Need help with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint or any of the Google Apps?
The Digital Skills Team provides free training sessions and 1:1 mentoring. This training 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...
As a student at the University of Portsmouth you will also have access to LinkedIn Learning which is an "online educational platform that helps you develop business, technology-related, and creative skills through expert-led course videos. You can also choose to add these courses and related skills to your LinkedIn profile once you've completed them".
If you have any questions please email digitalskills@port.ac.uk and we will get back to you.
Booking
IT Training and digital skills consultations
Digital Skills offer personalised 1-1 mentoring to assist with developing your IT skills.
To book a session email digitaskills@port.ac.uk with some brief details and we will get back to you.
Scheduled training sessions
Click on a session title below to view the contents, dates and registration link.
If you have any questions or special requirements please email digitalskills@port.ac.uk and we will get back to you.
The training will include:
Using Google Keep
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Setting up a note
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Creating a list
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Adding people to collaborate with
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Synch with Keep on a smartphone
Setting Pinned Tabs in Chrome
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Set up Group tabs in Chrome
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Colour coded tabs and moving them around
Features in MS Word
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Tour of the MS Word Ribbon
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Selection techniques
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Show/hide button
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Set up a document in Outline View and defined a master page
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Open and use the Navigation Pane
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Add and customise Heading styles
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Insert captions
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Apply bookmarks and cross-references to text
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Add footnotes and endnotes
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Discuss techniques for adding citations
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Creating an index, table of images and a table of contents
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Adding headers, footers, and page numbering using page and section breaks
Sessions
Thursday 19 September 10:00 - 12:00 Click here to register
Tuesday 1 October 10:00 - 12:00 Click here to register
Content
This session will help you use Microsoft Word to create your assignments. The training will include:
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Setting up the formatting for a document
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Adding headers and page numbering
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Adding a Cover Page
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Using Styles
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Creating a Table of Contents
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Using the spelling and grammar check
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Track Changes
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Adding an appendix with different page numbering
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An opportunity to as questions
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Many more Microsoft Tips to help you use Microsoft Word to create an assignment
Sessions delivered via zoom:
Monday 9 September 11:00 - 12:30 Click here to register
Tuesday 24 September 10:00 – 11:30am Click here to register
Thursday 3 October 14:00 - 15:30 Click here to register
Thursday 17 October 10:30 - 12:00 Click here to register
Content
This session will help you use MS Excel to present and analyse data. The training will include:
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Entering data into a spreadsheet
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Creating basic formulas
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Using Functions to analyse data (mean, median, mode, standard deviation)
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Creating charts
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Sorting data
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Opportunity to ask questions
Sessions delivered via zoom:
Monday 9 September 10:00 - 11:30 Click here to register
Tuesday 24 September 14:00 – 15:30 Click here to register
Thursday 10 October 14:00 - 15:30 Click here to register
Wednesday 23 October 14:00 - 15:00 Click here to register
Content
This session will help you use MS PowerPoint to create a presentation. The training will include:
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Structure of presentations
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Creating a presentation
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Adding and Formatting Slides
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Using themes
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Adding images and videos
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Presenter view
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Animation and transitions
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Printing/pdf your assignment for submission
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Presenting tips
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Opportunity to ask questions
Sessions delivered via zoom:
Monday 16 September 10:00 - 11:30 Click here to register
Wednesday 9 October 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:
Monday 16 September 15:00 - 16:30 Click here to register
Thursday 24 October 14:00 - 15:00 Click here to register
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:
Tuesday 10 September 13:30 - 15:00 Click here to register
Wednesday 16 October 14:00 - 15:30 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:
Friday 18 October 10:00 - 11:00 Click here to register