Digital Skills Blog

DigiTip 66 – Spruce up your PowerPoints with ‘Designer’ 🖌️

Are you looking to make your PowerPoint presentations more interesting? But you’re not sure where to start? Why not use PowerPoint’s ‘Designer’ feature. The Designer feature presents generated ideas to make your slides look more interesting. View the short video below for a quick demonstration.   To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog. Or […]

It’s Our Favourite Time of Year – The Return of DigiTips! 👋🏻

Starting next week, our DigiTips will be returning. Join us for our weekly posts about our favourite digital tips and tricks to help improve your digital skills. If you haven’t seen our previous DigiTips you can view them all here. Remember to keep up to date with our DigiTips and all other digital skills posts […]

Top of the Tips: Our Top 5 DigiTips from 2024/25 🏆

Before we move into the new academic year and into a new batch of DigiTips – weekly blogpost to highlight a useful tip that you can use to make your daily digital life easier – let’s look back on our most popular DigiTips from 2024/25!  Have you ever been in an MS Teams meeting where you’ve needed […]

Celebrating our Graduates 🎓

This week from Tuesday 15 July – Thursday 17 July is graduation at Aberystwyth University and as such we want to celebrate our graduates. Last year our Student Digital Champions created the Graduate Digital Skills profiles and the Employer Digital Skills Profiles. The Graduate Digital Skills profiles deep dive into life our graduation for our […]

The Digital Skills Team Summer Challenge ☀️

This summer break, why not join us for the Digital Skills Team Summer challenge. Below are nine daily challenges that you can complete within the summer break to help spark your digital and creative skills.  Text Version:

DigiTip 65: Speak it aloud with Microsoft Word Dictate 🗣️

Swap out typing for talking with DigiTip 65 and Microsoft Word’s Dictate tool. On Microsoft Word there is the option to dictate by either clicking the microphone button or using the shortcut Alt and +. This means that you can talk, and Microsoft Word will type for you!  To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our Digital […]

DigiTip 64: Change Direction with Excel Text Orientation 💻

Take your spreadsheets to the next level with DigiTip 64. Did you know that you can change the direction of text on your spreadsheets. This can help if your spreadsheets are becoming text heavy, especially headings. View the short video below to learn how!  To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog. Or alternatively, […]

DigiTip 63: Tag you’re it! OneNotes Tagging Feature ✅

With DigiTip 63, learn how to insert tags into your pages on OneNote. Tags are small emojis such as checkboxes to help you keep track of what’s important in your OneNote pages.   Watch the short video below to learn more.   To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog. Or alternatively, you can bookmark this webpage, […]

DigiTip 62: Perfect Presenting with PowerPoint Presenter Coach ⏱️

Do you want to perfect your presenting skills before your next big presentation? With DigiTip 62 and PowerPoint’s Presenter Coach you can get feedback while you practice! Simply follow these steps:  To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog. Or alternatively, you can bookmark this webpage, where a new DigiTip will be added each week!  

Tick and Go: Your Guide to ‘To Do List’ Apps ✅ 

As exam season approaches, it can become difficult to stay on top of every task, and it can become overwhelming with everything that needs to be done. With this blogpost, we’ll introduce four different To Do List apps to help you manage your workload and organise your days.   Microsoft To Do  Microsoft To Do is […]