Digital skills support
Digital skills
This Digital Skills Moodle Course provides you with video guides to get you started, on how to use several of the resources available to you while you are studying at the University.
Online workshops
Digital skills support is available from our online workshop programme. These workshops are open to all students and cover a range of topics and programmes. To view available workshops and to book your place, please visit CareerHub.
Workshop topics
Excel
Improve your skills on Excel by learning more about conditional formatting, pivot tables, functions and shortcuts. These workshops will ensure your spreadsheets are more efficient and productive.
Word
Discover how to use Word's built-in features that work to automatically format your document for you. This is especially useful when dealing with long, complex documents, and working to tight deadlines. Topics covered include: styles; automatic table of contents; multi-level lists; page breaks vs section breaks; headers and footers; arranging tabular data; and working with images.
Outlook
Find out how to use the automatic features in Outlook to help organise your workload and save precious time.
EndNote
EndNote is the University’s free, recommended and supported reference management tool. EndNote will save you valuable time by removing the manual labour associated with creating and formatting references. You can now access the fully-featured desktop software and manage your EndNote library from multiple computers including your personal device.
If you need any further help and advice, please contact or visit the Student Services Hub who will be happy to assist you.