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OIT offers free IT training

By Rhonda Greene

Summer is just a few days away and while you may be preparing for a vacation, plan to spend some time learning a new skill for free!

We are offering a variety of free in-person and online workshops through August via REPORTER. In fact all of our training courses are free everyday.

If you find that a course is full or you are unable to attend on the scheduled date, click Add to Watchlist to be notified of upcoming sessions. For more information about customized training for your department, unit or classroom, see Custom Training.

Summer lineup

  • Google Calendar will be offered on Wednesday, June 14 from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. This workshop will focus on three main sections: calendar (my calendar, other calendars, mini calendar), event details, and calendar management. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Two-Factor Authentication at NC State will be offered on Thursday, June 15 and Wednesday, June 28 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. NC State uses two multi-factor solutions to protect many systems, accounts and services. Google 2-Step protects G Suite accounts, and Duo protects Shibboleth-connected services, like the MyPack Portal and WolfWare. Bring your laptop and mobile device to this class to set up these multi-factor solutions. In addition, you’ll learn the risks to you and to campus from phishing and other nefarious online activities and how two-factor authentication can protect you and the university against cyber threats. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Gmail: Advanced Productivity will be offered on Tuesday, June 20 from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. Building on Gmail: More Than Your Inbox, this advanced hands-on workshop takes Gmail to the next level. You will learn more about labels, filters, canned responses, scheduling Google Calendar Events, Hangouts, and using Google Drive through Gmail, along with any planned or newly released features. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Cisco Jabber: Your all in one Collaboration Tool! will be offered on Tuesday, June 20 from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. This Lunch and Learn event will provide an overview of how Cisco Jabber streamlines communications and enhances productivity by unifying presence, instant messaging, voice, video, voice messaging, screen sharing, and conferencing capabilities securely into one client on your desktop and mobile device. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Basics of WordPress will be offered on Wednesday, June 21 from 10 a.m. to noon in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. Learn everything you need to know to get started using WordPress at NC State. Topics will include setup, configuration, themes, plugins, settings, options, and WordPress management. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Google Forms will be offered on Thursday, June 22 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. This workshop will cover the basics of creating forms, collaborative editing, and viewing data in spreadsheets. It will also introduce several advanced features such as custom themes, page breaks, question validation, and embedding forms in websites. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Cisco WebEx will be offered on Tuesday, June 27 from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. This Lunch & Learn event will provide an overview of how Cisco WebEx Online Meetings enables you to virtually meet, share content and video conference with anyone in the world with an internet connection, including mobile users! To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Google Keep YTL (YouTube Live) will be offered on Wednesday, June 28 from noon to 1 p.m. This online Lunch & Learn event will provide a brief introduction to the newest core G Suite app and demonstrate how easy it is to use Keep to record your ideas, collaborate with others and organize notes with color coding, labels and reminders. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Google Slides: Create, Collaborate and Publish Presentations will be offered on Thursday, June 29 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. Learn how to create presentations using Google Slides. This session will focus on creating, editing, sharing and collaboration, themes, transitions, animations, and more! To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Introduction to the New Google Sites will be offered on Tuesday, July 11 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in Room 110 of Avent Ferry Technology Center. Explore the new user-friendly interface with drag and drop functionality. You will build a new site while learning how to create and organize new pages, choose themes, embed Google Drive folders and files, add images, videos and urls, set permissions, publish, and much more!  To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Introduction to Google Hangouts will be offered on Thursday, July 13 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. Attend this fun and interactive workshop to learn about Google Hangouts, a free web conferencing tool that allows you to communicate with others on campus or around the globe via video, audio and text messaging. To register, visit REPORTER.