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Digital Skills

Digital Skills

Build the digital skills and confidence you need for your studies, future career and everyday life.

King's provides free digital learning opportunities to help you use university systems and technology effectively, develop new professional skills and participate confidently and responsibly in the digital world.

Develop your digital skills

Essential Digital Skills Programme

The Essential Digital Skills Programme is a free, optional, fully online and self-paced programme for King's undergraduate and postgraduate students. You can complete the whole programme or dip into the content you need.

The programme covers five main themes:

  • Online learning platforms - including KEATS, assessment submission platforms and accessibility tools.
  • Digital tools for success - including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive and LinkedIn Learning.
  • Digital citizenship - including online behaviour, email etiquette, collaboration, digital identity and employability.
  • Wellbeing in the digital world - including online safety, data protection, storage and routes to wellbeing support.
  • Resources for your studies - including academic information searching, referencing and an introduction to generative AI.

The full programme takes approximately 30 hours. Students who successfully complete the whole programme can receive HEAR accreditation where applicable, a King's digital certificate and up to 50 K-points.

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LinkedIn Learning

All King's students have free access to LinkedIn Learning using their King's Single Sign-On credentials. The platform provides more than 21,000 courses led by industry experts across business, technology, software and interpersonal skills.

Use LinkedIn Learning to build your employability, develop an existing skill or learn something completely new.

info Before you begin, please activate your LinkedIn Learning account to ensure a smooth experience. If you already have a personal LinkedIn account, you will still need to activate your LinkedIn Learning account, as the two platforms are separate.
info To activate your LinkedIn Learning account, first sign out of your personal LinkedIn account. Then sign into LinkedIn Learning using your KCL email address (in name format) and password.

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Need help?

For information or support, contact digitalskills@kcl.ac.uk(opens in new tab).