Pre-Entry Essential Digital Skills: Digital Skills for Everyday Living

This course will guide you through a wide variety of engaging topics and tasks, all of which have been carefully crafted to ensure that you progress at a pace that is comfortable for you. Class sizes are small, and in addition to supporting each other on your ‘digital journey’, you have the support of a knowledgeable and friendly tutor. You will use a laptop throughout the course to complete many hands-on tasks designed to develop your digital skills and confidence, including: gathering information from the internet to assist with everyday activities and problems, setting up email and social media accounts to contact others and share information, using word processing and spreadsheet software to create useful documents, using online public services to access vital information, employing strategies to keep your devices and online communications safe and secure. Discussions are another key component of the course and topics to be considered will include: the pros and cons of using computers, the internet and other digital technologies, the rise of online misinformation and fake news and how to recognise these. Rest assured, by the end of this course you will be fully prepared to confidently progress to the next level of digital development in your everyday life and work.