This page details the guidance and support available to researchers through the Library.
Category: Student
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).
When undertaking independent research for your essay, assignment or dissertation, you’ll need to manage the information you find so that you can use it efficiently, ethically and with academic integrity. We live in an age of information overload, so this may seem like a daunting task, but here we’ve got the tools and advice you need to get organised and stay in control.
The home page for subject guides within the Library. From here, you can navigate to and find resources for your specific subject area.
This short course explains different image file formats and what you would use them for, and teaches you how to create and edit simple images and diagrams using familiar Microsoft apps. Finally, the course runs through copyright considerations.
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.
Guidance on how to use file storage options in Office 365. When do you use OneDrive? When do you use Teams? How do they work together?
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).