The Academic Skills Unit (ASU) can work with you to enhance your students' learning by providing targeted Maths and Literacy support.

Why work with the Academic Skills Unit?

The Academic Skills Unit (ASU) can help you determine which type of support would be most appropriate for your students. We can embed support in your units, attend your classes, review learning activities, develop online resources tailored to your assessment tasks, and map resources to unit outlines.

Academic Skills Advisors also provide direct support to students through Academic Skills online (Canvas site), Individual 30-minute consultations, Ask an Advisor email enquiries and workshops.

Areas we can assist with include:

We develop interactive and engaging resources including self-assessment quizzes, annotated examples of academic writing and infographic hotspots.

To view our full list of offerings and resources, visit Academic Skills on Canvas.

Key Considerations

An investigation of your learners' needs enables you to better address them.

Your students may require support to:
  • understand how to analyse a task
  • become familiar with assessment types such as reflective tasks and case studies
  • develop or refresh their fundamental maths skills
  • incorporate maths to address specific assessment requirements
  • develop an understanding of statistics for research
  • improve skills in critical reading and writing
  • explore alternate problem-solving strategies
  • increase awareness of correct citation and referencing practices
  • learn how to produce an academic essay
  • develop paraphrasing strategies
  • use digital devices and software applications to complete tasks
 
Understanding your students
  • What are your student demographics (particularly first-year undergraduate programs)?
  • What are their levels of study?
  • What do you know about their prior learnings and skills?
  • Can you draw on their prior learning?
  • What academic skills do your students often lack?
Your unit requirements
  • What implicit skills are needed for each assessment?
  • When must students demonstrate these skills?
  • How do assessments build skills throughout the unit and course?
  • Are assessments sequenced?
  • Can students use timely feedback from one task in later tasks?
  • Are assessment expectations aligned with students' learning level?

Get in touch

If you are interested in collaborating with the Academic Skills Unit to develop discipline-specific resources and tailored support for your students, please submit your request via the Service Central forms below:

Please ensure that you allow sufficient time for resource development.

For more information, please visit the Information for Staff Canvas page or email academicskills@acu.edu.au.

Page last updated on 22/11/2024
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