Digital skills are about how you handle, present and communicate information and content using digital tools and platforms. This includes problem-solving, innovation and the creation of digital content and media, both academically and professionally.
Here you can explore the live workshops the Centre for Academic Success has to offer over the next couple of weeks on the theme of Digital skills.
Want to find an efficient way to process your data? Learn how to sort and label large quantities of information enabling you to quickly extract the information you need.
Online via Zoom
Monday 11th November 2024
10:00 - 12:00 BST
digital skills, Excel
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Learn to use pivot tables, allowing you to pull out key information while leaving the original data intact. The workshop will also cover how to add a series of pivot tables within the same Excel spreadsheet, which look at different aspects of the data, and how to update and refresh them.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 13th November 2024
14:00 - 16:00 BST
digital skills, Excel
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Ever lose a file or struggle with version control? This workshop explains how to set up your student OneDrive for efficient file management, so you can access, organise and amend your files from any device.
Bay Campus
Friday 15th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
digital skills, OneDrive, file management
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Learn the key elements of a professional email. This workshop also covers how to prioritise the emails you receive, manage events in your calendar, create a to-do list and share files in different ways.
Bay Campus
Friday 15th November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
digital skills, Outlook, emails, calendar, to-do lists
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Learn the fundamentals of using formulas in Excel, and how to apply formulas to sum, count, apply statistics, standard deviation and measure of spread, logical interpretation and to look up data.
Online via Zoom
Monday 18th November 2024
10:00 - 12:00 BST
digital skills, Excel, formulas
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Learn how to showcase your findings using the appropriate chart, and to amend chart elements to edit the design and layout. This workshop will also teach you how to apply a logarithmic scale and error bars, and how to export your charts to other documents.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 20th November 2024
14:00 - 16:00 BST
digital skills, Excel, charts
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This workshop is a beginners guide to writing documents in LaTeX using Overleaf. No prior knowledge is needed for this workshop or any other computing language, it will cover the basics of LaTeX including document structure, typesetting text, tables, figures, equations and Inserting references.
Bay Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
13:00 - 14:00 BST
This intermediate workshop builds on the getting to know LaTeX workshop by exploring the presentation package in LaTeX called beamer. We will also cover more complicated packages in LaTeX and look at how to use them.
Bay Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
Learning to apply and modify formatting styles in Word will give your work a professional finish but will make the document accessible and easy to navigate. You will also be able to create and update a contents page at the click of a button.
Bay Campus
Friday 22nd November 2024
10:00 - 12:00 BST
digital skills, Word, formatting styles, contents page
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