Course: Essential Digital Skills

This is a new course designed for all ages and levels of ability to ensure you have a good understanding and knowledge of digital skills which are needed both for home and work in this digital age.

You are able to learn using your choice of device, a laptop, desktop Windows computer or a tablet. You will learn the fundamental digital skills needed for everyday home and work activities.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will achieve an Essential Digital Skills (Gateway) Entry Level 3, Level 1.

The course will cover the following topics, at varying degrees of difficulty according to the level you are studying:

• Using digital communication at home and work, e.g. email, social media, facetime, Zoom, Google classroom and other videoconferencing systems.
• Finding and selecting information from the internet and staying safe and legal while online.
• Handling information and content – saving and finding content on your device, creating, editing and formatting documents in programmes such as Word or Powerpoint.
• Carrying out online transactions. For example shopping online and completing forms for services.
• Solving problems by searching for information online and using spreadsheet programmes to analyse data.

This course will take place on Thursdays 4pm – 6pm. The next start date for this course is Thursday 14th January.