Support will be provided by your subject tutors and digital experts within your subject area but you may like to follow the university links below to help you to get started.
Jisc Digital Capabilities
The Jisc Digital Capability discovery tool allows you to self-assess your digital skills to identify your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to your digital capability, to help you develop and enhance your digital literacy.
Complete the questionnaire to assess your current capabilities and on completion you'll receive a report highlighting your capable areas as well as suggested next steps.
Turnitin
Turnitin is web-based text matching, electronic submission and feedback software. It is used by many universities in the UK and across the world. Turnitin compares the text in the work you submit with a vast database of electronic sources, including online journal articles, web pages and previously submitted student work. It can be used by staff as a tool to help identify plagiarism and poor academic practice. It can also be used to as a developmental tool to help improve your academic writing.
Turnitin is integrated into Blackboard, so you will only ever access Turnitin via your Blackboard courses. As Turnitin provides staff with a wide range of options it can be used in several ways so it is important that you check with your tutors if you have any specific questions on the user of Turnitin. The guides below cover the essential features most likely to be used.
Digital Services support
Study Smarter with technology
There is a wide range of tools which you can use to help you study effectively. These include tools to help everyone with reading online, writing, text-to-speech, planning and organising, collaborating with others and more. We have created a guide to recommended tools which are free to download, or are already in-built on the student computers.
