University Information Services - Digital Literacy Skills course timetable

Would you like to:

• do more things, do them faster and more efficiently in Word?
• gain a certificate in your Word skills to prove what you can achieve?

This instructor led fee based course concentrates on the topics listed below to produce professional documents such as letters, forms and newsletters.

It prepares you for the internationally recognised Microsoft Office Specialist Word 2013 Exam 77-418. It isn't compulsory to sit the exam if you attend the course, but it is advisable and you will be pleased to gain a new qualification that reflects your expertise. The last three sessions of the course are dedicated to revision and the exam, it isn't compulsory to sit the exam but it is advisable and you will be pleased to gain a new qualification that reflects your expertise.

Should you wish to follow a more advanced course in Word leading to a qualification, we also offer Microsoft Office Specialist: Word Expert 2013 (Exam 77-425) and Microsoft Office Specialist: Word Expert 2013 (Exam 77-426) .

Word 2013 is part of the Microsoft Office certification

The clinic session for people to come to with any queries and they will receive hands-on advice. The instructor will email the participants before the course to collate your queries.

This short session will provide an understanding of the principles, tools and techniques involved in Process Analysis with a view to improving business process effectiveness and efficiency. Delegates will have the opportunity to practice using the techniques that they learn via exercises designed to be enjoyable and thought provoking.

The course refers to the methodology used in conjunction with Triaster process mapping software available to users across the University of Cambridge.

This follows on from the Web Authoring: HTML Introduction (Level 1) and is a practical-based course.

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, similar to the S language.

This course is for beginners and fairly new users of the package. Basic concepts and use of R will be introduced. The main aim of the course is to give participants a foundation and some background. However statistical techniques are not covered (see note below).

The course provides an overview of the R environment, and covers getting data into R, as well as reporting, graphing and analyses using R.

Mendeley is a free, open source reference management program. It was originally primarily intended as a way to manage collections of PDF documents and this is still its main strength in comparison with other tools such as EndNote and Zotero.

Mendeley can be used to insert reference citations and a bibliography of cited references into Word and Open Office documents and may be of interest to anyone wanting a free reference management program which will create BibTeX citation keys and paste them into a LaTeX document.

This is a basic introductory course and probably will not be very useful to those who are already using the program and who have specific queries about the way it works.

Users who need help with more advanced features can request individual help via the UIS service desk email: service-desk@uis.cam.ac.uk

Microsoft Excel is the chosen spreadsheet package as it is a popular choice, both on Macintosh and PC. This is an instructor-led course for absolute beginners. There is a self-paced Excel Beginners course for those who prefer to learn at their own pace.

An introduction to using the bibliography program EndNote to store references and notes and use them to achieve correct referencing in your documents without re-typing. This course covers both EndNote Desktop and the free, browser based, "lite" version, EndNote Online.

Using EndNote will enable you to keep a note of references as you research online so that you will always be able to document your sources correctly. It can save you time as you should never need to retype references and you can alter their layout with a couple of mouse-clicks.

This is the fourth module of the CCNA series, should you wish to book on the series please book on Module 1 Introduction to Networks.

This course discusses the WAN technologies and network services required by converged applications in a complex network. The course enables you to understand the selection criteria of network devices and WAN technologies to meet network requirements. You will learn how to configure and troubleshoot network devices and resolve common issues with data link protocols. You also develop the knowledge and skills needed to implement IPSec and virtual private network (VPN) operations in a complex network

InDesign is a desktop publishing package available for both Macs and PCs which is used to build up a publication from ready-prepared text, images and graphics in the same way as QuarkXpress and PageMaker. Participants use pre-written text and scanned-in pictures to assemble and produce a double-sided, two-column newsletter using InDesign.

Would you like to:

• do more things, do them faster and more efficiently in Word?
• gain a certificate in your Word skills to prove what you can achieve?

This instructor led fee based course concentrates on the topics listed below to produce professional documents such as letters, forms and newsletters.

