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We've organised our courses into several themes to help you find the right course.
Find courses by theme
- Accessibility and assistive technology
- Data analysis and visualisation
- Interaction and collaboration
- Mastering Excel
- Multimedia content: creating and editing
- Programming
- Teaching and assessment
- Software for success - a series of short sessions designed to help you choose the best software for your task
- Written content: creating, presenting and referencing
- Microsoft Office 365
- Courses on request
Accessibility and assistive technology
The following training courses are scheduled throughout the year:
- Best practice for video captions and transcripts
- Creating accessible documents with LaTeX (campus-based)
- Creating accessible Powerpoint presentations
- Creating accessible social media content
- Creating accessible Word documents
Other useful resources:
Data analysis and visualisation
The following training courses are scheduled throughout the year:
Excel
- Pivot tables in Excel
- Charting with Excel
- Intermediate data analysis with Excel (campus-based)
- Advanced data analysis with Excel (campus-based)
R and Rstudio
- An introduction to R with Rstudio (campus-based)
- Better tables in R (campus-based)
- Data manipulation in R with Rstudio
- Data visualisation in R with ggplot 2 (campus-based)
Stata
Nvivo
Matlab
Microsoft Power BI
Finding the right software
- Introduction to data visualisation
- Software for success: Data analysis and statistical tools
- Software for success: Winning with charts
Interaction and collaboration
The following training courses are scheduled throughout the year:
Tools for collaboration
- Introduction to Mentimeter
- Expanding your use of Mentimeter
- Introduction to Miro for collaborative planning
Survey tools
- Which is the best survey tool for me?
- Qualtrics: Tips and tricks in collecting and viewing survey data
- Setting up a REDCap project
- Invitations, reminders and user permissions in REDCap
Git and GitHub
- Introduction to Git version control
- Navigating file versions in Git
- Collaboration using Git and GitHub
Power Automate
Mastering Excel
The following training courses are scheduled throughout the year:
Getting started
- Excel Essential Skills - Workshop 1 (campus-based)
- Excel Essential Skills - Workshop 2 (campus-based)
- Excel Essential Skills - Workshop 3 (campus-based)
- Excel tips and tricks
Data analysis and visualisation with Excel
- Pivot tables in Excel
- Charting with Excel
- Intermediate data analysis with Excel
- Advanced data analysis with Excel (campus-based)
Useful functions
Multimedia content: creating and editing
The following training courses are scheduled throughout the year:
Creating graphical content
- An introduction to free graphic design tools - Inkscape
- Basic image editing using free tools - demo
- Creating infographics using free web-based tools
- Design an impactful research poster using UCL templates
Creating multimedia content
- Make a short film using your iPhone
- Photo editing with Pixlr X - workshop
- Planning and filming advice for a short film
- Podcasting made easy
- Using the MediaPod to make professional quality videos (campus-based)
- Practical approaches to alternative assessments
Programming
The following courses are scheduled throughout the year:
Git and GitHub
- Introduction to Git version control
- Navigating file versions in Git
- Collaboration using Git and GitHub
Matlab
Teaching and assessment
There is a wide range of training and resources to support digital skills needed for teaching and assessment.
Our Digital Learning, Teaching and Assessment page lists the training and guidance avaiable.
Software for success
The Software for success workshops are a series of short demonstration sessions which introduce you to the tools you need to succeed in a typical research project.
The following courses are scheduled throughout the year:
Data collection
Data analysis
Data visualisation and presentation
Writing
Written content: creating, presenting, referencing
The following courses are scheduled throughout the year:
Finding the right software
Word
- Creating accessible Word documents
- Word Tips and Tricks
- Format your Thesis (Windows) - Manage long documents in Word
Onenote
Powerpoint
- Creating accessible Powerpoint presentations
- PowerPoint for Researchers and Presenters: Words, Images and More
LaTeX
Microsoft Office 365
Our team offers training on PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Onenote, Power BI and PowerAutomate.
We do not offer training on some of the other Microsoft Office programmes such as Forms, Bookings, Outlook, Onedrive, Sharepoint, Stream, Teams etc. However, guides for these applications exist on the UCL Microsoft 365 Hub. The team who manage UCL's Microsoft 365 applications can be contacted via MyServices.
Courses on request
If you would like a course to be run on a bespoke basis for your team or group, please contact the team: isd-digiskills@ucl.ac.uk
Along with the sessions listed on these pages there several other topics that the team are able to cover on a bespoke basis. See 'Courses on request' in our Sharepoint for more information.