Online Support

In collaboration with the other four Learning Centres (LCs) (Maths Learning Centre, Science Learning Centre, Regional Writing Centre, and the ICT Learning Centre), the PSLC helped develop the Digital Learner Support Hub (DLSH) in 2019. Created to act as a one-stop shop for each centres online offerings it quickly became the main mechanism the LCs used to support students during the Covid-19 lockdown. Designed as a 3-tiered framework it offers students supports in different ways to accomodate different ways of accessing support.

The 3-tier DLSH framework

  • In Tier 1, for example, we have the various asynchronous (time-independent) offerings from the LCs mainly short videos covering key concepts.
  • Should this not be enough or not what the students were looking for, Tier 2 is the group based supports which for example could be group tutorial sessions, targeted sessions on a particular topic, or PSLG support.
  • Finally, Tier 3 is the more traditional one to one drop-in support offered by most of the LCs.
  • For the PSLC, our online offerings come in two main flavours:
    • Our online PSLG support for the particularly large classes (AC4001 and AC4002 for example)
    • And the soft-skills seminars preparation material which we supplement with online Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions

Soft Skills Seminars

The PSLC has been offering Soft-Skill Seminars since it's inception in 2003. Designed to think beyond the curriculum, these seminars are designed to give students skills that will help them in their careers in addition to their academia.

The current offerings for these seminars are:

  • Presentation Skills Seminar (PSS) A student presenting in front of a small group
    • This seminar is designed to help students create and develop presentations using PowerPoint and gives tips and examples of how to present in a confident and engaging manner
    • The material for this can be found on the DLSH BrightSpace site (https://learn.ul.ie/d2l/home/21177) under the Peer-Supported Learning Centre section of the content. [Direct link]*
  • Technical Report Writing Seminar (TWR)
    • This seminar is designed to help students structure and create a technical report and uses the Final Year Project (FYP) as the example for the session. It offers tips and suggestions on the use of Microsoft Word and Endnote built in tools to make the process of writing a long form document more accessible and understandable and a less daunting process.
    • The material for this can be found on the DLSH BrightSpace site (https://learn.ul.ie/d2l/home/21177) under the Peer-Supported Learning Centre section of the content. [Direct link]*

Enrol first using this link - https://learn.ul.ie/d2l/le/discovery/view/course/21177 and you'll then be able to use the links above to access the seminar materials

The primary clients of these seminars is the Electronic & Computer Engineering Department's final year undergraduate and postgraduate students.

For these students an additional Ask Me Anything (AMA) session is held where students can ask questions on any of the material covered and we can quickly run through any of the PowerPoint, Word, or EndNote tools shown in the asynchronous material. Attendance at the AMA is limited to those who have reviewed the asynchronous material and passed a short quiz on it.

If you think your students would benefit from the material and/or an AMA to support it please contact us at peerlearning@ul.ie and we'll be happy to discuss with you.



* - should any of the links to DLSH or the seminars not be accessible it is because the DLSH BrightSpace site is a self-enrolling site and you are not enrolled. Enroll first to access.

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