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Digital Skills Week: Using Texthelp Read&Write Gold to support your studies

Start Date: 18 December 2024 4:00 pm

End Date: 18 December 2024 4:45 pm

Location: Online

Texthelp Read&Write Gold is a comprehensive assistive technology (AT) tool to help with your learning. 

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Library Skills Session: Literature searching for your systematic review

Start Date: 19 December 2024 3:00 pm

End Date: 19 December 2024 4:00 pm

Location: Online

This session will enable you to:
• Think strategically and critically about your literature search
• Create a search strategy for a systematic literature search
• Identify key relevant resources for your search
• Apply advanced search techniques and retrieve relevant literature

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Any questions please contact Debbie Spencer d.spencer@chester.ac.uk

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Library Skills Session: Making the most of eBooks

Start Date: 19 December 2024 10:00 am

End Date: 19 December 2024 10:45 am

Location: Online

We have access to over a 700,000 eBooks from a range of suppliers. This session will help you to learn how to best access and use them to maximum effect for your studies.

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Any questions please contact Fiona Warburton f.warburton@chester.ac.uk

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Digital Skills Week: OneNote – Using a digital notepad

Start Date: 18 December 2024 11:30 am

End Date: 18 December 2024 12:30 pm

Location: Online

Learn how to access and use a digital notepad for organisation, note taking and collaboration. 

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Digital Skills Week: Creating an online mind map using MindMeister

Start Date: 17 December 2024 4:00 pm

End Date: 17 December 2024 4:45 pm

Location: Online

MindMeister is an online tool to create and collaborate mind maps to help with planning of all kinds. 

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Digital Skills Week: Need to use PowerPoint for an assessment? Get some hints and tips on PowerPoint 

Start Date: 17 December 2024 11:00 am

End Date: 17 December 2024 11:45 am

Location: Online

Session covering how to use PowerPoint effectively, using examples of good practice. The session covers use of design and content when putting together your presentations. 

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Digital Skills Week: Basic Digital Accessibility

Start Date: 16 December 2024 4:00 pm

End Date: 16 December 2024 4:45 pm

Location: Online

Digital Accessibility helps more people read and understand your work and resources more easily. 

Come and learn about Digital Accessibility and how you can apply it to your assignments

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Digital Skills Week: Want to check over assignments before submitting? Learn how to use Draft Coach 

Start Date: 16 December 2024 2:30 pm

End Date: 16 December 2024 3:30 pm

Location: Online

Draft Coach enables you to check your Word assignments for plagiarism or similarity issues with existing student assignments. It acts in the same way that Turnitin’s software checks your uploaded Word assignments and is used by your Tutors to check for similar issues in other student’s work. 

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Digital Skills Week: Learn how you can make use of FAME to find company information and data 

Start Date: 16 December 2024 11:00 am

End Date: 16 December 2024 12:00 pm

Location: Online

FAME is our main source of company information in the UK and Ireland.  Join our session to hear more about how Fame can help you to carry out research about individual companies, including finding detailed company information and financial data, company profiles and producing sector insights.

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Library Skills Session: Finding resources on Library Search and your eLibraries

Start Date: 18 December 2024 2:00 pm

End Date: 18 December 2024 2:30 pm

Location: Online

Join this session to learn how to find e-books, print books and journal articles through the University’s Library Search database. Module e-libraries will also be highlighted, including how to locate subject e-journals and database links.

This session is a must for learning the basics of searching for academic information and will also highlight techniques such as saved searches and citation tools.

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Any questions please contact Laura Hannaway l.hannaway@chester.ac.uk

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