Digital Skills Blog

DigiTip 72 – Scan your Documents with Microsoft Lens 📸

If you have handwritten notes that you would like to digitise learn a quick and easy way to do this with DigiTip 72! Using Microsoft Lens, you can easily scan handwritten notes using your phone and your Aberystwyth University account. These notes can be automatically uploaded as images to Microsoft OneNote. To follow our DigiTips, subscribe […]

DigiTip 71 – Silent your Socials with ScreenZen 🧘🏻‍♀️

Do you struggle with mindless scrolling or spending too much time on your phone? DigiTip 71 can help by introducing you to ScreenZen! ScreenZen blocks your selected apps that you struggle with leading to you having to actively think about why you’re opening the app. You can read more about the ScreenZen app and its features […]

DigiTip 70 – Snap It Like a Pro: Dock OneNote with Ctrl+Alt+D 📒

If you’re working on one screen and want to type your notes into OneNote while in a meeting, you can do that with ease with Dock OneNote. While in OneNote simply use the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + D and your OneNote will become a side panel making it easier to make notes.   To follow […]

DigiTip 69 – Microsoft Focus = Distraction Free Writing ✍🏻 

With DigiTip 69, you’ll learn how to utilise Microsoft Word’s Focus feature which allows you to write distraction free. While in Microsoft Word go to View > Focus, this will put your document into Focus, removing the top ribbon and making the document centred in your screen. To exit focus mode simply press the Esc […]

DigiTip 68 – Customise your Cursor 🖱️

If you are often searching for your cursor on your screen or you’re demonstrating and want participants to follow along easily then this DigiTip is for you. On your Windows PC go to Settings > Accessibility > Mouse Pointer and customise away! Watch the video below for a quick demonstration.   To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to […]

DigiTip 67 – Count on My Row Counter 🧶

With the rise of popularity in crochet and knitting, apps have been created to support development. Apps such as ‘My Row Counter’ which has functions such as free patterns, a glossary, units convertor and a pattern creator. View the pictures below for a quick glimpse at My Row Counter.   To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our […]

DigiTip 66 – Spruce up your PowerPoints with ‘Designer’ 🖌️

Are you looking to make your PowerPoint presentations more interesting? But you’re not sure where to start? Why not use PowerPoint’s ‘Designer’ feature. The Designer feature presents generated ideas to make your slides look more interesting. View the short video below for a quick demonstration.   To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog. Or […]

It’s Our Favourite Time of Year – The Return of DigiTips! 👋🏻

Starting next week, our DigiTips will be returning. Join us for our weekly posts about our favourite digital tips and tricks to help improve your digital skills. If you haven’t seen our previous DigiTips you can view them all here. Remember to keep up to date with our DigiTips and all other digital skills posts […]

Top of the Tips: Our Top 5 DigiTips from 2024/25 🏆

Before we move into the new academic year and into a new batch of DigiTips – weekly blogpost to highlight a useful tip that you can use to make your daily digital life easier – let’s look back on our most popular DigiTips from 2024/25!  Have you ever been in an MS Teams meeting where you’ve needed […]

Celebrating our Graduates 🎓

This week from Tuesday 15 July – Thursday 17 July is graduation at Aberystwyth University and as such we want to celebrate our graduates. Last year our Student Digital Champions created the Graduate Digital Skills profiles and the Employer Digital Skills Profiles. The Graduate Digital Skills profiles deep dive into life our graduation for our […]