University computers are being upgraded to Windows 7 across campus from March - December 2012. IT Services, in conjunction with Staff Development Partnership are offering departmental presentations and short familiarisation courses.

• Windows 7 and Office 2010

You can find out more about when your department will be upgrading, together with presentation dates, course dates and how to book.

• Excel 2007: Using Pivot Tables
• Word 2007: Mass Mailings using Mail Merge
• Word 2007: Working with Long Documents

We also have training materials and workshops to learn Office 2007 programs at your own pace. See Take Time To Learn below and Online Learning.

These workshops are practical and self-paced and allow you to focus on your own objectives and explore ways of using Microsoft Office programs more efficiently.

• Take Time to Learn: Outlook 2007 
• Take Time to Learn: Word 2007 
• Take Time to Learn: Excel 2007
• Take Time to Learn: PowerPoint 2007 

• Introduction to Using an Access Database
• Creating an Access Database
• Querying Access Databases

Browse the online help resources for Blackboard

Blackboard is the University's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

Blackboard Workshops

• What is Blackboard? (Introductory level)

• Blackboard Discussion Forums - Getting Started - a one week online course

• Online Communication and Collaboration (Blackboard)

• Blackboard - We also offer training as a Guided IT Learning Session

Blackboard 9.1 Upgrade

• Blackboard is Changing
• Blackboard 9.1 for course administrators 
• Blackboard 9.1 - What's New?

• Adobe Presenter 

  How to convert PowerPoint presentations into multimedia resources.

If you would like to find
out more about working with the web at the University of Leicester visit the Web Centre for guidance and assistance.

• Planning Your Website
• Plone - Introduction
• Writing for the Web

We offer Guided IT Learning Sessions on:

• Plone
• Photoshop Elements 7.0 
• Dreamweaver (aimed at departments and offices that have not yet moved to Plone and need to maintain their current web pages)

The Skills for the Professional Researcher programme offers software programming workshops:

• NVivo - Introducing NVivo 9
• NVivo - Exploiting NVivo 9
• SPSS -  Data Management and Introduction to SPSS
• SPSS - Describing and Exploring Data in SPSS 
• SPSS - Examining Data using Confidence Intervals and P-values
• R - Introduction to R
• R - Statistics with R

Preference on the above workshops will be given to members of research staff and PhD students at the University of Leicester.

The Skills for the Professional Researcher programme offers high performance computing workshops:

• Introduction to ALICE
• Introduction to Linux

Preference on the above workshops will be given to members of research staff and PhD students at the University of Leicester.

• Guided IT Learning Sessions - An experienced IT facilitator will help and assist you with your specific computer queriesone to one or to a small group.

Please book onto a Guilded IT Learning Session for training on these essential skills:

• Using Your Computer
• Introduction to Email
• Managing Your Files and Folders

An easy way to find out what IT training is available to you:

• A-Z of IT Training