Digitally Ready
Digitally Ready is an easy to use, engaging opportunity for you to equip yourself with the tools and competencies needed to confidently start your online studies at Bristol.
It helps you reflect on your transferable skills in online learning and identify areas you need to develop. It also guides you through the tools you are likely to encounter in your courses, via Blackboard.
The course runs yearly as a pre-arrival task for new students, but will be open for the entire academic year, so you can return to it whenever you need to. You can access the course from your ‘My Organisations’ list on your Blackboard Homepage, or from the purple button at the top of this page.
Main objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to say:
I'm aware that...
- I already have a wealth of transferable digital skills.
- There are digital skills and competencies which I need to develop.
- I will need to engage in a variety of tools and technologies in order to successfully participate in my studies.
I can...
- Navigate the Blackboard home page.
- Use the core Blackboard tools within my course spaces: find, access, participate by using them (where relevant).
- Find help when I need it.
I do...
- Utilise these tools to meaningfully engage in my studies and learning communities.
- Confidently communicate in the Bristol online environment through various modes.
- Seek out and take advantage of the help on offer to develop my own digital skills and confidence.
I aim to be...
- A valuable reflective, ethical and responsible participant in the academic community in my course.
- An active, empathetic member of the UoB community at large.
What did students think of previous runs?
Digitally Ready first run during welcome week 2020. Both then and since, students' views have been very positive about their experiences of using Digitally Ready. They rate it an average 4 out of 5 in terms of usefulness and feel more confident in various areas of their digital studies after completing it.