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Technical Skills
The Technical Skills pillar provides structured learning opportunities to strengthen your proficiency with essential software applications, collaboration platforms, and digital tools. From Adobe and Microsoft Office to Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and digital safety awareness, these resources are designed to increase efficiency, enhance productivity, and support your software applications success.
Application Resources
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Explore Adobe Acrobat, the ubiquitous document creation and management platform.
A comprehensive list of tutorials on using Adobe Sign to send forms for signature.
Explore Adobe Illustrator, a powerful vector-based graphic design application.
Explore Photoshop, the choice of professional photographers, designers, and novices alike.
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Title IX Compliance Services: Safety For The Campus Community In The Digital Age
Today, we are spending more time online and on our devices than ever before, which has created new safety risks, including for students, victims of gender-based violence, and others. As such, it has become increasingly important to develop skills that prioritize our digital safety. EndTAB’s interactive and engaging workshop will empower attendees to help members of the campus community navigate the digital abuse landscape and stay safe.
In this session:
- Demystifying the digital safety landscape on campus
- Issues students and other campus community members may face online
- Why you don’t need to be a tech expert to help people stay safe in the digital age
- Having helpful and supportive conversations
- Tips on navigating and understanding tech-enabled trauma
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Training Credit(s): n/a
- Additional resources: EndTab Digital Safety Resources
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Discover Gmail, the ubiquitous email platform that integrates with the Google ecosystem.
Connect and collaborate together with your team with direct messages and team chat rooms using Google Chat.
Explore Google Docs, a cloud-based word-processing app that's part of the Google Docs ecosystem.
Explore Google Drive, a cloud-based file storage and sharing platform at the center of the Google Docs ecosystem.
Discover Google Forms, a cloud-based forms and survey creation platform.
Explore Google Sheets, a cloud-based spreadsheet app that's part of the Google Docs ecosystem.
Explore Google Slides, a cloud-based presentation app that's part of the Google Docs ecosystem.
The Google Calendar application is a great tool to use to manage your meetings. Explore the different ways of creating events and recurring meetings. In this course, you'll learn how to manage events and meeting participants. When responding to an invitation, you can propose another time that will suit you better. Discover how to use the out-of-office reply feature to automatically decline meeting invites, and how to create reminders and appointment slots.
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Microsoft Access is a relational database system. Explore Access and how to use it.
Excel is the powerful spreadsheet component of Microsoft Office. Discover Excel and its many uses.
Microsoft PowerPoint is the powerful presentation component of Microsoft Office. Discover PowerPoint and its many uses.
Microsoft Word is a powerful document creation application, more than just a word processor. Discover Word and its uses here.
Visio is a powerful diagramming application that can be used for everything from flowcharts to org charts and more. Explore Visio here.
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Exploring And Setting Up Microsoft Teams 2021
Microsoft Teams is a platform that combines conversations, meetings, notes, and attachments. The service integrates with your company's Office 365 productivity suite. In this course, you will learn how to access and log into your Teams application from a Windows 10 desktop, and get an overview of the interface. Then, you will learn about more advanced features, such as notifications, status messages and your account's general settings, to be ready to interact with your colleagues.
- Duration: 37 minutes
- Training Credit(s): CPE (NASBA): 1.00
Formatting, Illustrating & Reacting to Messages in Microsoft Teams 2021
More than creating messages, Microsoft Teams allows you to make posts richer with several formatting, illustrating, and reacting tools. In this course, you are going to learn how to format your messages by adding effects, changing the color and even organizing your topics with bulleted or numbered points. For more interaction, add emojis, stickers and memes. Finally, you are going to see how to send attachments and configure the delivery of your messages by, for example, choosing who can reply to it.
- Duration: 49 minutes
- Training Credit: CPE (NASBA): 0.50
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Slack is an enterprise-strength messaging platform that provides instant collaboration for users. Discover Slack and its uses.
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Slack is a great collaboration tool that you can configure to suit your needs. Slack gives you the tools and capacity to be more productive. Discover key features such as the personal assistant Slackbot and time saving slash commands. You can change the look and feel of Slack by modifying the theme and display. You can also manage app integrations and permissions to insure your information is safe.
- Duration: 33 minutes
- Training Credit(s): n/a
Creating, Finding & Sharing Information In Slack 2020
Slack's collaboration functionality extends well beyond text messaging. You can add apps to integrate services such as Google Drive, Twitter and RSS feeds to animate your channels. Slack also enables you to attach files, share items, create posts and code snippets. You can also use the search tool to quickly find the items you need. Additionally, you can interact further with your team by creating polls and workflows.
- Duration: 36 minutes
- Training Credit(s): n/a
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Creating, Joining & Managing Meetings in Zoom Desktop
Zoom is an online communication platform that you can access from its web page or by downloading the application. In this 10-video course, learners will discover how to use Zoom's different features to easily set up and hold meetings from home. Begin by discovering how to sign in and out of the application and explore the interface.
This leads into learning how to create meetings, invite people, and examine the meeting features, along with scheduling, viewing, and managing meetings. Next, learn how to install the Outlook plug-in and schedule meetings using the application; examine different ways to join a meeting, and manage participants; and study audio and video options, and the view mode. Learners will also discover how to share and annotate a screen as well as how to send and receive files; how to record, manage, and configure a meeting; how to send and receive messages; and how to save a chat. The course concludes by demonstrating how to configure the general settings as well as audio, video, and screen settings.
- Duration: 48 minutes
- Training Credit(s): n/a