Digital Skills

How digital are you?

JISC Discovery Tool Student Poster

Getting started: Discover your current digital skills

Step 1: How to login

To login go to jisc.potential.ly
Start typing TU Dublin in the search box
Click on the name of your TU Dublin when it appears select continue
* Please note you will need a valid TU Dublin email address to access this service.

How does this work?

Completing the Discovery Discovery Tool - Explore your digital capabilities question set is an opportunity to evaluate your skills across 15 key areas of digital capability.
- (1) Digital Proficiency, (2) Digital Productivity, (3) Information Literacy, (4) Media Literacy, (5) Data Literacy, (6) Digital Communication, (7) Digital Collaboration, (8) Digital Participation, (9) Digital Creation, (10) Problem Solving, (11) Digital Innovation, (12) Digital Learning, (13) Digital Teaching, (14) Digital Identify Management, (15) Digital Wellbeing

The questions are designed to help you reflect and get a better understanding of your strengths as well as any areas you might want to develop further.
Once you've completed your question set you'll get a feedback report with resources and next step suggestions on how to expand your skills across the 15 areas.

Step 2: Select a question set - Discover how digital you are!

To start a question set go to the home page and select Question sets and reports for students.

Question sets and reports for students thumbnail from the Jisc discovery tool, the image shows a white icon of a person with a thought bubble on a blue background

You'll find three question sets to choose from:

New Students
Current Students (Higher Education)
Current Students (Further Education)

screenshot of the exploring your digital capabilities question set cards for new and current students

If you're just starting your course begin with the New students question set and when you feel ready (or your tutor feels you're ready) take the Current students question set.

Step 3: Answer the Digital Skills questions

Each question set takes around 15 to 25 minutes to complete depending on which set you're doing.

Example Question:

screenshot of a slide bar question from the explore your overall digital capabilities question set

Because it's not a test we recommend you take your time to answer all the questions. Although you can exit a question set at any point and pick up where you left off we suggest completing all the questions in one session.
Once you complete your question set you'll get a personalised feedback report.

Step 4: View your feedback reports

Once you've completed a question set you'll get a personalised report that can be downloaded and saved.
The purpose of the feedback report is to help you reflect on your digital capabilities in order to identify your key strengths as well as any skills gaps where you may need further support.
Rather than being an objective 'measure' of your digital capabilities the report offers guidance and tips based on your reflective answers.

The report includes:

A graphic with an overview of your capabilities according to each area

Example of competency graph from an overall digital capabilities report. The diagram shows a user's confidence level in 15 areas of digital capability, with colour coding to match the 6 top-level areas of the digital capability framework

A visual score for each area

Example of guidance text from a user's report. The guidance text has a description of the capability area (in this example, digital creation) and a wheel chart showing a user's confidence level

A confidence level: developing to proficient for each area

Screenshot showing a confidence level score in one capability area

Next step guidance and tips for improving in each digital skills area

Step 5: View recommended resource banks

(learning materials to help you improve your digital skills)

The discovery tool gives you access to over 800 Jisc-curated resources plus any added by your organisation.
You'll also find resources from the Education Training Foundation (ETF), Google and Microsoft Collection.
Resource bank for students has 13 playlists with hundreds of resources that are mapped to the different areas of the digital capability framework and other elements used in the question sets.

The playlists are housed in three main sub-banks:

Overall digital capabilities resource bank
New students resource bank
Publisher collections

Overall digital capabilities resource bank

Each sub-bank contains playlist cards for the different learning areas. By selecting a playlist you'll have a choice of multiple hand-picked resources.

For example Digital creation is one of 16 playlists from the Overall digital capabilities resource bank. Inside you'll find 58 curated resources to choose from.

Publisher collections

In the publisher collections you'll find resources from Microsoft, Google and ETF.

screenshot of the publisher collection resource playlists: Microsoft, Google collection and ETF

New students resources

We've created a special collection of resources for new students. Open the Resource bank for students and scroll down to access the New students section.

screenshot of the new students resources showing seven separate resource playlists

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