Online skills tutorials

You can access the full range of skills@cumbria materials by logging into Blackboard and selecting the skills@cumbria tab.

Below are quick links to a selection of online skills tutorials.

Revision techniques and exam strategies

How to prepare for exams and beat stress and anxiety.

Introduction to using Quest

This tutorial aims to help you:

  • to use Quest, the easy to use yet powerful discovery service that searches the University's journal collections, bibliographic databases and library catalogue from one search box.

Finding Journal Articles with Academic Search Complete

This tutorial aims to help you:

  • to know why using journal articles is important
  • to find out what eresources are and how they can help you
  • to find out how to access journal articles using Academic search Complete

Referencing explained: using Cite them right (Harvard) style

This tutorial aims to help you:

  • to understand what referencing is
  • to understand why referencing is important
  • to create correct references for a variety of sources

Turnitin - your originality report

This turnitin tutorial aims to help you:

  • To find out how Turnitin can help you
  • To offer a valuable learning tool
  • To evaluate your own work
  • To understand your originality report

Turnitin Submission

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Scanning to Pebblepad

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Eresources for Health tutorial

https://stream.cumbria.ac.uk/ap/ALES2/