OIT Support Center Training Course Descriptions

As course descriptions are compiled they will be added to this list.

Banner Navigation
This class is an introduction to Banner Navigation. It covers the basics of the interface, types of forms, navigation methods, and basic security. It is preparation for training in your functional area.

Blackboard
Introduction to Blackboard:
This class is for all Faculty, Teaching Assistants, and Staff who need to learn how to get a course onto Blackboard, including how to use the control panel, navigate, and add course content to their site. 
Communication Tools:
Desctiption pending
Gradebook and Assessments:
This class is for all Faculty, Teaching Assistants, and Staff who need to learn how to use the Gradebook features, and learn how to create online quizzes, tests and surveys in Blackboard.


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Dreamweaver MX 2004
Course Objectives: This session is designed to teach beginners how to use Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 to generate web pages. Specifics covered include:
• Creating a new site
• Learning a few of Dreamweaver’s MX 2004 tools
• Adding content to page
• Working with page properties
• Adding images
• Working with image properties
• Creating tables
• Creating links
• Managing your site
• Creating forms
• Adding User Interactivity
This is a quick-paced hands-on course. There are various exercises during the training. Students are encouraged to work along with the instructor during the presentation and will be given time during class to complete the exercises.
This class is offered in two parts, Level I and Level II. Each level has a total classroom time of six hours. There is a week between classes and students.

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EDIR

Brief:
This class is for all Student, Faculty, or Staff who need to update their contact information in the Enterprise Directory (EDIR). It covers initial login, self (password) reset, and editing your data. This class is required for Department Admin, Empl Admin, or phone book contacts prior to attending EDIR Admin.

Hands On:
This class is for all Department Admin, Empl ADmin, or Phone Book contacts responsible for updating records for departments. It covers the permissions you require and how to request them, and how to update records for your department. Prerequisit: EDIR Brief. 


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HTML
HTML Basics This course is for the novice but those with some skills will also benefit from attending. Materials covered include:

There are two labs in the three hour period. This is an intensive course. All the information you need to know in order to make great web pages is included.

HTML Advanced is the sister course to HTML Basics. Students continue learning how to 'hand-code' their HTML pages. This class is quick-paced: some materials will be provided that will not be covered in the class but are designed to be a reference for those who wish to learn more in a specific area. This course covers:

There are three labs in the three hour period. Depending upon time exercise three may be assigned as a 'take home'. This is a very full class and fast-paced class; breaks will be provided.


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Meeting Maker
Course Objectives: This session is designed to present beginning users with the necessary skills to use Meeting Maker, as well as the advanced user with the understanding of how statewide is making use of this product. Tips and tricks for using Meeting Maker to create meetings, track your own 'to dos,' use Banners, and more will be presented.

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Microsoft Access
Access I - Course Objective: This session is designed to introduce beginning users to Access, a relational database application. Session includes creating basic tables, forms and reports.

Access II - Course Objectives: This session will aid the new user in developing skills for using the more advanced features of Access. Session includes using operators in queries, manipulating controls and using design view.

Access III - Course Objective: This session provides even greater expert techniques and tools for the Access user. Session includes using charts, subforms and subreports; using activex controls, macros and switchboards; and replicating databases.

MS Excel

 

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Microsoft Power Point
Course Objectives: This session is designed to present beginning users with the necessary skills to use Power Point. Time saving tips and suggestions for quickly assembling a professional presentation will be delivered.

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QMenu
Course Objectives: This session is designed to present beginning users with the necessary skills to use QMenu. QMenu is an Oracle Web Application designed and developed for staff and faculty members to retrieve administrative information relating to student, human resources, and financal data.

This is a lecture and hand's-on course. Please come prepared to learn how to use QMenu to pull up and display common reports. You will need a userid and webcode to access this application. Requests for access go to your local security coordinator. If you do not know who your security coordinator is, please contact your supervisor for this information.

QAdhoc
Course Objectives: This session is designed to present people who have been through the QMenu course with how to use QAdhoc to perform more indepth inquiries.

This is a lecture and hand's-on course. Please come prepared to learn how to use QAdhoc to tailor canned views. QAdhoc is a very powerful tool that allows the student to 'write' queries, store them and then export the results into Excel for future use.

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Query Builder, Using Reports Data (formerly ODB Writer)
This course is designed employees who need to run more in-depth reports on Finance, HR and Student data. Oracle Data Browser is an application that allows the user to create queries against the RPTS database using GUI-like, 'drag-and-drop' interface as well as copying and pasting in SQL code he or she may have.

You will need an Oracle id and password to access this application. Requests for access go to your local security coordinator. If you do not know the name of your security coordinator, please contact your supervisor for this information.

Upon completion of this course you will be able to run queries that others have written and stored on the RPTS database. Once you have attended this course and learned about the Oracle Data Browser tool, you may also be able to use other user's queries that they provide you access to via a shared drive or file server.

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Query Builder, Using Reports Data (formerly ODB Writer)
This course is designed for employees who need to create their own queries on Finance, HR and Student data. Employees who sign up for this course should already have attended or should also be signed up for "Reading ODB Reports."

You will need an Oracle id and password to access this application. Requests for access go to your local security coordinator. If you do not know the name of your security coordinator, please contact your supervisor for this information.

You will learn how to:

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Roxen Content Provider.........................................................................................................
This course is designed as a general introduction to Content Management Systems (CMS) with specific information on the Statewide Roxen CMS. Content Providers will update forms, individual pages, and add documents and links to existing web sites. Approximately 80% of UA Statewide employees responsible for websites will be content providers. No HTML experience is required for this class.

Roxen Page Designer.........................................................................................................
This course expands on the information covered in Roxen Content Provider. Page Designers will design specific areas of sites to meet specific needs. Approximately 15% of UA Statewide employees responsible for websites will be Page Designers. This course will cover modification of and addition to existing web sites, not creation of new ones. Some HTML experience is helpful, but not required for this class.

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Peregrine Service Center.........................................................................................................
This course will introduce the employees to the University of Alaska product adopted to track all computer service needs in the University system. The course features two parts:

Service Management: Provides a single, easy to use starting point for all service desk activities, improving analyst efficiency, promoting accurate infrastructure information, and increasing the quality of service. Service Management puts the tools and information analysts need at their fingertips empowering them to quickly manage, document, and resolve requests.

Incident Management: Automates incident management workflow based on key business rules, ensuring that the right technical experts and stake holders are notified of critical events and that service level agreements stay in good standing. Full life cycle incident management reduces operational risk, automates time-consuming tasks, and enables proactive IT Infrastructure Management.