O U S AAccessing the Branch Conference
You can get to the Branch Conference by going to Open University > Regions > R06 > O U S A East of England > O U S A Br Suffolk.
Don't forget the East of England website, which is being built up — there is already a lot of information on the site, and more will be added soon.
Other conferences
As well as the O U S A branch conferences, there are lots of other conferences. Some courses have online conferences, either run by the course team, or study conferences which are usually run by students (though tutors and Course Team members often ‘drop in’). These conferences are invaluable for study support, especially if you have difficulty getting to tutorials.
In addition, there are a huge number of ‘special interest’ conferences — anything from O U S A 24 to Alcoholism, from Mediation to Men, from Yoga to Young Students, and all sorts of other interesting topics in between
O U S A Consultation
O U S A is keen to hear from as many students as possible, and there are a number of ways of doing this, apart from attending meetings or being elected. One of the most important is to take part in First Class Conferences such as O U S A Matters or O U S A Online. These can be reached by following this trail on First Class:
Open University > Open University Students Association > O U S A Live >O U S A Matters.
O U S A Online is a sub-conference of O U S A Matters.
If you’re having problems, contact the Helpdesk:
Helpdesk Contact points:
Tel: +44 (0) 1908 653972.
Email:Helpdesk
Please include your O U personal identifier (i.e. student number) and course code. If your query relates to a username or password problem, please include the word “password” in the subject field of your message.
Keyboard Shortcuts
There are quite a few ways to do certain things on F C and if you are going to use it a lot one of the handy things to know is some keyboard shortcuts to save swapping between keyboard and mouse.
| Action | Keys |
|---|---|
| There are lots of others as well plus shortcuts for Macs to be found in the help menu. | |
| Open selected | Ctrl + O |
| Next unread | Ctrl + U |
| Next in thread | F2 |
| Previous in thread | Shift + F2 |
| Close selected | Ctrl + F4 |
| Attach file | Ctrl + T |
| Delete | Ctrl + D |
| Open address book | Ctrl + 2 |
| Open calendar | Ctrl + 6 |
| Open bookmarks | Ctrl + 3 |
| Open mailbox | Ctrl + 1 |
| Check spelling | Ctrl + Shift + L |
| Copy | Ctrl + C |
| Cut | Ctrl + X |
| Paste | Ctrl + V |
| Insert signature | Ctrl + Shift + S |
| Size larger | Ctrl + ] |
| Size smaller | Ctrl + [ |
| Reply | Ctrl + R |
| Reply with quote | Ctrl + ' |
| Send | Ctrl + E |
| Send and close | Ctrl + Shift + E |
