Month: March 2025

International Women’s Day 2025 #AccelerateAction

Shân Saunders Code First Girls, LinkedIn Learning Leave a comment

Today we celebrate International Women’s Day! The 2025 theme is #AccelerateAction and is an important message that focuses on speeding up the achievement of gender equality. At its current rate it is predicted that we won’t achieve gender equality until 2158 and so this International Women’s Day calls for us to work together to create a more inclusive world. You can view the resources below inspired by International Women’s Day. These include a selection of LinkedIn Learning videos and courses, please note that the University’s subscription to LinkedIn Learning finishes on 28th March 2025. If you have completed any training courses on LinkedIn Learning and wish to retain your certificate(s) of completion, please view our previous blogpost to learn more about this.  

  1. Code First Girls: Code First Girls is a free online service that is partnered with Aberystwyth University and is dedicated to providing coding courses to help women and non-binary people develop their coding skills. 
  1. What is equality? (3m 43s) 
  1. What is equity? (2m 19s) 
  1. Inclusive Tech: Closing the Pay Gap (53m) 
  1. Inclusive Female Leadership (40m) 
  1. Does inclusion really change the game in tech? (2m 22s) 
  1. The link between inclusion, equity, and allyship (2m 20s) 
  1. Unconscious bias (28m) 

If you have any issues accessing the LinkedIn Learning videos or courses, please contact the Digital Skills Team at digi@aber.ac.uk.  

DigiTip 55: Focus Mode in Windows 11 ⏱️

Shân Saunders Digital proficiency and productivity, DigiTips Leave a comment

Struggling to focus when you’re trying to get work done? DigiTip 55 has what you are looking for with focus mode in Windows 11. Focus mode is a new feature for Windows 11 that has multiple features to help you try to concentrate on your work. These include: a timer that can be set to whatever time you need with the default set to 30 minutes, hiding the badges on taskbar apps, hiding the flashing on taskbar apps and turning on do not disturb. 

To use this feature, you need to go to Setting -> System where you should see Focus. Once the options are selected as how you want them you just need to click ‘start focus session’ and a timer should appear in the corner of your screen which you can cancel or pause at any time. 

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