Category Archives: Student Success

Opportunities and advice for making the most of your time at UC, as well as stories featuring students who are excelling in their field.

Read & Write digital literacy tool to support your learning

Reading, writing, comprehension and recall are vital to success, and Read&Write will provide you with key study tools to strengthen these skills.

You can use it with on-screen/digital texts to generate notes from your readings, to research, revise, complete assignments, check spelling, grammar, punctuation, take exams and do much more.

UC Assistive Technology Service is hosting an online webinar. You will get to see a range of digital literacy tools to support your learning. From reading, writing, studying and researching. 

This webinar will provide an introduction to how Read&Write can support with text-to-speech, dictionary and vocabulary tools, study tools, annotation tools and more. As well as helping you with writing via word prediction, voice notes, speech recognition, vocabulary support, research skills and more.

Presenter: Rachel Coathup, Customer Success Manager, TextHelp for Education.

Date: March 5, Tuesday

Time: 1 to 1.30pm

To enrol in the webinar, write to assistech@canterbury.ac.nz

Have you noticed UC’s new website?

UC updated its website at the end of 2023 to give you an improved experience, including better accessibility and user navigation. 

We understand the new website isn’t perfect yet and it will be a change to learn how to navigate around the new structure. But UC Digital Services will continually improve the new website with added functionality and in the long-term, provide you with relevant and personalised web experiences.

What you need to know:

  • Logins have moved: Find your logins on the Current Students pageaccessed from the top line of the new website navigation (see below). ​

If you have any content queries or technical issues, please complete this Service Now request form.