Training Opportunities

Switching to Microsoft Office 2013
Computer Basics
Excel 2013 Basics
Edit material on your Marquette web pages
Writing and collaborating with Word 2013
Explore how iPad can improve your productivity and efficiency
Introduction to Windows 8
Pinterest
Microsoft OneNote 2013 Basics
Best practices for editing Marquette web pages
Introduction to SharePoint
Windows 8 tablets
Microsoft Excel 2013 tips and tricks
SharePoint for site owners: managing permissions and creating sub sites

Switching to Microsoft Office 2013

Hands-on fast-paced review of the new features of Office 2013, including ribbon options, options to pin and save documents, bookmarks and more. Explore the new features of Word, including opening new documents, tracking changes, editing PDFs and also new features in Outlook, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint.
June 18, Aug. 1, Aug. 27
Presented by: Pam Lewis, IT Services

Computer Basics

Introduction to Windows, Word, Outlook, Internet Explorer and using online resources at Marquette.
Thursday, June 20
Presented by: Pam Lewis, IT Services

Microsoft Excel 2013 Basics

Make a spreadsheet, navigate, and enter data. Edit and format information. Move, copy, and sort data, filtering with a table. Do calculations using sum, average and count. Make working with large amounts of data easier by freezing row and column headers and splitting the screen. Explore Print options.
Tuesday, June 25
Presented by: Pam Lewis, IT Services

Edit material on your Marquette web pages

Use Adobe Contribute to edit, format, and publish a web page. This class is for people responsible for editing university web pages with Adobe Contribute. Edit an existing web page or create a new one. Edit text, and insert links to web pages and PDFs. Add and format images and insert and edit a table.
Thursday, June 27
Presented by: Jeremy Saperstein, IT Services

Writing and collaborating with Microsoft Word 2013

Use Word to brainstorm and outline, revise, edit, proof-read and organize your writing. Improve navigation as you expand and collapse sections and insert links to places in the document. Collaborate on documents by tracking changes and making comments. Compare and combine documents.
Thursday, July 11
Presented by: Pam Lewis, IT Services

Explore how iPad can improve your productivity and efficiency

For advanced users, learn tips on improving productivity and efficiency with your iPad.
Monday, July 15
Presented by: Andrew Hunt, College of Business Administration

Introduction to Windows 8

The upgrade to Windows 8 presents a new interface, removing the Start menu. Get some help figuring out the new features and learn where items you were familiar with in an older version of Windows are located. Explore the touchscreen interface for use on a tablet PC and the Applications that are available for Windows 8.
July 18, Sept. 5
Presented by: Cliff Brown, IT Services

Pinterest is the third most popular social networking site in the US. Create a virtual pin board to organize and share things you find on the web or images you pin to your profile. You can browse pin boards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.
Tuesday, July 23
Presented by: Tim Cigelske, Office of Marketing and Communication

Microsoft OneNote 2013 Basics

Use Microsoft OneNote for taking meeting notes and collecting information from the Web. Jot down notes in meetings and collect information from the Web and other places on your computer, inserting printouts or attach Word and Excel documents,and then access your notes on SharePoint.
Thursday, July 25
Presented by: Pam Lewis, IT Services

Best practices for editing Marquette web pages

This class is for people who manage department web pages. Learn about content management and quality assurance.
Tuesday, July 30
Presented by: Jamie Overman and Jan Harwig, Office of Marketing and Communication

Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint

This class is for site users. Open, edit and upload documents, including Word documents, Excel documents and notes from OneNote. Move them into folders, rename, and delete them. Email a link to a document and set alerts for yourself about changes.

Tuesday, August 6
Presented by: Pam Lewis, IT Services

Windows 8 tablets

Use a tablet to improve your efficiency and productivity. Explore the touch screen, features and applications.
Thursday, August 8
Presented by: Jack Bartelt, Student Educational Services, and Cliff Brown, IT Services

Microsoft Excel 2013 tips and tricks

Use data validation, transpose rows and columns, name ranges in formulas, use goal seek and Vlookup, conditional formatting, and more.
Tuesday, August 13
Presented by: Pam Lewis, IT Services

SharePoint for site owners: Managing permissions and creating sub sites

If you are the new administrator of a SharePoint site or if you have been given your own sub site to manage, then this class is for you. Prerequisite for this class: Familiarity with SharePoint as a user or have attended Introduction to SharePoint user training. Create and manage sites, manage permissions and change the look of your site. Organize a document library with folders and versioning. Add, remove and edit Web Parts. Make your site easy to navigate. Create new sub sites including libraries with OneNote meeting notes.
Thursday, August 15
Presented by: Pam Lewis, IT Services

If you have questions, please contact the Help Desk.

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