DigiTips

DigiTip 40: Get More Connected to Nature with Seek by iNaturalist 🔎🌼

While on a lunchtime walk or during a break between lectures, there’s nothing better than exploring the campus. On your walk, you may come across birds, plants, fungi, and amphibians that you can’t identify. Using image recognition technology, the Seek by iNaturalist app will help you take your knowledge of nature to the next level!  […]

DigiTip 39: Practice makes Perfect: Rehearse Timings in PowerPoint 🥇

If you need to deliver a presentation within a strict time limit, you may want to practice to get your timings perfect. With DigiTip 39, you can learn how to practice your presentation and receive the timings you used per slide. View the short clip below to learn how to rehearse:  Please note that you […]

DigiTip 38: Create mind maps with Ayoa 🌟

Whether your brainstorming new ideas, revising for an exam, or taking notes, mind maps can be an effective tool for solving problems, memorising information, and much more! Ayoa is a bilingual software that allows you to create as many mind maps as you want for free. You can read more about Ayoa in our previous […]

DigiTip 37: Switch it up with Synonyms in Word 🔀

Have you ever gotten stuck trying to think of a different word to take your sentence to the next level? There’s no need to struggle anymore! With DigiTip 37, learn how to use the synonyms function in Word. View step by step instructions below or watch the short video to learn more!  Simply:  To follow […]

DigiTip 36: Use Outlook reactions to respond to an email 👍🎉

There may be times when someone has sent you an email, and you’d like to acknowledge its receipt without sending another reply. A great feature to use in this case is the reactions feature in Outlook, which works similarly to those in MS Teams or on various social media platforms. To react to an email, […]

DigiTip 35: Secure your screen with Windows + Lock!  🔒

Do you need to lock your screen faster than going through the Start menu? With DigiTip 35 you have your solution!   Did you know that you quickly lock your screen by selecting the Window’s key and pressing ‘L’.   To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog. Or alternatively, you can bookmark this webpage, where a […]

DigiTip 34: Make MS Teams chats easier to read with bullet points 💬

Have you ever been in an MS Teams meeting where you’ve needed to send a quick list that’s easy for others to read? There are actually two quick ways to create bullet points or numbered lists in any MS Teams chat. Option 1 You can either click on the format icon in the chat, and […]

Welcome Back to DigiTips 👋🏻

Next week will be the return of DigiTips, our once-a-week tip or trick to help you with your Digital Skills! You can view the DigiTips that were posted last year here and find out which 5 were the most popular in this blogpost. Remember to keep your eyes out for this year’s DigiTips by subscribing […]

The Hit List: Top 5 DigiTips from 2023/24 ⏫🎉

Blogpost by Shân Saunders (Digital Capabilities and Skills Development Coordinator) In September 2023, the Digital Skills Team began DigiTips – a weekly blogpost to highlight a useful tip that you can use to make your daily digital life easier. Below are the top 5 DigiTips from 2023/24.   Are you working on one screen and struggling? […]

DigiTip 33: Enable live captions in your MS Teams meetings 💬

Here is your final DigiTip for this academic year but you can catch up on all of our previous DigiTIps from this page. We hope that you’ve found our tips useful, and we’ll be back in September ’24 where we’ll continue support your confidence with technology, one DigiTip at a time! Do you sometimes struggle […]