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New digital skills training sessions released for Term 3
By Louise Pollock, on 17 February 2023
What’s on offer
ISD Digital Skills Development Team has released new dates for Term 3. Most of our sessions will be offered remotely using Microsoft Teams with some also on campus only. Scroll down for more!
See our latest schedule and details of how to book below.
We are offering a wide range of courses covering data analyis with SPSS, RStudio and Stata; productivity with Microsoft apps; multimedia and graphics creation; and much more.
New highlights include the following:
- DSD: Enhancing the Accessibility of your Moodle Courses
- DSD: User access and multiple instruments in REDCap
- DSD: Managing participants in REDCap
- DSD: Qualtrics tips and tricks
- DSD: Scripting Stata’s new Tables and Collections.
What’s New? Learn Along Fridays!
As part of our never ending quest to promote digital skills at UCL, Jim Tyson will be hosting two sessions on 5 May covering topics that fall outside of our usual Digital Skills Development programme:
Zotero: Citation Power Moves (10 am – 12 pm) and Starting up right with Git, GitHub and RStudio (1 – 3 pm).
The first of these will be an opportunity for users with some basic Zotero knowledge to share what they do know and to learn new stuff. Jim will start by giving a quick introduction to the Citation Style Language (CSL) which is a standard for specifying citation and referencing styles and to support that a brief outline of XML – the standard text-based language for representing all kinds of structured information. This will also be an opportunity to share how we are using Zotero, to get support with any issues we are facing and to talk about Zotero training needs. We would be pleased to talk about using Zotero for annotation and reporting for example.
The second session is rather different. Many R data analysts would like to use git and git-hub with R and RStudio, but even after following online videos and guides, actually setting up your repositories and linking them to your RStudio projects can be a bit daunting; you may encounter problems that no one else has documented or be unsure of the best set up for your use case. In this session, we will step through – collectively – installing the software (a desktop git client for example), creating projects in RStudio and on git-hub and then setting up a simple and effective workflow. So this is a practical session where you should end up ready to roll with version control for your RStudio projects.
We hope these sessions will be informal, interactive and above all practically useful, so see you there!
How to book our scheduled sessions
- For staff on payroll and anyone who has previously booked on MyLearning:
Book via MyLearning - Everyone else:
Book via UCL Learning pages (students and non-payroll staff who haven’t previously booked on MyLearning)
As a reminder, please note that most of our events are interactive training sessions and are not recorded. Therefore, we ask that you please ensure you are able to attend before booking and cancel your place if you are no longer able to attend. If you have any accessibility requirements, please let us know by emailing the ISD Digital Skills Development mailbox in advance: isd-digiskills@ucl.ac.uk
Please ensure you are using Desktop@UCL or the UCL VPN when booking.
Prizes to be won!
We have new monthly term-time prizes to be won by staff and students who attend and evaluate our courses. All you have to do to be in the running to win £20 ‘Love to Shop’ Gift Voucher is complete one of our training sessions, and submit our course evaluation form. The evaluation form should take no more than 1 minute to complete. Good luck!
Find out more
For more information on how to book and join a session on the day, please visit our Practical Course Information page.
Drop-ins
We are also hosting our usual weekly drop-in sessions remotely and on campus for those who would like individual support on a specific issue. The dates and times of the sessions are available on our ISD Digital Skills Development drop-in page.
More digital skills development opportunities…
Learn online with a vast range of high-quality video-based courses from LinkedIn Learning. These cover technical skills but also business, personal and creative skills as well. Visit the UCL LinkedIn Learning page to find out more.
