For people wanting to learn some new skills (or just build confidence), there are a range of great resources online that you can use which can explore in your own time (and speed).
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GCF Learn Free: Free online learn on life skills as well as digital skills, such as job-seeking, reading, mathematics and technology.
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Be Connected: An Australian-based website to help build digital skills confidence, courses cover a range of topics and devices. There are also regular free webinar presentations, enabling you to learn remotely from trained presenters.
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Digital Learn: From the American Library Association, this page contains resources to help teach the basics of using the internet, computers and devices, while being safe online.
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LinkedIn Learning: Self-paced online learning on a range of topics, including MS Office software tutorials, as well as job-seeker help, and more!
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Google Applied Digital Skills: Free video-based lessons, which help with everyday life, job-ready skills and include practice projects. This is part of the Grow with Google initiative intended to teach the practical digital skills that people need to improve job-readiness and open more opportunities.
Handouts to help get you started:
Below are the handouts for a few of our beginner digital skills classes, which can help get you started with learning. We recommend you follow this with some other learning, like self-paced tutorials or try to attend a class when you have the time.