Short CoursesBy Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Online EditorThe Spring Short Courses are here! There is still time to take classes in S-Plus, SAS, SPSS, New Technologies for Survey Research, FrontPage 2000, SQL, ColdFusion and Dreamweaver MX. Please consult the Short Courses page to see the course schedules and to register for the classes of your choice. Customized Short CoursesFaculty members can request customized short courses from ACS, geared to their class needs. Other groups can request special courses also. Contact ACS for more information (ISB 119, 565-4068, lynch@unt.edu). Especially for Faculty and Staff MembersIn addition to the ACS Short Courses, which are available to students, faculty and staff, staff and faculty members can take courses offered through the Human Resources Department, the Center for Distributed Learning, and the UNT Libraries' Multimedia Development Lab. Additionally, the Center for Continuing Education and Conference Management offers a variety of courses to both UNT and the general community, usually for a small fee. GroupWise TrainingGroupWise 6 classes for the spring semester are about to begin. Class descriptions can be found here. Following is the schedule for 2003:
You may now register online by clicking here or by clicking "register" from the top of the class description page. You can still register by phone by contacting Melanie Betterson in Human Resources at x4246. If would like to have a Basic GroupWise seminar for your area, please contact Jason Gutierrez, Campus Wide Networks, jasong@unt.edu . ProDirections Instructor-led TrainingUNT has formed a partnership with ProDirections to
offer instructor-led computer training on Microsoft Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. Classes are $99+$42 for
the book. Classes in a series (3 classes in the same
series) are $99 for each class and the book is free. The
Excel Series includes Basic Excel, Advanced Excel-part 1,
and Advanced Excel-part 2. The Access Series includes
Basic Access, Intermediate For a description of each class please go to http://www.prodirections.com/ and click on "Corporate Workshops" Center for Distributed LearningThe Center for Distributed Learning offers courses especially for Faculty Members. A list of topics and further information can be found at http://www.unt.edu/cdl/training_events/index.htm The center also offers a "Brown Bag" series which meets for lunch the first Thursday of each month at Noon in ISB 204. The purpose of this group is to bring faculty members together to share their experiences with distributed learning. One demonstration will be made at each meeting by a faculty member with experience in distributed learning. More information on these activities can be found at the Center for Distributed Learning Website. Technical TrainingTechnical Training for campus network managers is available, from time to time, through the Campus-Wide Networks division of the Computing Center. Check the CWN site to see if and when they are offering any training. UNT Mini-CoursesThese are a variety of courses offered, for a fee, to UNT faculty, staff and students as well as the general public. For additional information surf over to http://www.pware.com/index.cfm . Alternate Forms of TrainingMany of the General Access Labs around campus have tutorials installed on their computers. For example, the College of Education recently acquired some Macromedia Tutorials for Dreamweaver 4.0, Flash 5.0 and Fireworks 4.0. The Training Web site has all sorts of information about alternate forms of training. Training tapes, Computer Based Training (CBT) and Web-based training are some of the alternatives offered. Of particular interest are courses available via SmartForce (formerly CBT Systems). See http://www.unt.edu/smartforce/ for more information. There are also handouts for computer training on the following topics:
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Use the Internet to search for answers to Microsoft Office problems. See http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/filters/office/ December 1999's "List of the Month" offers links to free Microsoft Word and Excel information also. |