Digital skills classes for staff

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Looking to spruce up your Office 365 skills or learn how to make TikToks and Instagram reels? A range of training classes will help University staff to brush up on their digital skills.

The classes, delivered by trainers and experts from across the University, will run on Digital Skills Staff Week from 20 to 24 November.

Date and time   Course title   Booking link 
Monday 20 November, 11am-12pm  Office 365 essentials: Perfect planning with Microsoft Planner  Staff booking in People & Money 
Monday 20 November, 1pm-2.30pm  Canva: An introduction for beginners  Staff booking in People & Money 
Monday 20 November, 3pm-4pm  TikToks and Instagram Reels: Creating Engaging Short-Form Video   Staff booking in People & Money 
Tuesday 21 November, 12pm-12.30pm  Excel: Selected Excel functions  Staff booking in People & Money 
Tuesday 21 November, 1pm-2.45pm  Building your profile with LinkedIn  Staff booking in People & Money 
Tuesday 21 November, 2.30pm-3.30pm   PebblePad: Facilitating assessed blogging workflows in PebblePad  Staff booking in People & Money 
Wednesday 22 November, 10am-11am  Information Security: Mobile phone security  Staff booking in People & Money 
Wednesday 22 November, 11.30am-12.30pm  Office 365 essentials: Simple cloud storage with OneDrive  Staff booking in People & Money 
Wednesday 22 November, 2pm-3pm  Developing your Digital Skills – Staff  Staff booking in People & Money 
Wednesday 22 November, 2pm-3pm  Python vs R  Staff booking in People & Money 
Wednesday 22 November, 2pm-3pm  Wikidata and Wikibase: An introduction to linked open data for research datasets  Staff booking in Event Booking 
Wednesday 22 November, 3pm-4pm  Wikipedia and research impact – a workshop for staff  Staff booking in Event Booking 
Wednesday 22 November, 4pm-5pm  OER in the Curriculum: Teaching with Wikipedia  Staff booking in Event Booking 
Thursday 23 November, 10am-11.30am  Office 365 essentials: Managing your emails and calendar with Outlook on the web  Staff booking in People & Money 
Thursday 23 November, 2pm-3.30pm  Office 365 essentials: Notetaking made easy with Microsoft OneNote Online  Staff booking in People & Money 
Friday 24 November, 1pm-5pm  Learn how to edit Wikipedia: A workshop to add more biographies of women to Wikipedia  Staff booking in Event Booking