Digital Skills Blog

DigiTip 49: Interesting Graphs in MS Excel 📈

Do you want to add interesting ways of presenting your data in MS Excel? DigiTip 49 can help with that by introducing Sparklines. Sparklines are small graphs that only take up one cell in an excel sheet and are an effective way of presenting data without having a graph that takes up a whole sheet. […]

Plant your Productivity with the Flora app! 🌼

With exam season upon us, the need to revise and be productive can be a struggle and it can be tempting to procrastinate with scrolling through social media. But with the Flora app, this can be a lot easier! Available on iOS and Android, Flora is an interactive productivity app where you can store to-do […]

DigiTip 48: Select a Shortcut! 🖥️

Time to learn a new shortcut with DigiTip 48!  An easy shortcut to selecting an entire row in Excel. Simply be in the row you’d like to select and use the shortcut: Shift + Space bar.   To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog. Or alternatively, you can bookmark this webpage, where a new DigiTip […]

Study Buddy! A collection of resources to help you prepare for exams 📚

As we approach exam season, please see below a collection of resources to help you prepare for exams. The resources include organisational tips, study skills as well as suggestions to support your digital wellbeing during stressful times. Digital Wellbeing Series by Student Digital Champions AberSkills: Revision and Exams Student Digital Skills Library DigiTip 4: Increase […]

Return to the World of DigiTips! 💡

Welcoming in the New Year and Semester 2 also means welcoming our next batch of DigiTips. DigiTips began in September 2023 where the Digital Skills Team post a short quick tip to help with your digital lives. You can view all our previous DigiTips here and starting from 14th January 2024 you can view our […]

Resources Wrap up: Merry Christmas from the Digital Skills Team! 🎅🏻🎄

2024 has been a productive year for the Digital Skills team! Below is a list of the favourite things we’ve created in the last year including new formats, events, and resources:   We hope that you’ve enjoyed using these resources as much as we’ve enjoyed making them. We’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas […]

DigiTip 47: Whats Up WhatsApp – What can you do in the chat? 📲

Personalising your text can be a fun way to emphasise a point and now with DigiTip 47, you can learn how to format your text in WhastApp.   Italicise _text_ Bold *text* Strikethrough ~text~ Add a quote > text Create bullet point lists * Text or – Text To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our Digital Skills […]

DigiTip 46: Match colours on your PowerPoint slides with the Eyedropper tool 🎨 

When creating a PowerPoint presentation, there may be occasions when you want to match the colour of the background or an object to a very specific shade. While the colour options available are extensive, there’s an incredibly useful tool called the eyedropper, which allows you to match a colour perfectly!  Follow the video below to […]

Employer Digital Skills Profile Series – Week 7 – Chester Zoo

Today is our final profile in the Employer Digital Skills Profile Series and it is from Chester Zoo. In their profile, Chester Zoo says that they value data literacy, especially Excel and working with large data sets. As well as digital problem solving within coding, knowledge of AI, and digital learning and creativity such as […]

DigiTip 45: Shift+F3 is on the case! A capitalisation shortcut ⌨

If you have ever begun writing a sentence and realised, you were in the wrong case – this DigiTip is for you! Did you know that you can change the case of your word in Office 365 by selecting the text and then using Shift + F3? Watch the short video below to see this […]