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Future Skills | Students

Learn skills that will help you succeed in the classroom, workplace, and life

Ready to up your game?

Future Skills modules give you the tools to work collaboratively, communicate effectively, and tackle challenges. These are skills employers want and will help you maximize your time in school and beyond. 

Modules fit alongside your course work and can be done online in only 4 hours at your own pace.

Build and promote your skills

Earn a certificate of completion to share your skill development with your community.

Register for Future Skills

Pick your skills

Explore the list of available skills to learn, in short, go-at-your-own-pace modules.

Take me to the modules

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The fusion workbooks have truly changed my perspective on regular day-to-day life. The impacts they will carry in your professional and personal life, as well as the insights you will gain cannot be put into words. I highly recommend anyone with the chance or opportunity to participate in the workbooks.

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Miya Dreyer

Faculty of Arts student


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Future Skills modules

Each module takes approximately four-hours and you can do them at your own pace (asynchronous). Once you sign up, you have access to the materials as long as you're a student.

Each module includes:

Videos

Self-assessment

Case studies

Reflection


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Explore the modules

Do you have a in-class group project bringing you down? Are you feeling overwhelmed by the demands of university and life? Do you have a big life transition impacting your studies? Does standing in front of an audience give you sweaty palms?

There's a skill for that!

Go to the modules

The most impactful part of FUSION was seeing the amount of progress I made in developing my metacognitive, communication, and problem solving skills over four months. Comparing my self-assessment from the beginning to the end illustrated how far I had come in both my skill development and my self-perception of my skill development.

Future Skills student


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Show off your skills

For each completed module you will get a certificate of completion that you can share.

Log into D2L

Use your UCalgary IT username and password.

Log in

Find the course

Click on My Tools, then Self Registration.

Scroll down to Future Skills 🚀 and click the link.

Registration page

Self register

Click Register. Your details will be auto-populated.

Hit Submit then Finish, and you're done! Welcome to Future Skills!

You're ready to level up!

Find Future Skills 🚀 under My Courses –> Ongoing.

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