your routines, and take action. Start with something small towards your goals.
My priorities for development
Identify which skills you'd like to prioritise for improvement
Reflect on milestones
Make a smooth transition to university life with these suggested strategies
Change your habits
Start with one small step. Reflect on you how you set goals: what would you like to change and improve on?
How can I better prepare?
Reflect on the ways that you can prepare for your courses
Academic integrity and transparency
Be open with your decision-making processes during your course. Review the way you go about tackling tasks. Take responsibility of the work that you produce, whilst giving credit to people and tools that have supported your work.
Technology enhanced study
Review the ways that you can take advantage of the technologies available through your university/college
Using or plagiarising
Identify ways of legitimately drawing on other writers' work without plagiarising
How to avoid plagiarism
Identify strategies for avoiding plagiarism
What do I want to achieve
Analyse where you want to get to in the long term, both professionally and personally
Avoiding plagiarism when using AI tools
Your thoughts on AI
Digital literacy and new ways of working
Explore opportunities to evaluate, create and communicate ideas in digital media.
Ways of using AI for study
How AI might be used to support you in preparing for class and understanding course materials
Research, writing, and revision | use of AI
Using AI tools in support of research, writing, and exam revision tasks
Join in with online learning
Examine how to contribute to discussions when working in an online environment
Studying collaboratively online
How do you build professional relationships when working with others online?
