The Force is on the way ...

By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Online Editor

Dr. Hinkle-Turner is on vacation and is thus taking a break from her General Access Lab feature. As she mentioned in April, UNT has for several years offered extensive online training free-of-charge to students, faculty and staff. This training is provided by Smartforce (formerly CBT Systems), and is a Web-enabled catalog of courses featuring training in such topics as Cisco Desktop Protocol Design, Firewall Principles and Internet Security, JavaScript Language Basics, Oracle 8i and Microsoft Office 2000. For a list of courses that are currently available here at UNT, see: http://www.unt.edu/training/CBT.htm A printed list of courses is also available as a handout at the Computing Center Helpdesk in ISB 119.

The time-line for the Smartforce system being in full production has been pushed back to the end of June [please delete all links to cbt01.library.unt.edu if you haven't done so already]. Look for updates via the Web and E-mail about this valuable learning service. Any additional questions or comments about the Smartforce computer-based training system should be directed to ehinkle@unt.edu.

Fans of the Lab-of-the-Month can find an index with links to all the articles, so far, here:

http://www.unt.edu/benchmarks/archives/GeneralAccessLabs/Glabs.htm