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Our Getting Started course will give you the tools to plan your learning journey and develop digital skills. Whether they are needed for further study, getting back to, or moving on in work, or for everyday life.

You'll get a welcome induction to Adult Skills and an overview of what digital skills are. We'll show you how digital skills can be used in everyday life and make sure you know how to keep yourself safe online.

We'll teach you how to use Office 365, our interactive learning platform. You'll find out how and where to save and retrieve documents and we'll help you to create a secure password to protect your data.

You'll have time to ask questions and meet our tutors. You'll also complete an assessment to make sure you're on route to the most suitable program of learning to achieve your goals.

You'll leave the final session with details of the days and times of your course.

This course will enable you to:

Use digital skills safely and responsibly

• Access our web-based learning platform (Teams for Education)
• Change a password to a more secure one. Understand the benefits of multifactor authentication (MFA)
• Understand our internet user policy and what could happen if this wasn’t followed

Use your digital skills to complete work related tasks

• Understand cloud based storage and local storage
• Create a shared folder and document
• Access documents from Teams and save to your OneDrive
• Complete a digital skills or Microsoft assessment. This is to make sure you're on the right learning pathway.

You'll also develop these core skills:

• 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