This page details the guidance and support available to researchers through the Library.
Category: Developing
This short course provides guidance on creating digital artefacts such as video, audio recording, or a presentation of a text format.
Digital creation resources (about 1-2 hours).
This guide runs you through everything you need to know to get started using Excel, and covers all of the basics on navigation, formatting, using calculations, and creating graphics, charts, and tables.
Develop your Excel skills (about 1-2 hours).
The home page for subject guides within the Library. From here, you can navigate to and find resources for your specific subject area.
A short course teaching you how to use the various review tools in Microsoft Word. Includes tools such as spellchecker, and also collaborative tools such as comments and track changes.
With Microsoft Forms you can create a Form such as a survey, invite others to respond to it using almost any web browser or mobile device, see real-time results as they’re submitted, use built-in analytics to evaluate responses, and export results to Excel for additional analysis.
Getting started with Microsoft Forms (up to half an hour).
Guidance on how to access and use Microsoft Office 365 applications from anywhere.
Filestore Students
Guidance on digital file storage space available to students, including H:Drive and OneDrive.
Student file storage (under 10 minutes).
The File Drop-Off service provides members of the University with the ability to share large data files securely with others where the size of the data file is too large to be practicably sent by other means (such as an email attachment).
File drop-off: send and receive large files (under 10 minutes).
Ally is a tool that helps to make digital learning content more accessible. It helps to find and fix accessibility issues within Canvas Courses, and also provides students with a means of viewing or downloading content in different formats.
Ally: Canvas Accessibility Tool (under 10 minutes).