UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog

May 2005 ITDE Training News

Listings of hands-on instructor-led courses available to UNHCE staff are listed in this month’s newsletter.

Read on!

FREE VideoConferencing In-service

A new training offering on Videoconferencing is available to UNHCE staff

Dave Foote will be offering an in-service entitled Videoconferencing 201: Enhancing Your Videoconference with Tools and Teaching Techniques. Thee date is yet to be determined, but will likely be in May or June.

For further information, contact Dave Foote.

The following training opportunities are available in the next two months.

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.

FREE sessions

CIS is offering the following sessions free for UNHCE employees.

• Introduction to Video Editing – May 13 th
  
• What’s New with Windows XP – May 26th

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.

• Adobe Acrobat
• Access
• Dreamweaver
• Excel
• PhotoShop*
• PowerPoint

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

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

II. UNH Division of ContinuingEducation is offering in-service training opportunities in the following topic in the next two months.

• PowerPoint

Note that all UNH status employees are eligible for a tuition waiver on credit classes, and to a reduction (50% discount) on non-credit classes offered through the university system, which includes DCE. See the Human Resources website at: http://www.usnhhr.unh.edu/benefits/tuition-waiver.html for more information.

For further information on DCE classes, consult their web site at: http://www.learn.unh.edu/pcw/index.php

III. 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.

The state is offering classes in the following topics during the next 2 months.

• Access* - various levels
• Excel* - various levels & special topics
• Word

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.)

Note – The state also offers a multitude of courses in other areas such as Effective management, strategic planning, supervisory techniques (certificate program), communication and writing skills, conflict resolution, grant writing, learning styles, and Myers-Briggs, to name a few.  

CBT and Training Resources Guide

Training Resource Listings

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

• Computer Based Training (CBT) - 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

• New online tutorial section offered by ITDE

New tutorials are available on our ITDE website. You can view step-by-step demos showing techniques for accomplishing a variety of computer-related processes.

Topics include using various applications as well as general and Windows topics. Each demo is accompanied by documentation, so you can print out directions to do them on your own.

To access this new area, go to: http://cecf1.unh.edu/tutorials/index.cfm

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