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Academic Computing and User Services Short Courses
2008 Summer Short Course Offerings
Short Courses
schedules are being decided for the summer. Check below to see the sorts or
classes that will likely be offered. If you have a group that needs a
specific class, it may be possible to arrange a class just for your
group. See
"Customized Short Courses" below for further information. To skip directly to the
current short course offerings, click
here.
Registration
Please pre-register to
attend. Please call or send mail to Claudia Lynch (940-565-4068,
lynch@unt.edu ) indicating what
classes you would like to attend.
Eligibility and
Class Size
Faculty and students
have first priority to register for these classes. A maximum of 15
people will be admitted to each of the courses held in ISB 203.
Academic Computing Services reserves the right to cancel any course that
has 5 or fewer people registered 3 days before the course is scheduled.
Hands-on Classes
Course participation may require use of your EUID and password. If
you don't know your EUID and/or you haven't set your password, visit
http://ams.unt.edu/ .
Customized Short Courses
Faculty 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 Members
In 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, and the Center for
Distributed Learning. Additionally,
the Center for Continuing
Education and Conference Management offers a variety of courses,
usually for a small fee.
EIS training is available.
Questions or comments relating to EIS training should be sent to the
EISTRN GroupWise account.
Moving from GroupWise to Microsoft Outlook Training
The GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange Migration is
progressing well and (as of 4/16/08) 3,187 accounts have been migrated. A useful
place for
finding resources to prepare for this transition can be
found here.
Central Web Support
Consult Central Web Support for assistance in
acquiring “Internet services and support.” As described on their
website:
- Services include allocating and
assisting departments, campus organizations and faculty with web space
and associated applications. Additionally, CWS assists web developers
with databases and associated web applications, troubleshooting
problems, support and service.
- In addition the Central Web Support
office provides training to faculty and staff for web development.
Training courses that are offered include Dreamweaver, Fireworks,
Integrating Dreamweaver and Fireworks, ColdFusion, Zope and SQL.
- In an effort to provide the services
that the UNT Web Development [requires] our staff will continually add
additional courses to fit the needs of our faculty, staff and students.
Center for Distributed Learning
The Center for Distributed Learning offers courses especially for
Faculty Members. A list of topics and further information can be found
here.
The center also offers a "Brown Bag" series which meets for lunch the
first Thursday of each month at Noon in Chilton 245. 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.
Information Security Awareness
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Wednesday, April 23 2-3:30 p.m. ESSC Room 152
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Wednesday, May 21 2-3:30 p.m. ESSC Room 152
The UNT Information Security team is currently offering Information
Security Awareness courses to all UNT faculty and staff. Topics to be
covered will include workstation security, sensitive data handling,
copyright infringement issues, identity theft, email security, and more.
For more information, or if you would like to request a customized
course to be taught for your department, contact Gabe Marshall at x4062,
or at security@unt.edu.
UNT Mini-Courses
There 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.unt.edu/minicourses/
Alternate Forms of Training
Many of the General Access Labs around campus have
tutorials installed on their computers. See
http://www.gal.unt.edu/ for a list
of labs and their locations. The Willis Library, for example, has a
list of Tutorials and Software Support.
The Training Website has
all sorts of information about alternate forms of training. Computer
Based Training (CBT) and Web-based training are some of the alternatives
offered.
For further information on CBT at UNT, see the CBT
website. For further information on CBT at UNT, see the CBT website. Note,
also, some Benchmarks Online articles that have been published in
the recent past:
State of Texas Department of
Information Resources
Another possible source of training for staff and, perhaps,
faculty members is the Texas Department of Information Resources. A look at
their Education and Training
website reveals
some interesting possibilities. For example, under
Conferences,
Briefings, and Events is a "Microsoft Training Series" described as "free
training classes ... delivered by Microsoft and hosted by DIR as part of the
Technology Today Series (TTS)."
Statistical
Package/Research Courses
(1) Introduction to SPSS Programming
-- This is a BEGINNING
COURSE that familiarizes users with basic techniques in SPSS for
simple data processing tasks and is a starting point for those who want
to use SPSS as their primary tool for data analysis and data management.
No prior experience with SPSS is assumed, but it is preferable to
have background knowledge in file structures and system commands
commonly used by most operating systems.
