Workshops
Academic Skills Workshops
Elevate your skills and knowledge with us!
We offer a wide range of academic skills workshops delivered online and in-person on campus. This is a great place to start if you want to:
- Improve your study and research skills.
- Develop your IT and digital skills.
- Focus on your maths and numeracy.
Workshops are added regularly, so keep checking back to see what's new!
Workshop topics
Study and Research
- Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Academic writing for assessments e.g. critical and reflective writing, assessment structure, paraphrasing, referencing
- Digital notemaking
- Endnote
- Finding information e.g. Library Search, finding journal articles and using databases
- Motivation and procrastination
- Preparing for exams
- Presentation skills
- Reading lists
- Resilience
IT and Digital
- Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Creating academic posters
- Creating narrated presentation videos
- Formatting your dissertation
- Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exams
Maths and Numeracy
- Numerical reasoning tests
- Medicine management numeracy skills
Library Welcome
- Library welcome webinar
- IT essentials at Salford
Coming up...
Medicine Management Non-calculator Numeracy Skills 3: Calculations with Decimals [online]
Starts: 9 May 2024, 9:30 amFinishes: 9 May 2024, 11:30 amRemaining places: 40This session will look at calculations involving decimals in non-calculator drug calculations. This session is suitable for any student required to complete medicine management numeracy assessments. This session will be delivered online.Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam session (On Campus)
Starts: 15 May 2024, 3:00 pmFinishes: 15 May 2024, 4:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 7This one-hour EXAM SESSION for MOS certification takes place ON CAMPUS. At the time of booking, you must have scored over 70% in GMetrix's 'Testing' mode for your chosen application. Bookings not meeting this criterion will be cancelled.Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam session (Online)
Starts: 21 May 2024, 4:00 pmFinishes: 21 May 2024, 5:00 pmVenue: MOS Exam - Certiport exam providerRemaining places: 10This is a one-hour online EXAM SESSION for MOS certification. At the time of booking, you must have scored over 70% in GMetrix's 'Testing' mode for your chosen application. Bookings not meeting this criterion will be cancelled.Getting started with your academic assessment [ON CAMPUS]
Starts: 28 May 2024, 2:00 pmFinishes: 28 May 2024, 3:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, CW Learning Suite 2Remaining places: 20This workshop is aimed at new students. This workshop covers the different types of assessments at university and how to get started on them. This workshop will be delivered on campus.