Digital Skills Blog

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 […]

The Digital Skills Team Summer Challenge ☀️

This summer break, why not join us for the Digital Skills Team Summer challenge. Below are nine daily challenges that you can complete within the summer break to help spark your digital and creative skills.  Text Version:

DigiTip 65: Speak it aloud with Microsoft Word Dictate 🗣️

Swap out typing for talking with DigiTip 65 and Microsoft Word’s Dictate tool. On Microsoft Word there is the option to dictate by either clicking the microphone button or using the shortcut Alt and +. This means that you can talk, and Microsoft Word will type for you!  To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our Digital […]