One three-hour session, held in the SLIS Computer
Classroom (ISB 203):
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Date |
Time |
Instructor |
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Wednesday, February 6
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2-5 p.m. |
Mike Clark |
(2) Intermediate SPSS -- Second in the SPSS series, this course
builds on the concepts presented in the Introduction to SPSS Programming
Course with emphasis on using SPSS under different operating systems and
environments. It covers the typical SPSS procedures, advantages of
running SPSS in different interface systems, and SPSS programming
skills. Before taking this course, students should take or understand
the concepts covered in "Introduction to SPSS Programming."
One three-hour
session, held in the SLIS Computer Classroom (ISB 203):
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Date |
Time |
Instructor |
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Wednesday, February 13
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2-5 p.m. |
Mike Clark |
(3) Introduction to SAS Programming
-- This is a foundation course that introduces the basic programming
techniques for using SAS to accomplish typical data processing tasks.
This course is a starting point for those who want to use SAS as their
primary research tool. No prior programming knowledge is required
but it is preferable to have background knowledge in file structures and
system commands on one of the following operating systems: DOS, Windows,
or UNIX.
One three-hour session, held in the SLIS Computer
Classroom (ISB 203):
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Date |
Time |
Instructor |
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Friday, February 8 |
2-5 p.m. |
Patrick McLeod |
(4) Intermediate SAS -- Second in the SAS
series, this course builds on the concepts presented in the
"Introduction to SAS Programming" course with emphasis on running SAS
under different operating systems and environments. Before taking
this course, students should take or understand the concepts covered in
"Introduction to SAS Programming.”
One three-hour session, held in the SLIS Computer
Classroom (ISB 203):
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Date |
Time |
Instructor |
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Friday, February 15 |
2-5 p.m. |
Patrick McLeod |
(5) Introduction to Stata -- This is a
foundation course that introduces the basic user interface techniques
for using Stata 8 to accomplish typical data processing tasks. Emphasis
will be placed on utilizing Stata 8's GUI interface and the Stata
command box. This course is a starting point for those who want to use
Stata as their primary research tool. No prior programming
knowledge is required but it is preferable to have background knowledge
in file structures and system commands on one of the following operating
systems: DOS and/or Windows.
One three-hour session, held in the SLIS Computer
Classroom (ISB 203):
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Date |
Time |
Instructor |
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Friday, February 22 |
2-5 p.m. |
Patrick McLeod |
(6) Intermediate Stata -- This course is
designed for experienced Stata users who want to apply Stata programming
skills to their research projects and data analyses or those who have
specific questions about Stata functions. Before selecting this course,
students should complete the "Introduction to Stata" or have previous
experience with Stata. Applicants are encouraged to bring their
own data sets, although sample data will be provided.
One three-hour session, held in the SLIS Computer
Classroom (ISB 203):
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Date |
Time |
Instructor |
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Friday, February 29 |
2-5 p.m. |
Patrick McLeod |
(7) New Technologies for Survey Research
-- This course aims to introduce researchers to new technologies for
conducting and administering surveys. This course will focus on creating
Web surveys using UNT's Zope Web application server and HTML surveys.
Topics will cover good survey construction design practices and
appropriate analysis methods for survey data.
One two-hour session, held in the SLIS Computer
Classroom (ISB 203):
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Date |
Time |
Instructor |
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Tuesday, February 19 |
2-4 p.m. |
Rich Herrington |
(8) Introduction to R & S-Plus
-- This is a foundation course that introduces the basic programming
techniques for using R & S-Plus to accomplish typical data processing
tasks. This course is a starting point for those who want to use R &
S-Plus as their primary research tool. No prior programming knowledge is
required but it is preferable to have some experience using one of the
following operating systems: Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows
XP, Unix/Linux or MacOS.
One
two-hour session, held in the SLIS
Computer Classroom (ISB 203):
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Date |
Time |
Instructor |
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Tuesday, February 26
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2-4 p.m. |
Rich Herrington |
Wide Area Network & Information Systems Courses
Due to staffing and organizational changes, instructor-led courses
offered in the past under the "Wide Area Network & Information Systems
Courses" subheading such as "Getting Started with Dreamweaver" and
"Moving from FrontPage to Dreamweaver" Are not currently being
taught. Central Web Support hosts a
tutorials page
with some information on "Getting Started with Dreamweaver."
Please Note: The University of North Texas will never
ask for personal information by e-mail. If you receive an
e-mail purporting to be from the University that asks for
personal information or account passwords, do not respond.
If there is any question regarding the authenticity of an
email, please contact UNT Information Security at (940)
369-7800.
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