Asking questions
Successful students and employees actively use problem-solving and troubleshooting to keep improving their own personal and professional skills.
Here you'll find good advice on how to develop a wider network of support and guidance (from university support services to your teachers and peers) and how to make the most of the interactions you have to meet your needs.
Support services
Learning Support (academic and numeracy skills)
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![]() | Study Smart Online |
![]() | MESH (Mathematics Education Support Hub) |
![]() | Badanami Centre for Indigenous Education |
![]() | Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme (ITAS) |
![]() | Library |
Student-led Support
![]() | PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions) |
![]() | ePASS |
![]() | MATES (Mentoring and Transition Equals Success) |
Life and Learning Support
Communicating with staff
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![]() | Emails | Learn how to communicate effectively with university staff using email. |
![]() | Meetings | Learn how to make the most of opportunities to meet with your teachers for feedback and assistance. |
Peer support
Learning in groups is a powerful and efficient way to spend your personal study hours. Sharing the learning experience, exchanging your understandings, and experiencing both enthusiasm and frustration together help to build your learning community.
Your peer support network will grow and evolve over the years and carry you through to graduation.
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![]() | Starting and managing a study group | Find tips for making use of the PASS program and establishing your own learning community. |
Seeking feedback
Seeking, receiving, and dealing with feedback is common practice in all our interactions. Giving and receiving feedback constructively is critical when you work in teams or large organisations and you have to work together to achieve shared goals.
Learn the best strategies to help you manage your own performance through feedback from other people.
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Learning from feedback | Find reflection activities and tips for seeking and using feedback to improve your learning. |
Drop into a campus library (opens in a new window) and ask Library staff or chat with an Online Librarian (opens in a new window) or ask a study expert.
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