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.
Our offer includes both a year long and short termly courses on a range of levels.
- Beginners
- Advanced
- Expert
- Windows 11
- Touch typing
- Digital skills
- Business administration
- Becoming confident in word 365
- Excel, PPT, outlook, Teams and Zoom
- Level 3 certificate (ICDL Advanced)
See our guide to online learning for more information about accessing our live online courses.
- Learning to use your smartphone (Android)Course start date: Mon 18 Nov 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Does your smartphone confuse you? Are you unsure how to make the most of its many features? Understanding and navigating your way round a smartphone is now as important as being able to use a regular computer. This short course will help you understand your Android smartphone, troubleshoot problems and use some of the most popular apps. By the end of the course you will be confident you can use or find out how to use the key features of your phone.
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 £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £15.00 - Manage your files on Apple Mac
Course start date: Mon 21 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael HardingThis course will equip you with the skills to become fully confident on how to save, manage, organize and search for files on your Apple Mac. This course is intended for beginners to experienced users who need to set up and tidy their Apple Mac folders and files.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Using Apple Mac OS: short introduction Course start date: Mon 24 Mar 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael HardingLearn about Apple Mac computers: the desktop, layout and environment, how to open, save and close files, and navigate the operating system.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Business administration with digital skills: how to be organised, efficient and customer-focused using Outlook and OneNote (intermediate)Course start date: Mon 11 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Online
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
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £75.00 - Digital skills for business: how to use SharePoint for successful and efficient collaboration (intermediate) Course start date: Mon 11 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Online
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
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £60.00 - Excel: applying formulae and functionsCourse start date: Mon 7 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Aurica JalbaMove beyond basic arithmetic in Excel and learn to use the power of formulas and functions to save time and extract new information from your data.
This course will be delivered online or in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00
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