Did you know that there are Easter eggs features on Google? Now you do with DigiTip 54!
If you go to Google and type âdo a barrel rollâ the screen will rotate.
Watch the video below for a quick demonstration.
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In 2024, our Student Digital Champions conducted interviews with eight Aberystwyth University graduates to understand what skills they now use after graduating and skills that they wished they had learnt and developed while at university. Below are the top five skills across all the profiles that the graduates now use and how you can develop these skills:
If you would like to read the Graduate Digital Skills Profiles, you can view them here or you can download them here. Â
Do you want to make your PowerPoints more Dynamic? DigiTip 53 Will help you to do that by using a transition in PowerPoint called Morph which can give more flow to a PowerPoint by giving smooth transitions to shapes and text changing in the slides.Â
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11th February 2025 is International Day of Women in Science, promoting the importance of women in STEM and the continued value in providing resources and open spaces for women to develop their skills.
A key resource available to all women and non-binary persons available with Aberystwyth University is 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. Code First Girls hosted a session at the Digital Skills Festival 2023, you can watch the session where they discussed more about the programmes and courses they deliver and the importance of their work.Â
A member of the Digital Skills Team participated in one of the courses provided by Code First Girls, you can read about their experience through their blogpost here. Or you can view their thoughts on the 5 reasons you should sign up to Code First Girls. Â
If you are interested in learning more about Code First Girls or would like to sign up to one of their courses, visit their website.  Â
Please note that Code First Girls is open to women and non-binary people. If you are not eligible to undertake the courses offered through Code First Girls, there are many other free opportunities available, you can find more information about these opportunities on our free external resources’ webpage.Â
Have you ever wanted to cross something out in Excel? Sometimes you donât want to delete or hide the cells. DigiTip 52 has a quick shortcut to help you out!
Simply select the relevant cell(s) and use the shortcut: Ctrl + 5
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Do you want a faster and more efficient way to navigate MS Teams, for example to let your colleagues know your status on Teams or send a message? DigiTip 51 can show you quick commands to do just this. For this DigiTip we will be using the forward slash commands in the search bar on Teams. Â
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Would you like to advance your note taking but youâre stuck on a format? With DigiTip 50 and page templates in OneNote you can do just that!
Microsoft OneNote has the option to insert page templates to help you format your notes. There are templates from simple lecture notes to project overview to prioritised to do lists. Watch the video below to find out more!
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24th January 2025 marks International Day of Education and weâre celebrating by recapping resources available to develop your digital skills.
LinkedIn Learning [available until March 2025]
Free to all AU staff and students until March 2025, an online platform offering thousands of expert-led courses suitable for all levels, from beginner to advanced. With LinkedIn Learning, you can develop a wide range of skills, from utilising AI tools and presenting with confidence to mastering new software, including various programming languages and Microsoft applications. You can view our webpages for more information including getting started with LinkedIn Learning.
Digital Skills Festival
In 2023, we arranged the Digital Skills Festival and had a variety of internal and external speakers present on a variety of topics such as AI, Excel, Digital Wellbeing and Cyber security. You can view all the resources and recordings from every session here.
Jisc: Everyday AI Tools
As part of Aber Skills Week 2024, we invited Jiscâs Senior AI specialist Paddy Shepperd to talk about âEveryday AI Toolsâ, what tools can be used, how theyâre advancing and the dangers. You can view the recording of the entire session here.
AberSkills
AberSkills is the central hub for all skills development on is available on the university webpages. AberSkills includes access to skills workshops, alongside help with library and information skills, wellbeing, and maths, stats and numerical skills.
DigiTips
Every Tuesday since September 2023, the Digital Skills Team have posted a small tip or trick to help develop your digital skills. You can view all DigiTips here.
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. This could be useful for presenting data that is important but not vital to a presentation.
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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 lists and build positive habits. You can set focus and break timers to remind you when to step away from your task and when to start again. The Flora app allows you to plant a seed at the beginning of your task that slowly grows the longer you remain focused and if you go onto your phone to go onto other apps such as social media or games your tree will die! Other features include the ability to unlock different species of trees the longer you donât break your focus timers or complete challenges, the option to create to-do lists to manage your tasks, notifications on your locked phone to remind you to take a break, the ability to have friends and challenge each other to grow trees and stay off your phones. Download now and start planting in your productivity garden!
