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Social Skills

Methodological Skills

Introduction to the fundamentals of learning

Ecological Transition for Sustainable Development

Note-Taking

Interculturality

Student Well-Being

Documentary Research

Short and structured Writing

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Digital Skills

Communicating at the university

Project Management

Professional Integration

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Part A : Word domain

➥ Module 1.1: Word meaning ➥ Module 1.2: Close and similar shapes

Presentation of the chapter

This chapter gives access to écri+, an online service for evaluating, training, and certifying written French skills at the university level. It helps you reinforce essential writing competencies.

Part B : Sentence domain

➥ Module 2.1: Relations between propositions ➥ Module 2.2: Grammar agreements

Objectives of this chapter

Evaluate and develop mastery of written French in four areas:

• The sentence,
• The word,
• The text,
• and the discourse.

Part C : Discourse domain

➥ Module 3.1: Quotes ➥ Module 3.2: Conjugation

Part D : Text area

➥ Module 4.1: Reprises ➥ Module 4.2: Reading comprehension

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Starting in 2025, all undergraduate students must follow training on ecological transition and sustainable development. This obligation, carried by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, aims to provide you with a common foundation of knowledge on major environmental issues: climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, pollution, and energy transition. The online training offered to you is part of this framework. It has been designed to be completed independently, at your own pace, and to help you better understand ongoing transformations. It covers the scientific, social, and economic dimensions of the transition through five themes.

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Chapter structure

The TEDS module is structured around 5 themes: ➥ Introduction ➥ Theme 1: Climate change ➥ Theme 2: Biodiversity and its conservation ➥ Theme 3: Resources ➥ Complementary theme: Energy ➥ Complementary theme: Water ➥ Theme 4: Just transition and social equity ➥ Theme 5: The concept of planetary boundaries

Objectives of this chapter

• Understand the systemic dimension and urgency of ecological transition and related environmental, economic, and social challenges.
• Distinguish actions at individual, local, national, and international levels.
• Build a reflection on your personal ability to act daily in favor of ecological transition.

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Being in a large lecture hall among hundreds of students can be a difficult moment for newcomers at university. In addition, the diversity of teaching methods requires you to adopt appropriate learning strategies and techniques, especially for listening and taking notes. These two practices are essential for your success, and a third one is just as important: reading your notes to complete the learning process.

Part A : Taking notes efficiently

➥ Module 1 : Why take notes? ➥ Module 2 : Note-taking methods ➥ Module 3 : Developing your own note-taking style and technique

Objectives of this chapter

• Identify the different aspects of note-taking.
• Apply various note-taking methods.
• Develop your own effective note-taking style.
• Prepare for effective note-taking.
• Develop active listening skills.
• Take organized and structured notes.

Part B : Developing active listening

➥ Module 4 : Planning note-taking ➥ Module 5 : Improving your comprehension with active listening ➥ Module 6 : Taking notes in a structured manner

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In the current context, learning remotely can pose a real challenge for some of you. Attending online classes on Webex, participating in activities on UPdago, or paying attention to teachers' emails requires a different organization from your usual study habits. Faced with these new ways of working, it is important to stay organized and to develop a strategy that will help you succeed in your studies.

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Part A: Getting started

➥ Module 1: Getting started ➥ Module 2: Practice with Webex and UPdago ➥ Module 3: Don’t overlook online course requirements ➥ Module 4: Stay involved and participate actively ➥ Module 5: Choose the right work environment

Objectives of this chapter

• Master basic information for starting distance studies.
• Distinguish uses of different digital tools (Webex, UPdago, ENT, email, etc.).
• Adapt your posture to online classes.
• Participate actively in university life remotely.
• Create a productive distance-learning environment.
• Manage your schedule while studying remotely.
• Stay motivated and organized.
• Know basic Webex features.
• Develop ethical online communication.
• Balance university life and personal life during distance learning.

Part B: Getting organized for distance learning

➥ Module 6: Managing your schedule ➥ Module 7: Get organized and keep a constructive routine ➥ Module 8: Follow courses live on Webex (synchronous) ➥ Module 9: Respect academic rules online ➥ Module 10: Take care of yourself, remember to disconnect

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The transition to university requires a "qualitative leap" in writing production. This sudden change is often a source of demotivation, stress, or even failure. The modules in this chapter present simple methods and advice to approach the most common academic writing formats: reports, summaries, and syntheses. They also help you gradually improve by understanding the main issues related to these types of writing.

