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Digital Skills

We provide free training on MS Office and Google

This training is delivered by one of expert trainers and is designed to boost your digital confidence, so you get the most out of the software you are using. 

Don't let your digital skills hold you back....

Book onto one of our scheduled courses below or email digitalskills@port.ac.uk to book a 1:1 session

Scheduled Training Sessions

The training will include:

Using Google Keep

  • Setting up a note

  • Creating a list

  • Adding people to collaborate with

  • Synch with Keep on a smartphone

Setting Pinned Tabs in Chrome

  • Set up Group tabs in Chrome

  • Colour coded tabs and moving them around

Features in MS Word

  • Tour of the MS Word Ribbon

  • Selection techniques

  • Show/hide button

  • Set up a document in Outline View and defined a master page

  • Open and use the Navigation Pane

  • Add and customise Heading styles

  • Insert captions

  • Apply bookmarks and cross-references to text

  • Add footnotes and endnotes

  • Discuss techniques for adding citations

  • Creating an index, table of images and a table of contents

  • Adding headers, footers, and page numbering using page and section breaks

 

Sessions

Friday 22 November 10:00 - 12:30 Click here to register

Wednesday 18 December 10:00-12:30 Click here to register

Content

This session will help you use Microsoft Word to create your assignments.  The training will include:

  • Setting up the formatting for a document

  • Adding headers and page numbering

  • Adding a Cover Page

  • Using Styles

  • Creating a Table of Contents

  • Using the spelling and grammar check

  • Track Changes

  • Adding an appendix with different page numbering

  • An opportunity to as questions

  • Many more Microsoft Tips to help you use Microsoft Word to create an assignment

Sessions delivered via zoom:

Wednesday 6 November 14:00 - 15:30 Click here to register

Monday 2 December 14:00-15:30 Click here to register

Thursday 12 December 10:00-11:30 Click here to register

Content

This session will help you use MS Excel to present and analyse data.  The training will include:

  • Entering data into a spreadsheet

  • Creating basic formulas

  • Using Functions to analyse data (mean, median, mode, standard deviation)

  • Creating charts

  • Sorting data

  • Opportunity to ask questions

 

Sessions delivered via zoom:

Thursday 7 November 10:00 11:30 Click here to register

Monday 18 November 14:00 - 15:30 Click here to register

Tuesday 3 December 10:00-11:30 Click here to register

Thursday 12 December 14:00-15:30 Click here to register

Content

This session will help you use MS PowerPoint to create a presentation.  The training will include:

  • Structure of presentations

  • Creating a presentation

  • Adding and Formatting Slides

  • Using themes

  • Adding images and videos

  • Presenter view

  • Animation and transitions

  • Printing/pdf your assignment for submission

  • Presenting tips

  • Opportunity to ask questions

 

Sessions delivered via zoom:

Thursday 14 November 10:00 - 11:30 Click here to register

Monday 16 December 14:00-15:30 Click here to register

This training is an introduction to MS Project and will cover the creation of a basic Gantt Chart to monitor a project.  

In this session we will show include:

  • An introduction to Gantt Charts and their main components
  • Setting up a Gantt Chart in MS Project
  • Adding Tasks 
  • Auto - Scheduling Tasks
  • Creating Predecessor Tasks

 

Sessions delivered via zoom:

More sessions coming soon

Content

This session will help you use MS Visio for creating flowcharts and diagrams. The training will include:

  • An overview of Microsoft Visio and typical uses
  • Creating a Flowchart
  • Creating a Timeline
  • Creating a Diagram
  • Adding flowcharts and diagrams to Word or PowerPoint

 

Sessions delivered via zoom:

Thursday 28 November 10:00 - 11:30 Click here to register

Content

Moodle is the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) used at the University.

This session will cover the basics of Moodle including:

  • Accessing Moodle
  • Finding and opening your Moodle Courses
  • Viewing resources on a Moodle Course
  • Completing a Moodle Quiz
  • Uploading an assignment to a Moodle Assignment Dropbox
  • Contributing to a Moodle Forum
  • How to get help with Moodle

 

Sessions delivered via zoom:

Monday 11 November 10:00 - 11:30 Click here to register

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1:1 Training

Digital Skills offer personalised 1-1 mentoring to assist with developing your IT skills. 

To book a session email digitalskills@port.ac.uk with some brief details and we will get back to you.

LinkedIn Learning 

LinkedIn learning is a great online learning and training resource, available free to all students and staff through your University account.

There are more than 14,000 courses available over the web or through the mobile apps, covering business, creative and technology subjects. Some of the courses will relate directly to your degree course, while others can help improve your general skills or boost your employability.

Whatever you choose, you can study them at your own pace, for free.  Click here for more information

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