What is the Digital Skills Course about?
Free training to help you make the most of your mobile phone. You’ll find new ways to search for information on the Internet, manage your smartphone apps, create and edit content for social media, explore mobile banking and shopping, and more!
This three-week course is open to all people who already have access to a smartphone but would like to gain more knowledge to use it confidently in information searching, social networks, job applications and other transactions.
Please note: We don't cover any coding during this course. This course is not a software development course.
We'll work on the skills that digital citizens should be aware of, so they might come before the decision to pursue a career in coding or not.
Next start dates:
- London: November 4th - Livesey Exchange 2 community centre.
- Manchester: Pre-register for later in 2023 - MustardTree (110 Oldham Road, Manchester M4 6AG)
- Birmingham: Pre-register for later in 2023 - Birmingham Open Media (1 Dudley St, Birmingham B5 4EG)
How it works:
- Register your interest in participating in the training.
- We will contact you to confirm your eligibility and other details.
- You attend three in-person sessions and complete the homework.
- Receive a certificate of completion.
Our Campaign Partners
Our partners are organisations and charities helping people thrive and enhance their lives. They help us reach struggling professionals, refugees and people from disadvantaged backgrounds to give them access to the Day-to-day Digital Skills training for free.
What we cover
Week 1
- Smartphone parts
- Internet
- Web Browsers
- App Management
- Digital Form filling
- Social Media
- Translation tools
Week 2
- Email writing etiquette and advanced features
- Basics of cyber security
- Google Documents
- Maps and navigation
Week 3
- Mobile Banking and best financial practices
- Job platforms
- Online Shopping
- E-commerce
- Mobile phone scanning
- Mobile phone gestures