This service provides students with 30 minute appointments with a librarian or tutor.
What is the Writing Centre?
100
In Fall 2016, the Academic Strategists started using this program for booking appointments with students.
What is Q-Nomy?
100
The "J" in OSJA stands for this.
What is "Judicial"?
100
NorQuest College Library is one of 18 member libraries in this library consortium which collaborates in sharing resources, technology, collections and people.
What is NEOS?
100
The Learner Centre has this many media rooms, available for reservation to students.
What is three?
200
This service allows students to get written feedback from a tutor who could be working anywhere in Alberta.
What is eTutor Alberta?
200
This is the first step a student must take if they suspect they have a learning disability and want to start working with an Academic Strategist.
What is seeing their Student Support Specialist? (Jenny or Nola)
200
The OSJA is physically located next to this office of world travelers.
What is the International Student Office?
200
This library staff member has accumulated over 30 years at NorQuest providing library technology support and access to ebooks, databases and online videos.
Who is Kathy Zarft?
200
The library staff are known for their competitiveness having won many trophies in various categories over the years. This Halloween, the library was dressed up as this theme.
What is Star Trek?
300
This is the usual length of time of an average drop-in tutoring session.
What is 15 minutes?
300
This Academic Strategist has been compared to an octopus because of their ability to grab at least 3 related handouts the instant a student asks a question.
Who is Dwight?
300
Hearing panels are convened to adjudicate this type of academic misconduct report.
What is a second/subsequent offence?
300
Faculty, staff and students registered for this membership can get access to all Edmonton Public Library services and collections, including music/movie downloads, videogames, books/magazines and much more.
What is the L-Pass (Library Pass)?
300
A picture of this famous feline hangs in Janet's office, where it has also overseen the work of two other past strategists, Heidi and Linden.
Who is Grumpy Cat?
400
The tutors in Tutorial Services offer tutoring help in these four major areas.
What are math, science, English and writing?
400
This is the name of the LibGuide that Academic Strategists created, which offers strategies that all students can use in their studies.
What is Academic Skills for Success?
400
The principles establishing what a student has a right to expect from the college, and what the college has a right to expect from the student, are outlined in this important document.
What is "Student Rights and Responsibilities"?
400
In March 2016, this annual library event featured 13 “living books” with 155 readers who explored various life journeys including living as a child soldier, Syrian refugee, and transgender woman.
What is the Human Library?
400
This is the name of the woman who volunteers to look after the various plants that can be found all over the Learner Centre.
Who is Pat?
500
The professional tutors in the Tutorial Centre won this award earlier in the year!
What is the Edmonton Journal Reader's Choice Gold Medal for top academic tutorial service in Edmonton?
500
This portion of the Canadian Human Rights Act ensures that schools like NorQuest College provide extra time for exams, alternate formats for books, and other services (like Academic Strategists!) to students with disabilities.
What is Duty to Accommodate?
500
This is the total number of files process by the OSJA in the 2015-16 academic year, including academic misconduct reports, non-academic misconduct reports, student complaints, and informal reports.
What is 354?
500
Similar to Netflix, this on-line digital delivery feature film platform provides staff and students FREE streaming access to over 3,000 full length movies of all genres.
What is Criterion On-Demand?
500
This cross-department team works to raise awareness of Learner Centre services and resources through social media posts and annual contests.