Digital Skills

These pages focus on the everyday digital skills needed for studying, collaborating, and working effectively at university. You’ll find practical guidance on using Word for long documents such as dissertations and PowerPoint for presentations and academic posters, plus advice on saving your work safely, organising files, designing presentations, and more.

The aim is to help you quickly find answers to common “how do I…?” questions and build confidence using the digital tools you’ll use throughout your studies. This site doesn’t cover specialist subject software like SPSS, CAD, MATLAB, NVivo, programming tools, or 3D design software. Training in this type of software forms part of your programme teaching and supports your learning outcomes in that subject area.

Use these pages to save and organise your work, choose the right file formats, and make Office documents more accessible.

Use these pages to set up, structure, review and finalise Word documents for assessments.

Use these pages to design slides, create a poster, and prepare your work for presenting, sharing or submission.

Use these links to access the main study platforms and digital tools that support your learning.

Use these links for guidance on using AI well and staying safe online.