Settling in
Ready for the new year?
Get to know your neighbours, colleagues, and study environments.
Explore the tools and articles below on how to build connections and manage early challenges.
Reflect on priorities and goals
Turn last year's lessons into this year's progress.
Set priorities, track milestones, and build better study habits.
Start reflecting with our goal-setting tools.
Academic integrity
Start strong with good academic practices.
Learn how to avoid plagiarism and use sources responsibly.
Explore our academic integrity resources below.
Digital literacy & new ways of working
Study smarter in a digital world.
Discover tools, online study strategies, and AI guidance.
Build your digital skills with our tutorials.
Wellbeing & balance
Stay balanced, stay motivated.
Manage stress, protect your health, and enjoy life alongside study.
Discover strategies to build resilience and thrive.
Plan your year
Take control of your time.
Use the task scheduler to map deadlines and stay on top of workloads.
Try our task scheduler today.
1. Settling in and getting to know others
Find opportunities to make new or stronger social connections. There is always someone for you to speak to.
Managing life as a student
Strike a healthy balance in reaching out to people both in person and online
Navigating your first year | Blog
Recent graduates share the importance of staying true to yourself and your values
Hacks for approaching social situations | Blog
A student's top tips for approaching social situations with confidence
Establish good routines
Review actions that can help manage the stresses of studying
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Chinese proverb
2. Reflect on your priorities and goals
Where would you like to go in your studies, and how will you get there?
Think about adjustments to your routines, and take action. Start with something small towards your goals.
My priorities for development
Identify which skills you'd like to prioritise for improvement
Reflect on milestones
Make a smooth transition to university life with these suggested strategies
Change your habits
Start with one small step. Reflect on you how you set goals: what would you like to change and improve on?
How can I better prepare?
Reflect on the ways that you can prepare for your courses
Looking ahead to this year, what's one change, big or small, that you'd like focus on improving in your study habits, mindset, or daily routine?
How might this change help you towards success?
3. Academic integrity and transparency
Be open with your decision-making processes during your course. Review the way you go about tackling tasks. Take responsibility of the work that you produce, whilst giving credit to people and tools that have supported your work.
Technology enhanced study
Review the ways that you can take advantage of the technologies available through your university/college
Using or plagiarising
Identify ways of legitimately drawing on other writers' work without plagiarising
How to avoid plagiarism
Practical guidance on citing sources properly and keeping your work original.
What do I want to achieve
Analyse where you want to get to in the long term, both professionally and personally
Avoiding plagiarism when using AI tools
Learn how to use AI responsibly and make sure your work stays your own.
Your thoughts on AI
Reflect on how AI fits into your studies and share your perspective.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
4. Digital literacy and new ways of working
Explore opportunities to evaluate, create and communicate ideas in digital media.
Ways of using AI for study
How AI might be used to support you in preparing for class and understanding course materials
Research, writing, and revision | use of AI
Using AI tools in support of research, writing, and exam revision tasks
Join in with online learning
Examine how to contribute to discussions when working in an online environment
Studying collaboratively online
How do you build professional relationships when working with others online?
5. Wellbeing & balance
How well am I doing?
Check in on your wellbeing and see where you might need extra support.
Wellbeing online
Tips for staying healthy and balanced while learning and socialising online.
Managing anxieties
Practical strategies to ease stress, worry, and nerves during your studies.
What are my personal resources?
Explore your inner strengths and support networks that can help you thrive.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. Chinese proverb
Use the 'Task scheduler' feature: Place to do items into your calendar
Be more accountable to yourself and make commitments using the task scheduling feature. Track and mark-off completion of your tasks all in one place.
Have a go at setting a task by clicking the button here. Note: the task pane will be pre-populated with dummy text, simply overwrite as you wish.
