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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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Library Skills Session: Introduction to EndNote21

Start Date: 18 December 2024 11:30 am

End Date: 18 December 2024 12:30 pm

Location: Online

This session will demonstrate how to use EndNote bibliographic software. It will include:
• Setting up and organising an Endnote Library
• Adding references to a library using manual or direct export (from subject databases and Library Search)
• How to attach a PDF to an EndNote record
• How to choose a reference style and create in-text citations and a bibliography using Cite While you Write with MS Word

Join the session here.

Any questions please contact endnote@chester.ac.uk

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Library Skills Session: Dissertation literature: where do I begin?

Start Date: 18 December 2024 10:00 am

End Date: 18 December 2024 11:00 am

Location: Online

This session is aimed at final year undergraduate and postgraduate students and will help you to plan your searches and use time saving search techniques to find the most relevant academic sources. Learn how to use subject specific databases to find high quality academic journals and research papers.

Join the session here.

Any questions please contact Jo Winchcombe j.winchcombe@chester.ac.uk

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Library Skills Session: Need help finding education journal articles? Session for School of Education students

Start Date: 10 December 2024 5:00 pm

End Date: 10 December 2024 6:00 pm

Location: Online

This session will focus on advanced search strategies using the Education databases. It is also an opportunity for you to pop along with any library related questions that you might have.

Join the session here.

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

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Disability Awareness Month: Christmas Crafternoon Tea

Start Date: 3 December 2024 1:00 pm

End Date: 3 December 2024 2:00 pm

Location: Binks 106/2, Exton Park

Fancy doing some mindful Christmas crafts? Are you registered with the Disability & Inclusion (D&I) Team here at Chester? Come and join us for a hot drink, a chat and make your very own tree decorations ready for Christmas! Feel free to bring a friend (your friend does not have to be registered with D&I).

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Christingle Service

Start Date: 12 December 2024 5:00 pm

End Date: 12 December 2024 6:00 pm

Location: Chapel, Exton Park

Come and enjoy our all age Christingle Service – oranges, sweets and Christmas music. If you don’t know what we mean, come and find out and bring a friend. You are in for a treat. 

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Christmas Carols – Queen’s Park 

Start Date: 5 December 2024 5:00 pm

End Date: 5 December 2024 6:00 pm

Location: Queen's Park

Christmas carols and readings at the Queen’s Park Carol Service, organised by Queen’s Park and supported by Chaplaincy.

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