Recordings and Resources

In this session, we will look at online assessments, and cover online interviews, video interviews, online assessment centre activities i.e. group exercises, observed role play etc, as well as online psychometrics/tests.

User experience (or UX) design is an innovative discipline that embraces common design problems and focuses on ways to solve them. It encourages thoughtful digital creation and helps make things easier and better for everyone to use.

This session will cover the fundamentals of UX design, show you how to apply them, and illustrate the benefits of working in a user-centred way.

At university you’ll be using a large number of documents in many different formats (e.g. journal article, book chapter, image, report, case law, conference proceedings etc.). Using a reference manager to collect, organise, annotate and cite these references can save you a lot time, improve accuracy and help you structure your work.

This short session will introduce you to four reference managers: EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley and Citavi, all of which have free versions.

This session will cover some of the new features that have been introduced to the new Web of Science interface in the last year. We will focus on how some of these can help you to carry out more efficient research and manage your personal profile in the platform. Examples of using advanced search, understanding the cited references with the new enriched cited references and managing search history and alerts.

Hosted by the Bayes Centre, the Data Skills Workforce Development portfolio is a collection of short courses aimed at training the Scottish workforce looking to upskill, or those seeking a return to work in a new area. The aim is to make this online learning accessible to the broadest range of people, including those distanced from learning and/or the labour market. The portfolio includes a series of non-credit-bearing workshops and courses and credit-bearing courses which can be used towards follow-on degrees where credits are relevant and accepted.

This summer will see a change to the way staff and students access their content in Learn. Although courses themselves are not changing at this point, the new Ultra Base Navigation provides a lot of new functionality. This session provides an opportunity to view a walkthrough of these new features in Learn.

Zotero is a popular free open-source reference management tool that can help you stay in control of your references and create citations automatically.

This short 30 min session will guide you through adding references quickly from a variety of sources, organising and adding them automatically into your work.

As we’re all spending more time online in the new hybrid learning environment, it’s more important than ever to take ownership of your digital safety and use technology responsibly. This one-hour webinar introduces you to the concept of digital citizenship and takes you through steps you can take to keep yourself, and those around you, safe online.

For this Digital Skills Festival session, we will introduce you to our latest offering “How to Create Videos for Online Courses” and empower you to create engaging videos to film on your own using tools you likely have to hand (i.e. a smartphone and/or tablet). You will hear from team members behind both short online courses and watch a demo on how you can turn your smartphone into a high-quality filming device for educational purposes.

This short talk will outline the progress over the past year to integrate the Noteable coding platform developed by EDINA, the centre for digital expertise and services within the Information Services Group, into Scottish schools.

Data Literacy for Beginners is a one-hour webinar designed to introduce staff and students to the concepts first published in a popular statistics pamphlet, entitled How To Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff in 1954.

This webinar updates Darrell Huff’s concepts, teaching you data literacy, the ability to read, understand, argue with, and make decisions from the information. It will help you to spot misleading and exaggerated statistics by others and make you aware of the potential pitfalls involving data, whilst conducting your own research and data visualisations.

What is the current position of digital capability in higher education and society as a whole? What digital skills do employers expect of graduates? What skills do graduates actually have? How do they acquire these skills while at university? And what more can universities do to develop these skills in our students?

This thought-provoking session based on Jisc’s recent HE survey, alongside real-life examples from students at Plymouth University, will help staff to better understand the current digital capabilities landscape, and highlight to students the digital skills they need, and how they can start to develop them.

Join Ariadne Cass-Maran to learn about making your digital content human-centred.

During this session, you will learn how to get to know your audience and their needs and write content that is inclusive, accessible and task-focused.

In this session, we will discuss the transition from University to hybrid or remote working. We will look at meeting etiquette, tools and techniques for building relationships, time management, work-life balance, wellbeing, tips on workspaces etc. The event focuses on students entering employment, but staff are also welcome to attend.

In a cluttered digital landscape where content must grab a user’s attention within mere seconds, short-form video like TikToks and Instagram Reels are key to engage with current and prospective students.

This hour-long session, presented at the Digital Skills Festival (2022) introduces you to the short-form video format and its monumental impact on social media. Discover the perks of using short-form video in your marketing strategy, examples of how it has been used in the context of higher education, and most importantly – how you can use it to connect with “kids these days”.

Most of us have transferred our work and study lives online over the last couple of years, yet we can still get nervous about delivering webinars and online presentations and events, and sometimes we can’t pinpoint and control the source of our unease.

In this session we will take some time to build our confidence to present online, from calming our minds, how best to present ourselves and our surroundings by using colour and staging the room, all the way through to effective reflection after our event, to build on our skills for the next presentation.