The following material has been prepared to help you introduce your students to the Library and academic skills. Please use some or all of these with your students over their first few weeks at Leeds Beckett. If you would like any of the material embedded into MyBeckett for you, please fill in our Academic Skills Teaching Requests 2024-25 form and select Library and academic skills induction.
If you have any questions, your Academic Librarian team can help.
These short videos from the Academic Librarians welcome your students to the Library and academic skills, giving an overview of the support available to them. They can be shown in an induction session or the video can be embedded into MyBeckett for your students to watch independently.
The videos contain QR codes throughout that direct students to key areas of our website. If you are showing the video to your students, you may wish to pause it at the appropriate places so that students can scan the codes and access - and possibly bookmark - the pages on their devices. The web pages will also open up throughout the video so you can show your students any information you'd like to highlight, and then resume the video.
Please choose the video for your School, the Postgraduate video for a Level 7 introduction, or the relevant Degree Apprentice video.
We recommend that all students complete a Study Smart module to gain an understanding of being a student at Leeds Beckett. It will introduce them to some of the teaching and learning methods and types of assessment they are likely to encounter. It also includes tips on academic writing and other skills, as well as signposting to the range of support and further information available to them. Students can re-visit the module at any time throughout the year.
For a complete list of all self-paced skills modules available to students, see Academic Skills Modules.
Students can self-enrol onto any academic skills module by clicking the relevant link, logging into MyBeckett and clicking on the Enrol button on the left-hand menu.
You may however want to take advantage of the 'bulk enrol' option for the modules you are especially eager for your students to access (e.g. Study Smart and Academic Integrity). If you wish to request this, please email the Academic Support Team with:
We can then process your request. Once the students are enrolled they will then find the Skills modules ready and waiting in their module list in MyBeckett, much like their regular credit-bearing modules. Please allow 1-2 weeks for us to action your request as we may be working with a high volume of demand.
Whether you have bulk enrolled your students or asked them to self-enrol, you can then:
You may wish to make the completion of the module a compulsory task for new students. If you would like your students to send you evidence of completion, they can download a PDF certificate after successfully completing the quiz at the end. You could then ask students to send you a copy of this, or to upload the file or a photo of the certificate onto MyBeckett. This is available for all of the Academic Skills Modules except Postgraduate Study Smart.
You are welcome to bring groups of students into the Library to show them the building and some of the key areas. You might like to show them the Advice desk on the ground floor and the self-service kiosks where they borrow/return books; the various different types of study spaces; and the areas where the books for their subject area are shelved.
We have self-guided tours that you can use with your students, or you can send them these links so that they can follow them in their own time:
Further information on each Library, including floor plans, can be found here:
The following YouTube Playlists contain useful videos to support students with using the Library and its resources:
There is a Library New Students page that gives further advice to students for their first few weeks of university.
If you would like your students to have more in-depth information on academic skills or literature searching, you can book an in-curriculum session. Details of the sessions we offer and how to book are on TeachLearn: Library Support.
