O’Guide Program

About the program

Starting Uni can be daunting and there are a lot of things for new students to learn, like finding their way around, knowing where to get textbooks and understanding University systems.

We asked new students how we could better support them during their crucial first few weeks at Flinders and many told us they would find it helpful to be paired up with another student to help them settle in. In response to this, we developed the O’Guide Program.

O’Guides are current students who will act as a contact point for new students throughout the first few weeks of Semester. O’Guides are there to answer questions (or point students in the right direction) and help them get to know others.

Students starting at Flinders in Semester 2, 2020 will be buddied up with an O’Guide in groups with other new students, via Flinders Learning Online (FLO). Through FLO students will connect with their O’Guide and O’Guide group through discussion forums and weekly live video sessions.

Be an O’Guide

Applications for 2020 have now closed.

If you’ve been studying at Flinders for six months or more and keen to be involved in 2021, email: student.experience@flinders.edu.au

Being an O’Guide will give you an opportunity to:

• participate in a student development program that will build your professional skills
• enhance your CV by earning Horizon Award points to kick start your career
• make friends and connections with other O’Guides and broaden your network
• contribute to your University community and have a positive impact on new students
• obtain a written recommendation on LinkedIn from Flinders University
• receive a pair of exclusive Flinders University branded duck socks!

As an O’Guide, your commitment is:

• to complete the online O’Guide training topic in FLO as well as an online live video training (total of approximately four hours)
• to work in partnership with one other O’Guide to run weekly discussion forums and Collaborate (video call) group sessions in FLO (approximately two hours per week for the first six weeks of semester, as well as in weeks 7 and 10)
• to provide feedback on the program via an online O’Guide debrief session and online survey (approximately one hour).

The total time commitment is approximately 21 hours across Semester 2.