Newsletter 13, October 1996
| Newsletter 13, October 1996
Computing Services Courses |
[Extra Note: An up-to-date Course List and Schedule is maintained on the Web, and may contain more recent information than this article.]
We ran courses for some 500 LMU staff over the last semester. This again is a significant increase and a level we plan to maintain this year. Most popular was Exploring the Internet.
Comments from your evaluation forms have been very positive and encouraging, and this semester's courses take full account of your suggestions. New courses are:
We could not maintain the level of provision without the help we get from our part-time staff. Thanks to Diana Stansfield and Sarah Nelmes for their continued efforts on our behalf, and welcome to Teresa Driscoll who joined us a few months ago.
Thanks also to the catering staff for their timely (and sometimes resourceful!) provision of coffee and buns.
For the past 18 months, we have made no charge for these courses. We hope to be able to continue this policy, and we are grateful to Human Resources for their promised support.
The new schedule for this semester has recently been distributed to all staff with The News. Call us on 5956 if you would like another copy, or to discuss details, dates and availability of places.
This well-received course gives new users of MS Office an overview of the potential uses of modern office software.
5 courses are scheduled
Intended for those who have completed the Working with Microsoft Office course, or equivalent. This course will give you sufficient practice with Windows housekeeping to help you treat your PC with no more respect than you show your filing cabinet.
3 courses are scheduled
This is an intensive course for those familiar with word processing at an intermediate level. Staff who have "found their way round" or had minimal training with Word have found this course an especially helpful consolidation.
4 courses are scheduled
Intended for those experienced with the topics covered in WordProcessing with Word 6, we are offering sessions in each of these three areas:
6 courses are scheduled
This new course explores both the possibilities and limitations of Word 6 as a Desk-Top Publishing package.
2 courses are scheduled
This course will quickly revise spreadsheet basics and then help you make more effective use of Excel's most common features.
4 courses are scheduled
On this course you will work on a case study to create, search and produce reports from a database of student records.
5 courses are scheduled
This course gives you the chance to consider and put into practice the principles of good database design.
3 courses are scheduled
The sessions in this course cover Excel's facilities for managing large data lists and also the tools available to assist management decision making.
3 courses are scheduled
This course will benefit those members of staff who regularly make presentations, who wish to enhance a series of OHP slides, or to quickly produce handouts to accompany a lecture.
4 courses are scheduled
The session gives guidance in good practice when designing a survey for data collection.
1 course is scheduled
This course covers entering, editing, transforming and other manipulation of data, as well as some simple analysis and plotting.
1 course is scheduled
Introduces the powerful SPSS program. Emphasis will be given to understanding the essential features of the Base System.
1 course is scheduled
The academic community is particularly well favoured in the resources available to it over the Internet. What are these resources? How can you get access to them? What is likely to be useful when the short-term interest dies down?.
6 courses are scheduled
What has your experience been when searching the Internet for information you really do want? Many people find the haystack more entertaining than the hunt for the needle. This courses aims to help those uneasy to date with such experience.
3 courses are scheduled
This course will help those making contributions to the Web Service produce clear, appealing and informative pages.
5 courses are scheduled
This course gives further practice and advice with the design and creation of Web pages.
2 courses are scheduled
Interested? Call 5956
Mark de Groot