Faculty of Science and Engineering

Student Central and Module Feedback

Studentcentral is a web-based learning environment that provides a personalised home page to help all students and staff manage their learning and teaching. 

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Student central is a student intranet for the University of Brighton; it is a one-stop-shop for everything students need whilst studying at the University of Brighton.

All electronic information and tools you will need such as email, on-line library services, course material and other university services can all be found on studentcentral.

Your personalised home page gives you access to academic and other resources wherever you have internet access – at home, at work, abroad or in the university. If you have a special need to have your home page personalised even further, please contact the studentcentral team.

Content areas for your school and your individual modules, contain:

  • Key information such as module descriptors and handbooks
  • Timetables
  • Course documentation, including course handbooks – look under Biology, Chemistry, BSc Pharm, or M.Pharm
  • You are able to comment on modules using studentcentral via the module evaluation tab on each module home page. Why not have a look now?

Course material on student central – text, MS Office files, images, audio or video in the module areas

  • A Learning Resources section in the module areas with your Reading Lists
  • Revision quizzes, test and surveys in module areas
  • Communications tools so you can email everyone in a module, discuss online, communicate in real time (video conferencing), share files in small groups, etc.
  • Studentprofile,for your own personal development portfolio, in the school area

Further down the Study Area on the home page you will also see the Academic Study Network (ASK) and Student Life. Please have a look around these areas plus the school area when you first log in.

Social networking and blogging service

Once described as an online school playground, Community@Brighton is a social networking and blog service for students and staff at the University of Brighton. Community is Web 2 technology which has been shaped by the people who use it. Community is available to all staff and students via studentcentral allows everyone to contribute in the same way.

What can I do on Community @ Brighton?

 

Keep a blog

 

Your Blog (weblog) is your online diary - simply click "post a new entry" and fill in the boxes.

  • You can make your blog private, university-only or public.
  • You can add links and pictures.
  • Unless you make posting private, you will become famous for five minutes as the latest blog tops the list!

Present your profile

 

Your Profile is your public face, what you want people to know about you. Add keywords / tags for your interests and they become links for you to find out who else used them. Then you can make like-minded people into your online friends.

 

Find online friends

 

Add people to "Your Friends" so you can find their blog more easily. Find your friends list in the right-hand panel.

 

Store your files

 

Keep your files on Community to use in your blogs and share with your friends; you can store up to 10MB.

 

Join communities

 

 

 

 

 

 

.....or create your own

Join an existing community such as Public Transport Users, Gig-Addicts or Grumpy Old Gits. Choose whatever matches your interests and use the community blogs to discuss things. Communities can be public or closed.

 

Set up your own Community to share a group blog (and wiki) with like-minded people, for

  • a club or society - to announce events meetings or discuss topics of special interest
  • a special interest group - to advertise or comment upon related external events or ideas
  • a module or project group - to share ideas, arrange meetings

RSS feeds

 

Use Community to receive your RSS feeds

 

Portfolios and CVs

 

Draw together information to present your CV, your online Portfolio or simply a small web site. Make it public if you like.

 

 

 

Useful web addresses

For more information on accessing information services from outside, see information on studentcentral, or visit the Information Services website at http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is

 

Some useful links...for electronic information and tools that you will need whilst studying at the University of Brighton:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Keep your files and notes organised! ...This will help you to keep on track of your work and not mix it up with other projects."

Di Smith

"If using a dictaphone in lectures, it doesn't mean you can fall asleep!"

Ali Mahdi, Pharmacy student

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