Part A : Factual writing

➥ Module 1 : Practising critical reading ➥ Module 2 : Producing a report ➥ Module 3 : Writing a summary

Objectives of this chapter

• Write a thorough and methodical reading that highlights the meaning of a text.
• Write a text adapted to a specific event or situation.
• Produce a summary that accurately reflects content or themes.
• Write a synthesis based on a scientific or technical document.
• Write a synthesis based on a group of texts.
• Create revision sheets for exams.
• Compose an argued text in an academic context.

Part B : The synthesis

➥ Module 4 : Writing the synthesis of a document ➥ Module 5 : Writing the synthesis of several documents ➥ Module 6: Creating revision notes ➥ Module 7: Writing an argumentative essay ➥ Module 8: Writing a good essay

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The chapter “Introduction to the fundamentals of learning” helps you understand the learning process at university, get to know yourself better, and adapt as quickly and effectively as possible to the academic environment. The first part of this chapter provides essential foundations for identifying your strengths and the sources of motivation needed to build your own strategy. The second part presents the university environment and its links to your academic and professional goals, helping you understand how the university functions and how to better organize your work.

• General objective of the chapter :

Understand the basics of learning and know how to organize yourself within the university environment.

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Part A : How to learn efficiently in university ?

➥ Module 1 : How to learn ? ➥ Module 2 : Motivation ➥ Module 3 : Memorisation ➥ Module 4 : Concentration and attentiveness

Part B : Getting your bearings and getting organised in the university environment

➥ Module 5 : Study project and professional project ➥ Module 6 : The university environment ➥ Module 7 : Managing your time ➥ Module 8 : Passing your exam

Objectives of this chapter

• Understand the learning process.
• Develop your motivation in higher education based on your success goals.
• Improve and enrich your memory.
• Improve your attention and concentration while studying.
• Build your professional path by planning your academic journey.
• Understand your environment to gain useful reference points throughout your studies.
• Improve time management for greater efficiency.
• Organize your studies in preparation for exams.
• Confront your professional project with reality.
• Learn about available academic programs.

Part C : Reading and collaborating effectively

➥ Module 11 : Reading actively ➥ Module 12 : Creating a reading summary ➥ Module 13 : Organizing group work ➥ Module 14 : Working in groups remotely

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Part B : Launching the project

This chapter explores the different stages of project management, from the initial idea to project closure.

➥ Module 8: What is the project launch phase? ➥ Module 9: Carrying out a feasibility study ➥ Module 10: Drawing up the project charter ➥ Module 11: Gathering requirements ➥ Module 12: Mapping project stakeholders ➥ Module 13: A successful kick-off meeting

Objectives of this chapter

• Understand the basics of project management : transforming ideas into successful projects, using brainstorming, managing stakeholders, forming effective teams, and following the project life cycle.
• Laying the groundwork: conducting feasibility studies, writing the project charter, identifying needs, mapping stakeholders, and leading the kick-off meeting.
• Write specifications, define project scope, plan using PERT and GANTT charts, manage budgets, handle risks, and prepare a communication plan.
• Implement strategies, set SMART objectives, understand the roles of steering committees and stakeholders, and identify difficulties during implementation.
• Receive deliverables, analyze lessons learned, write project evaluations, conduct closure meetings, and follow post-project steps.

Part C : Project planning

➥Module 14: Drawing up specifications ➥ Module 15: Defining the scope of your project ➥ Module 16: Planning using the PERT and GANTT diagrams ➥ Module 17: Managing the project budget ➥ Module 18: Mastering risk management ➥ Module 19: Preparing a communication plan

Part D : Executing the project

➥ Module 20: What is the project execution phase? ➥ Module 21: Project implementation strategies ➥ Module 22: Writing SMART objectives to monitor project implementation ➥ Module 23: What role should project stakeholders play? ➥ Module 24: Identifying difficulties in project implementation

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Part A : From idea to project launch

Part E : Closing the project

➥ Module 25: Receiving project deliverables ➥ Module 26: Learning from your project management experience ➥ Module 27: Writing up the project report ➥ Module 28: A successful closing meeting ➥ Module 29: Disbanding the team ➥ Module 30: What’s next? Delivering project deliverables

➥Module 1: The basics of project management ➥ Module 2: How to turn your concepts into successful projects ➥ Module 3: Using the brainstorming technique to clarify a project idea ➥ Module 4: Stakeholders ➥ Module 5: Building a team ➥ Module 6: The project management life cycle ➥ Module 7: The deliverable, an essential project management tool

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Whether at university or in the professional world, knowing how to communicate well is a key skill that will support you in daily interactions. This module introduces communication fundamentals to help you understand the mechanisms at play in each interaction. Whether using your university email, writing effective messages, improving your speaking ease, or persuading an audience, communication is an essential asset for success.

