Rating your IT skills competency with How much of an expert are you? Albert Expert Rebecca McCready FHEA Learning and Teaching Advisor School of Medical Sciences Education Development Newcastle University

The Questionnaire Can you apply styles from the Quick Style Gallery to text? 35 Questions Yes or No Skills rated on How many people can do it? How complex is it? Do you regularly save documents using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl S? Can you select non-adjacent cells on a worksheet? Can you insert a caption and a cross-reference into a document? Can you insert sounds or videos into a PowerPoint presentation? The Questionnaire

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The Benefits It allows students to: Identify existing knowledge. Appreciate areas for further learning. Judge difficulty of materials in advance of completion. Measure improvements over time. It allows staff to: Measure the difficulty of materials against a common scale. Identify the progress of courses through the rating. Provide advanced materials for able students. Pitch help at a suitable level for students. Identify common areas of poor knowledge.

Evaluation The 'show help' sections were useful [Liked most] Expandable "Be an EXPERT" links offering more information, helping to understand the software more thoroughly for future use outside of structured sessions. Make the 'more help' tab already open to easily follow instructions. Add some images to this material in addition [sic] help notes and videos. …create a [sic] own individualised/ personalised tutorial for each student… 72%

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