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New Digital Skills courses for 2020
By Jasmin E Mullings, on 9 December 2019
IMPORTANT: Please note that the UCL booking system closed on 15th January.
When the new training booking system (MyLearning) goes live in mid-February, you will be able to book onto sessions scheduled from 2nd March onwards. If you want to be informed about the opening of the new system, enrol on our Moodle course.
A full list of course dates for this term can be found at the end of this blog post.
ISD Digital Skills Development has released new dates for the first half of Term 2. As usual, we are offering a wide range of courses covering Excel, Photoshop, R, Stata, and more…
This term we have our Software for success sessions again and three new In a Nutshell sessions.
Software for Success sessions are aimed at those starting a new research project, thesis or dissertation and unsure what tools to use for writing up, citation, data analysis etc. These short, lunchtime sessions will help you answer these questions and determine the best way to get up and running. Book a place on a ‘Software for success’ presentation.
In a Nutshell sessions highlight a single task in a particular application, such as loading survey data into NVivo for example. Book a place on an ‘In a Nutshell’ presentation.
We have added new sessions for our highly popular Creating accessible documents course. Making documents accessible is important for everyone, whether or not they have a disability or impairment. In this session you will learn how to make your PowerPoint, Word, Excel and PDF files more accessible. To find out more about creating accessible content, please visit our dedicated web pages.
See below for our current schedule of courses and workshops.
More digital skills development opportunities…
Digital Skills Development at IOE offer training in a wide range of digital tools. Sessions are open to all UCL staff and students. Highlights this term include:
- Creating Accessible PowerPoint presentations,
- Presentation Translator – add live subtitles to your presentations,
- Introduction to Stop Motion Studio animation (iPad app).
Other sessions include Microsoft tools such as OneNote, Sway, Teams and SharePoint. You can also learn more about EndNote, Pivot tables and VLookUp in Excel, mind mapping, infographics, video editing and much more.
Visit the Digital Skills Development at IOE booking system for details and to book.
Learn online with a vast range of high-quality video-based courses from LinkedIn Learning. This is the new platform on which we are now hosting Lynda.com content. These cover technical skills but also business, personal and creative skills as well. Visit the UCL LinkedIn Learning page to find out more.
Not sure what you need or have a more specific issue you would like help with? Come along to one of the Digital Skills Development drop ins for more individual support.
Current schedule
For a full list of courses and workshops take a look at our course catalogue.
Sessions available now:
| Date | Start time | End time | Course/workshop |
| 13/01/2020 | 13:00 | 14:00 | Software for Success: Bibliography and Citation |
| 21/01/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Getting started with Stata (Part 1) (RESERVE LIST ONLY) |
| 22/01/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Getting started with Stata (Part 2) (RESERVE LIST ONLY) |
| 22/01/2019 | 16:00 | 17:00 | Excel Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 1 (RESERVE LIST ONLY) |
| 24/01/2019 | 11:00 | 12:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 1 (RESERVE LIST ONLY) |
| 24/01/2019 | 12:00 | 13:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 1 |
| 27/01/2020 | 14:00 | 16:00 | Creating accessible documents (RESERVE LIST ONLY) |
| 28/01/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Getting started with SPSS (Part 1) |
| 29/01/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Getting started with SPSS (Part 2) |
| 03/02/2020 | 13:00 | 14:00 | In a Nutshell: Better Tables in Markdown |
| 04/02/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | A Quick Introduction to UNIX |
| 04/02/2020 | 14:00 | 17:00 | Excel 2016 Essential Skills (STAFF ONLY) (RESERVE LIST ONLY) |
