A new ‘Digital Skills in AI and Generative AI’ questionnaire for students and staff is now available in the Jisc Digital Discovery Tool. This new questionnaire will help you to self-assess and develop your knowledge of AI in the following seven areas:
AI and digital proficiency
Responsible AI
AI and digital productivity
AI and information and data literacy
AI and digital communication
AI and collaboration and participation
AI and digital creativity
After answering a series of questions, which takes around 10-15 minutes, you will receive a personal report which will include:
An overview of your confidence with AI
Suggested actions to take
Links to useful resources, curated by Jisc’s National Centre for AI, to help you develop your knowledge of AI
Click here to access the Digital Discovery Tool platform, and watch the short video below to learn how to access this new questionnaire ⬇
If you have any queries about this new questionnaire, please contact the Digital Skills Team (digi@aber.ac.uk), or come along with your questions to one of our weekly drop-in sessions!
Have you ever wanted to learn how to code? Well now you can do so, for free, by taking full advantage of our partnership with Code First Girls! We’ve listed 5 reasons below why you should make the most of this wonderful opportunity.
Whether you want to schedule weekly catch-ups with colleagues, bi-weekly project meetings, or monthly team meetings, knowing how to set these up using the recurring meetings function in Microsoft Outlook will save you a lot of time!
The below video demonstrates how to set up recurring meetings in the desktop app version of Outlook, but the process for setting these up on MS Teams or the web version of Outlook is very similar.
Once set up, your reoccurring meeting will now appear as a series in your calendar, and if you need to alter any details, you’ll always have the option of altering just a single occurrence or the whole series.
Since September 2023, the Digital Skills Team have been publishing short and sweet weekly DigiTips that we think will help you make the most of technology. So far, we’ve published 26 tips ranging from useful keyboard shortcuts to tools like the blue light filters that can help support your digital wellbeing!
We’ll be returning on Tuesday 16 April with another 7 useful tips, and if you want to explore any of our previous DigiTips, you can access them from this webpage.
How can I follow the DigiTips?
There are a couple of different ways you can follow our DigiTips.
You can bookmark this webpage and a new DigiTip will appear here at 10am each Tuesday during term time (Read DigiTip 1 if you’re unsure how to bookmark a webpage).
We also publish each DigiTip on the Information Services Facebook and Instagram pages which you can access from the icons below. From there, you can follow our hashtags #TipiauDigiPA#AUDigiTips
Today we’re publishing our last digital skill profile with a recent AU graduate! Today we’ll hear from Manon who studied History and Politics at Aberystwyth, and now works as a translator. She shares how useful it had been for her to learn how to use Cysill and Cysgeir whilst at University, but how she wishes she had learnt how to use Excel, as it’s a software she uses regularly for her work.
If you would like to learn more about using Cysill and Cysgeir, and about working in Welsh on your computer more generally, read our recent blogpost. If you also interested in developing your proficiency with Excel, you can view this Excel Tips and Tricks collection from LinkedIn Learning.
Keep your eyes peeled in October 2024 as we’ll be publishing a new Employer Digital Skills Profile Series!
LinkedIn Learning offers an extensive library of online courses and videos that all students and staff at AU have free access to (learn how to get started). But, did you know that you can watch LinkedIn Learning courses in more languages than just English?
Unfortunately, Welsh hasn’t made the list yet (we’ll keep our fingers crossed! 🤞), but most courses are currently available in the following 13 languages, which may make the content easier to engage with for non-native English speakers.
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Japanese
Portuguese
Spanish
Dutch
Italian
Turkish
Polish
Korean
Bahasa Indonesia
How do I search for content in my preferred language?
Watch the video below or follow these simple steps to learn how to search for LinkedIn Learning content in your preferred language:
Start by searching for a course – you can either browse from the different categories or type into the search bar
Choose your language from the language filter
If the language filter doesn’t appear, select All Filters
Further LinkedIn Learning support
If you need any support with LinkedIn Learning, please email the Digital Skills Team (digi@aber.ac.uk), or please feel free to visit one of our weekly drop-in sessions in the Skills Hub, Level D of the Hugh Owen Library.
