Introduction to Eisu And The Esa

EISU provides insessional English support to all international students whose first language is not English. For example, we run free classes every day in terms 1 and 2 in aspects such as Grammar, Study skills, Academic Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Communication skills and vocabulary You can also request free one-to-one tutorials all year round to receive individual help and advice about your academic English. As you can see from our Intranet, we also offer day trips, classes for the partners of international students and staff and a range of other services that improve the international student's experience at the University of Birmingham. Your first step should now be to do our online English self-assessment which will enable you to identify your English language strengths , your areas for improvement and how EISU can help you improve your English. You'll find a link to the CANVAS test environment on our Intranet pages. It will be shown again at the end of this video and in the Youtube description. You'll then need to log in to the University's CANVAS learning environment. Add your usual University username and remember that your password is case sensitive. Once logged in to CANVAS you need to find the EISU English for International Students Unit Insessional Support pages -- find the courses tab -- after clicking the arrow you'll probably find that you've been enrolled on a number of CANVAS courses related to your programme. You should be able to find the English for International Students unit's insessional course when you scroll down. If you can't see it, follow the instructions on our intranet pages to contact us and let us know there's a problem. Once in our course, you'll see a home page similar to this one. Although this may change slightly during the year, the English Self-assessment will always be the top left icon. Now simply click this icon and follow the assessment instructions on screen.