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Our Getting Started course will enable and support you to develop digital skills. Whether they are needed to prepare you for further study, work and everyday life.

This course is delivered face to face in a classroom environment. It will give you an overview of what digital skills are and how they are used in everyday life. It also covers the importance of keeping yourself safe online.

The Getting Started courses will help you decide whether the digital pathway is for you. They're also useful if you've not been in a learning environment before.

You'll have time to ask questions, meet our tutors and then leave with dates for your next steps in increasing your digital skills.

This course will enable you to:

Develop essential digital skills necessary to access online learning

• Turn on a computer and close it down securely 
• Access the learning platform and be able to navigate the class notebook
• Access Outlook emails
• Recognise safe links in emails to access online learning platforms

Use your digital skills safely and responsibly

• Understand an internet user policy and what could happen if this wasn’t followed
• Access a web-based learning platform (Teams) using a password and log out
• Change a password to a more secure one

Use your digital skills to complete work related tasks

• Understand cloud based storage and local storage
• Create a shared folder and document

Use an online platform to

• Access documents and save to your OneDrive
• Access the digital skills assessment to determine the pathway for your progression.

You'll also develop the skills for work:

• Work as part of a team, sharing ideas and motivating peers to complete a task
• Have a positive attitude to plan your own work and complete it effectively within a timeframe
• Be a good listener and follow instructions accurately
• Be resilient and have the ability to stick with a task, even if things don’t go to plan, and learn from setbacks
• Literacy and numeracy skills will be supported throughout the course