Staff Training

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Tues. morning

    In this 2-hour online class, learn how to create a basic Access report, and explore layout and design view.  In design view add controls and set properties for those controls; learn about calculated controls, apply sort & group feature to report data, finish up with graphics (themes and conditional formatting).

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm   Tues. afternoon

    This one-hour online presentation is aimed at campus IT Pros and phone coordinators. We will begin by exploring the Teams Phones interface, management of Contacts, Calls, and Voicemail. We will take a look at the enhancements to Presence status updates and Phone settings. We will finish up by sharing process information and support resources.

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm   Tues afternoon

    Register for this 2-hour Outlook session to learn about specific features and tips for using Outlook more productively. Zoom link sent if registered by 8 am.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Wed. afternoon

    In this 2-hour online workshop, you will learn how to select data in an Excel worksheet and work with Chart tools to customize the chart type, chart layout, and chart style that best represents the selected data. Once the chart is exactly the way you want it, we will learn how to save it as a template to use again.

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm   W afternoon

    This 2 hour Outlook Calendar live workshop, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions. Link sent if registered by 8 am

Thursday, March 23, 2023

    • 9:00 - 10:00 am   Th morning

    We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Skype for Business, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Link sent if registered by 8 am.

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Thurs morning
    • online

    In this 2-hour online session, we will work with graphics in Microsoft Word. Topics covered will include learning how to add pictures and online images in a Word document; work with shapes; format, resize, move and crop images, and finish with creating and modifying an organization chart.

    • 4:00 - 5:00 pm   Thur afternoon

    Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics will include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by noon.

Friday, March 24, 2023

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm   Fri morning

    Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating with others in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by 8

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Tues. morning

    This two-hour online session will introduce you to Access, Microsoft's relational database application. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports.

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm   Tu afternoon

    In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo. This workshop is online; register by noon to be sent the link.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Wed. morning

    This one-hour online presentation is aimed at campus IT Pros and phone coordinators. We will begin by exploring the Teams Phones interface, management of Contacts, Calls, and Voicemail. We will take a look at the enhancement to Presence status update and Phone settings. We will finish up by sharing process information and support resources.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Wed. afternoon

    In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the whole set of features for managing information in Excel tables. These features make all the typical tabular manipulations—sorting, filtering, analyzing, and formatting, easier than ever.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   W afternoon

    Join us in a live, online session using OneNote 365 where we will discuss the structure of notebooks, practice putting data into them, and explore the interconnectivity of Microsoft applications with OneNote. This session is aimed for beginner users of OneNote. Link sent if registered by 8 am

Thursday, March 30, 2023

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Th morning

    In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the Visio interface and create graphics. Visio comes with diagram-specific shapes and tools that enable you to quickly create professional-looking flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, & more. We will learn how to create some basic shapes, and connect, distribute, and align them with Auto-connect. Register by 8 for link.

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm   Th afternoon

    During this two hour session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will work through a beginner tutorial, editing a photo and share resources. Q & A to follow. Register by noon to get the link sent for the session.

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm   Tues. afternoon

    In this 1-hour online course, you will learn about conditional formatting of data in Microsoft Excel. Topics will also include applying special formatting to numbers.

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm   Tu afternoon

    Join us in an online session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote. Link sent if registered by noon

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

    • 9:00 - 11:00 am   W morning

    In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. Register by 8 am to receive the Zoom link.

Thursday, April 6, 2023

    • 9:00 - 10:00 am   Thurs morning

    In this 1 hour short course you will learn how to work with Excel Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts. Topics will include learning how to create a Pivot Table; rearrange and then format the data; set filters including the use of Slicers and Timelines; and finally creating a Pivot Chart of the data in the Pivot Table. This workshop is aimed at beginner users of Pivot Tables.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Thurs afternoon

    Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Participate in this short online course and learn the basics, including how to create slides and put content in them. We will also learn how to format and custom design the slides.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Wed. morning

    In this short online course you will learn how to use some of the data analysis features and tools using Excel. Topics will include learning how to subtotal a list of data; set up data validation rules; use Goal Seek, Solver, and Scenarios and basic data tables.

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Wed. morning

    In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the Word interface while we type text on a page, fix spelling errors, change spacing and page margins, and save our work. We will practice navigating the document; select text to make revisions; and move text by cutting and pasting. Formatting tools will be next, where we will learn how to emphasize text.

Thursday, April 27, 2023

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Thurs. afternoon

    In this 2-hour workshop we will explore the mail merge features in Word including working with various data sources such as Excel and Access; working with rules; and creating and printing labels. We will also take a look at email merges using Outlook.