An update from the Jisc team

1. What is next for the Building digital capability
Service? Digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org
22/05/2018

2. Overview of the session
»Update from the project
› Sarah Knight and Heather Price
»Four parallel sessions:
› Digital Discovery tool surgery – Heather Price, Jisc
› How can we support students with the development of their digital capabilities
using the Jisc discovery tool for learners? Helen Beetham and Sarah Knight
› Mapping of Microsoft resources to the digital capability framework – Shri
Footring (Jisc), Nevin Moledina (University of Leicester) and Clare Riley
(Microsoft)
› Building digital capability service site – Clare Killen andAlicja Shah, Jisc
22/05/2018

3. Discovery tool – where are we now?
»Over 100 organisations participating in
Digital discovery tool pilot until May 18
»Access for the pilots continues until
Friday 13th July
»New platform from Potential.ly
»Question sets:
– core set for all staff;
– for teachers (HE / FE & Skills);
– NEW!! learners
– more to come…
22/05/2018

4. #digitalcapability http://ji.sc/building-digicap
What is the Digital discovery tool?
It is:
»A self-administered quiz about
digital practices in education
»Designed to give useful
feedback including 'next steps'
and links to resources
» Reflective, informative and
developmental
»A pilot (not finished yet!)
It is not:
» An objective measure of digital
competence or performance
»A complete learning resource or
course of study
»Validated and proven in
practice (we are still learning!)
10/01/18

5. Navigating the user dashboard
22/05/2018
Menu
Evaluation
feedback
form link
here
This icon takes the user to the
Digital capability framework where
all the elements are explained
Data
dashboard

6. Each assessment has three question types
1
2
3
Confidence
Best fit/Depth
Breadth

7. Individual report:
Each element has:
» Level: developing | capable | proficient
» Score: how you assessed yourself to
achieve this level
» Next steps: what people at this level can
try to develop further
» Resources: links to selected resources for
further exploration
PDF
download
Report
navigation

8. Institutional data dashboards
»Provides institutional leads with:
› Overall number of staff that have
completed assessments (by
department)
› Scoring bands by organisation
(developing / capable / proficient)
› Scoring bands by department
› Sector comparisons for both
»Updated monthly
22/05/2018

9. Interim evaluation – headline findings
» Total completions stand at 2,555 (as at
24 April), made up of:
› 2,142 ‘All capabilities’ (core) questions
› 294 HE teaching questions
› 119 FE teaching questions
› From 83 institutions
» High response rates – 8 out of ten who
started the Digital discovery tool went
on to complete it
» Only 20% left the system having ‘not
started’ or left whilst ‘in progress’
» Overall experience of the tool
› HE and FE feedback similar
› 8 out of 10 felt tool was easy to use
and the interface was well
designed.
› Over 70% of staff rated the tool as
either good or excellent
› Asked to rate ease of use of
various bits of the tool, about 90%
found It easy or v easy
› Only 9 % didn’t download their
report
22/05/2018

10. Interim evaluation - comments
22/05/2018
‘I thought the data and
insights it provided just
based on a quick assessment
was really good’
Did give me an idea of
specific areas which
would be worth
working on, targeted
action’
‘I enjoyed using it.The
report accurately recorded
my strengths and
weaknesses’
‘it really makes you think
about what you actually
do, as opposed to what you
think you do’

11. Next steps
22/05/2018
» Building digital capability service,
including discovery tool
› Approval to run as a full service
from September 2018
» Detail still to be worked out, but will
include for the tool (as part of wider
service):
› Free (reduced) version available to
staff
› Full version of the tool at a charge
to institutions + suite of resources,
discount on training courses etc

12. New digital capability resources
»Senior leaders briefing
paper on Delivering
digital change: strategy,
practice and process
http://bit.ly/jisc-leaders
»How are HR
departments supporting
the development of
staff digital capabilities?
https://bit.ly/2ImZY4o
22/05/2018
»Four new institutional case study videos: https://ji.sc/digicap_films

13. Follow developments
» Follow developments
› Project blog:
https://digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org
› Visit project page
http://bit.ly/jiscdigcap
Communication
› Email the project team at:
digitalcapability@jisc.ac.uk
› Follow #digitalcapability onTwitter
» Resources
› Online guide – Developing
organisational approaches to digital
capability
http://bit.ly/digcapguide
› Digital capability institutional videos -
https://ji.sc/digicap_films
› Digital leaders programme –
http://jisc.ac.uk/training/digital-
leaders-programme
22/05/2018

14. Parallel sessions
»Four parallel sessions (30 mins):
› Digital Discovery tool surgery – Heather Price, Jisc
› How can we support students with the development of their digital capabilities
using the Jisc discovery tool for learners? Helen Beetham and Sarah Knight
› Mapping of Microsoft resources to the digital capability framework – Shri
Footring (Jisc), Nevin Moledina (University of Leicester) and Clare Riley
(Microsoft)
› Building digital capability service site – Clare Killen andAlicja Shah, Jisc
22/05/2018