Improving digital skills for organisations
Digital has become a huge part of daily life and going online is how most users will find, access information, and interact with a service. By developing your organisation’s digital skills it will allow you to make the most of digital within your organisation and provide knowledge to share with your visitors.
If you want to improve your confidence online, the Good Things Foundation offers comprehensive and free online training that you can take at your own pace, selecting the training relevant to you or your team.
Learn my way
If you are new to the online digital world there are some handy modules from Learn my way for internet beginners. Learn My Way is a website full of free online courses helping you develop digital skills to make the most of the online world. These bitesize modules are a great place to start if you need to brush up your basic skills before moving on to commonly used programmes and services.
You can use Learn My Way on your mobile, tablet, or computer. Wherever you choose to learn it only takes minutes and you can try out a few topics before completing a free registration.
Other online learning providers can support you, your team members, volunteers, and visitors with more specific courses ranging from document creation to managing social media accounts and everything in between. There’s something below for everyone and all free of charge.
Barclays Digital Wings
Barclays digital wings will boost your digital skills and confidence, for free. Find out how to stay safe online, use social media, make your business digital and more.
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Browse from online digital courses and earn badges as you complete your digital learning. Digital courses are split across three levels, getting started, building your skills, and mastering your skills. Based on the learning you select, Digital Wings will make suggestions on other courses that might be useful or interesting to you.Courses are typically 60-90 minutes in length but broken down into small modules to complete at your own pace. |
As well as courses developed to build your skills with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace applications. |
To complete Digital Wings online training, you need to sign up for a free account which will then record your progress and provide recommendations based on your learning history.You can also learn how to become a Barclays digital champion to help others thrive in the digital world. |
Lloyds Bank Academy
Lloyds Bank Academy helps people, businesses and charities thrive. The platform provides people all over the UK with opportunities to improve their capability and confidence online. It’s a learning platform that offers a huge variety of lessons and webinars in digital, life and work skills. The academy is open to everyone, easy to follow and completely free.
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Academy lessons come in a range of styles, including videos, quizzes, interactive webpages and guides.Webinars are held regularly, and you can book a place for free through Eventbrite. |
The courses are separated into three categories:
All the content is transferrable depending on your learning needs, with a number of topics covered ranging from online essentials to money management with lots in between. |
Lloyds Bank Academy is completely free to use with no sign up or registration. Content is updated regularly and by revisiting you will notice the trending lessons which are rotated.By following Lloyd’s Bank Academy through Eventbrite, you can be kept updated of upcoming webinars. |
Microsoft 365 training
Microsoft support has produced training modules for each of the applications within Microsoft 365. This includes Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and all other Microsoft products and apps. Everything you need to get started and make the most out of Microsoft 365.
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Microsoft have learning material for all Microsoft products from the basics to advanced use. Training is a mixture of guides, videos, and printable cheat sheets. Microsoft also offer courses where you can search and complete training in almost every area or function within Microsoft productsand a badge you earn to increase your overall learning score. Some courses provide certificates upon completion and can be shared on social media such as LinkedIn. |
The content available is extensive. You can browse the launch page, select training by application or simply search the area you wish to gain knowledge, and you will no doubt find a relevant course. |
Microsoft 365 training is free following registration to a Microsoft account. To get familiar with a particular application, click on its icon to be taken to a dedicated page which will provide an intro into the app and step by step training you can take at your own pace, each beginning with an introduction video. |
You can find further support in the Digital tools for organisations section of this toolkit, including training platforms with easy-to-follow guides on fundraising, utilities, social tools and planning, helping you get to grips with the most used applications and programmes.
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