Upcoming Workshops

Your first semester will be filled with new experiences and learning opportunities, and you should aim to do the best that you can throughout the semester. In this workshop you will learn skills, resources, and information that you should be familiar with at every point during the semester.

Studying at the university can be a stressful time for some students. Attending classes, working on assignments, making friends, studying for exams and working part-time can quickly fill up your schedule. Time management is one of the critical skills to master. In this workshop, you will identify ways to improve their time management skills by identifying your current time wasters and how much time is currently spent working on activities that will help you achieve important goals. You will also draft a tentative personal time schedule that fits your purpose.

With a focus on wellbeing, this workshop will provide you with strategies to help you find balance and support your productivity. You’ll leave with resources and strategies to support your success.

Juggling multiple demands on your time and energy can be really challenging. This workshop will review some strategies for evaluating how you use your time and where you might be able to improve, so that you can make more time for your priorities (both personal and school related) to find some balance in your day.

In this workshop, learn to plan your semester efficiently using the Semester Schedule to give yourself a visual picture of assignments, projects, tests and exams that are coming up, helping you to decide how to commit resources between various possible tasks.

This workshop will help you learn from your textbooks and university lectures by introducing a variety of effective pre-lecture reading strategies along with in class note-taking and post-class techniques. The session will include organizing your reading strategy to make sense of all this new information so that you can be successful in your courses. You will learn how to listen for key points and summarize main ideas, preparing more meaningful and effective study notes.

Are you ready to write your first university essays? This workshop will introduce the requirements and expectations for university-level writing as well as effective strategies and resources to help the writing process. Learn how to craft a thesis statement, structure an argument, and begin to write clearly and concisely.

In this peer-led workshop you will learn the basic features of PebblePad, how to access assignments set up in PebblePad and how to share your completed work with your instructors. You will also learn how to create a portfolio.

In this workshop, you will discuss steps for creating semester, weekly, and daily schedules that incorporate principles for effective online learning and adapt to your unique situation.

Scientific writing involves clear, concise communication as you express your knowledge on tests and exams. In this workshop, you will explore the key types of questions asked in biology, and practice developing strong answers that meet your instructor’s criteria for success.