In today’s age, most of us rely heavily on technology. While the digital world offers endless possibilities and conveniences, it’s crucial to remain mindful of its potential impacts on our digital wellbeing. As today is University Mental Health Day, it’s a perfect day to share with you a selection of tips and resources to help you achieve a healthier relationship with technology.
Today we are celebrating International Women’s Day! The theme this year is #InspireInclusion and it provides an important moment to celebrate the cultural, political and socio-economic achievements of women, and a day to urge us all to work together towards a more inclusive and equitable future.
Here is a selection of LinkedIn Learning videos and courses, inspired by International Women’s Day. You can access these videos with your free Aberystwyth University LinkedIn Learning account.
Have you ever worked on a large Excel document where you’ve scrolled down to find a figure, but then you’ve had to scroll back up to the top again to remind yourself of what the headings was for that column?!
There’s an incredibly useful function in Excel that can help with this issue, which enables you to freeze single or multiple rows and columns. You can access this feature within Excel by clicking View > FreezePanes.
Watch the video below to learn how to freeze columns and rows:
It is extremely important that everyone has the choice to work on their computer in the language they wish. On St David’s Day, I want to share with you some of my favourite tips for making working in Welsh on your computer much more convenient.
Tip 1: Change your computer language to Welsh
One of the first things you can do is change your computer’s display language. This will change your computer interface and icons like Settings and File Explorer will appear in Welsh.
Follow the following instructions to customize your computer’s display language for Windows PCs, Mac computers, or if you are on a public computer on the campus of Aberystwyth University.
Additional suggestion: Did you know that you can also customize the display language of your mobile phone? Follow the following instructions for your AndroidorApplephones.
Tip 2: Change the language of specific software to Welsh
If you don’t want to change the language of your computer, there is also an option for you to change the language of certain software, and you can do this in any Microsoft Office programme (e.g. Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.). You have the choice to change the display language and to change your authoring and proof-reading language. Follow the following instructions to learn how to change specific software language.
Tip 3: Using the to bach app
While writing in Welsh, have you ever used the symbols button to find accents or circumflexes for letters? You don’t need to do that anymore!
You can download the to bach software on your work computer from the software centre or on your Personal computer, then hold the Alt Gr key and press the vowel you wish to add a circumflex to it:
Keystroke
Symbol
Alt Gr + a
â
Alt Gr + e
ê
Alt Gr + o
ô
Alt Gr + i
î
Alt Gr + y
ŷ
Alt Gr + w
ŵ
Alt Gr + u
û
Tip 4: Change the proofreading language of your documents
If you haven’t changed the authoring and proofreading language of a particular software (see tip 2), you could modify the proofreading language of individual documents to ensure that spelling errors and simple grammatical errors are highlighted.
Watch the following video to learn how to change the proofreading language of your documents.
Tip 5: Spellcheck your text with Cysill
Cysill is part of the Cysgliad language software package that you can download to your computer. Cysill will allow you to find and correct Welsh errors in your text, and includes an useful thesaurus.
Read DigitalTip 2 where we give you instructions on how to download and use the Cysill app and the online version.
Tip 6: Additional Linguistic Resources
You can also find a plethora of terminology databases online. Here are some of the most popular ones:
TermCymru – a terminology database supported by the Welsh Government Translation Service.
In addition to the resources mentioned above, there is extensive information on the Centre for Welsh Services’ webpage on language resources.
Further Support 💬
If you would like to speak to a member of the Digital Skills Team about using your computer in Welsh, and for any help with any of the above suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us by email (digi@aber.ac.uk), or call by our weekly Digital Skills drop-in sessions in the Hugh Owen Library.