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Part A : Formal exchanges

➥ Module 1 : Understanding and using your email ➥ Module 2 : Communicating by email at university ➥ Module 3 : Daily communication with your professors and the administration

Objectives of this chapter

• Understand the challenges of using email at university.
• Optimize email communication in an academic setting.
• Request appointments and communicate with teachers and administration.
• Know the basic concepts of communication.
• Communicate to persuade.
• Communicate confidently in any situation by mastering verbal and non-verbal communication.

Part B : Speaking in front of an audience

➥ Module 4 : Key element to oral communication ➥ Module 5 : Persuasive communication ➥ Module 6 : Oral fluency ➥ Module 7 : Speaking orally using a digital support

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The chapter “Documentary Research” aims to give you a first introduction to documentary research, an activity that will become increasingly important throughout your academic journey. More than an activity, it is a method, a set of tools, and resources to learn and apply so that these tasks become reflexes. This chapter will allow you to make connections with the documentary research courses taught throughout your degree by the SCD (Common Documentation Service) and its reference instructors.

Part A : Discover and understand the importance of documentary research

➥ Module 1 : Understanding the challenges of documentary research ➥ Module 2 : Identifying and formulating the subject of your documentary research

Part B : Conducting documentary research, analysing and exploiting the results

➥ Module 3 : Distinguishing and manipulating the tools of documentary research ➥ Module 4 : Creating a research equation and adapting your documentary needs ➥ Module 5 : Evaluating an processing the collected information ➥ Module 6: How to avoid plagiarism ➥ Module 7: Citing a Wikipedia article

Objectives of this chapter

• Complement your courses with online research.
• Understand the stakes of documentary research.
• Identify and formulate a documentary research topic.
• Know and use documentary research tools.
• Use documentary research tools to build a search equation.
• Evaluate and process collected information.
• Know your documentary environment and the University Library’s resources.
• Critically evaluate documentary sources and materials.
• Write a bibliography.
• Avoid plagiarism at university.
• Cite a Wikipedia article.

Part C : Writing a bibliography

➥ Module 8: Writing a bibliography ➥ Module 9: Getting started with Zotero

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Digital skills are now essential to meet the daily demands encountered in your studies and employment. Mastering computer tools has become essential, regardless of your level or field. In this chapter, you will discover various computer devices and operating systems, while learning the basics of communication network functioning. You will also explore the world of data processing and multimedia (texts, images, sound, algorithms, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). No more excuses for claiming to know nothing about digital technology.

• General objective of the chapter :

Develop essential digital skills.

Part A: Digital environment

➥ Module 1: Recognizing the main equipment ➥ Module 2: Operating system principles ➥ Module 3: Understanding the computer network ➥ Module 4: Managing data

➥ Module 25: Document templates ➥ Module 26: Sections and columns ➥ Module 27: Inserting and anchoring a table ➥ Module 28: Merging in a table and using page breaks ➥ Module 29: Figures ➥ Module 30: Adding and modifying styles ➥ Module 31: Track changes ➥ Module 32: Mail merge ➥ Module 33: Tables and references ➥ Module 34: Document templates ➥ Module 35: Master and sub-documents ➥ Module 36: Forms ➥ Module 37: Dynamic linking

Part B: Multimedia

➥ Module 5: Basic digital image processing ➥ Module 6: Identifying the key elements of digital sound ➥ Module 7: Digital video objects ➥ Module 8: Understanding the interoperability of multimedia objects ➥ Module 9: Preparing a video resume ➥ Module 10: Creating a video resume ➥ Module 11: Gimp ➥ Module 12: Writing a film script ➥ Module 13: Identifying video codecs ➥ Module 14: Identifying video formats

Part F: Spreadsheets

Objectives of this chapter

• Identify main hardware and peripherals.
• Describe an operating system.
• Identify key elements of a computer network.
• Manage data in a digital environment.
• Analyze the structure, functioning, and processing of digital images.
• Identify key elements of digital audio.
• Create a slideshow with PowerPoint.
• Use word processing and spreadsheet software.
• Identify essential elements of algorithms.
• Express problem-solving methods in algorithmic form.
• Train in AI.

