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...
Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam session (On Campus)
Starts: 19 Apr 2024, 2:00 pmFinishes: 19 Apr 2024, 3:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 1This 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.Preparing for Exams (Online)
Starts: 23 Apr 2024, 4:00 pmFinishes: 23 Apr 2024, 5:00 pmThis workshop is for anybody who needs to take an exam, and will cover effective revision techniques, and how to plan a revision timetable. There will also be the opportunity to ask your specific questions about effective revision and exam preparation.Preparing for exams (On Campus)
Starts: 24 Apr 2024, 3:00 pmFinishes: 24 Apr 2024, 4:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, CW Learning Suite 2Remaining places: 19This workshop is for anybody who needs to take an exam, and will cover effective revision techniques, and how to plan a revision timetable.There will also be the opportunity to ask your specific questions about effective revision and exam preparation.IT Essentials at Salford (Online)
Starts: 25 Apr 2024, 12:00 pmFinishes: 25 Apr 2024, 1:00 pmRemaining places: 99This workshop will introduce you to the main IT tools, resources and services you need to get started as a student at the University of Salford. This workshop will be delivered online.