Digital Skills & Other Computer Skills

Are you already an experienced and skilful user of Word, Excel and PowerPoint? Are you working as a lead administrator? Do you want to extend your skills so you can integrate these three programs to produce high quality and sophisticated documents? This course will help you combine your Microsoft 365 skills by working on business projects that enable you to analyse data at a high level and also present your findings in a clear and dynamic way. You will learn how to link and embed data across the programs, how to integrate Excel data and charts with PowerPoint and Word, how, how to use Word to create a new PowerPoint presentation and how to use Word to create customizable PowerPoint speaker notes and handouts.

This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

Does the amount of data coming into your inbox and folders threaten to overwhelm you? Do you need to develop a system for managing information, tasks and meetings? MS Outlook and OneNote can be part of this system but for many people they feel part of the problem rather than the solution. This course will enable them to work for you not the other way round. You will focus on how to think about problems, solve them and what you are trying to achieve. You will work on developing an email routine that allows you to concentrate on tasks at hand and not be distracted by incoming messages. You will focus on how to create a folder system on Outlook and process using quick steps, rules, categories and colour-coding so you can keep a trace of emails, tasks and appointments. You will learn simple and efficient ways to schedule your work and use notes and task and the flagging system to keep track of your priorities. In addition you will focus on how you can integrate OneNote and Outlook to save you time.

This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

SharePoint is an increasingly common collaboration tool across workplaces, vital for keeping staff informed as well as enabling them to work together across projects. On this course, you will focus on the purpose of SharePoint, when to use it and how it fits into your business communications. You will learn how to create a Team Site, lay out the site effectively, manage your files within the Document Library, work on and share your files, plus customise your site effectively. This course will prioritise what you use SharePoint for so you can situate its functions within work-based tasks and fully grasp why you are using it.

This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

Do tables in Word seem to move of their own accord? Do you need to produce newsletters for work or for volunteer groups but are frustrated by shifting text and images? Are you unsure how to maintain consistent formatting across a report? If so, then this is the course for you. On this course you will learn how to produce a newsletter, insert tables, and create simple reports while maintaining consistent formatting and ensuring the layout and presentation is effective and impacting. You will focus on how to produce attractive documents fit for purpose in an efficient and timely manner, vital skills both inside and outside work.

This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

Do you have to give presentations at work, for business, to future clients that need to be professional and impacting? Do you want to know how to create a PowerPoint presentation that tells a story and engages the audience? On this course, you will learn how to structure a presentation using data effectively in which the PowerPoint enhances the message. You will focus on both your communication and digital skills so you develop your professional presence and how you relate to the listeners and you learn how to create impacting slides to create your storyline, present data and other information appropriate to your audience and purpose.

This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here