Digital Skills Learning Opportunities in Term 1

Each term the Digital Skills Development and wider Digital Education team offer a range of learning opportunities for staff and students to develop their digital skills.  

See below for some of the opportunities available this term.  

Discover your Digital 

Identify gaps in your digital skills with Discover your Digital – a 15 minute self-assessment quiz.  

Workshops for staff and students on how to get the most out of the tool will also be running this term.  The staff workshop will also cover how you can use the tool with your students or with colleagues. 

• Discover your Digital workshop for students 

• Discover your Digital workshop for staff 

Digital Skills SharePoint 

The new Digital Skills SharePoint contains all the learning opportunities on offer, including live sessions, self-paced materials that have been developed by the team and useful LinkedIn Learning courses. 

Live sessions – the Training Calendar

Alongside self-paced options, there is a training calendar of live sessions, both online and in person. Topics include: 

• Accessibility and assistive technology   

• Data analysis and visualisation   

• Interaction and collaboration   

• Multimedia content: creating and editing   

• Programming   

• Software for success   

• Teaching and assessment   

• Written content: creating, presenting and referencing   

Platforms and tools for Teaching and Assessment

The Digital Education team is here to support colleagues in using technology to enhance teaching and assessment.  

Read this blog post for key support available from the team. See below for workshops that are running this term: 

UCL’s new lecture capture system Panopto

• Panopto Beginner Training  

• Panopto Drop-in Session  

Teaching and engaging learners

• Introduction to Mentimeter  

• Expanding your use of Mentimeter 

• Teams for Teaching: Essential Tools and Practices  

• Tools and Techniques for Optimised Engagement  

• Optimising your Moodle courses with the Digital Education baseline  

• STEMM baseline workshop 

Assessment

• Exploring Moodle Quiz Functionality  

• Moodle Question Bank and Question Analytics  

• Moodle Gradebook: All you need to know  

• WISEflow Manager Training  

• WISEflow Marker Training with the New Marking Tool  

• WISEflow Author Training  

• Practical approaches to alternative assessments  

Support

There is a variety of support available from the Digital Skills Development and Digital Education teams: 

• MyServices: dedicated support for all centrally supported tools and services  

• Excel Clinics: in person drop-in support for those who may be working through self-paced learning materials on Excel  

• R and Rstudio Clinics: in person drop-in support for those who would like individual support with R and Rstudio. 

• Digital Skills Office Hours: 30 minute appointments with a Digital Skills Trainer to answer specific queries about how to use a digital tool or piece of software, or guidance on the best too to use for a particular task. 

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Contact us

For any questions on Digital Skills Development at UCL, email isd-digiskills@ucl.ac.uk