Digital capabilities at LUBS

Developing your digital skills is an important part of your degree. This page will help you understand what digital skills are, how to spot learning opportunities that help you build these skills, and how to check your own progress.

Preparing for success: six key skills

Digital capabilities are attitudes and skills which equip someone to live, learn, and work in a digital society. The world is changing at rapid pace, and digital competency is an essential requirement of most jobs you’ll apply for when you leave university.

To help you become a strong candidate when you start your career, the six key skills from the JISC Digital Capabilities framework are built into all degree programmes at Leeds University Business School.

You can learn more about the JISC Digital Capabilities framework at the bottom of this page.

Find out how the skills map to your degree programme by viewing your Degree Programme map.

Learn about the six skills

Digital communication, collaboration and participation

The ability to communicate and collaborate constructively and professionally with peers through a variety of digital tools and networks in order to share ideas, to produce research, materials and resources, and to engage in online dialogue and debate.

Digital creation, problem-solving and innovation

The ability to use digital technology and techniques to create digital items (such as images, documents and mind maps), and the willingness to engage with new practices and perspectives to solve problems, make decisions and answer questions.

Digital identity and wellbeing

The ability to develop and manage a digital identity (or identities) across a range of platforms and media, and to look after your personal health, safety, relationships and work-life balance in digital settings.

Information, data and media literacies

The ability to find, evaluate, organise and share information across a variety of formats and media, ensuring the reliability and integrity both of the sources that you use and of the ideas that they help you to generate.

Digital learning and development

The ability to explore different ways of learning in digital spaces and with digital media, and to develop both an awareness of what works for you and a willingness to look for help online when you need it.

Digital proficiency and productivity

The ability to select, use, troubleshoot and adapt digital devices, networks, applications and services to achieve specific goals.

Digital Skills: check your own progress

As a University of Leeds student you have access to the JISC Discovery Tool which will enable you to self-assess where your strengths and areas for development are on the JISC Digital Capabilities Framework.

The Tool also gives you access to other support resources and opportunities to develop your digital skills at Leeds.

Use the JISC Discovery Tool

Leeds University Library Support

The Library Service is home to lots of digital learning resources, including bookable workshops and in-person support opportunities

What is the JISC Digital Capabilities Framework?

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is a not-for-profit company that provides digital resources in support of Higher Education Institutions. JISC’s work on digital capabilities began in 2008, and that research led to the development of a six-element digital capability framework.

It has been influential across the education sector in informing how we describe and understand what digital capabilities are.

Clearly, the thing that’s transforming is not the technology — the technology is transforming you

Jeanne W. Ross