ITS Non-Credit Computer Course Descriptions

 

MICROSOFT - OFFICE SUITES

Microsoft Office 2007 - Access Level I (ACCI07)

Course Length: 3 half days

Description: An introductory course designed to teach participants how to create simple databases, create and modify database objects including tables, forms, reports and queries. You will use a variety of commands, functions, and Microsoft Office Access 2007 capabilities.

Who Should Attend: People who are familiar with Windows.

Manual Details: MS Office 2007 Courseware Outlines

Instructor: Vijaya Chevendra

Microsoft Office 2007 Access Level II (ACCII07)

Course Length: 4 half days

Description: This course is designed for non-programmer users who are familiar with Access and now want to explore some of the intermediate to advanced skill sets. Participants will learn how to use some advanced commands to work with forms, reports, designing tables, manipulating queries, as well as using subforms or subreports.

Participants will also learn how to use automation techniques to make objects work together (i.e. create a main form with buttons to access all other database objects). As well, the use of macros to create event-driven programming for automating routine processes will be explored.

Who Should Attend: People who are familiar with Windows and have taken the Access 2007 - Level I course, or have equivalent experience.

Manual Details: MS Office 2007 Courseware Outlines

Instructor: Vijaya Chevendra

Microsoft Office 2007 - Excel Level I (EXI07)

Course Length: 3 half days

Description:  This introductory course teaches participants how to work with worksheets and workbooks to analyze data. Participants will use a variety of Excel features to create, modify and format common business reports such as budgets, inventory reports, invoices, and charts.

Who Should Attend: People who are familiar with Windows.

Manual Details: MS Office 2007 Courseware Outlines

Instructor: Donna Bueckert

Microsoft Office 2007 - Excel Level II (EXII07)

Course Length: 3 half days

Description: Level II introduces participants to intermediate features used to manipulate specific types of data in worksheets. You will learn how to apply basic skill sets along with some intermediate to advanced functions to manage and audit numerical reports. You will be introduced to various functions to perform specific types of calculations, customize charts, work with pictures or shapes in a worksheet, customize formatting for specific types of data, and look at various features for managing different types of lists using a table or database format.

Who Should Attend: People who are familiar with Windows and have taken the Excel 2007 - Level I course, or have equivalent experience.

Manual Details: MS Office 2007 Courseware Outlines

Instructor: Donna Bueckert

Microsoft Office 2007 - Excel Level III: Macros

Course Length: 4 half days

Description: Level III provides techniques to automate common repetitive tasks that are used in the Excel workbook development. Participants will learn how to use the Excel built in macro recorder to create basic macros and the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Editor to enhance, customize and create methods of deployment. This course is run over two weeks so participants can review and practice more between sessions.

Who Should Attend: People that have taken Excel 2007 - Level II course, or have equivalent experience.

Manual Details: Customized course material provided.

Instructor: Donna Bueckert

Microsoft Office Excel 2007-Pivot Tables (EXPVT)

Course Length: 2 hours

Description: This short course introduces Pivot tables in Excel. Participants will learn how to extract data from long lists of information and present it in readable forms to create multidimensional data views.

Who Should Attend: People who are very familiar with Excel.

Manual Details: Customized course material provided.

Instructor: Donna Bueckert

Microsoft Office 2007 - PowerPoint Level I (PPI07)

Course Length: 2 half days

Description: An introductory course designed to teach participants how to create presentations. You will use a variety of commands, functions, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 capabilities.

Who Should Attend: People who are familiar with Windows 98/2000/XP.

Manual Details: MS Office 2007 Courseware Outlines

Instructor: Donna Bueckert

Microsoft Office 2007 - PowerPoint Level II (PPII07)

Course Length: 2 half days

Description: In this course, participants will learn how to work with slide masters for a consistent look in the presentation, set up animation schemes or customized animation for specific objects, create speaker notes or handouts, run or customize the slide show, and use data from other sources in a presentation program.

Who Should Attend: People who are familiar with Windows and have taken the PowerPoint 2007 - Level I course, or have equivalent experience.

Manual Details: MS Office 2007 Courseware Outlines

Instructor: Donna Bueckert

Microsoft Office 2007 - Word Level I (WDI07)

Course Length: 2 half days

Description: An introductory course designed to teach students how to create and edit documents, save, open or close documents, apply formatting options, set tabs and indents, change the view mode, manipulate the text using features such as copy and paste, and preview and then print the document.

