How the library can help your students

For Students to self-access

Assessment help

For lecturers to request

Book a teaching session for your students

Learning & Academic Engagement staff work with students and lecturers to develop student academic and information literacies by designing and delivering teaching and learning materials for specific assignments in your papers.

The essential steps for collaborating are below. The design of our materials focuses on using sample assignments.

Book an individual or small group appointment for your student

• This involves lecturers or supervisors providing student writing samples for student who need extra support with academic literacy.
• Students may have approximately two appointments per semester. In accordance with AUT’s guidelines on proofreading for student assessments and the postgraduate theses and dissertations

At AUT, a research student is someone who is currently doing a research project as part of one of the following programmes:

• Bachelor’s degree with honours
• Postgraduate diploma or certificate
• Master of Philosophy
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professional doctorate

Our focus is on working with supervisor feedback. Supervisors request appointments on behalf of their students.

• Appointments occur once the student’s work has been commented on by supervisors.
• Learning & Academic Engagement staff do not proofread or check student work, this is in accordance with AUT’s guidelines on proofreading for student assessments and postgraduate theses and dissertations.
• Students may have two appointments per semester.
• Research students have direct access to learning advisors through thesis writing workshops , and general workshops on academic writing.
• Workshops run in collaboration with the Graduate Research School are also available.

Resources on Canvas

Referencing & academic integrity

Workshops for your students

Library workshops on academic integrity, paraphrasing, referencing or GenAI.

Turnitin

Short videos for students:

• How to understand Turnitin originality reports
• What to do if you get a high score
• What to do if you get a low score
• How to submit assignments via Turnitin

Short videos for lecturers

Watch and find out how to adjust Turnitin settings to allow multiple submissions. This offers students a chance to improve their use of other people’s words and ideas before final submission.