What is the Digital Skills Course about?
How it works:
- Register your interest in participating in the training.
- We will reach out to you to confirm your eligibility and other details.
- 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.
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: April 22, 2023 (Women only) - Unit 12, 2 Scrutton St, London EC2A 4QE
- Manchester: Pre-register for 2023 - MustardTree (110 Oldham Road, Manchester M4 6AG)
- Birmingham: Pre-register for 2023 - Birmingham Open Media (1 Dudley St, Birmingham B5 4EG)
What we cover
Week 1
- Smartphone parts
- Internet
- Web Browsers
- Mobile phone gestures
- Voice input
- App Management
- Digital Form filling
- Social Media
Week 2
- Email writing etiquette and advanced features
- Smart search engine usage
- Basics of cyber security
- Google Documents
- Calendars
Week 3
- Mobile Banking and best financial practices
- Online Shopping
- E-commerce
- Mobile phone scanning
- Maps and navigation