Not surprisingly with the rapid move to remote working we’ve all experienced over the last 3 weeks, there has been a massive uptake of Teams across the university. The graph below shows the take off of Teams. The first peak is in the last week we were on site as people were preparing for working […]
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LinkedInLearning
The University has a subscription to LinkedInLearning which you can access from the portal. LinkedInLearning has many academic learner paths. However, there is much, much more to LinkedInLearning. There are so many options that you can choose from. At the moment they seem to be championing many wellbeing learner paths. When you access LinkedInLearning you […]
Watch movies for free – Box of broadcasts (BoB)
BoB is an Archive of TV and radio broadcasts dating back to the 1990s from BBC channels, ITV, Channel 4, Film 4 and more, as well as 10 foreign language channels (Italian, French and German). You are required to register with your name and University email address. You can access BoB via that portal (Resources […]
Yarnfulness
Due to the current situation, we are unable to have our regular face to face Yarnfulness session, so we thought that we would take Yarnfulness online. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to provide much practical help or be able to supply any yarn or needles/hooks. but if you already know how to knit or crochet, […]
Assessments
As announced on 26 March, in Spring semester 2020 all examinations for students on professional undergraduate programmes in years 1 and 2, undergraduates in years 3 and 4, and taught postgraduates will be replaced with remote examinations or alternative assessments (see the University FAQs for full information). We have added information to our Canvas and Learning […]
Download listen again recordings
Today Information Services have made all lectures recordings on Listen Again available for download. This means that those students working remotely and viewing lectures for revision do not have to stream them multiple times. To download a lecture, navigate to it on the Listen Again page in your Canvas module and click the download icon […]
Dissertation help
We have just completed our spring dissertation roadshows. We had two sessions one in Pathfoot and one in the library. If you were not able to make these sessions, don’t worry you can still access all of the resources and help that we were advertising. We have a module on UniDesk (which you access via […]
Wellbeing takeover of the Library (Thursday 5th March)
This week is wellbeing week (#StirWellbeingWeek), throughout the University. On Thursday we will be hosting a mindfulness session in the Wellbeing Space in the library from 11:30 – 12:15. (find out about the session here). When we were asked about the use of this space for the mindfulness session, it got us to thinking about […]
Mindfulness session
For #StirWellbeingWeek we are hosting a mindfulness session on Thursday 5th March 11:30 – 12:15 in the Wellbeing Space, Library Level 2. This is a 45-minute session to introduce you to the practice of mindfulness What is mindfulness?Mindfulness is the art of bringing attention to the present moment in a kind and non-judgemental way. It […]
Where can I study?
You Said:Please provide a spreadsheet of rooms available for Study We did:We have various ways to find out where there is free space to study. We don’t have a spreadsheet, but we have created 2 web pages which provide live information about PC availability on campus (including the availability of our new laptop loans). Open […]