➥ Module 38: Getting started ➥ Module 39: Spreadsheet basics with Excel ➥ Module 40: Structuring data ➥ Module 41: Excel tables ➥ Module 42: Pivot tables and data models ➥ Module 43: External data with Excel

Part C: Algorithms and Programming

➥ Module 15: Introduction to algorithms for computer science ➥ Module 16: Algorithmic basics

Part G: Presentations

➥ Module 44: Getting started

Part D: Preparation for PIX Certification

➥ Training on all PIX competencies ➥ Other digital culture resources

Part H: Computing and Society

➥ Module 45: Computing and society

Part E : Word Processing

Part I: Generative AI tools for students

➥ Module 17: Composing a document ➥ Module 18: Exporting a file ➥ Module 19: Editing ➥ Module 20: Spelling ➥ Module 21: Character and paragraph formatting ➥ Module 22: Existing styles ➥ Module 23: Tabs and spacing ➥ Module 24: Insertions ➥ Module 25: Document templates

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Discovering AI: ➥ Module 46: Generative AI ➥ Module 47: Generative AI tools for students Training with AI: ➥ Module 48: Identifying use cases for text-based generative AI

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In a globalization context, developing intercultural skills is a real asset. Studying in a multicultural environment, working in groups with international students, or going abroad enriches your university experience. It also contributes to your personal and professional development. In this chapter, we suggest a few ways of thinking about interculturality at university that will enable you to enrich your verbal and non-verbal communication repertoire. This skill invites you to adopt appropriate behaviours and attitudes towards people from other cultural groups. We offer advice and techniques to help you making it easier to write formal letters to English or Spanish speakers.

• General objective of the chapter :

Develop intercultural skills to thrive in a university or professional environment.

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Part A: International mobility and studies

➥ Module 1: Interculturality at university ➥ Module 2a: Formal writing in English ➥ Module 2b: Formal writing in Spanish ➥ Module 3: Writing and translation tools

Objectives of this chapter

• Learn to understand your own values and prejudices.
• Build strong relationships with teachers, students, and stakeholders from other cultures.
• Adapt and respond to intercultural situations.
• Structure a formal letter or email in English.
• Distinguish techniques of formal writing.
• Adapt language to the recipient.
• Structure a formal letter or email in Spanish.
• Distinguish the writing techniques of a formal document
• Adapt your language to your interlocutor
• Use proper writing and translation tools.
• Identify effective translations techniques.

Part B: Improving oral expression in English

➥ Module 4: Improving oral expression in English

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The chapter “Professional Integration” provides modules that help you discover strategies and useful techniques for entering the professional world. You will learn how to write a clear and attractive resume, a compelling cover letter, and identify your skills to define your career project. In this chapter, you will start by discovering the basics of a successful application in order to align your experiences with your professional aspirations. A relevant CV or a well-written cover letter can quickly attract the attention of a recruiter. In the second part, you will have the opportunity to deepen your understanding of the job market and develop an effective professional integration strategy. You will learn, in particular, to take into account the specificities of your sector as well as the realities of the market, whether it is open or hidden.

• General objective of the chapter :

Perfect your application for successful professional integration.

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Part A: The fundamentals of applying

➥ Module 1: Writing an attractive CV ➥ Module 2: The cover letter ➥ Module 3: Managing your e-reputation ➥ Module 4: Preparing for a recruitment interview ➥ Module 5: Successful recruitment interviews ➥ Module 6: Work-study training at the University of Poitiers

Objectives of this chapter

• Write an attractive resume.
• Write a persuasive cover letter.
• Manage your e-reputation.
• Prepare for a job interview.
• Succeed in job interviews.
• Define a realistic career plan.
• Identify key skills.

• Explore the job market.
• Assess a sector and its open market.
• Analyze the hidden job market.
• Develop an effective job or internship search strategy.
• Understand the benefits of work-study programs.

Part B: Perfecting your internship or job application

➥ Module 7: Defining your career plan ➥ Module 8: Identifying key skills ➥ Module 9: Understanding the organization of the labor market ➥ Module 10: Exploring a business sector and its open market ➥ Module 11: Analyzing the hidden market ➥ Module 12: Adopting an efficient strategy for professional integration ➥ Module 13: Analyzing an insertion survey

Part C: Company organizational structures

➥ Module 14: Organizational configuration principles ➥ Module 15: Creating a presentation portfolio ➥ Module 16: Successful professional integration ➥ Module 17: Types and nature of professional contracts ➥ Module 18: Understanding the general clauses of your employment contract ➥ Module 19: Understanding specific and illegal clauses in your employment contract ➥ Module 20: Different types of professional organization

• Know the main organizational structures.
• Create a professional portfolio.
• Succeed in professional integration.
• Know the different types of employment contracts.
• Understand general clauses in employment contracts.
• Understand specific and unlawful clauses.
• Differentiate types of professional organizations.