| 05/02/2020 | 16:00 | 17:00 | Excel Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 1 (RESERVE LIST ONLY) |
| 07/02/2020 | 11:00 | 12:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 1 |
| 07/02/2020 | 12:00 | 13:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 1 |
| 06/02/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Getting Started with Markdown |
| 10/02/2020 | 13:00 | 14:00 | Software for success: Writing tools |
| 11/02/2020 | 14:00 | 17:00 | Further UNIX |
| 12/02/2020 | 16:00 | 17:00 | Excel Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 1 (RESERVE LIST ONLY) |
| 14/02/2020 | 11:00 | 12:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 2 |
| 14/02/2020 | 12:00 | 13:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 2 |
| 13/02/2020 | 10:00 | 12:00 | Creating accessible documents (RESERVE LIST ONLY) |
| 18/02/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Intermediate statistics with Excel 2016 (STAFF ONLY) |
| 19/02/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Using Excel 2016 to manage lists (STAFF ONLY) |
| 24/02/2020 | 10:00 | 12:00 | Creating accessible documents |
| 24/02/2020 | 13:00 | 14:00 | In a Nutshell: Survey Data in Nvivo – the absolute truth |
| 25/02/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Managing Long Documents in Word 2016 (STAFF ONLY) |
| 25/02/2020 | 14:00 | 17:00 | Charting with Excel 2016 |
| 26/02/2020 | 16:00 | 17:00 | Excel Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 1 (RESERVE LIST ONLY) |
| 28/02/2020 | 11:00 | 12:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 3 |
| 28/02/2020 | 12:00 | 13:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 3 |
Sessions available to book from mid-February once MyLearning goes live:
| Date | Start time | End time | Course/workshop |
| 02/03/2020 | 13:00 | 14:00 | Software for success: Data analysis and statistical tools |
| 02/03/2020 | 17:30 | 20:30 | Introduction to Matlab (Part 1) |
| 03/03/2020 | 17:30 | 20:30 | Introduction to Matlab (Part 2) |
| 03/03/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Advanced statistics with Excel 2016 |
| 05/03/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Introduction to Photoshop CS4 |
| 11/03/2020 | 16:00 | 17:00 | Excel Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 2 |
| 12/03/2020 | 17:30 | 20:30 | Introduction to Matlab (Part 3) |
| 13/02/2020 | 17:30 | 20:30 | Introduction to Matlab (Part 4) |
| 13/03/2020 | 11:00 | 12:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 4 |
| 13/03/2020 | 12:00 | 13:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 4 |
| 16/03/2020 | 13:00 | 14:00 | In a Nutshell: Survival analysis in R |
| 17/03/2020 | 10:00 | 17:00 | An Introduction to R with RStudio (Parts 1 and 2) |
| 18/03/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Data Manipulation in R with Rstudio |
| 19/03/2020 | 14:00 | 16:00 | Creating accessible documents |
| 23/03/2020 | 10:00 | 17:00 | An Introduction to R with RStudio (Parts 1 & 2) |
| 24/03/2020 | 10:00 | 17:00 | LaTex with NatBib |
| 25/03/2020 | 10:00 | 13:00 | Introduction to Visualising Data with Matlab |
| 25/03/2020 | 16:00 | 17:00 | Excel Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 2 |
| 27/03/2020 | 11:00 | 12:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 5 |
| 27/03/2020 | 12:00 | 13:00 | Word Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 5 |
| 26/03/2020 | 14:00 | 17:00 | Data Visualization in R with ggplot2 |
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Jim R Tyson wrote on 20 January 2020:
Hello Bettina
This term we have only been able to schedule Intermediate Statistics with Excel for staff and because of the rollout of a new learning management system, bookings closed on 15th January. We have scheduled another session – open to students and staff for 3rd March and you will be able to book a place very soon.
Best wishes
Jim Tyson
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Jasmin E Mullings wrote on 30 January 2020:
Hello Anna,
These courses are only available to current UCL students and staff I’m afraid.
Kind regards,
Jasmin
ISD Digital Skills Development Administration
Information Services Division
isd-digiskills@ucl.ac.uk
Are any beginner or intermediate “Statistics with Excel 2016” courses for students planned?