15 August, Johor Bahru – PGSS SKA was pleased to conduct a workshop through an online platform the given tittle “Mendeley Workshop” on 15th August 2022 (Monday) through the Cisco Webex platform. Dr. Nur Hafizah Binti Abd Khalid from School of Civil Engineering was invited to become the speaker of this workshop. This online structure course was promoted 2 weeks before through media platforms, such as PGSS’s official Facebook, Telegram and Whatsapp. This program was open to all UTM students, including undergraduate and postgraduate students. A total of 84 students have participated in this structured course.

This course aims to:

  1. To demonstrate to students on how to utilize Mendeley software as a good referencing manager.
  2. To increase students’ skills in writing.

The Cisco Webex meeting opened from 9.30 a.m. for participants to log in, and the opening ceremony was conducted at 10.00 a.m. After the moderator finished the speaker’s introduction, this session was handed to the speaker at 10.05 a.m. The first part consumed an hour, where Dr. Hafizah starts the workshop by introducing the difference in Mendeley Reference Manager and Mendeley Desktop. She also demonstrated to the participants on some basic skills in using the Mendeley Desktop to manage the references and citations with ease. In addition, Dr, Hafizah describes how to add, import,save and edit the information of the downloaded articles. The QnA session was held at 12.00pm, it was the most an insightful part with various interesting and curiosity questions. Dr Hafizah also shared some fast-writing skills during the QnA session. The closing ceremony was conducted after the end of photo session and this workshop ended at 12.45pm. A lot of positive comments such as excellent program, great sharing on Mendeley, speaker explain clearly on the topic and interesting workshop were received from participants through the feedback form.