It is recommended that all students and staff complete the following courses:
Digital Capabilities Pathways (Learning Pathway with multiple short courses) | |
These Digital Capabilities Pathways present you with the opportunity to develop your digital skills and digital capabilities through the completion of a range of short courses within LinkedIn Learning. You will be fully prepared for both your studies and the digital needs of your future career. | |
Gaining Skills with LinkedIn Learning (Course) | |
With LinkedIn Learning, anyone can gain new skills. We offer expert-led, anytime training that you can take at your own pace, with tools and features to fit almost any learning style. Use this course to understand how you learn best and how LinkedIn Learning can help you set and achieve your personal and professional goals. Educator and content manager Aaron Quigley shows how to use LinkedIn Learning alongside cutting-edge, brain-based research to create a learning game plan, execute it, and make the knowledge stick. Understand which skills are in demand, how to find the training to reach your goals, and how to showcase your new skills. | |
Office 365 - Beginner (Course collection) | |
Get to grips with the use of Office 365 apps and tools for working and sharing, on your desktop and in the cloud. This collection will give everyone a basic level of skills required to use Microsoft Office to compose assignments. Includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Completion of each element will produce a Certificate of Completion for you to download, print or share and provides evidence of your learning. | |
Personal Branding on Social Media (Course) | |
This course shows how to authentically and powerfully present your brand online. Branding expert Karen Leland reveals the important differences between the four main social media sites—LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest—and how to use them for career advancement and networking. |
Please dip into the following Course Collection and complete any individual courses that are useful to you:
Presenting and public speaking (Course collection) | |
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Glossophobia or speech anxiety is the fear of public speaking and affects up 75% of the population to some extent. Here we have gathered together a collection of short courses that can help you overcome that fear and create great presentations. Choose the course(s) that best represent your current position, but we recommend that everyone completes "Overcoming Your Fear of Public Speaking" and "How to Present and Stay on Point". For technical skills i.e. using PowerPoint, see the Office 365 collection (above).
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