Training Services

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23 matches found

    • 9:00 - 11:00 am   Th morning
      9/1/2022

    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.

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   F morning
      9/2/2022

    In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn the basics of adding interactivity to your Adobe InDesign documents, including adding links, buttons, animation, and sharing your interactive document. Basic knowledge of InDesign is required. Register by noon to receive the meeting link.  

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Wed morning
      9/7/2022
    • online

    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.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Wed. afternoon
      9/7/2022
    • online

    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.

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm   W afternoon
      9/7/2022

    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.

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Thur morning
      9/8/2022

    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.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm   Thurs. afternoon
      9/8/2022

    In this 1-hour online workshop, you will learn the basics to get started in Skype for Business including navigating the interface, learning about availability or presence status, adding contacts to a contact list, and more. We will explore voice and video features, settings, and messaging. 

    • 2:00 - 4:00 pm   Thur afternoon
      9/8/2022

    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.

    • 9:00 - 10:00 am   Tu morning
      9/13/2022

    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   Tues. morning
      9/13/2022

    In this 2-hour online course, you will become familiar with the Excel's interface. Topics will also include entering, editing, and formatting data in a worksheet, performing basic formulas, printing and using Help.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Tu afternoon
      9/13/2022
    • Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W Springfield, Urbana

    Join us in a hand-on training 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.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Wed. afternoon
      9/14/2022

    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.

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm   W afternoon
      9/14/2022

    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 8 am

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Thurs morning
      9/15/2022
    • Digital Computer Lab 1304 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL Rm L410 (lower level)

    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.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Thurs afternoon
      9/15/2022
    • Digital Computer Lab 1304 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL Rm L410 (lower level)

    In this 2-hour short course you will learn how to add, divide, multiply, and subtract by entering formulas into Excel worksheets. Other topics will include an exploration of just a few of the hundreds of functions available in Excel. We will learn how to find a specific function, as well as how to get help while entering arguments.

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm   Th afternoon
      9/15/2022

    In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Adobe Illustrator.

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Tues. morning
      9/20/2022

    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.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Tu afternoon
      9/20/2022
    • Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL (Rm L410) lower level

    In this 2-hour in-person, instructor led 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.

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Wed morning
      9/21/2022
    • L410 Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W Springfield, Urbana

    In this 2-hour online workshop, participants will learn how to create a two-page InDesign brochure from scratch, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Link sent after registration.

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Tues. morning
      9/27/2022

    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.

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Thurs. afternoon
      9/29/2022
    • Digital Computer Lab 1304 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL Rm L410 (lower level)

    In this 2 hr workshop, participants will learn how to create and work with Access tables. We will create a table using application parts and also from scratch.  We will create a primary key and start entering data. We will work with fields in a table from adding, deleting, re-arranging to setting field properties. Finish up using lookup fields and calculated fields

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Thur afternoon
      9/29/2022

    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.

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Fri. morning
      9/30/2022
    • Digital Computer Lab 1304 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL Rm L410 (lower level)

    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.