OIT announces summer training schedule

OIT is offering a variety of free summer workshops that will help you update your technology skills. Don’t miss out on these exciting learning opportunities. Enroll via REPORTER.

  • Gmail: Advanced Productivity will be offered on Thursday, May 16 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.
  • Create, Collaborate & Get Organized with Google Drive will be offered on Wednesday, May 29 from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. During this introductory hands-on workshop, you will learn how to use Drive to manage your resources in a collaborative environment. Primary topics will include organizing files and folders, securing documents through file sharing permissions, group editing and collaboration, and common tools throughout Google’s suite of apps. A brief introduction to Team Drives will also be provided. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Cisco Jabber: Your All-In-One Collaboration Tool! will be offered on Thursday, May 30  from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. This Lunch & Learn 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 in one client on your desktop and mobile device. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Gmail: More Than Your Inbox will be offered on Tuesday, June 4 from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. There is more to Gmail than just composing, replying to and forwarding messages. This workshop will provide an in-depth overview of Gmail features, including an emphasis on labels and search tools, contacts management, chat, tasks, settings, labs, and new features. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Google Docs: More Than a Text Editor will be offered on Thursday, June 6 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. This powerful word processor provides tools to create and format documents while collaborating with others in the cloud. Topics covered in this session include revision history, the explore tool, inserting and editing images, collaboration tools, downloading, importing and publishing to the web, add-ons and extensions, offline access, and more! To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Cisco WebEx: Online Meetings from Anywhere, any Device will be offered on Thursday, June 6 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. This workshop will specifically cover WolfMeeting, the campus WebEx solution. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Google Calendar: Advanced Productivity will be offered on Wednesday, June 12 from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. This workshop will focus on the new calendar interface, event details and calendar management. Specific features will include event attachments, maps and directions, sharing and embedding calendars, search options, scheduling Hangouts (video conferencing), and more. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Google Slides: Advanced Presenter Tools will be offered online via YouTube Live on Thursday, June 13 from noon to 1 p.m. In this session, you’ll learn how to add a little extra pizzazz to your presentations with some advanced presenter features in Slides. We’ll also cover some ways Google helps you to build exciting slide shows and tools you can use while you’re giving your presentation. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Report2Web Training will be offered on Tuesday, June 18 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. This course is intended for new and current users of Report2Web, a Web-based enterprise report distribution, archival and retrieval solution that provides access to critical business documents via a standard Web browser. In this course, you will learn how to navigate and use the application to find the reports for which you have access. If you are an approver, you will also learn how to approve reports. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • System Access Request Training (SAR) is now offered online. This training will provide an overview of the SAR application for campus requesters and approvers and will demonstrate how to submit a SAR request for different connected systems. You are encouraged to review the SAR website for additional information before registering. To register, visit REPORTER.

For a complete list of technology training opportunities, visit REPORTER.

For custom training, complete the Custom Training form and a technology trainer will contact you to discuss options to meet your business needs.