• All incoming students (170) in 2014 were provided with iPads as a part of University of Helsinki Faculty of Medicine's ongoing mobile learning strategy.
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Driving License is a mandatory course to ensure that all students have necessary ICT skills for their studies. The iPad project brought up new demands in ICT teaching.

• To help the students acquire versatile iPad skills, we offered in-class meetings, a Moodle online course, iPad guides, instructional videos and low-threshold Pop Up sessions.

• Students (N=172) were asked to evaluate their iPad skills in the beginning of their studies and three weeks later at the end of the mandatory ICT course.
• In the questionnaire 20 skills were surveyed with a Guttman scale.

• The proportion of students mastering basic iPad skills was high but several iPad skills that are needed to study effectively rated initially much lower.
• Some of the study-related skills were evaluated to be higher than they actually were.

• Most of the students were already fluent in basic skills. However, using tablet device effectively in studies requires more than basic skills.  Study-related skills were inadequate for many, but improved considerably during the course.
• Being diginative when studying with mobile devices is different than being diginative using devices in general.

Even though many students are already using mobile devices, it is important to consider and teach the skills needed in studies.