Latest schedule:
TERM 3
| Start date | Start time | End time | Booking Link | Venue |
| 02/05/2023 | 10:00 | 11:15 | DSD: Basic image editing using free tools | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 02/05/2023 | 14:00 | 15:00 | DSD: Basic video editing using iMovie on a Mac | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 02/05/2023 | 14:00 | 16:00 | DSD: In a Nutshell: Excel functions we should all know Rescheduled | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 03/05/2023 | 11:00 | 13:00 | DSD: Software for success: Survey tools | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 03/05/2023 | 15:00 | 16:00 | DSD: Word tips and tricks | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 04/05/2023 | 10:00 | 17:00 | DSD: Introduction to Matlab (Campus based) (1 of 2) (To be rescheduled) | Campus-based session |
| 04/05/2023 | 14:00 | 15:00 | DSD: Introduction to Stop Motion Animation (Campus based) | Campus-based session |
| 05/05/2023 | 10:00 | 12:00 | Zotero: Citation Power Moves (booking via Eventbrite) | Campus-based session |
| 05/05/2023 | 13:00 | 15:00 | Starting up right with Git, GitHub and RStudio (booking via Eventbrite) | Campus-based session |
| 09/05/2023 | 11:00 | 13:00 | DSD: Charting with Excel | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 09/05/2023 | 14:00 | 15:00 | DSD: Digital book making | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 09/05/2023 | 10:00 | 11:00 | DSD: Podcasting made easy – workshop | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 10/05/2023 | 11:00 | 12:00 | DSD: Excel Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 1 (Campus based) | Campus-based session |
| 10/05/2023 | 12:00 | 13:00 | DSD: Introduction to REDCap for research | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 11/05/2023 | 14:00 | 15:15 | DSD: Creating accessible PowerPoint presentations | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 11/05/2023 | 10:00 | 17:00 | DSD: Introduction to Matlab (Campus based) (2 of 2) (To be rescheduled) | Campus-based session |
| 25/04/2023 | 11:00 | 13:00 | DSD: Pivot Tables in Excel – Workshop | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 16/05/2023 | 12:00 | 13:00 | DSD: PowerPoint for Researchers and Presenters: Words, Images and More | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 16/05/2023 | 14:00 | 15:00 | DSD: Filming advice for a short film | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 18/05/2023 | 14:00 | 15:00 | DSD: Creating Infographics using free web-based tools | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 18/05/2023 | 12:00 | 13:00 | DSD: Qualtrics tips and tricks | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 23/05/2022 | 17:00 | 20:00 | DSD: An Introduction to R with Rstudio (Campus based) 1of 2 | Campus-based session |
| 23/05/2022 | 14:00 | 15:30 | DSD: Creating accessible Word documents | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 23/05/2023 | 14:00 | 15:30 | DSD: Managing your digital profile and social media presence | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 23/05/2023 | 10:00 | 11:00 | DSD: Mentimeter for Continuous Module Dialogue (CMD) | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 24/05/2023 | 11:00 | 12:00 | DSD: Excel Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 2 | Campus-based session |
| 24/05/2024 | 14:00 | 15:00 | DSD: Online social interaction platforms – Cancelled, register interest here for the next one! | |
| 25/05/2023 | 17:00 | 20:00 | DSD: An Introduction to R with Rstudio (Campus based) 2 of 2 | Campus-based session |
| 25/05/2023 | 14:00 | 16:00 | DSD: Getting Started with SPSS (Campus based) P1 | Campus-based session |
| 25/05/2023 | 14:00 | 15:30 | DSD: Make a short film using your iPhone | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| DSD: Planning a short film | Add your name to the waiting list for the next session. | |||
| 30/05/2023 | 14:00 | 15:00 | DSD: Design an impactful research poster using UCL templates | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 30/05/2023 | 14:00 | 15:00 | DSD: Excel tips and tricks | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| DSD: Record a narration over your PowerPoint on a PC | Add your name to the waiting list for the next session. | |||
| 31/05/2023 | 12:00 | 13:00 | DSD: Managing participants in REDCap | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 31/05/2023 | 10:00 | 11:00 | DSD: User access and multiple instruments in REDCap | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 01/06/2023 | 14:00 | 15:00 | DSD: An introduction to free graphic design tools | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 01/06/2023 | 14:00 | 16:00 | DSD: Getting Started with SPSS (Campus based) P2 | Campus-based session |
| 01/06/2023 | 10:00 | 12:00 | DSD: Scripting Stata Graphs | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 06/06/2023 | 10:00 | 10:45 | DSD: In a Nutshell: Git version control | |
| 06/06/2023 | 11:00 | 14:00 | DSD: Dive into Git version control | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 06/06/2023 | 10:00 | 12:00 | DSD: In a Nutshell: Excel functions we should all know | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 06/06/2023 | 15:00 | 16:00 | DSD: Word tips and tricks | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 07/06/2023 | 10:00 | 11:00 | DSD: Best practice for video captions and transcripts | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 07/06/2023 | 14:00 | 15:00 | DSD: Explore the potential of UCL Mediacentral | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 07/06/2023 | 11:00 | 12:00 | DSD: Excel Essential Skills – WORKSHOP 3 | Campus-based session |
| 08/06/2023 | 10:00 | 12:00 | DSD: Format your Thesis (Windows) | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 08/06/2023 | 14:00 | 16:00 | DSD: Scripting Stata’s new Tables and Collections (Campus based) | Campus-based session |
| 07/06/2023 | 12:00 | 14:00 | DSD: VLookup in Excel – workshop | This session will take place via MS Teams |
| 12/06/2023 | 14:00 | 15:30 | DSD: Enhancing the accessibility of your Moodle courses (Campus based) | Campus-based session |