ACE Your Studies

Academic Confidence Essentials (ACE) is a set of modules on different academic skills. Each module contains essential information on a particular academic skills concept and interactive activities that help check your mastery of that concept.

The topics covered are:

  • Breaking down your assessment
  • What is critical thinking?
  • Evaluating evidence
  • Integrating evidence: quoting, paraphrasing and summarising
  • Paragraphs
  • Essay structure
  • Report writing.

ACE are self-paced, free for all UNSW students and can be done as many times as needed. Each module takes about 20 minutes to complete.

How to access ACE

Enrol in ACE on Moodle using the student self-enrolment key: academic skills

Enrol on Moodle now

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