The Learning Centres provide a range of FREE workshops which help you to develop skills and strategies to enhance your learning. These workshops will help you in your academic courses and in your career! Get a certificate of attendance if you attend FIVE Academic Skills Workshops in a semester. This would be a valuable addition to any resume/ portfolio.
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The following are workshops offered by the Learning Centres:
Strong Start for Success
Plan Your Semester
Learn how to create a written semester schedule that includes important information about assignments, tests, and other deadlines.
Getting Started on Your Assignment
Learn how to interpret assignment questions and apply assessment criteria in your initial assignment planning.
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Get Your Project Done
Learn strategies to tackle your assignments and projects.
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Building Effective Study Habits
Preparing for Tests and Exams
Midterm tests and exams are coming!
Are you ready? In this workshop, we will discuss strategies for organizing your study time.
10 Tips for Learning Online
Are you new(er) to online learning?
This workshop will help you to choose strategies to understand your course requirements, manage your time, and effectively learn from your course materials..
Preparing for an Open Book Exam
Are you concerned about your Open Book Exam?
This workshop will give you strategies to prepare for the Open Book Exam and writing well in the exams.
Finish Your Semester Online
Are you wondering how to finish your semester well online? In this workshop, we will explore strategies for staying on track and learning how to make the most of online learning.
Study Smarter
Do you want to get the most out of every hour of study time? This workshop will introduce you to study techniques that have been proven to improve the concepts you learn. You will learn how to access deeper-level thinking that helps concepts to stick.
Master Your Memory
Would you like to remember more effectively, while using your study time more effectively? In this workshop, you will learn how memory works and ideal strategies for remembering more of what you learn. You will also be able to experiment with new techniques, like visualization, mnemonic devices, and smartphone apps to help you to learn.
Strategic Time Management
Learn to identify your current time wasters and decide which time wasters are having negative consequences. You will then have hands-on techniques to draft a tentative personal time schedule. You will also learn to manage your day with a smartphone app.
Note Taking & Summarizing
We can use note taking and summarizing as a way to understand our tests, or even our research resources. Building your note taking and summarizing skills can help you boost your confidence and your grades!
Reading Texts and Taking Notes
This workshop will help you learning from your textbooks and university lectures by introducing a variety of effective pre-lecture reading strategies along with in-class notetaking and post-class techniques. This 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 for more meaningful and effective study notes. Find a note-taking strategy to suit you and develop a plan for organizing your notes.
Say No To Procrastination
Why do you postpone doing something? Learn to identify the key factors that make you postpone. Evaluate if the Pomodoro technique may be a part of your solution. Develop an action plan for overcoming procrastination on a specific course-related task. You will also learn some motivational systems to support successful task completion.
Exam Preparation Strategies
Use this workshop to improve your study and self-testing techniques before your next test. Get prepared!
Reading Texts
(Online Self-Paced Learning)
Learn the techniques of reading textbooks, articles, research studies and manuals effectively at your own pace.
Time Management for Busy Students (Online Self-Paced Learning)
Learn strategies to becoming a stronger and more efficient learner at anytime and anywhere you like.
Book an appointment to see a Learning Strategist if you need a one-on-one consultation at TLC.KPU.CA
Improve Your Writing
Writing Mini-Bootcamp
Do you have questions about the best way to write an academic essay or report? Wondering how to use information from sources by quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing? Join this workshop for an introduction to the process of writing an effective academic paper.
University Essay: First Steps
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.
Quote, Paraphrase and Summarize
In this workshop, you will learn how to integrate information from your readings while maintaining your own distinctive voice in your paper.
Writing “in your own words” with Academic Integrity
Do you need to use information from several sources in your paper? Confused about how to write an effective paraphrase? You will leave this workshop with practical strategies for reading sources, taking effective resource notes, and integrating paraphrased information into a strong academic paper.
Writing your Business Report
Learn how to integrate the information you find in your research into a well-organized business report.
Writing Effective Research Papers
Learn how to prepare a professional, well-researched and polished business report.
Polishing and Editing Your Business Report
Learn self-editing skills necessary to improve the quality of your business reports.
Effective Editing
(Online Self-Paced Learning)
Learn strategies for finding and correcting your mistakes before you submit your assignments, at your own pace.
