Navigating your Student Experience: Academic
CourseLink
This is your course hub, and you will probably be here every day, multiple times a day. This is where you access your course content, complete quizzes, view your grades and submit your assignments. Your professor will also post the course outline here for you to take a look at and get familiar with how your course is going to look!
On the CourseLink homepage you will see all your courses! Each course has an individual course page. There you will find headings like Content, Dropbox, Quizzes and Grades.
- Content: where you will typically find the course content. This could be lecture slides, course notes, assigned readings, or any other document your professor wants you to have for reference.
- Dropbox: most common place for you to submit essays, papers, etc. Professors can use the plagiarism software “Turnitin” to check for academic misconduct (i.e., cheating) by using a DropBox on CourseLink.
- Discussions: where professors can create different forums for students to ask questions. Some professors use the discussion board for assignments where you post your ideas and discuss them with your classmates!
- Grades: where you will find grades for assignments, quizzes, tests and midterms!
The Library
Wondering what services the Library offers? Are you trying to book a study space or find journals for your assignments? Look no further. The Library website has all the information you are looking for and more!
Aside from being able to borrow books, the Library offers workshops on everything from writing to data analysis. They also offer support for citations, printing and general IT support.
Visit the Library website to learn more!
OpenED
The OpenEd office provides extra courses for various certificates and courses of interest. OpenEd provides these classes asynchronously so you don’t have to worry about making it to another lecture in time!
OpenEd offers various Programs and Pathways to help students meet English proficiency requirements for entry to degree programs at the University of Guelph. English Language Programs at the University of Guelph make your transition to studying and living in Canada a lot easier.
