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Online orientation for DE postgrads
For coursework postgrads
For research postgrads
Online support for postgraduates studying via distance
For online access to postgraduate seminars, the postgraduate community and information regarding services specifically for distance/off-campus postgraduates please go to:
Services and support for off-campus students
Learning support for off-campus
Live Library support
The library has a help service using online chat so you can get immediate help for many library queries from anywhere you have access to the web. The service hours are usually from 12 noon to 9pm Monday to Friday
During May the chat service will be open for extended hours so that they can test a different online chat software product. This will be available from 10am-12 noon Monday to Friday. So for 4 weeks starting Monday May 4th, if you need help from 10am and 9pm Monday to Friday you will be able log on to the Library Online chat help service either using the trial software or the regular chat service.
Access the live chat from the Library's help page.
Research postgraduates
The Monash Research Graduate School has a number of resources available for research students through their exPERT series.
exPERT presentations & podcasts.
exPERT DVDs - DVDs are available for loan from the Libraries. To find the expert DVDs at your closest library please enter “Monash Research Graduate School” in the “author” section of the search engine in the library catalogue.
The Learning Support unit also offers online guide for higher degree by research postgraduates
The Arts faculty’s research seminar series, ‘Tricks of the Trade’, is also available online.
Online postgraduate groups
Postgrad to Postgrad - the perfect place to procrasinate
Register with our online forum and discuss current issues, get some peer help or just indulge in some (non-real time) chit chat.
Facebook group - for Monash postgrads
A postgraduate has set up a Facebook group for Monash postgrads - sign up and get networking!
Graduate Junction - research postgraduates
Graduate Junction is an international networking site designed to help research postgrads make contact with others who share similar research interests, regardless of which department, institution or country they work in. It has been developed by two postgraduate students at the University of Durham.
Postgraduate on-campus facilities
As a distance education postgraduate you may occasionally be required to come onto one of the main campuses. Postgraduate-specific space exists on most of the campuses however you may need to register. Please see facilities section of the individual campus you will be visiting.
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Need to talk to an MPA staff member?
You can call MPA staff for free using Skype! However you must email them first to arrange a time - check out our contacts page.
Distance Ed podcast
You're not alone. Check out our "DE Postgrad" podcast in Compass Online where we chat with DE student, Yvonne, as she offers her thoughts, and some handy tips, on studying via distance.
Submit to Compass online
Distance ed students can inform the wider postgrad community about their research and experiences by submitting an article to Compass online.
All first-time published contributors receive an MPA 'gift pack'.
Read Jordan Schaan's article here.
Read Yvonne McNulty's article here. Yvonne is now a member of the MPA Executive Committee.
MPA merchandise
Feel 'closer' to on-campus life by sitting down to your computer wearing your MPA t-shirt and sipping coffee from your MPA mug and storing your work on a 2 gig MPA flash drive. Visit the MPA 'shop' for details.
Subscribe to email news
Subscribe to the free MPA email newsletter for weekly updates on postgraduate-specific seminars, social events and postgraduate community news.
Note: Research postgraduates who also have staff profiles will need to use their student authcate and email address to subscribe.