Digital Skills for Life

Bite-sized learning to improve your digital skills!

We can provide 1-to-1 training covering a variety of home computing topics.

 

Learn online with an EC-PC Tutor
or face-to-face in your home in Aberdeen or at our Aberdeen training room.

 

Each learning Bite lasts approximately 20 minutes – just pick and choose the Bites you would like to learn.

 

Internet Skills


Bite 1 – Getting Started
– Connect your device to a secure WiFi network
– Start/close the Internet
– Visit a website
– Use a basic menu to display web pages
– Use the Back button

Bite 2 – Use Google
– Use Google to find a website
– Use tabs to compare web pages

Bite 3 – Use Websites
– Use a search box to find information on a website
– Use filter tools to filter search results

Bite 4 – Use Bookmarks
– Bookmark a website
– Rename a bookmark
– Move a bookmark
– Delete a bookmark

Bite 5 – Print a Web Page
– Print information on a webpage
– Print a specific information on a webpage

Bite 6 – Change Settings
– Clear browsing data
– Change the zoom setting
– Change the start-up page

Bite 7 – Create a Website Account
– Identify a secure web page
– Create an online account
– Confirm your password
– Login to an online account
– Logout of an online account

Bite 8 – Use an Online Contact Form
– Use basic keyboard skills to enter information
– Use a drop-down box
– Use a check box
– Use a captcha tool
– Submit a form

Bite 9 – Use a Chat System
– Start a chat
– Upload a file
– Send a transcript of the chat to your e-mail address
– End a chat

 

Online Shopping


Bite 1 – Use an Online Basket
– Identify a secure web page
– Login to an online store
– Add items to your online Basket
– Remove items from your online Basket

Bite 2 – Make an Online Purchase
– Display the Checkout area
– Use a credit card to make payment
– Logout of an online store

Bite 3 – Check an Online Order
– Display your orders
– Amend an order
– Delete an order

Bite 4 – Get Help / Contact Customer Services
– Use a help pages
– Send a message to customer services
– Read a message from customer services

 

Online Banking


Bite 1 – Login to your Bank Account
– Login to an online account
– View recent transactions
– View your direct debits
– Logout of an online account

Bite 2 – Use Online Banking to make payments
– Transfer money between accounts
– Setup a Standing Order
– Pay a bill

Bite 3 – Use Online Banking to view or cancel your direct debits 
– View and delete direct debits
– Create and delete standing orders

 

Facebook


Bite 1 – Get started with Facebook
– Like a post
– Add a comment to a post
– Create a basic post

Bite 2 – Change, delete or share a Facebook post
– Edit the text in a post
– Delete a post
– Share a post

Bite 3 – Work with photos in Facebook
– view photos
– save a photo
– post a photo

Bite 4 – Use Facebook to send a message to a friend
– Send a friend a private message
– Reply to a private message

Bite 5 – Change Settings
– Change privacy settings
– Change notification settings
– Change public settings

 

E-mail


Bite 1 – Getting Started
– Login to a webmail account
– Send a new e-mail message
– Logout of  a webmail account

Bite 2 – Delete e-mails
– Delete an e-mail from the Inbox
– Delete an e-mail from Sent Items
– Delete an e-mail from Trash

Bite 3 – Use attached files
– Attach a file to an e-mail
– Save an attached file

Bite 4 – Forward e-mails
– Forward an e-mail
– Forward part of an e-mail

Bite 5 – Use folders
– Create e-mail folders
– Move e-mail into folders

Bite 6 – Use links
– open a link to a web page
– insert a link to a web page

 

Photos


Bite 1 – Getting Started
– Save an e-mailed photo to your PC
– Delete a photo
– Rename a photo

Bite 2 – Modify a photo
– Rotate a photo
– Crop a photo
– Apply an effect to a photo
– Save a copy of a photo

Bite 3 – Print a photo
– Print a photo
– Change print settings

Bite 4 – Connect a camera
– Transfer a photo from a phone
– Transfer a photo from a digital camera

Bite 5 – Use folders
– Create a folder to store photos
– Move a photo to a folder

 

Windows


Bite 1 – Use shortcuts
– Move a shortcut on the desktop
– Delete a shortcut
– Pin a program to the taskbar

Bite 2 – Use window tools
– Maximise a window
– Minimise a window
– Restore a window
– Switch between opened programs

Bite 3 – View your files
– View documents
– View pictures
– View downloaded files

Bite 4 – Delete your files
– Delete a file
– Delete a file from the Recycle Bin
– Restore a file from the Recycle Bin
– Empty the recycle bin

Bite 5 – Rename your files and folders
– Rename a document
– Rename a picture
– Rename a folder

Bite 6 – Use folders
– Create a folder
– Move a file to a folder

Bite 7 – Customise the desktop
– Change the desktop background
– Create a desktop shortcut to a website

Bite 8 – Keep your PC secure
– Check Windows updates
– Scan for viruses

 

Word Processing


Bite 1 – Get Started
– Open a Word Processing App
– Create a new document
– Save a document
– Open a document
– Close a document

Bite 2 – Apply Basic Formatting to a Document
– Underline text
– Make text bold
– Change text size

Bite 3 – Create a Letter
– Create your own letter template
– Save, open and use your template

Bite 4 – Print a Document
– Print a document
– Print a specific text
– Change print settings

 

Zoom


Bite 1 – Join a Meeting
– Join a meeting
– Start/stop video
– Mute/Unmute audio
– End a meeting

Bite 2 – Use Meeting Controls
– Share your screen
– Use reactions
– Use chat
– Enter/exit full screen

Bite 3 – Setup a Zoom Account
– Complete the setup process
– Download Zoom

Bite 4 – Setup a Zoom Meeting
– Schedule a meeting
– Invite people to a meeting
– Delete a meeting