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Digital Staff Training

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Take control of your digital life...

Digital training provides support and guidance on how to get the best out of digital applications and ICT resources including:

Word 2010 Immediacy CMS Bespoke Training
Excel 2010 Tutorial Booker  
PowerPoint 2010 Virtual Desktop  
Outlook 2010 Windows 7  
Access 2010 Microsoft Lync  

 

Training is provided through workshops or one to one sessions and desktop coaching.  If you need help with any of these technologies please contact us to see how we can help you.

Alternatively we run regular drop in clinic sessions to assist you with any help you may need.  Details of ILS Staff Digital Training drop-in clinics can be found here, no booking is necessary.

Digital Course Catalogue Self Study Resources Microsoft Office Specialist Deskside Coaching Contact us

We offer a wide range of courses and workshop in a variety of applications, and can also run bespoke/tailored workshops to suit faculty or department needs.  Our current courses and workshops below. 

Click here for information on when workshops are running and to reserve your place or email digitaltraining@yorksj.ac.uk

For training relating to Moodle, Mahara and other Technology Enhanced Learning, please visit the pages for the TEL team.

For students looking for support and training, please visit the ICT Student Training page.

Course Title   Duration   Details   Prerequisites   Study Methods
Immediacy CMS - Basic Editor   2 Hours  

Creating a basic web page on the University CMS system (immediacy), understand the University policies on style and consistency, and know how to submit updated pages for approval by the CMS Administrator.  (Required for all new CMS users).

 

None, however a working knowledge of Microsoft Word would be an advantage

 

Workshop

                 
Immediacy CMS - WAM User   1 Hour  

A short course designed to show individuals how to use the WAM editor software for loading documents into the WAM repository for use on the CMS

 

Immediacy CMS - Basic Editor

 

Workshop

                 
Immediacy CMS - Working with media in CMS   1 Hour  

A Short course designed to give users more exposure to editing images for and inside the CMS and how to use plugins to utilise video and audio clips on the CMS.

 

Immediacy CMS - Basic Editor

 

Workshop

 

                 
Microsoft Office Specialist   N/A  

Self study program preparing for MOS exams in Office applications

 

None

 

 

Self Study via Workbook and elearning materials

                 
Using Microsoft Lync   1 Hour  

Understand how to use the Microsoft Lync utility and embedding it into your role

 

None

 

Workshop

                 
Microsoft Excel 2010 - Pivot Tables   1 Hour  

Understand how to use PivotTables effectively to analyse data in an excel worksheet.  PivotTables allow you to save time and effort when analysing large amounts of data allowing you to filter and sort quickly, efficiently and dynamically.

 

a good general understanding of Excel 2010

 

 

Workshop

Self Study materials

                 
Microsoft Outlook 2010 - Using Outlook Calendar   1 Hour  

Outlook calendar is a very useful tool that is underused.  This workshop will help you get to grips with navigating the different views in Outlook, Categorising and organising your calendar to make it visually easier to use, share your calendar to make it easy for colleagues and contacts to know when you are available, and use the scheduling assistant to schedule meetings easily and remove the 'email tennis' when finding appointment times

 

None

 

 

Workshop

Self Study Materials

                 
Getting the best from your PC - Tips and tips to make Windows 7 work for you   1 Hour  

This workshop is designed for individuals who are new to working with PCs or feel they need 'just that little bit of help' getting to grips with Windows 7.

The Workshop includes areas such as using the Start Menu effectively, file and folder management tips and tricks, navigating round Windows quickly and efficiently, getting to grips with Keyboard Shortcuts and handy Windows tips and tricks.

 

None

 

 

Workshop

 

                 
Styles in Microsoft Word - formatting your document made easy   1 Hour  

This workshop will intoroduce you to Styles in Microsoft word and will show you how you can utilise Styles to keep your document formatting consistent.

Effective usage of styles make various tasks in Word far simpler, including ensuring consistent formatting across headings and subheadings, keeping lie spacing consistent and navigating through long documents.  Styles allow easy creation of Table of Contents and this workshow will also show you how to create these.

 

None

 

 

Workshop

Self Study Materials

 

                 
Formulae, Functions and Formatting - Microsoft Excel Basics   90 Minutes  

This workshop will introduce you to some of the basics in Microsoft Excel including how to get the best from Formulae and Functions and how to get the best from spreadsheet formatting including general layout rules and exploring how conditional formatting can make data 'pop out' of a large data sheet

 

None

 

 

Workshop

Self Study Materials

 

                 
Mail Merge   1 hour  

Mail Merge is an easy to use function of Microsoft Word allowing you easily generate and produce duplicate documents from a template and either a database or other list of data. 

Common usage af Mail Merge is to produce identical letters to multiple recipients addressing the letter and envelopes individually.  This workshop will show you how easy it is to achieve these results. 

 

A Basic knowledge of Microsoft Word

 

 

Workshop

Self Study Materials

                 
Referencing in Word   1 Hour   Learn how to create Footnotes and Endnotes in Microsoft Word,  

A Basic Knowledge of Microsoft Word

 

Workshop

Self Study Materials