Digital Skills

Technology plays a crucial role in today's society, from sending emails and messages to loved ones, creating an art piece to share and sell online, paying for bills or analysing data. Being able to use, develop and expand your digital skills have never been more important then today. 

Regardless of where you are with your digital skills, we want to help enable you to equip yourself with the tools to understand where you're currently at and what you could do to develop your skills for the future. 

Below you will be able to complete the "Discovery Tool" which is a great introduction to understanding your digital self. Additionally, on the navigation bar you will find other pages in the "Your Digital Journey Section relating to the six core areas that build into your digital you.

To access the transcripts, please view the videos using the Watch on YouTube option.

A great starting point for this is to complete the Discovery Tool from Jisc, this is a short survey which will ask you to reflect on a set of skills and charts that to the six areas that build up your digital framework. 

How to access the Discovery Tool

1. To access the discovery tool, first go to staffs.potential.ly and sign in using your University of Staffordshire login details (this will be [student number]@student.staffs.ac.uk and password). 

Note: If it does not direct you to login using using the UoS domain, you will need to use the drop down to select "University of Staffordshire".

1.2. For first time users, you will be asked to create an account by selecting your department and subject area.

2. Select your question set - There are multiple question sets you can complete, such as AI literacy or recognising digital skills.

We would recommend you complete the question set titled "Current Students (Higher Education)" as this will enable you to track your progression though your course.

3. Answer the digital skills questions - Because it's not a test we recommend you take your time to answer all the questions. Although you can exit a question set at any point and pick up where you left off, we suggest completing all the questions in one session.

4. View your feedback reports - Once you've completed a question set, you'll get a personalised report that can be downloaded and saved. The purpose of the feedback report is to help you reflect on your digital capabilities in order to identify your key strengths as well as any skills gaps where you may need further support.

The report includes:

A graphic with an overview of your capabilities according to each area

The feedback then breaks down your areas, identifying your key strengths and weaknesses and provides resources for you to work through to aid in the progression of your digital skills.