Ready to explore and enhance your digital skills? Follow the simple steps below to sign up for the Jisc Discovery Tool. This fantastic resource helps you identify your strengths, areas to develop, and ways to boost your digital capabilities. Watch the short video below to get started. 

For further support or guidance, please email the Academic Skills Hub 

Step 1: Login

• To login go to jisc.potential.ly
• Start typing the University of Bolton in the search box
• Click on the University of Bolton when it appears
• Select Continue

Step 2: Account setup

• The first time you open the discovery tool you will be prompted to create an account
• You may be asked to confirm your role (i.e student)
• You'll then be asked to provide some further information to complete your account setup:
  • You may or may not need to enter your name, based on your method of logging in
  • Select your course level and subject area from the lists below

Step 3: Choose Your Course level

Select one of the following options:

• Level 3 (Certificate or Diploma)
• HE 4 -6 (Bachelors or Honours)
• HE 7 (Masters)
• HE 8 (Doctoral)

Completing the Explore your digital capabilities question set is an opportunity to evaluate your skills across 16 key areas of digital capability.

The questions are designed to help you reflect and get a better understanding of your strengths as well as any areas you might want to develop further.

Once you've completed your question set you'll get a feedback report with resources and next step suggestions on how to expand your skills across the 16 areas.

To start a question set go to the home page and select Question sets and reports for students.

You'll find different question sets to choose from:

1. New Students
2. Current Students (Higher Education)
3. Digital skills for AI and generative AI
4. Recognising digital skills for employability

Which Question Set Should I choose?

If you're just starting your course begin with the New students question set and when you feel ready, take the Current students question set.

There are two versions for current students depending on whether you're in further (FE) or higher education (HE). As you're an HE student, only complete this version.

The questions are either multiple choice or slide bar and you can revisit a question using the previous button.

Multiple choice question

Slide bar question

Each question set takes around 15 to 25 minutes to complete depending on which set you're doing.

Because it's not a test we recommend you take your time to answer all the questions. Although you can exit a question set at any point and pick up where you left off we suggest completing all the questions in one session.

Once you complete your question set you'll get a personalised feedback report.

The discovery tool gives you access to over 800 Jisc-curated resources.

You'll also find resources from the Education Training Foundation (ETF), Google and Microsoft Collection.

Each resource has been carefully selected to support your digital learning experience.

Resources can be accessed in two ways:

1. Resource Bank (Students)
2. Question set feedback reports

New students resources

There's a special collection of resources for new students. Open the Resource bank for students and scroll down to access the New students section.

For further support and advice on how to enhance your digital skills, visit Discovery Tool Guidance for Students to get started and unlock your potential in the digital world.

For further support or guidance, please email the Academic Skills Hub