Digital Learner Support Hub (DLSH)
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 centre's online offerings, it quickly became the main mechanism the LCs used to support students during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Designed as a three-tiered framework, it offers students support in different ways to accommodate different ways of accessing support.
Tier one
We have the various asynchronous (time-independent) offerings from the LCs mainly short videos covering key concepts.
Tier two
Should this not be enough or not what the students were looking for, Tier two is the group based supports which for example could be group tutorial sessions, targeted sessions on a particular topic, or PSLG support.
Tier three
Finally, Tier three is the more traditional one-to-one drop-in support offered by most of the LCs.
How to access DLSH on Brightspace
If you are not already enrolled on the DLSH BrightSpace site you will need to enrol before being able to access the content.
You can check this by looking at Sites when you login to BrightSpace - if you are Digital Learner Support Hub (DLSH) will appear on your list of sites. If it doesn't then you need to enrol.
How to enrol
- Follow the discovery link
- Click on Join Course
- The page will refresh after you click and Join Course will change to Open Course
- Click on Open Course
- You're now in DLSH
You only need to follow these steps the first time to join. After that DLSH will appear on your list of sites and you can access them as you would any of your module sites!
PSLC's online support
We offer online PSLG support for the particularly large classes (AC4001 and AC4002 for example)
Check out the DLSH BrightSpace site for your modules to see if we offer online sessions for your module
Soft skills seminars
We also offer soft-skills seminars preparation material which we supplement with online Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions
The PSLC has been offering Soft-Skill Seminars since its 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)
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
Access PSS material on Brightspace*
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.
Access TWR material on Brightspace*
Enrolling for Soft Skills seminars
Enrol online for Soft Skills seminars 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 and 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.
