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Feedback from students tells us that studying in a sixth form or further education college can be a very different experience to studying at university.

At university, you will be expected to take much more responsibility for managing your own studies and quickly learn how to manage your time and juggle different priorities, and that’s where the Learner Development Team can help. Use these online resources to help you learn the skills needed to succeed:

Moodle

Visit our Academic and Study Skills Moodle unit where you will find screen-casts and slides for all our workshops, materials for our courses, routes to access feedback on drafts of work, and much more! As a Manchester Met student you can access these resources anytime, 24/7.

Podcast

A Critical Thought is a podcast from the Learner Development Team at Manchester Metropolitan University. Every episode features a conversation with academics from across the university discussing the skills they use in their research and the transferability of these skills into students’ work.

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Videos

These short videos are crammed with top tips and they’re a great way to get started. These resources are designed to complement your programme-based teaching and learning activities. Aimed at all students, they’re available to help you to become the most effective learner you can.

Help with online learning

Top 10 Tips for Online Learning

Getting the most from Remote Learning

Preparing for an online exam

Help with your writing

Avoiding plagiarism recording

Writing - from descriptive to critical

Writing - analysis and synthesis

Writing - a quick guide to commas

Writing - 1st, 2nd, 3rd person

Writing - active and passive voice

Writing - formality in academic writing

Writing - features of a report

Punctuation overview for academic writing

Colons and Semicolons

Hedging in academic writing

Writing- tenses in academic writing

Getting started with Read and Write 11

Using evidence effectively

Writing Concisely

What is plagiarism?

Help with revision, time management, presentations and taking notes

7 Revision Strategies

9 Steps for Effective Time Management

Presentations - Visual Aids

Note-taking in Lectures and Seminars

Getting started with MindView 6.0.

Shaping Seen Paper Responses

What students think about Academic Study Skills

Academic Study Skills - what students think