Who Should Attend: People who are familiar with Windows.

Manual Details: MS Office 2007 Courseware Outlines

Instructor: Donna Bueckert

Microsoft Office 2007 - Word Level II (WDII07)

Course Length: 3 half days

Description: This course is designed to teach intermediate skills that can be combined with basic skills to create more complex documents. Students will look at features such as inserting pictures or shapes, setting up columns of information, saving repetitive pieces of text or graphics for easy access at a later date, styles, and templates to produce professional-looking business documents.

Who Should Attend: People who are familiar with Windows and have taken Word - Level I or have equivalent experience.

Manual Details: MS Office 2007 Courseware Outlines

Instructor: Donna Bueckert

Word 2007 - Mail Merge (WDMM)

Course Length: 2 hours

Description: In this short course, participants will learn how to produce letters, envelopes and labels for mailings large or small adding a personalized touch. The list of recipients for the mail merge will be established using a new or an existing data source stored in formats such as Excel or other table formats. For frequent mailings, methods on how to maintain the data list and quickly produce mailing documents will be put into practice.

Who Should Attend: People who are familiar with Word.

Manual Details: Customized course material provided.

Instructor: Donna Bueckert


ADOBE - ACROBAT

Acrobat 9.0 Professional - Intro (AA9)

Course Length: 2 half days

Description: In this introductory course, students learn how to create and modify PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat Professional to organize and share documents in a business environment, as well as implement electronic document review workflows.

Who Should Attend: People who are familiar with the basic functions of their computer's operating system. Students should also have basic word processing skills, such as copying and pasting text, formatting text, and so on.

Manual Details: Element K Training Courseware (search catalog for course code 084021S3)

Instructor: Donna Bueckert

Acrobat LiveCycle Designer (LCD)

Course Length: 2 half days

Description: In this course, participants will learn how to design a fillable form using the LiveCycle Designer included in Adobe Acrobat Professional to create interactive PDF forms to distribute, fill out, and then submit electronically. Participants will also learn how to organize the collected data in a spreadsheet.

Who Should Attend: People who are familiar with Windows and Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Manual Details: Customized course material provided.

Instructor: Donna Bueckert


ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE - DREAMWEAVER

Dreamweaver CS5 - Intro (DW)

Course Length: 3 half days

Description: This introductory course covers the basic web page creation and web site management features of Dreamweaver. You will learn how to create and edit web pages, work with graphics, create links between files, and maintain a web site. The file transfer protocol covered is SFTP using the WS_FTP application.

NOTE: This course does not include more advanced features such as asp and javascript.

Who Should Attend: Participants should be comfortable with the basic skills of computer use, file management, and familiar with browsing the Internet.

Manual Details: Customized manual included in course cost.

Instructor: Vivi Tryphonopoulos

Dreamweaver CS5 - Advanced (DWA)

Course Length: 2 half days

Description: This hands-on workshop is a continuation of the Dreamweaver-Intro course and introduces templates, styles, style sheets, library items, and rollovers.

Who Should Attend: People who have taken the Dreamweaver-Intro course or have equivalent knowledge.

Manual Details: Customized manual included in course cost.

Instructor: Vivi Tryphonopoulos

Dreamweaver Web Forms (DWF)

Course Length: 1 half day

Description: This one half day seminar will show you how to create and process web forms in Dreamweaver. This session is for Dreamweaver users and knowledge of transferring files is necessary.

Who Should Attend: People who use Dreamweaver and know how to transfer files using a secure file transfer program.

Manual Details: Customized manual included in course cost.

Instructor: Vivi Tryphonopoulos


ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE - PHOTOSHOP

Photoshop CS5 - Intro (PS)

Course Length: 3 half days

Description: This course provides you with the concepts and skills to use Adobe Photoshop CS5 effectively. You will learn how to use layers and apply filters to create special effects. Other topics include image creating/editing enhancement; photo retouching; and saving images in web, print, and PDF formats.

Who Should Attend: This course is designed for the average computer user who is familiar with the basic skills of computer use and understands file management.

Manual Details: Customized manual part of course cost.

Instructor: Vivi Tryphonopoulos





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