Preparing for, and producing your best EMA

INTERNAL OU LINKS

Time management skills - Planning and prioritising - https://help.open.ac.uk/time-management-skills/planning-prioritising

Really understanding questions (SHL workshop) - https://studenthublive.open.ac.uk/content/really-understanding-questions-13-march-2024

Mental health support - https://help.open.ac.uk/mental-health-support

Exams and EMAs - https://help.open.ac.uk/browse/assessments-and-exams/exams-and-emas

Submitting an EMA - https://help.open.ac.uk/submitting-an-ema

Remote Exams - https://help.open.ac.uk/remote-exams-and-icmes

Exam arrangements booklets - https://help.open.ac.uk/exam-arrangements-booklet 

Help for carers - https://help.open.ac.uk/support-for-carers

OU EMA policy but also check your module website - https://help.open.ac.uk/documents/policies/ema-policy/files/236/ema-policy%202022-23.pdf 

Help with planning - https://help.open.ac.uk/planning-and-prioritising

Student Home > Study skills resources - https://help.open.ac.uk/understanding-the-question

Drafting your answer - https://help.open.ac.uk/drafting-your-answer

Good academic practice

• https://learn1.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=100043
• http://www2.open.ac.uk/students/skillsforstudy/writing-in-your-own-words.php

Time management - OU help

• https://help.open.ac.uk/time-management-skills
• https://www.open.edu/openlearn/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=28143&section=4.1
• https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/mental-health/time-management-and-study   

Open learn courses on time management

• https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/university-ready/organisation-and-time-management-academic-study-skills
• https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/ten-tips-students-starting-university
• https://www.open.edu/openlearn/local/ocwglobalsearch/search.php?q=becoming%20ou%20studenteat

EXTERNAL LINKS

OU Students Association - https://www.oustudents.com/

Study with me (YouTube)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZDtCrY2CUY&t=1654s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUwD3GRPJos&t=3329s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ex_bNIFR1A&t=3204s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FerGgYXVXiw

Study with me facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/845643519504519

Forest App - https://www.forestapp.cc/

The Pomodoro Technique - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

Eat that frog - https://www.briantracy.com/blog/time-management/the-truth-about-frogs/

Inverted U theory - https://www.mindtools.com/ax20nkm/the-inverted-u-theory

Sconul (Work in other university libraries) - https://www.sconul.ac.uk/sconul-access?usertype=63%2C50&field_accepted_bands_tid=63%2C64%2C65%2C66%2C1572