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General Library Guide

How to use your university library service

Subject guides

Our subject guides are all linked from our LibGuides homepage and provide specialist support for your course. They are written by our Academic Services Librarians.

Academic Skills Hub

Our AcAcademic Skills Hub Idea logoademic Skills Hub has some great guides that will help get you started with your academic writing and work. There are useful articles which cover all aspects of academic skills and recordings from past workshops that you can watch in your own time.

Information Skills for Success

Information Skills for Success is a self-paced Moodle course featuring four modules, designed to help you use information effectively and ethically in your academic work and beyond. 

The modules cover:

  • Locating Academic Information. 
  • Evaluating Information.
  • Referencing and Academic Integrity.
  • Digital Literacy: Social Media and AI. 

Complete all the modules at your own pace to earn the "Information Skills" Moodle badge—a valuable addition to personal and professional development portfolios and a great way to earn points towards the Greenwich Employability Passport.

Follow this link to Information Skills for Success in Moodle.

Accessing Information Skills for Success

Information Skills for Success is a Moodle course written by library staff to help you make effective use of the library and computing resources and services available to you as a student at the University.

To access the course you have to login to the University of Greenwich student portal. 

Follow these steps:

  • Go to the university home page www.gre.ac.uk
  • From the My Greenwich drop down menu select Student Portal
  • Login with your University of Greenwich username and password. (If you have problems logging in select the Need Help?  link below the login boxes and complete the online support request form)
  • Once logged in select the My learning/Learning support page 
  • Go to the Library Support portlet and select the Information Skills for Success link.
  • NB The first time you use the course you may be prompted to select the Enrol Me button. Once you have done this the course will always appear in your list of Moodle courses.

You can also login directly to Information Skills for Success. Just enter your portal username and password.

Guides and learning resources

Further online support is available via guides and videos. 

  • The 'Finding Online Resources'  LibGuide will tell you more about the using the Library resource online, and how to make the most of them. 
  • If you want to know how you are getting on, Information Skills for Success is a collection of learning resources aimed at helping you use information effectively and ethically in your academic work.  There is also the Skills for Study online learning resource. It's accessed via Moodle.

If you are on campus and would like to find out more about borrowing entitlements, please read our Borrowing, reserving and returning page.