Data and digital literacy skills: Digital Content Design

Create and edit digital content, improve and integrate information and content, and understanding how copyright and licences are to be applied.

This learning experience has been provided by Digital and Data Professions.

Creating digital content

Creating a range of digital content and share this online in an appropriate way.

• Digital Content Creation: What It Is and How to Excel at It (semrush.com)
• Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities - Microsoft Support
• Making Audio and Video Media Accessible
• Share your work - Creative Commons
• Accessibility and Inclusive Design 

Creating instructions for computers

Create a sequence of instructions using the features within a software tool, such as mail rules or macros. Recognise the difference between computer code and mark-up. Understand and apply simple coding concepts such as branching (If/Then logic) and variables (x=1).

• Manage email messages by using rules - Microsoft Support
• How to Automate Reports in Excel (with Pictures) - wikiHow

Digital copyright and licences

Be aware of the difference between different forms of usage rights (such as public domain, Creative Commons, copyright and licensing). Ensure your own usage of tools and content conforms to relevant usage rights.

• Short Guide to Copyright - Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

Re-using digital content

Get comfortable using hyperlinks to reference online content in documents, emails, etc. Capture/copy content from one source and use it in another (e.g. take an image from a webpage and place it in a document).

Insert and play a video file from your computer - Microsoft Support

Suitable for

All staff.

Category and User Level

This resource aligns with the Working in Government Craft at the Foundation level.