Digital Skills & Other Computer Skills
City Lit has a wide range of digital skills courses to support your progression in work or education. Whether you’re returning to work or looking to upskill, our courses will help you gain confidence and skills to thrive in a digital word.
The courses are FREE to most learners. Click into the courses below for more information.
Our offer includes both a year long and short termly courses on a range of levels and are delivered in person and online. See our guide to online learning for more information about accessing our live online courses.
- Excel: analysing your spreadsheet with pivot tablesCourse start date: Thu 24 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Aurica JalbaLearn how to create and edit pivot tables to analyse large lists of data with multiple views and calculated fields using drag and drop. You should have a good understanding of Excel.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Becoming confident on the cloud: a new way of sharing and managing your files - OneDrive and Google drive (foundation)
Course start date: Thu 8 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
The digital world is changing from sending emails to sharing files. Attaching files, sending them, downloading them, working on them, saving them, re-attaching and re-sending them is becoming a thing of the past. Instead, with cloud computing, you can share and collaborate on files either at the same time or separately without any emailing or downloading. Join this course and learn how to do this and stay on top of your file management. Learn how to use OneDrive and Google Drive to create, store, share and collaborate on different types of documents on your PC as well as other devices. Discover also how to maintain security while syncing your devices and accounts. By the end of this course, you will have grasped what cloud-computing means and be confident of exploring it further.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £76.00 Concession £55.00 - Getting started on social media: becoming confident on Instagram and TikTok (complete beginners)Course start date: Wed 7 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Have you heard of Instagram but never used it? Have you tried it but are still unsure about its features? Is TikTok something you access but never really use? Then this is the course for you. It will start you on your journey towards digital communication in a supportive environment and help you learn the different ways you can connect to friends, family and the wider world and join the one billion users worldwide. And you will learn to do so safely and securely.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £50.00
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