Effective Digital Content

This course is mandatory if you need access to EdWeb 2. It is open to all staff and is available online.

This editorial training course covers good practice in writing and structuring information for the web. It also includes guidance on GDPR and improving performance in search engine results.

What you’ll learn

Find out how to:

  • get your critical information noticed
  • make your content more accessible
  • improve your search engine rankings
  • meet data protection legislation

Who should enrol?

This course is available to all University staff.

The topics in the course will be relevant to any staff who create digital content for the University.

This includes staff who create content for:

  • a University website
  • an internal site (for example on Confluence or SharePoint)

The material will be relevant whether you publish this content directly or pass it to colleagues to put online. 

The course is deliberately non-technical.

Study online

You can complete the course at any time, at your own pace. It should take around two hours altogether. 

The course is available to staff on People and Money:

 

Access this course as a student

If you do not have access to People and Money, you can access a student version of this course.

The student version will not record your completion of the course or your progress within it.

Effective Digital Content (student version)

Help us to develop this course

We're developing a new version of this course, and we're looking for volunteers who can give us feedback on the new version.

If you're a staff member at the University and you would like to help, please contact the User Experience Service.

Contact the User Experience Service

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