Learning TECHniques Classroom Schedule, Description & Price

Course Listing for Summer 2013

Rate Information

• Student Rate: applies to currently-registered tuition-paying students at UW-Milwaukee
• Faculty/Staff Rate: applies to currently employed and retired faculty and staff of UW-Milwaukee
• Non-UWM Rate: applies to any person not belonging to the UW-Milwaukee students, faculty or staff groups; this rates includes UW-Milwaukee alumni

Please Note: Once a week we will check the status of all participants that register as students to verify their eligibility for the discounted rate

Database & Reporting

InDesign CS5: Part 1

• Use the InDesign environment
• Work with basic documents
• Use master pages
• Work with typesetting
• Use text frames
• Add graphics
• Used grouped items and layers
• Finalize documents

InDesign CS5: Part 2

Photoshop CS5: Part 1

• Use the Photoshop environment
• Work with images and selections
• Resize images
• Manipulate layers
• Retouch images
• Prepare finished images for the Web and print

Photoshop CS5: Part 2

Excel 2010 - Basic: Part 1

• Enter and edit data
• Write formulas and use functions
• Format worksheets
• Create charts
• Work with large workbooks
• Work with graphics and screenshots

Excel 2010 - Basic: Part 2

Excel 2010 - Basic: Part 3

Excel 2010 - Intermediate: Part 1

• Use multiple worksheets and workbooks
• Create outlines and subtotals
• Work with lists and tables
• Audit formulas
• Use pivot tables and charts
• Create templates

Excel 2010 - Intermediate: Part 2

Excel 2010 -Advanced: Part 1

• Use advanced functions
• Import and export data
• Use analytical tools
• Create macros

Excel 2010 -Advanced: Part 2

PowerPoint 2010 - Part 1

• Create presentations and slides
• Format and use graphics on slides
• Use tables and charts
• Modify presentations
• Deliver presentations

PowerPoint 2010 - Part 2

Word 2010 - Basic: Part 1

• Navigate documents
• Edit and format text
• Use tables
• Work with page layout
• Proof and print documents
• Add graphics

Word 2010 - Basic: Part 2

Word 2010 - Intermediate: Part 1

• Use styles
• Work with sections and columns
• Print labels and envelopes
• Use templates
• Manage document revisions

Word 2010 - Intermediate: Part 2

Word 2010 -Advanced: Part 1

• Use mail merge
• Work with macros
• Utilize objects and backgrounds
• Create forms
• Work with long documents

Word 2010 -Advanced: Part 2

Excel 2010 Express: Basics & Introduction

• Spreadsheet components and navigation
• Entering text and data
• Cut, copy and paste
• Formulas, references and basic functions
• Modifying rows and columns
• Sorting and filtering
• Saving and printing
• Getting help

Excel 2010 Express: Formulas & Functions

• Basics of formulas, functions and referencing
• Logical and mathematical functions
• Date and time functions
• Financial functions

PowerPoint 2010 Express: Basics & Introduction

• Creating slides and working with slide layout
• Inserting, deleting and rearranging slides
• Entering text and bulleted lists on a slide
• Cut, copy and paste
• Text formatting
• Running a presentation and creating speaker notes
• Saving and printing
• Getting help

PowerPoint 2010 Express: Enhancing Presentations

• Using themes
• Adding charts
• Utilizing images and video
• Inserting hyperlinks
• Enhancing with Smart Art & Word Art
• Animations & slide transitions

Word 2010 Express: Basics & Introduction

• Creating a new document and entering text
• Cut, copy and paste
• Text formatting
• Page setup options including margins, orientation and columns
• Navigating through a document
• Inserting clip art
• Proofing a document
• Saving and printing
• Getting help

Word 2010 Express: Formatting

• Text formatting, paragraph formatting and page formatting
• Using bulleted and numbered lists
• Using styles
• Format painter
• Inserting breaks
• Headers and footers

pantherFILE-Web Client

• Navigate the system
• Upload and download files
• Use the Web Folder
• Share files
• Locate files

pantherFILE-Xythos Client

• Navigate the system
• Upload and download files
• Share files
• Locate files

pantherLINK: E-Mail

• Reading and responding to e-mail
• Composing messages
• Sending attachments
• Using folders
• Searching
• Using tags
• Working with the address book
• Setting preferences

pantherLINK: Calendar

• Creating meetings
• Adding people and resources
• Using repeating meetings
• Accepting and declining
• Using tags
• Setting preferences

pantherLINK:Collaboration

• Sharing e-mail folders
• Creating multiple address books
• Sharing address books
• Using contact groups
• Creating multiple calendars
• Scheduling other calendars
• Sharing calendars

Getting Started in the CMS

This course serves as an introduction to the use of UWM's Content Management System. This course will cover:

• General introduction to the CMS
• Browser set up
• CMS terminology
• Logging into the CMS
• Editing existing text content
• Inserting a new text block element and adding content
• Publishing content
• Inserting and editing hyperlinks
• Inserting and formatting images
• Creating new pages
• Working with tables
• Creating forms
• Setting navigation