Help Guides

We have gathered together a collection of Help Guides for students to help you navigate college life.

A Guide to Online Research
There’s a whole world of information out there, easily available at the touch of a keyboard.  That has advantages and disadvantages.  We’re going to look at these so you can get the best out of your time and efforts.
Guide to Structuring Essays & Reports
This guide will give some tips on how to structure reports and essays. Expressing yourself doesn’t have to be hard work!
Guide to Self Motivation
It can be difficult to keep motivated at times, whether you're doing revision, coursework or just doing chores like tidying your room...
Guide to Note Taking
Note-taking is a way of capturing and organising information that you want to understand and remember for the future. There are many ways that note-taking can help you...
Study Skills Referencing Guide
When you are doing an essay or a report, your writing will include sources of information such as articles, policies, books, research or theories. Referencing is the way to refer to these sources, showing where the things you are writing about come from.
Guide to making the most of Microsoft Word
Word has some great functions that that will help you do your work quicker and better. In this guide we go through 3 top tips for helping you to make the most of Microsoft Word…
Guide to Study Skills: Learning to Learn
How do you learn best? What are your learning preferences? And how can you shape yourself to be a better learner?
Guide to improving your punctuation
Guide to using punctuation correctly in your writing, course work and assessments
How to revise & prepare for assessment
Some tips on successful exam / assessment preparation
Guide to Effective Reading
Tips for reading effectively while studying
Installing Microsoft Teams
This guide will show how to connect to Office 365 and what features are available to you as a student.
Early Experience Student Survey Results
Read the results from the Early Experience Student Survey which ran for two weeks in September.
What is my Student Email?
When you enrol an office 365 account will be created for you. This normally happens around 24 hours after enrolment. You will be emailed your student ID number - a seven digit number - and your network password.
Where can I find my Student ID?
All students have a Virtual ID Card which can be used to get Free Bus Travel to College on selected routes.
Guide to DigiSkillScotland
DigiSkillScotland is where some students will find their online course materials for part or all of their course. Follow this guide to get logged in.
Sign in to Adobe Creative Cloud
This guide will show how to login to Adobe Creative Cloud for students who need access to it.
Interviews on Teams for prospective students
This guide will show how to connect to Office 365 and what features are available to you as a student.
Guide to Laptop Loans
a guide for students who have been advised that they are entitled to a loan of a device.
How to use a Chromebook
How to login and log off the college chromebooks...
Guide to ePortfolios
ePortfolio's can be used by students to keep a diary of activities or practical work. We have created this guide to help you manage and update your ePortfolio.