Book an appointment to see a Learning Strategist if you need a one-on-one consultation at TLC.KPU.CA
Science Skills
Writing Right In Biology
Writing in Biology is quite different from writing you have previously learned. This type of writing requires careful thoughts and attention to detail. Your instructor is expecting you to write precisely and you need to attain a higher level of scientific writing. In this workshop, you will learn to plan activities to increase your learning, discuss the structure and function of responses in Biology, compare and contrast using "how" and "why" statements, learn how to use "whereas" in paragraph format as well as analyze exam items carefully which will lead to better results. Don't miss this chance to improve your Biology writing skills.
Study Smarter In Biology
Learn strategies for deeper-level thinking that will help you to study more effectively in Biology as you go through the semester and prepare for your exams
BIOL 1160 Final Exam Review Session
Prepare for your BIOL 1160 final exam. Practice exam level questions and review key concepts to help you be successful.
Math Support for GNIE Students: Oral and Parenteral Drug Dosage Calculations
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Business Skills
ACCT 1110 Final Exam Review Session
Get ready for your Accounting 1110 final! Review and apply key concepts to exam level questions.
ACCT 2293 Final Exam Review Session
Get ready for your Accounting 2293 final! Review and apply key concepts to exam level questions.
ACCT 3310 Final Exam Review Session
Get ready for your Accounting 3310 final! Review and apply key concepts to exam level questions.
ACCT 3320 Final Exam Review Session
Get ready for your Accounting 3320 final! Review and apply key concepts to exam level questions.
ACCT 5220 Final Exam Review Session
Get ready for your Accounting 5220 final! Review and apply key concepts to exam level questions.
BUSI 1110 Midterm Exam Preparation
Get ready for your BUSI 1110 midterm exam! Review study strategies for online exams and practice analyzing cases. Students from BUSI 1110 L10 & L11 can receive bonus marks for participation.
BUSI 1215 Midterm Exam Preparation
Get ready for your BUSI 1215 midterm exam! Review study strategies for online exams and practice analyzing cases. Students from BUSI 1215 L10 & L11 can receive bonus marks for participation.
Software Skills
Excel: Basic Skills for University Students
Learn how to format data, copy and paste values, use the autofill features and how to use the function builder to easily analyze data.
Excel: Intermediate Skills for University Students
Learn to analyze large datasets by developing tables and pivot tables and visualize results with charts
Mahara: Basics Skills for ePortfolios
The ePortfolio platform is a great way to ensure you are taking the knowledge and skills gained in each course forward to the next course, to your practicum project, to your first job. Learn how to use Mahara as a platform for showcasing your achievements.
Mahara: Intermediate Skills for ePortfolios
Learn the skills you need to enhance your ePortfolio. Learn how to develop customized skins, how to embed journals, and more.
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Sensational Saturdays
Strategies for Work and StudyLearn strategies to become a stronger and more efficient learner while still being effective in the workplace. |
Independent LearningThis session will assist you in analyzing how you learn and choosing techniques that will increase your independence as a University learner. Bring your course syllabus and text with you. |
Writing Boot Camp - Get Past Writers' BlockCome to this workshop to learn a variety of techniques to generate ideas for your papers or assignments. From there, you will learn strategies to organize your ideas and finally have hands-on ideas to outline them. |
Writing Boot Camp - Quote, Paraphrase and SummarizeWant to improve your writing assignments? attend this workshop to learn how! |
Writing Boot Camp - Strategies for Self EditingAre you tired of losing marks for small mistakes on your writing assignments? Take control of improving your writing by learning practical strategies to find and correct mistakes before you submit your papers. |
Writing Boot Camp - Cite using the new APA StyleAre you fretting about using the new APA style correctly? Not to Worry! In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to do a variety of citations based on the new 7th edition of the manual, so you can more confidently cite your sources in your papers. |
Exam Preparation StrategiesWhy wait until the exam to find out what you do not know? Use this workshop to improve your study and self-testing techniques before your next test. Get prepared! |
Reducing Academic AnxietyLearn more about the role anxiety can play in your academic success, along with strategies for effectively managing and overcoming it. |
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