Welcome to West Highland College UHI

We are delighted you have chosen to join us here on the NC Computing & Digital Media Courses.

Lewis

Lewis will be your main point of contact and will teach your classes, you can contact him at lewis.sturrock.whc@uhi.ac.uk (It's a good idea to save this now)

Lewis will be uploading lot's of helpful videos to his YouTube channel

YouTube

Timetable

This is your timetable, you have a short break at 10:45 and a longer one for lunch at 12:30. Classes are on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. Some of you will learn in person and some of you will connect over the internet.

Units

This is a combined class and includes students who are studying level 5, as well as students who are studying level 6.

You will be studying

Semester 1

1. Computing: Computer Hardware and Systems
2. Digital Media: Still Images
3. Computing: Website Design Graphics
4. Digital Media: Audio Editing
5. Digital Media: Video Editing
6. Information literacy
7. Social Media Literacy
8. Network Literacy

Semester 2

1. Animation Fundamentals
2. 3D Modelling and Animation: An Introduction
3. Computer Games: Media Assets
4. Computer Games: Design
5. Computing: Applications Development
6. Computing: Project

Online

If you are studying from one of ours centres or from home - then you will need to connect using Cisco Webex Teams

By default you will use your college email to login, this is your student number followed by @uhi.ac.uk

Unless you change your password, then it will be your date of birth in a 6 digit format, i.e. 110101