Academics' online presence guidelines: A four step guide to taking control of your visibility

OpenUCT published Academics' online presence guidelines: A four step guide to taking control of your visibility in 2012.

Printing only part of an MS Word 2010 document

You won't always want to print the whole of your document; here are some useful ways of printing only part of a MS Word 2010 file. For best viewing Download the video.

FoHS Getting the most from your first clinical placement

As a first year student nurse about to enter into the world of clinical practice for the first time, can I invite you to take 14 minutes out of your busy life to listen to this podcast which discusses a top ten list of things to consider.

Using Macs at WSA (basics)

Materials on creating files and folders on the Mac Operating System (10.5 / Leopard). Creating folders to organise your files is very important, this will help you to keep track of your work, create simple backups (making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.) and much much more. Whatever computer you like using, they all work on the basic principle of using folders to organise files. Files and folder should have meaningful names do not use special Characters like £$%&! and never use a ‘.’ except before a file extension. It is best to start creating your folders in the documents (or my documents) folder and not on your desktop, it gets untidy.

Screen capture on the Mac

You can capture an image of your entire screen by typing Command-Shift-3. Typing Command-Shift-4 lets you choose a specific part of your screen. Region capture - you can change how the region selection area changes by using the following keys - note that you can release the original keys once the crosshairs appears, as long as you’ve started dragging your mouse, and you keep the mouse button down. • Space Bar: Press and hold the Space Bar, and the size of the current region is then locked and can be dragged around the screen. As long as you hold the Space Bar down, the region’s size is locked and it can be dragged about. • Shift: Press and hold the Shift key, and one side of the region will be locked, based on which way you then move the mouse. For instance, if you press and hold Shift, and then move your mouse down, you’ll only be able to resize the region vertically; the horizontal size will be fixed. Move the mouse left or right, and you can resize the region horizontally while holding the vertical size fixed. • Option: Press and hold Option while dragging your region, and you’ll change the way the region grows as you drag. By default, your region is anchored at the upper left corner; when you press Option, the anchor point is moved to the center of the current region, and it expands in all directions from that point. For more tips check the links!

Combining Thesis Chapters but restarting footnote numbering every chapter

This 3-minute video shows you how to combine chapters of your thesis but force footnotes to be numbered from 1 within each chapter.

Hammering the prose: an academic guide to writing essays

This guide covers how to structure your essay and develop an argument. It also gives advice on suitable academic writing styles, and how to go about the all important editing of your work.

e-Research Methods Theme 1 Introduction

The theme will introduce you to research at the University of Southampton and within your School. It will also begin the process of helping you become more self- aware of your particular learning style to enable you to manage the requirements of the Research Methods module

Lecture Capture Powerpoint slides

Copy and paste this slide to the start of your own presentations.

Using the Browse Object tool in MS Word 2010

Use the Browse Object tool to quickly navigate through a selected type of object in your file – pages, tables, sections, images, footnotes or headings of your document. For best viewing Download the video.

Using the Browse Object tool in MS Word 2011

Use the Browse Object tool to quickly navigate through a selected type of object in your file – pages, tables, sections, images, footnotes or headings of your document. For best viewing Download the video.

Viewing and Using the Style Area Pane in MS Word 2010 (PC)

Seeing the underlying style of each paragraph can be useful when proofing the formatting of your file. This view shows how to see the Style Area Pane. For best viewing Download the video.

System Design: Introduction to Group Work

In this course you will learn a number of different ways in which to describe a system, at both a high level (using SSM) and a low level (using UML). The main coursework for the course is to work in groups and use these techniques on a case study of your collective choosing. In this session we put the students into groups, run a brainstorming activity on potential businesses, and outline some of the group activities that will be required over the course.

Prepare for the Careers Fair 2013

Information on companies attending this year's Fair, as well as hints for how to get the best out of your discussions

Sustaining Success additional task summary

In addition to handing in the portfolio your are requested to submit one further piece of evidence of your engagement with the course. You can choose from a selection of activities, all of which are relevant to the broader objectives of the module. This document provides a summary list of those activities and links to the more detailed resources. You can find a quick link to all those resources at http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/12372/