Academic Support
*ALL SERVICES ARE CLOSED for the summer except for the Peer Help Tutor Website.
Peer Help Tutor
The Peer Help Tutor service is an initiative created by 2019 uOttawa alumni student, Mira Ghossein. Launched in November 2020, the tutoring service allows students to match with registered tutors for specific University of Ottawa courses at an affordable price.
All tutors must have at least a B+ as a final mark in the course(s) they are intending to tutor. Furthermore, in order to maintain affordability of tutorship services, Masters and PhD students are to charge no more than $30/hour. All other tutors are not permitted to charge more than $20/hour.
Peer Editing - Essay Corrections
Peer Editing is available for students who want to get their essay or reports corrected by one of the Peer Helper volunteers that are in good academic standing. Volunteers cannot help students to write an essay, restructure a thesis or argument, however only correct their grammars and punctuations. Students can book in-person appointments by sending an email to peerhelp@seuo-uosu.com or dropping by the office.
Presentation Critiques
The Presentation Critiques service is to help students improve their presentation skills. Peer Helper volunteers are trained to offer constructive advice on giving effective presentations and to build students’ confidences. The presentation critiques are divided into 11 steps which will help the student learn; how to connect with the audience, focus on the audience’s needs, how to start the presentation strongly, how to use the voice effectively, how to reduce stress and anxiety, and etc. The students will have three practice sessions in which they get to self-evaluate themselves on the content and the delivery of the presentation.
Recommended Resources
Mentors for both undergraduate and graduate students offer a variety of services for students experiencing academic problems, including mentoring centres, workshops, study groups, study skills, and scholarship information. Not sure where to start? Take a look at this Self-Assessment Tool and they’ll recommend the most suitable workshops, mentors and study groups to get you through the semester.
Location: 110 University Private
Website: sass.uottawa.ca/en/mentoring
Email: asupp@uottawa.ca
Tel: 613-562-5800 ext. 3820
Self-Assessment Tool: sass.uottawa.ca/sites/sass.uottawa.ca/files/mentoring_self_assessment_tool.pdf
Student Academic Success Service (SASS) providing resources of different service mentoring centres in the following link: sass.uottawa.ca/en/mentoring/student/locations-service
Mentoring services offered by each faculty for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Location: 110 University Private
Website: sass.uottawa.ca/en/mentoring/student/locations-faculty
Email: asupp@uottawa.ca
Tel: 613-562-5800 ext. 3820
Students with a documented disability or medical condition can work with Academic Accommodations Service to assess, establish, and implement appropriate academic accommodations for students who have a temporary or permanent disability.
Location: Desmarais Building (DMS), 55 Laurier Avenue East, Room 3172
Website: sass.uottawa.ca/en/access
Email: adapt@uottawa.ca
Tel: 613-562-5976
The goal of the Academic Writing Help Centre is to help students develop strategies and writing skills that will enable them to understand the requirements of academic writing, develop their argumentation skills, expand their critical thinking abilities, and master the written language of their choice. Services include online resources, a resource library, and individual writing appointments.
Location: 110 University Private
Website: sass.uottawa.ca/en/writing
Email: asupp@uottawa.ca
Tel: 613-562-5601
They are student mentors who focus on students’ academic success, who can teach them assistive technologies and learning strategies that work with their learning style. All students, University of Ottawa employees and community members are welcome. They offer workshops and one-on-one appointments for training in technologies to improve students’ study skills and to help them with their learning process.
Location: Desmarais Building (DMS), 55 Laurier Avenue East, Room 3172
Website: sass.uottawa.ca/en/access/learning-technology-mentoring-centre
Email: techmentors@uottawa.ca
Tel: 613-562-5800 ext. 4785
Self-Help Tools
A table displaying a helpful tool to better understand the 11 undergraduate academic paths at the University of Ottawa.
Website: www.uottawa.ca/understanding-your-undergraduate-program/
They have various documents, tools and instructions for academic integrity, writing process, structure of paper, types of paper and grammar.
Website: sass.uottawa.ca/en/writing/resources
Study Skills Hub is designed to help students master the skills needed to succeed in university. They’ve put together a series of instructional articles online, to help develop students’ skills whenever and wherever they find most convenient. This allows them to improve their effectiveness, and to address study issues such as procrastination, perfectionism, stress management, motivation, exam preparation, memorizing, time management, teamwork and taking notes.
Website: sass.uottawa.ca/en/mentoring/resources
Email: asupp@uottawa.ca
Tel: 613-562-5800 ext. 3820