IT - The 糖心原创

Information Technology and Business Systems

Learning and Development offers a wide range of instructor-led and eLearning based IT training courses. These have been designed to support and enhance the use of IT in a wide variety of University roles.

Use the information below to help you select the most appropriate development opportunity for your specific role.

New to computing or lacking confidence?

Our training courses all assume a prior knowledge of Microsoft Windows and the basic functions of a PC. You will find it hard to keep up without these skills so we have put in place some ways to help:

Work online using training materials that we have identified will be useful preparation for our courses.

Book on to a half-day Supported IT Self-糖心原创 course – you will be helped to work on your own using training materials that are suitable for your method of learning such as manuals, on-line interactive videos, demonstration, etc.

Microsoft365 - Using cloud based Apps

Course Title	What's it about?	Who can attend?
	Learn how to work with information in the cloud via OneDrive to help collaboration with individuals and groups. Use OneNote to make and store notes. Learn how to work with Microsoft Teams and understand how it can help you to collaborate with others This course will show you the potential of OneNote to collect and organise different types of information.	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students Staff & Research Postgraduate Students Staff & Research Postgraduate Students
	Learn how to work with Outlook email and calendar via the web apps	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students

Course Title

What's it about?

Who can attend?

Learn how to work with information in the cloud via OneDrive to help collaboration with individuals and groups. Use OneNote to make and store notes.

Learn how to work with Microsoft Teams and understand how it can help you to collaborate with others

This course will show you the potential of OneNote to collect and organise different types of information.

Staff & Research Postgraduate Students

Learn how to work with Outlook email and calendar via the web apps

Staff & Research Postgraduate Students

Using the full version of the Microsoft Office suite

Microsoft Word

Course Title	What's it about?	Who can attend?
	So you think you know everything there is about creating a Word document - well, you might want to think again!	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students
	Use features that automate formatting and reuse content using AutoText and Control Fields.	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students
	Creating a structure for longer document to aid automation, e.g. table of contents, page and section numbering, captions and references.	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students
	Sharing and protecting your documents; track changes; compare and combine; using writing tools including uploading a technical dictionary.	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students

Microsoft Excel

Course Title	What's it about?	Who can attend?
	In this course, you will learn the importance of producing spreadsheets that are structured and formatted correctly.	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students
	In this course, you will learn how to create Formulas (*manually created) and Functions (pre-defined formula that performs calculations using specific vales in a particular order*).	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students
	Create more advanced functions and features that will enable you to search, match and pre-populate your data	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students
	Use a variety of functions to analyse your data effectively!	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students
	In this course you will learn how to use the most appropriate chart type to present your data in a way that really engages your audience.	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students

Microsoft PowerPoint

Course Title	What's it about?	Who can attend?
	In this course, you will learn how to produce slideshow presentations that have visually compelling designs, standardised structure, and consistent formatting.	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students
	In this course, you will learn how to enhance your slideshow presentations by working with a variety of features to produce slideshow presentations that have even more visually compelling designs and utlise a variety of multimedia sources.	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students
	Do you need to know how to produce a poster for your research as part of a conference? Not really sure how to set the poster size, create a banner heading, or size and position the University logo correctly, etc? If so, then this course is definitely for you!	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students

Microsoft Outlook

Course Title	What's it about?	Who can attend?
	An introduction to email	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students
	Using Outlook to share information with other people or groups of people	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students

Database Design

Course Title	What's it about?	Who can attend?
	Understanding the concepts and structure of a database. Please note participants will NOT be using a computer on this course.	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students

Microsoft Access

Course Title	What's it about?	Who can attend?
	An introduction to creating databases	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students

	Producing more complex queries to retrieve data and reports to present data	Staff & Research Postgraduate Students

Web

Course Title	What's it about?	Who can attend?
	Create and edit content which is intended for people external to the University.	Staff
	Create and edit content which is intended for people within the University.	Staff

Business Systems

Campus Solutions

Course Title	What's it about?	Who can attend?
	Be able to: log in and navigate the system menu, use common features such as favourites and searching for data, understand Campus Solutions terminology, explore student records, Understand where to see personal, academic and financial information (including comments and documents), Understand the basics of curriculum data and how to view Plan, Course and Class roster information and Know how to find supporting documentation Be able to define an aid year and understand how this is used in Campus Solutions, Be able to check if a student has been aid year activated and financial aid term built, Find an item type, Look up and select an appropriate disbursement schedule, Assign, amend, and cancel an award for a student, Troubleshoot common problems	Staff Staff
	Maintain PGR student records with changes to the program/plan stack, candidate management, and milestones screensCreate and maintain the supervisor and examiner relationshipsUpdate student records as they enter Thesis Pending and go through the submission and evaluation processMaintain the EMS Evaluation Management SystemManage corrections and submissionsComplete and graduate students once thesis has been accepted.	Staff

Course Title

What's it about?

Who can attend?

Be able to: log in and navigate the system menu, use common features such as favourites and searching for data, understand Campus Solutions terminology, explore student records, Understand where to see personal, academic and financial information (including comments and documents), Understand the basics of curriculum data and how to view Plan, Course and Class roster information and Know how to find supporting documentation

Be able to define an aid year and understand how this is used in Campus Solutions, Be able to check if a student has been aid year activated and financial aid term built, Find an item type, Look up and select an appropriate disbursement schedule, Assign, amend, and cancel an award for a student, Troubleshoot common problems

Staff

Maintain PGR student records with changes to the program/plan stack, candidate management, and milestones screensCreate and maintain the supervisor and examiner relationshipsUpdate student records as they enter Thesis Pending and go through the submission and evaluation processMaintain the EMS Evaluation Management SystemManage corrections and submissionsComplete and graduate students once thesis has been accepted.