UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog

Many opportunities for FREE training and professional development are offered through CIS and CLL in the next few months.

Sign up EARLY!

The following training opportunities are available from the vendors listed below on the following topics.

I. UNH CIS

Sign up early for CIS classes. Not only are the most popular classes oversubscribed early; CIS has begun to cancel classes which are under enrolled two weeks prior to the class date.

 CIS has changed some of their offerings. New courses being offered include:

• Adobe CS (Photoshop)
• Macromedia MX 2004 (Dreamweaver, Flash)
• MS Office 2003 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
• Dreamweaver Level 3
  
  

FREE offerings during August include:

• Computing @ UNH: Using Dreamweaver MX to Create Web Pages
• Computing @ UNH: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Using Photoshop to Create Wicked Cool Web Sites But Were Afraid to Ask

(As of the date of publication there were no free offerings listed for September. Check their website at: http://www.cistrainingcenter.unh.edu/ for updates.

 

Vendor-based Training

CIS has arranged with outside vendors to offer classes on a variety of topics for a nominal fee. The cost is typically $99 for a full day or two half-day sessions, or $198 for 2 days or 4 half-day sessions. That is less than half the cost of the training offered to the public.

Classes in the following topics will be offered in the next two months.

• Dreamweaver – 3 levels, plus a “What's New with Macromedia MX 2004” class
• PhotoShop
• Access Level 1
• PowerPoint – Level 1
• Transitioning to Excel 2003
• Transitioning to Word 2003

All Microsoft Office applications are taught using Office 2003. Dreamweaver is version MX 2004.

For further information or to register, please consult their web site at: http://www.cistrainingcenter.unh.edu/

II. TheState of New Hampshire offers classes “at cost” to all UNH employees. This is at considerable savings from what one would pay with an outside vendor.

Two NEW classes offered are:

• Basic PC Skills
• Research on the Internet

In addition, the state is currently offering classes in the following topics during the months of August and September.

• Access
• Acrobat
• Dreamweaver
• Excel
• Internet Explorer
• PowerPoint
• Windows
• Word

Topics are on a variety of levels, including special topics, such as a Word merge workshop.

Please consult their website for further information on the above listings.

To consult their website, go to:

http://www.nh.gov/hr/docs/ Then scroll down to the section on training and select the term for which you’d like information. (Note – The URL for the specific calendar changes each semester. If you bookmarked their site, you may want to replace it with the new URL listed above. Then follow the directions for scrolling to the appropriate term’s document.)

III. College for Lifelong Learning will be offering the following classes during September.

Seacoast Region – The following topic is offered at the Portsmouth facility in September. (Note: There are no classes offered in August.)

• Excel

A FREE computer workshop in PowerPoint will be offered:

• Tuesday, October 12 at the Bow site and
• Wednesday, October 13 at the Manchester site

Also of interest is a FREE course in Presentation Skills offered October 7 in the Littleton Center .

For further information and to register, consult their website at: http://www.cll. edu / .

CBT and Training Resources Guide

REVISED Training Resource Listings

The UNHCE Training Resources Guide (http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/vend_app.htm) has been revised. This guide contains information on training resources available in applications utilized by employees of UNHCE, including Microsoft Office, Adobe products (Acrobat, PageMaker, PhotoShop), as well as operating systems, and applications used by smaller audiences, such as DreamWeaver, Blue Ribbon YOUTH enrollment, or WordPerfect.

Included in this guide is a listing of Extension or University-owned Computer-based Training CD-ROMs (CBT), which can be used for free. UNHCE has a library of CBT (Training CD-ROMs) available from the ITDE office. The CDs are free to UNHCE staff, and can be borrowed for up to 2 weeks. CIS also has free CBT available to be used on campus.

This CBT can be used interactively, and allows you to receive information on just the topics where you desire training. For instance, you can select a topic such as “Creating/modifying headers and footers” in Word. It will show you how to do that step-by-step. You can repeat any sections as needed, and skip to other sections.

For further information on our CBT and a listing of the offerings, go to: http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/trcdtoc.pdf

To access the complete, newly-revised, Training Resources Guide, go to: http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/indextrg.htm