There are many free digital resources available online to help you study more effectively, for example by planning your time and keeping you focused on your tasks, making and using notes, or supporting your revision. This page showcases some of these free apps and websites, split into planning and note-taking, staying on task and testing yourself and revising.
Digital tools to help you study (about 1-2 hours).
This page provides guidance on and comparison of two pieces of note-taking software: Notion and RemNote.
Digital note-taking (about 1-2 hours).
The Your Skills programme brings together a holistic and wide-ranging series of workshops and resources, co-taught and co-created by teams from across the Library and wider University. These sessions are a great way to make sure your academic skills are up to date ahead of assessments, and include help on dissertation writing, referencing, finding information, and preparing for presentations.
Resource guides highlight the different types of information available from the Library. They include recommended sources alongside advice for finding and using different kinds of information in your research.
This page details the guidance and support available to researchers through the Library.
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).
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.
This page hosts all of the training courses for using SAP – the system the university uses for business and finance infrastructure, and student management.