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Digital Skills Awareness Course

The course outlines the key digital skills students need for their studies and helps them identify the skills they have and the ones they need to acquire or improve. While the course doesn’t focus on teaching practical digital skills, it provides valuable tips from a variety of sources, including university support staff and students, as well as helpful resources and videos.

Each unit focuses on a particular topic:

  1. General Technologies
    Working with files, Microsoft Office applications, browsers and search engines
  2. Learning Technologies
    Online learning environments, forums, assignments/assessments and video
  3. Access, Sharing and Safety
    Accounts/access, safety, social media and sharing
  4. Getting Organised
    Notetaking, referencing and digital wellbeing

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Link to Course

The Staffordshire University Digital Skills Awareness course for students. 

  • Self Enrol onto the course; 

To sign up for this module first click here to enrol on the course.

Then click here to access the course material or find it in your course list in blackboard.

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