Basic Digital Skills

In an increasingly digitalised world, solid basic digital skills are crucial for your success in your studies and beyond. Not only do you need to be able to find and analyse relevant information and data, but you also need to use the right communication channels effectively and keep an eye on data security. Our courses in this area will help you prepare for the challenges of the modern working world and develop your skills in a targeted manner. Get fit for the future and utilise the opportunities that the digital world offers you!

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Language: English
Lecturer: Dr. Marc Stockmeier

In this course you will create a template for your bachelor or master thesis. All steps will be worked on by all students on their own document in individual work or in groups.

1. Provide foundations for common language and basic knowledge

Start MS Word and customize user interface

Basic privacy settings
Different software views/document views
Ribbon
Help function

2. Create your own standard format template

Font
Line spacing
Paragraph spacing

3. Preparation for the automatic creation of

Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of tables

4. Customizing the style sheets for headings

5. T Charts and chart headings

Create quick commands to create charts with chart header
Customizing the style sheets

6. Figure and figure captions

Creating quick commands for creating figures with figure captions
Customizing the style sheets

7. Creating a title page

8. Footnotes

Customizing the style sheets
General rules of typesetting footnotes

9. Literature management and bibliography

Citation methods
Manage Citations with Citavi (Attention: Apple users can only use Citaviweb)

Language: English
Lecturer: Dr. Marc Stockmeier

Part 1

Powerpoint, simple basic terms
The user interface
Basics for creating presentations
- Working with text (lists and tables)
- Working with shapes
- Working wits objects (tables from Excel, Graphics)

Part 2

Create presentation
- Important presets
Master slides
SmartArt and SmartArt tools
Transitions and animations
Using and adapting design templates

Part 3

Link slides to each other
Slide transitions
Prepare and deliver presentations
Printing of presentations, handouts and note pages
Tools during the presentation

Part 4

Creating a presentation on the individual field of study
Short presentation of the individual participants

Please note that the topics of the individual dates can be postponed depending on the needs of the participants.

Language: English
Lecturer: Dr. Marc Stockmeier

Part 1

Basics and basic functions
Working with workbooks
Design of workbooks (headers/footers)
Formulas and functions
Use of formulas
Evaluating table data with simple functions (SUM, AVERAGE, NUMBER, ...)
Overview and use of some functions

Part 2

Formulas and functions
- relative/absolute addressing
- if/then links
- SREFERENCE/REFERENCE

Working with diagrams
- Create diagrams
- Diagram types
- Labels
- trend lines
- Error bars

Part 3

Data analysis with pivot charts
- Pivot charts
- Pivot diagrams

Part 4

Evaluation of simple experiments/data sets with Excel

Please note that topics may be shifted depending on the needs of the participants.

Language: English and German
Lecturer: Anna Schultz-Coulon

Are you curious about the groundbreaking opportunities that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is opening up in our world? Do you want to understand how ChatGPT and other advanced AI technologies work and how they will shape our future? Then this course is for you!

In this course, we will dive into the fascinating world of Artificial Intelligence and explore how it is revolutionizing our daily lives, business, and research. You will have the opportunity to understand and experience how ChatGPT, one of the most advanced AI models, works, but also to address dangers and challenges of AI models.

Join Anna Schultz-Coulon to learn...