It prepares you for the internationally recognised Microsoft Office Specialist Word 2013 Exam 77-418. It isn't compulsory to sit the exam if you attend the course, but it is advisable and you will be pleased to gain a new qualification that reflects your expertise. The last three sessions of the course are dedicated to revision and the exam, it isn't compulsory to sit the exam but it is advisable and you will be pleased to gain a new qualification that reflects your expertise.

Should you wish to follow a more advanced course in Word leading to a qualification, we also offer Microsoft Office Specialist: Word Expert 2013 (Exam 77-425) and Microsoft Office Specialist: Word Expert 2013 (Exam 77-426) .

Word 2013 is part of the Microsoft Office certification

A full day course for Computer Officers on the UIS password application and the skills they will need to use it. Major topics covered include:

• Computing Service policies regarding UIS accounts
• Privacy briefing covering the legal status of UIS accounts and your obligations to users
• Assertiveness training to assist you in dealing with problematic requests
• Demonstration of the new password application
• Online test

This course includes descriptions of the circumstances under which you may, and more importantly, may not give out account details (including password reset tokens). The examples and scenarios used are based on actual requests and incidents, and includes some content that could be distressing. This material is specifically included to ensure that Computer Officers are aware of the social engineering techniques that have been used in attempts to gain access to accounts, often under difficult and stressful circumstances. This is intended to assist you in developing the skills to deal appropriately with such situations if they occur within your own institution and forms an essential part of the course.

Successful completion of this course and the online exam is mandatory for Computer Officers wishing to have password resetting authority using the UIS password application for a range of University wide services including Hermes, Raven and the MCS.

Following on from the "Photoshop: Basic Techniques" course, this course covers some of the more advanced feature of Adobe Photoshop, the popular image manipulation and editing tool for graphics and design professionals. The course will explore some of the more advanced features of Photoshop. Techniques will be explained and demonstrated, and participants will then be given the opportunity to practice these for themselves.

This course is part of the Scientific Computing series and is suitable for people who have Python experience equivalent to either of the introductory courses: Introduction for Absolute Beginners or Introduction for Programmers

These sessions consist of a selection of self-paced mini-courses, each taking at most a half-day. Python expert(s) from the UCS will be present to answer questions or address difficulties with these. Attendees can select from the available topics to most closely meet their individual needs. Attendees are welcome to attend more than one session to work through multiple topics. If an attendee finishes a topic with time to spare they may select another, and so on.

This intro to Adobe® Connect software provides an ideal solution for virtual Meetings, Seminars, Interviews, Presentations and Instructor-led Courses and Training, enabling organisers to create, deliver, manage, support and track discussions and courses while providing an experience that can replicate much of the in-person experience. There are also options for additional collaboration via polls, quizzes, breakout rooms for larger and diverse groups, as well as flexible whiteboard and desktop sharing, lecture capture, one-way talks and webinars, and a range of add-ons and programmability to customise for specialised requirements.

Live and previously-recorded sessions can be accessed from virtually any device, from personal computers to mobile devices (including Android, Apple® iOS, and BlackBerry® PlayBook OS).

This intro to Adobe® Connect software provides an ideal solution for virtual Meetings, Seminars, Interviews, Presentations and Instructor-led Courses and Training, enabling organisers to create, deliver, manage, support and track discussions and courses while providing an experience that can replicate much of the in-person experience. There are also options for additional collaboration via polls, quizzes, breakout rooms for larger and diverse groups, as well as flexible whiteboard and desktop sharing, lecture capture, one-way talks and webinars, and a range of add-ons and programmability to customise for specialised requirements.

Live and previously-recorded sessions can be accessed from virtually any device, from personal computers to mobile devices (including Android, Apple® iOS, and BlackBerry® PlayBook OS).

This is an introduction to the popular database package Microsoft Access 2013. The course is aimed at those who have never used the package before or have just started using it. There is an Access Fast Track course that is a shortened version of this course for those who learn at a faster pace.

Matlab is a software package for numerical computation with high quality graphics facilities. This course is for beginners and new users of the package and describes basic concepts and use of Matlab, but not any other optional 'Toolboxes' available from the developers of Matlab.