Monday, August 27, 2018

Welcome Back Faculty!

Greetings from Technology Training Services!

With several new technologies on the horizon this year, as well as multiple changes to existing technologies, our goal is to strengthen your skills  and keep you up to date through training sessions. Please scroll though this announcement to be informed of upcoming sessions. Click our calendar for dates and times! 



August 28 - October 5

  • Blackboard Basic (1.5 Hours) – With the VCCS conversion to Canvas beginning, these Blackboard sessions will cover the Basics, Grade Center and Archiving courses.

    For additional Blackboard needs this semester, please contact TechnologyTraining@reynolds.edu

  • Office 365 Email (1 Hour) - If you access your @Reynolds.edu email through a browser, you are strongly encouraged to attend this session. Topics covered will be new features for email, calendar and contacts. It’s worth attending just to learn to change your “reply all” default!
  • Windows 10 / Office 2016 (1 Hour)These "overview" sessions are scheduled to accommodate Administrative Computing's deployment of the new operating system. Observe the dates on the calendar and attend one of these sessions shortly before or shortly after your upgrade.
  • Adobe Pro (2.5 Hours) – Learn the functions of Adobe Pro for creating, editing, exporting and securing PDF documents. Creating Adobe forms will also be covered. NOTE: Training is required for the installation of Adobe Pro
  • Audacity (1 Hour) – This audio recording application, included on all college computers, is perfect for recording audio for PowerPoint presentations or replacing voice boards in Blackboard. This session will cover recording tips, saving and utilizing these .mp3 files in multiple locations.
  • PowerPoint 2016 (2 Hours) – This PDO will cover the newest features of PowerPoint including design additions, office themes, improved presenter view and screen recordings (similar to those captured through Snagit). We will also be covering inserting image, audio and video files. NOTE: Audacity, the audio recording application, is scheduled prior to these session for those interested in higher quality audio files to be used in PowerPoint presentations.
  • Google Drive & Docs (2 Hours) - Google Drive is a file collaboration service provided with your VCCS email (Gmail) account. This session will cover file sharing and collaborative editing on documents, spreadsheets, presentations and forms. All faculty, staff and students have unlimited cloud storage on Google drive making it easy to store content, share files and upload to our LMS. NOTE: You must know your MyReynolds username and password prior to attend this training.
Coming: October - December

Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel
OneDrive
File Organization
Canvas


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