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Essential Student Skills: Effective reading

Reading texts well is fundamental to getting the most out of your studies. This section includes techniques for reading effectively.

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Essential student skills: Accessibility basics for students

This resource will introduce you to the concept of accessibility, and help you to make your work accessible using software available to you as UHI students.

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Essential student skills: An introduction to Brightspace

Brightspace is UHI’s Learning Environment (LE). This resource offers a tour of the interface and multiple sources of help and guidance.

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Essential student skills: Assignments guide for students

Guide showing how to find and submit an assignment in Brightspace, as well as how to access feedback.

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Essential student skills: Brightspace discussion guide

The Discussions tool in Brightspace is for communication and collaboration, to pose questions, and share information and opinions.

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Essential student skills: Brightspace ePortfolio Guide

Brightspace has its own ePortfolio which you can use to collect and share artefacts of all sorts and reflections.

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Essential student skills: Collaborative learning

This section looks at the challenges and benefits of working in groups, a key skill that employers look for.

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Essential student skills: Computing key skills

Discover your current IT skill level and learn about using Word and PowerPoint, sourcing and using images, and managing files.

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Essential student skills: Creating a blog using Mahara in Brightspace

Mahara is a blogging tool, for capturing reflections. It has several useful features and gives you control over what you share.

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Essential student skills: Finding learning resources

This section looks at the vast array of learning resources are available to you through the UHI library system both in print and online.

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Essential student skills: Getting online

Dealing with the practical steps in accessing the wide variety of software provided by UHI to all students, logging into MyDay, UHI WiFi and UHI Records.

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Essential student skills: Mental health support at UHI

The aim of this resource is to support students with mental health.

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Essential student skills: Netiquette and online communication guidelines

Communicating online can be an exciting and unique experience. However, there are certain codes of conduct we should try to adhere to (often grouped together as 'netiquette').

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Essential student skills: New to blended learning

The most common way units and modules are taught at UHI, involving a mixture of technologies and techniques, synchronous and asynchronous.

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Essential student skills: Note taking

This section looks at the importance of taking notes, and examines some strategies for effective note taking.

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Essential student skills: Ouriginal (formerly Urkund) guide

Ouriginal (formerly Urkund) is a text-recognition tool, accessed from within Brightspace, used to detect possible plagiarism among FE students at UHI.

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Essential student skills: The tools of writing

This brief resource looks at the building blocks of good academic writing: grammar and punctuation. Interactive examples are included.

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Essential student skills: Thinking about learning

This section is designed to help you understand what learning is, to identify your own learning style, and to move towards becoming an independent learner.

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Essential student skills: Time management

Whatever your situation you need to manage your time so that you can get the most out of your course and leave time for other priorities.

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Essential student skills: Turnitin student guide

Turnitin is a text-recognition tool, accessed from within Brightspace, used to detect possible plagiarism among HE students at UHI.

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Essential student skills: Webex Help pages for students

In this resource you will find answers to questions you might have about Webex in Brightspace. The resource is organised topically with links to official Webex guidance.

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