Getting Started at SCU

This site is designed to be your one-stop-shop, giving you access to all the information you need to help you get started at Southern Cross University.

You'll find out how and where to begin, information about what is available to you during orientation, the online tools you can use, and the support activities and guides that are designed to help you succeed in your first year of studies.

This opening section starts with what you need to do first: how to accept your offer, how to enrol and how to arrange your fees.

Online Tools

Studying at SCU is more than sitting in classes and working on your own. There are a number of ways you can also learn and work online, both by yourself and in groups with other students in your units. In this section you will find out about the online tools that are available to you, which include Webmail and MySCU.

On the rest of our website, there's information about our research and postgraduate programs, community initiatives, and the alumni program for our graduates. You might like to check these out as well, but first, let's find out what is waiting for you online to use.

Orientation

The Orientation Program at SCU marks the beginning of your university life and is also a big welcome back to our returning students. It provides both new and returning students with the fundamentals for successfully starting university life.

Orientation is more than O Week; it's a whole range of activities that occur before and during the first weeks of your study at SCU.

Make sure find out about all the events and services on offer so you can plan and make the most of your Orientation experience.

Build Your Skills

SCU has a number of online resources that are designed to help you with your studies. Because they are online that means you can access them right here and right now.

In this section you will find out about Assignment Navigator. This has several modules of online content with topics ranging from managing your workload, to working in groups, to getting ready for exams.

Also available are the Profiling for Success site, which has an online survey that helps you choose your career path, our Numeracy Modules which can build your skills with numbers and mathematics, and a Spelling and Grammar Wiki.

Support Services @ SCU

Academic Skills Development (ASD) at Southern Cross Uni provides educational support to students, staff and the University as a whole.

ASD's services are available to internal and external students at all levels of study, and at each of the three campuses.

SCU has many other support services available that can assist you with any admission and enrolment matters and your health and well-being. These and other support services are also detailed in this section.

Resources for SCU Staff

Under the auspices of Teaching And Learning, the First Year at SCU Project was launched with the following objectives:

• Identify the range of existing information and support avenues for first year students
• Create and maintain a web interface which provides a one stop point of reference for potential and actual first year students
• Conceptualise, implement and monitor new and creative interventions/plans to improve student success
• Structurally position the first year experience as core business and effectively enable continuous, optimal vertical and horizontal communication (cooperation) in the university
• Develop effective mechanisms that monitor the progress of, give feedback on and identify intervention points for first-year students.

As well as the creation of this one stop website, a number of other projects were launched to match the needs of academic and general staff in fulfilling these and related objectives.