Advice for a stress free submission.

First, please use the Chrome or Firefox browsers if you are submitting online.  Note that the default browser in Windows 10 is Edge – perhaps OK for surfing the net – but we believe it isn’t performing so well for ‘high stakes’ activity such as assignment submission.  We see a handful of problems with empty submissions every week, and these have been submissions using the Edge browser – so, please download and install Firefox or Chrome and use these browsers when working with Blackboard.

More general assignment advice is on Carol & Mark’s excellent post from last December – here’s my summary:

• Find out well in advance about where, when, how, & in what format to submit your work – ask your tutor – and keep them informed of any issues you are having;
• If you are having problems submitting, check it’s not the system via these Twitter feeds: @EdgeHillVLE & @Turnitinstatus;
• Use Firefox or Chrome to submit – also available for Macs;
• Aim to submit 24 hours early – especially if submitting to Turnitin;
• The Uniskills online submission page covers Referencing, Planning, & Finding Academic Information.

Finally, a great place to get help is the AskUs service – it’s a 24/7 searchable knowledge base, with the ability to post your specific question to Learning Services for a quick response: askus.edgehill.ac.uk.

Good luck with your assignments.

David Callaghan
Learning Technology Development Officer
[email protected]
@LTDatEHU

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him…” – Hamlet (Act 5, Scene 1)

And hopefully you do too after a fantastic week of Shakespeare puns, plays and competitions!

It appears you were all very keen to welcome a little light relief to your stressful studying to play along with our #WhereforeArtThouWilliam competition last week. We had lots of entries into the daily prize draws and with puntastic prizes such as these who wouldn’t want to join in…

To celebrate the 400^th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death (also his birthday!) we posted a series of unusual photographs on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook inviting you to guess the PLACE on campus and the PLAY from the hidden clues!

Some days were a little bit trickier than others, so we did send out a clue or two, but we were able to give away a prize each day as well as a big bag of Shakespeare and Learning Services goodies to one lucky winner!

And on the big day itself, Saturday 23^rd April, we celebrated even further with a FREE book give away as part of World Book Night. Although it is a very busy time of year for our students it is also important to take a break from stressful workloads…and what better way to escape reality than reading for pleasure!

There was one small catch to getting your hands on a free book – you had to take a #SelfieWithShakespeare (well, it was his birthday after all!) This was also in support of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust campaign.

Vital Statistics

Did you know Learning Services were on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook?

As you can see our stats went a little bit crazy as a result of #WillOnCampus – so HI, HELLO and WELCOME to all our new followers! 👋

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
– Romeo & Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2)

Exams and deadlines can be a demanding time of the year and quite often we find ourselves cramming in a lot of study hours in a short space of time. This can leave us feeling stressed and needing a bit of TLC!

So let us support you with all your approaching deadlines and take advantage of our free snack giveaway, suite of helpful online resources and variety of learning spaces on campus!

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(Free) Brain food!

Every day from 25^th April – 13^th May we will be giving out free fruit and bottled water to keep you fuelled throughout the deadline period to help you maintain focus and optimise your performance.

So take a break and come along to the Ask Desk (1st floor, University library) from 11am – 3pm to collect your freebies!

Outside of these hours, don’t forget we now have a newly refurbished ground floor refreshment area where you can purchase bean to cup coffee and tasty revision snacks!

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Finding a quiet place to work…

The University library is open 24/7 right up until Friday 27^th May. Within the library you will find a range of study zones and bookable study rooms, networked PCs, loanable laptops and free Wi-Fi (eduroam), printing and photocopying facilities, access to 200,000 items including books, journals and audio-visual resources and access to help and support at our library helpdesks.

There are computers available in LINC building (building number 10 on the campus map) 24 hours a day, all year round which you can access using your student UniCard.

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Working online

Access Learning Edge to view the Revision Central panel – your one stop shop for handy shortcuts to academic support (Uni Skills), PC availability, exam hints and tips, workshops and more!

Don’t forget, you can also find useful resources through our library catalogue including books and ebooks about Study Skills and Revision Techniques

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Further help and support

For further help please don’t hesitate to get in touch! You can contact us in a number of ways:

• Contact Learning Services via our 24/7 Live Chat
• Search our knowledge base Ask Us for the answer to many common queries including using Turnitin, Harvard Referencing and much more.
• Give us a call on 01695 650800 during our opening hours
• Tweet us or send us a facebook message