Digital Skills Short Courses
We offers a range of short courses in digital skills for individuals and businesses.
Covering areas such as digital marketing, coding, and design, our digital courses are tailored to boost your expertise in today's fast-evolving digital landscape. These flexible courses are ideal for enhancing your career prospects, gaining practical skills quickly, and staying competitive in the job market.
We also run longer Adobe, Microsoft and coding courses. There is the option to attain the recognised Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) certification or Microsoft MOS Certifications on our longer digital courses.
To showcase your achievements you can also earn a digital badge on the successful completion of most our courses.
Book onto one of our digital courses and you'll get hands-on training taught by expert instructors with thorough experience and knowledge of the application.
Check out your options below. If you're a student or member of staff, click the button to go to the most relevant information for you.
The majority of our digital courses are delivered online, via MS Teams, but we do also offer some of our courses in-person and on-campus, which will go ahead if there is enough demand.
Why take a short course?
If you need a quick introduction to a software you've not used before then these are the digital courses for you. Ideal for beginners, they offer you key foundational knowledge.
Short Courses (Full and half day)
Adobe Premiere Pro: Introduction to Video Editing
Learn the basics of video editing.
Create compelling Social media content with Canva
Learn how to professionally design and easily prepare images.
Creating Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects
Create and manipulate motion graphics, visual effects and more.
Get designing with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator
Gain a thorough understanding of three Adobe applications.
Getting started with Adobe
Discover Adobe and explore which applications you want to master.
Getting started with Adobe Illustrator
Explore the basic concepts and functions of Adobe Illustrator
Getting started with Adobe InDesign
Learn all the basics on our Adobe InDesign Level 1 course.
Getting started with Adobe Photoshop
Take your first steps into the world of image editing and creation.
Introduction to Blender for 3D Modelling, Animation and Visualisation
Discover the basics of Blender.
Photoshop for absolute beginners
Gain a thorough understanding of Photoshop and develop essential skills.
Photoshop for Photographers
Optimise your images for professional results.
Photoshop for Social Media
Learn how to compose eye-catching banners, design stunning social media graphics and more.
Premiere Rush - Quick and easy Video editing
Learn the essentials of editing clips, adding audio, titles and more.
Wordpress: Create Websites & Blogs
Learn how to crate a website or blog and edit and upload content.
Digital badges
A digital badge is awarded for completing and attending the entire duration of a course and completing all set work.
Digital badges are a great way to celebrate your achievements and stand out from the crowd.
So whether it's obtaining the skills needed to create a promotional video using Adobe Premiere Pro or the ability to successfully use formulae in Microsoft Excel.
Our digital short courses play a unique role in helping to upskill or reskill to be more competitive in the job market. Sharing your digital badge on employability websites such as LinkedIn or on your CV can go a long way in showcasing your range of learning achievements to potential employers.
*Once you have demonstrated capability according to specific criteria established for the badge, you will automatically, become eligible to claim a badge for that course.
You will also attain a digital badge from Adobe or Microsoft when successfully completing the exams on our ACP & MOS Certification Courses.
ACP courses
Become an Adobe Certified Professional with our ACP courses. You'll leave with a qualification to add to your CV and the confidence to excel in your chosen software.
Adobe Certified Professional courses
Adobe Certified Professional Courses
After Effects ACP
This course will enhance your digital skills in the competitive job market.
Illustrator ACP
Take advantage of the precision of sophisticated drawing tools, natural brushes, and a host of time-...
InDesign ACP
Learn to create professional layouts for web, print or mobile devices using Adobe Indesign.
Photoshop ACP
Learn to edit imagery for web, print or mobile devices using Adobe Photoshop.
Premiere Pro ACP
Build the skills to edit digital video using Adobe Premiere Pro.
Microsoft courses
Get going quickly and easily with Microsoft. Our various Microsoft courses are designed to help you accomplish office and business tasks easily and with greater efficiency. Learn what is possible with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You will come away with improved word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation skills to take your productivity to the next level. Our courses will help you gain the skills needed to get the most out of Office365.
Fundamentals of Excel for the Workplace
Learn the basics or brush up on your MS Excel skillset.
Tailored training
We can deliver tailored software training courses enabling you to cover more relevant areas in less time. It's a very cost-effective way of group training - at your premises or on campus - and can also work well for individuals. This is particularly true if you don't want to go on longer courses or a series of different courses. If you want to make the most of the flexibility tailoring allows please contact us to discuss your needs.
With support you can bring your software woes and worries, and get some expert help with specific aspects of your work or we can help you to master particular skills.
We can offer expert help and advice in the use of Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe products. We can also cover the Microsoft Office suite as well as web coding, Blender, Sketch up and Wordpress.
We can offer on-campus, in-person sessions or online sessions to fit in with you, however, if you wish to have an online session, you will need MS Teams installed on your computer prior to the session.
Staff or student?
You can access staff and student specific information about our Digital Skills courses on our dedicated sites.
Got a question?
We'd love to speak to you about our digital short courses. Just click the enquire button and submit a form. We'll be in touch with you as soon as we can.