Training and learning resources

Courses that we run

Staff courses

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  • Using and designing Access databases
  • Introduction to the DataHub
  • EndNote desktop: Getting started
  • Calendar: Getting started
  • Excel level 1: Getting started
  • Maintaining a University website within the CMS
  • Optical Mark Reader
  • Planning your database
  • Making your online presence stand out
  • Access: An introduction
  • Capturing and optimising digital images for research
  • PowerPoint level 1: Getting started
  • SPSS statistics package: Getting started
  • Word level 1: Getting started
  • Writing effective and accessible web content
  • Access buttons and macros
  • PowerPoint level 2: Making more of Powerpoint
  • Word level 3: Word for theses
  • Excel level 2: Making more of Excel
  • Access SQL
  • PowerPoint: Creating academic posters
  • Planning and designing a user-centred website
  • fEC - Project Costing Tool
  • IRIS for departmental staff
  • Setting up and managing a website using the University CMS
  • PIMS for general enquirers
  • Proactis: Requisitions
  • PIMS - Staff snapshot
  • SPSS statistics package: Getting started
  • Getting more from PIMS Snapshot using Excel
  • Proactis: Expenses
  • Social web: Media sharing and social bookmarking
  • Social web: Social networking
  • Social web: Blogging and micro-blogging
  • Social web: Collaborative writing

Student courses

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  • Excel level 1: Getting started
  • Excel level 2: Making more of Excel
  • Excel level 3: Making the most of Excel
  • Excel: Working with Charts
  • Self-paced learning in Word, Excel or PowerPoint
  • Word level 1: Getting started
  • Word level 2: Making more of Word
  • Word level 3: Dissertations
  • PowerPoint level 1: Getting started
  • PowerPoint level 2: Making more of PowerPoint/li>

Making information and IT work for you

We provide learning opportunities to help you develop the IT and information literacy skills that you need for doing your job, studying and your personal development.

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Staff Development :

  • IT Training (including University systems, Technology in teaching and learning and Student information systems)

Please note that training in High Performance Computing can be booked directly with the provider.

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