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Whether you’re in remote, online or selected on-campus courses, Laurier’s student academic success teams are here to help you build your study, writing and math and statistics skills – and your confidence! – with online academic support resources.
Academic Skills (ASk) workshops are typically offered twice each week on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Topics include:
For a complete list of workshops, schedule and links to register, visit the Study Skills and Course Support Workshops page. Students who complete 6 different workshops are eligible to add the ASk Certificate to their Laurier Experience Record.
Learning Skills and Development has workshop offerings for both undergraduate and graduate students. All workshops take place online through Zoom.
Each week throughout the spring term, Learning Skills and Development offers you a workshop on a specific writing or study skill! Visit the “Brantford” tab on the Workshops page to explore all of the workshops currently available.
Registration is required for all workshops through the Student Success Portal. Students who complete seven or more workshops in one academic year (May to April) can request acknowledgement of participation in the Academic Skills Workshop Certificate on the Laurier Experience Record.
Learning Skills and Development offers four graduate student workshops in conjunction with the ASPIRE program. For more information, visit the “Brantford” tab on the Graduate Students page to view the workshop descriptions.
Throughout the spring and summer terms, Writing Services will be conducting online writing appointments using Microsoft Teams and Google Docs. Instructions for this online procedure will be sent to you upon booking an appointment. These appointments are available to all Waterloo campus students regardless of level (e.g., undergraduate and graduate) or discipline. Appointments can be booked through the Student Success Portal.
Join our team of Learning Consultants and Time Management Coaches for a one-to-one appointment to assess your study strategies and develop your academic skills.
Book your appointment through the Student Success Portal. You will receive an email with a Microsoft Teams meeting request within 24-hours of your appointment time slot.
Supplemental Instruction (SI) sessions provide additional support for students in traditionally challenging courses. Weekly interactive sessions are facilitated by senior students through Zoom. Students enrolled in SI supported courses have been automatically enrolled in a SI MyLearningSpace course where additional information can be found. All courses supported by SI will be noted in your course syllabus.
Our Athlete Academic Success Program will be running virtually with a combination of workshops and one-on-one academic coaching sessions. Check your MyLaurier email for an introduction from your Athlete mentor.
For spring and summer, Learning Skills and Development is continuing to offer writing and study skills appointments to students through Microsoft Teams.
Please book appointments through the Student Success Portal. There are several consultation types being offered:
To access your scheduled appointments, check your MyLaurier e-mail at your appointment time for the Teams meeting link that has been sent to you.
If you no longer require your appointment, please log into the Student Success Portal to cancel. Cancellations require one business day’s notice.
Brantford students can also access spring and summer term drop-in supports:
To participate in a drop-in session, follow these steps:
Students are welcome to enrol in Learning Skills and Development’s MyLS discussion group for online learners. Our team will be checking the discussion to help answer any questions students may have about online learning for their courses.
To enrol in the online learner discussion group:
Math and Statistics Learning Support (MaSt) continues to offer all of its multi-campus programming remotely, supporting many introductory mathematics and statistics based courses across various academic programs, as well as CP104, CP164, EC120, and EC140.
Support is provided through over 25 hours of drop-in help sessions each week, as well as homework sessions, mock tests, and review sessions. Refer to our website for the full schedule of sessions.
All sessions are conducted using Zoom, and are accessed via our "Math & Stats Learning Support – Waterloo" and "Math & Stats Learning Support – Brantford" pages on MyLearningSpace.
Students can also book appointments through the Student Success Portal.