Connect with an O'Guide (new students)
O’Guides are current students who act as a contact point for new students throughout the first few weeks of semester. O’Guides can answer any questions you may have (or point you in the right direction). They will also help you get to know other students starting their university journey.
Whether you're studying online or on campus, you can choose to participate in either the ‘on campus’ O’Guide Program where you’ll meet up face-to-face with your O’Guide and other students on campus, or the ‘online’ O’Guide Program where you’ll connect with your O’Guides and other students via Microsoft Teams.
Please note that in response to the current lockdown in South Australia, face-to-face O'Guide sessions will now take place online. If you have registered to participate in the O'Guide Program, your O'Guide will contact you via your Flinders email with information regarding your online session. If you have not yet registered, you're still welcome to join and participate online.
How does it work?
After you have registered to participate in the O’Guide Program, you'll be matched with a relevant O’Guide (current student) and other commencing students. Your O'Guide will contact you (via your University email) and your group in mid July to arrange a date and time to meet. The first meet up will take place in O’Week and then weekly until the end of Week 3. At your O’Guide Group meet up you’ll be provided with information and resources, coffee or snacks and will have a chance to ask questions and get to know your peers.
Become an O'Guide (current students)
The O’Guide Program connects new students with a student guide to help them settle into life at Flinders.
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 will be buddied up with an O’Guide in groups with other new students, either face-to-face or online. O'Guide group get togethers will take place in O'Week and weekly during the first three weeks of semester.
Be an O’Guide
Applications for Semester 2, 2021 are now closed.
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
As an O’Guide, your commitment is:
- to complete the online O’Guide training topic in FLO
- to plan and deliver weekly face to face or online group sessions (approximately two hours per week from O’Week to week 3 of semester 2)
- 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 16 hours across O'Week to week 3 of semester 2.
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