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AI generated surrealist picture on developing technical proficiency

Starting to build your technical proficiency

Posted onNovember 13, 2024November 12, 2024

If you are frustrated in your use of digital technologies, it may be that you need to think about going back to basics and considering your technical proficiency. If we consider the lower levels of digital literacy development try to Continue Reading

CategoriesDigital Literacy DevelopmentTagsdata security, desktop, digital literacy, DL:Level 1, DL:Level 2, technical proficiency, Windows

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Windows Key + Ctrl + D

Posted onNovember 11, 2024October 7, 2024

Want to open something not in your current workspace? You can open a virtual desktop in the background to run a process, then access it using Windows and Tab.

CategoriesShortcut Of The WeekTagsdesktop, digital literacy, technical proficiency, Windows

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Windows Key + E

Posted onNovember 4, 2024October 7, 2024

Get quick access to your File Explorer with this one. Your files will open up for quick access to, well, everything.

CategoriesShortcut Of The WeekTagsdesktop, digital literacy, technical proficiency, Windows

ChatGPT or Copilot?

Which generative AI tool? ChatGPT or Copilot?

Posted onOctober 31, 2024October 29, 2024

Recently I have been considering switching from ChatGPT to Copilot. For one simple reason, I do not know where my ChatGPT data really goes. My thinking on this Most Universities subscribe to Microsoft packages, and in some instances this includes Continue Reading

CategoriesThe Digital AcademicTagsAI, desktop, digital literacy, gapfill, technical proficiency, Windows

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Windows Key + L

Posted onOctober 28, 2024October 28, 2024

Leaving your desk? Student at your back? Fire alarm going off? Quickly lock your screen with this key combination. You will then require the password to unlock your computer.

CategoriesShortcut Of The WeekTagsdesktop, digital literacy, technical proficiency, Windows

Using AI to build a gapfill quiz question

Gapfill quiz questions in Moodle using AI

Posted onOctober 24, 2024October 21, 2024

If you have not already seen, you can use Generative AI, in this instance ChatGPT, to build MCQs for quizzes in Moodle. But, you can also build Gapfill questions using prompts and rules very much in the same way. We Continue Reading

CategoriesThe Digital AcademicTagsAI, digital literacy, gapfill, Moodle, quiz, technical proficiency, VLE

Using AI to build an MCQ quiz

AI Cheat sheet for MCQs in Moodle

Posted onOctober 21, 2024October 21, 20242 Comments

To create a set of MCQs quickly, I tend to use ChatGPT. By setting the rules for the output based on what Moodle is expecting, I can do this fairly quickly. The output still needs you to copy accross the Continue Reading

CategoriesThe Digital AcademicTagsAI, digital literacy, technical proficiency, VLE

Teaching the AI tool what I want it to do.

Teaching the AI models for Academic Work

Posted onOctober 21, 2024October 21, 20241 Comment

Sometimes I forget that AI can learn from my inputs as well as from inputs from data that is skimmed from the vast sea of information on the internet (don’t forget, only 5% of the internet is visible to you Continue Reading

CategoriesThe Digital AcademicTagsAI, digital literacy, Moodle, technical proficiency, VLE

AI tool building a quiz

Ethics of Using Generative AI in Academia

Posted onOctober 21, 2024October 21, 2024

There are two things to think about when you start approaching the use of generative AI for creation of anything to do with academia: Let’s start with the first bit. Is it ethical? Yes, you can use AI to support Continue Reading

CategoriesThe Digital AcademicTagsAI, digital literacy, Moodle, technical proficiency, VLE

A table of useless numbers

Ctrl and T

Posted onOctober 21, 2024October 6, 2024

Want to create a table easily in Excel of your data set? Just click inside the data set and hit Ctrl and T! This then makes sorting and selecting data easy, and also is the starting point for pivot tables Continue Reading

CategoriesShortcut Of The WeekTagsdigital literacy, excel, technical proficiency, Windows

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