Training and learning resources

Courses that we run

Staff courses

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  • Using and designing Access databases
  • Accessing the DataHub using ODBC
  • Converting to Microsoft Excel 2007: What's changed?
  • Creative image manipulation using Photoshop
  • Converting to Microsoft PowerPoint 2007: What's changed?
  • Converting to Microsoft Word 2007: What's changed?
  • Planning a departmental website
  • EndNote basics
  • Forms in Word
  • Getting started with Oracle Calendar
  • Getting started with PCs
  • Converting to Microsoft Office 2007: Getting started
  • Getting started with Excel
  • Creating labels using Word, Access or Excel
  • Maintaining a departmental Web site within the CMS
  • Making the most of email
  • Optical Mark Reader
  • Getting started with Publisher
  • Planning your database
  • Promoting your website
  • Scanning and optimising images using Photoshop
  • Getting started with PowerPoint
  • Getting started with the SPSS statistics package
  • Sending vacation messages and redirecting email
  • Getting started with Word
  • Introduction to web page creation in XHTML
  • Writing for the web
  • Maintaining a University template based Zope website using Edit-on-Pro
  • Access buttons and macros
  • Further Calendar
  • Further PowerPoint
  • Further web design: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Word for theses
  • Further Excel
  • Further Word
  • Access SQL
  • Advanced Excel: Introduction to macros
  • Mail merge with Word
  • PowerPoint for academic posters
  • Web accessibilty and why it matters
  • BORIS for Departmental Staff
  • fEC - Project Costing Tool
  • IRIS for departmental staff
  • PIMS for Departmental Administration
  • PIMS for general enquirers
  • PIMS - Staff snapshot
  • Getting more from PIMS Snapsht using Excel

Student courses

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  • Basic web authoring
  • Preparing images using Photoshop
  • Getting started with University email
  • EndNote basics
  • Excel level 1: Getting started
  • Getting started with Windows and word processing
  • PowerPoint level 1: Getting started
  • Self-paced learning in Email, Word, Excel or PowerPoint
  • Word level 1: Getting started
  • Excel level 2: Making more of Excel
  • Further web design: Cascading Style Sheets
  • PowerPoint level 2: Making more of PowerPoint
  • Word level 2: Assignments
  • PowerPoint for academic posters
  • Word level 3: Dissertations

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