Assess your Digital Skills
Guidance on using the Jisc Discovery Tool
Assess your digital skills with the Jisc Discovery Tool and start building your digital capability. Through completion you will get a personal visualisation report on your digital capabilities where you can discover your digital strengths and explore new areas for digital skills development. You can find resources within the tool or browse what we have developed and collated on each capability in the Discover and Develop section.
Step 1 - Sign up and Login
You can sign up to the Digital Discovery Tool by clicking the button below.
To login – please type or select Queen’s University Belfast as your organisation. You will then login with your student number credentials. There are a number of question sets to choose from but the general question set for new and current students is a good place to start. It only takes 15-20 minutes to complete the main question set. Any longer and you are maybe over-thinking!
Step 2 - Reflective Questions
By completing the questions you’ll be encouraged to reflect on your confidence and skills across a range of digital capabilities that will help you live, learn and work in a digital society.
You will start to explore your digital capabilities answering a series of reflective questions about your digital practice. The main question set, is derived from extensive work conducted by Jisc on the digital capability framework. This framework has six main areas of digital capability development and 15 sub-elements. You can also opt to reflect on two new question sets on Generative AI and Employability.
You can explore the other question sets in the question bank located in the dashboard, when and if you want.
Step 3 - View your Personalised Report
Once you have finished responding to the questions you will receive a personal report focusing on 15 areas of digital capability. This personalised report provides a visual representation of your scores along with a capability rating (developing, capable or proficient), suggested next steps to take and links to relevant resources for each section. The report will help you to identify your strengths as well as opportunities for further development, and highlight resources that can help.
If you download your personalised report and then re-visit the question set at intervals you can use it to compare it with your most recent report. This opportunity to overlay your new report lets you see any digital progress that you have made.
Step 4 - Set yourself a Goal or Create an Action Plan
Setting yourself a goal or creating a sensible action plan is a good way of keeping on top of your digital skills development. This might include completing a relevant LinkedIn course, signing up to an online platform such as FutureLearn or attending a digital skills face to face workshop or session on campus. Identify one or two goals or next steps that you can undertake but keep your goals achieveable and relevant to your needs.
The Discovery Tool gives you access to over 800 Jisc-curated resources plus any included in our Develop and Discover section. Each resource has been carefully selected to support your digital learning experience. Take your pick from a wide variety of resources, including blog posts, case studies, videos, animations etc.