2020 starts a new decade and new year for IT training

Find out what’s new in Jamf Pro, Web Accessibility, G Suite, WordPress, and more! Upcoming OIT training sessions include:

  • Google Calendar: Advanced Productivity will be offered on Thursday, Jan. 16 and Tuesday, Feb. 11 from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. This workshop will focus on the calendar interface, event details and calendar management. Specific features will include event attachments, maps and directions, sharing and embedding calendars, search options, and scheduling Hangouts video conferencing. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Cisco Jabber: Your All-In-One Collaboration Tool! will be offered on Thursday, Jan. 16 and Feb. 13 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.
  • Basics of WordPress will be offered on Tuesday, Jan. 21 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. This workshop will cover topics including setup, configuration, themes, plugins, settings, options, and management of WordPress. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Google Docs: More Than a Text Editor will be offered on Wednesday, Jan. 22 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in Room 110 in 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
  • Google Drive: Create, Collaborate & Get Organized will be offered on Thursday, Jan. 23 from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. During this 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 WebEx will be offered on Thursday, Jan. 23 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 course will specifically cover WolfMeeting, NC State’s WebEx solution. To register, visit REPORTER
  • Report2Web Training will be offered on Thursday, Jan. 23 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 allows you to access critical business documents. This course will show you how to navigate and use Report2Web to find reports for which you have access. Approvers will also learn how to approve reports. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • What’s new with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) will be offered on Friday, Jan. 24 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 106 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. Learn about the additional 17 success criteria in WCAG 2.1 and how they can make your web pages more accessible for people with low vision and cognitive and learning disabilities and more accessible on mobile devices. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Gmail Level 2: Advanced Productivity will be offered on Wednesday, Jan. 29 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
  • Google Sheets will be offered on Tuesday, Feb. 4 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. Join us for this introduction to Google Sheets and learn how it integrates with other apps in Google Drive. We’ll focus on specific features, including formatting options, data validation, basic functions, charts, and conditional formatting. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Gmail Level 1: More Than Your Inbox will be offered on Tuesday, Jan. 14 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 labels and search tools, contacts management, chat, tasks, settings, labs, and new features. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Managing Apple Devices with Jamf Pro will be offered on Thursday, Feb. 12 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room B3 of the Hillsborough Building. This class will cover best practices for Jamf Pro deployment at NC State for Apple devices running macOS, iOS and tvOS. Topics include management of devices for individuals, BYOD and appliance devices; web enrollment of new devices; initial setup; and self service. To register, visit REPORTER.
  • Introduction to Google Sites will be offered on Thursday, Feb.13 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in Room 110 of the Avent Ferry Technology Center. Explore the new user-friendly interface of Google Sites with drag and drop functionality. You will learn how to build a new site; create and organize new pages; choose themes for color schemes and font styles; embed Google Drive folders and files; add images, videos and URLs; implement customization and basic web design principles; set permissions; and publish and update pages. 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

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