Undergraduates – Guides, Mark Calculator, Videos & Podcasts

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Guides

A Guide to Time Management
This newly redesigned workshop is a comprehensive compendium of information, strategies, and advice on time planning and controlling procrastination. A Guide to Time Management is particularly useful for senior and graduate students who find effective time management to be an on-going challenge.
A Guide to University Learning
This workshop is designed to give first-year students a preview of what it's like to take lecture notes, process academic text, create integrated study notes, and take a multiple choice test in a university learning environment. It focuses on a small part of an introductory Psychology course. A Guide to University Learning was formerly called iU. It's been completely redesigned, with many new and unique features like text that highlights itself. Try out A Guide to University Learning during the summer before you arrive on campus, and use it through out your first year as you encounter new learning challenges.
Handouts
Online copies of all our handouts. Topics include time management, preparing for exams, learning from lectures and text, and much more.

This new tool developed by Learning Services allows you to calculate your standing in a course based on the marks you've received so far. It can help you determine your goals for upcoming assignments and exams, or decide whether or not to drop the course. You can also calculate your semester average. You can print your results from the Mark Calculator website, or download the Excel version, where you can save your information and add to it throughout the semester. We would appreciate your feedback on this new tool - whether complaints or compliments. Please contact Jason Dodd in Learning Services at jdodd@uoguelph.ca.

Advice for entering students (Streaming Video – .wmv format)
Senior Peer Helpers in the Learning Commons provide advice for entering students and share their reflections on academic rigour in this 8-minute video.
More advice for entering students (Streaming Video – .wmv format)
Recently graduated students reflect on their university experiences and offer recommendations for how to make the most of first year at the University of Guelph in this 3-minute video.

These podcasts are from the Learning Commons' Investing in Excellence Web site. Listen to learn more about how to excel at university.

Introduction: what must students know and be able to do in order to succeed in university courses? (MP3 – 4.50mb)
Excellence in University Learning (MP3 – 5.43mb)
Excellence in Academic Writing (MP3 – 2.46mb)
Excellence in University Library Research (MP3 – 2.48mb)
Excellence in Learning with Technology (MP3 – 2.33mb)
Excellence in Time Management (MP3 – 2.67mb)

Top 40 Study Tips
Our Peers share their wit, wisdom, and experience as academically successful students in this useful list of study strategies.