Certification Providers
HSC - Health Science Center - IT Center
Contact Information:
| Website: | http://training.health.ufl.edu |
| Registration: | http://training.health.ufl.edu |
| Email: | training@health.ufl.edu |
| Phone: | (352) 273-5051 |
| Fax: | (352) 273-5035 |
| Address: | Room C3-009, Communicore PO Box 100152 Gainesville, FL 32611-0152 |
82 Courses included in UF IT Certifications:
| Course Name | Course Description |
|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat: Basics | The full version of Adobe Acrobat can create files in PDF from programs such as Word and from scanned documents. Topics include inserting, deleting and optimizing pages; setting initial views; adding hyperlinks; and setting security options. |
| Adobe Acrobat: Forms | This workshop uses the Adobe Acrobat professional edition. Topics include creating form fields, adding hyperlinks, and inserting basic calculations, into a PDF (Portable Document Format) File. |
| Adobe Fireworks: Basics | This workshop assumes no experience with Fireworks, but requires a working knowledge of Dreamweaver. We will create and optimize images for use on the Web |
| Adobe InDesign CS3 Multipage Documents | Create newsletters or similar multipage documents with text and images using Master pages and InDesign templates. InDesign Basics or equivilent required. |
| Adobe InDesign: Basics | For beginning users. Get to know the workspace and tools to using advanced new features such as Object Layer Options and Object Styles. Learn by creating documents, working with text and objects, applying formatting and styles, and placing images. |
| Adobe Photoshop: Basics | The workshop will cover creating and manipulating basic graphics. Topics include an overview of common toolbar features, creating images using layers, and adding text to images. |
| Adobe Photoshop: Image Automation | This workshop assumes some experience with Photoshop. The workshop will cover automating tasks. We will also cover creating a web gallery, a contact sheet and a picture package. |
| Adobe Photoshop: Layers and Masks | The workshop will cover working with layers and masks. Topics will include managing layers, opacity, blending modes, quick masks and clipping groups. |
| Basics I: Keyboarding/Typing | Includes proper finger placement, finger exercises and where to find good keyboarding resources. We can't teach you to type in one hour, but we can get you started on the right path. |
| Basics II: Windows Basics | Includes using the start menu, using the mouse, learning the parts of the window, using help, and creating files and folders. |
| Basics III: Multiple Windows & File Management | Includes working with multiple windows, file management (sorting, deleting, renaming), and working with multiple programs (copying and pasting between programs, organizing multiple program windows). |
| Basics IV: Basic Internet & File Searching | Includes finding information online and adding links to Favorites. Accessing favorites. Copying valid information from Internet to Microsoft Word. Finding graphics online and save them on the computer. Finding the files that you have saved. |
| Basics V: Computer Hardware | Includes looking at the hardware of an older computer and talking about its parts and how they work together: motherboard, CPU, RAM, floppy drive, CD-ROM, expansion slots, modems, networks, etc. |
| Basics VI: Control Panels | Includes working with the control panels to customize your computer, including the mouse, sound and keyboard features, as well as the display; which allows you to change your screen saver, background and Windows Scheme. |
| Dreamweaver CS3: Layouts | This workshop assumes some experience with Dreamweaver, HTML and CSS. The workshop will cover creating different styles of page layout. We will discuss the benefits of creating liquid or elastic layouts rather than a fixed layout. Completion of "Dreamweaver: Basics" and “Dreamweaver CSS” or equivalent experience is required. |
| Dreamweaver CS3: Templates | This workshop assumes some experience with Dreamweaver. We will create a simple web page and turn the page into a template. We will then create new pages based on our template and learn how to edit those pages. |
| Dreamweaver: Basics | The workshop will cover an introduction to HTML tags and the Dreamweaver HTML interface. We will create a very basic web page with text, images and links. |
| Dreamweaver: Cascading Style Sheets & Templates | The workshop will cover designing a web page with cascading style sheets (CSS). |
| Dreamweaver: Forms | This workshop assumes completion of "Dreamweaver: Basics" or equivalent. This is an introduction to creating forms. Topics include text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, menus/lists. We will be creating a simple web form in class. |
| Dreamweaver: Layers and Behaviors | This workshop assumes some experience with Dreamweaver and CSS. The workshop will cover designing a web page with layers and adding behaviors to control layer visibility. |
| E-Learning 1 - Basics, Organizing Files & Content | This one hour workshop covers navigating in ELS, key software required, file manager, using folders to organize content. |
| E-Learning 2 - Communication tools | This one hour workshop covers mail, discussions, announcement and calendar. |
| E-Learning 3 - Evaluations | This one hour workshop covers assignment, assessments and gradebook. |
| E-Learning 4 - Managing Your Online Course | This one hour workshop covers the use of selective release, tracking, archiving and related topics. |
| E-Learning Bootcamp | This workshop will cover an introduction to Vista at the University of Florida, the core concepts and skills of E-Learning. The bootcamp will cover everything from E-Learning I and E-Learning II and will include a one hour lunch break. |
| E-Learning I - Getting Your Feet Wet | This workshop will cover an introduction to Blackboard IV at the University of Florida, the core concepts and skills of Blackboard IV. Experience Blackboard IV as a student in a fictional course. Topics building content as an instructor in a practice course; enrolling users; uploading and managing files; organizing content in Organizer Pages; posting syllabus and content files; creating URLs; creating discussion topics; creating and grading assignments; using email, announcements and calendar; customizing your course appearance; and backing up your course content. |
| E-Learning II - Diving Deeper | This workshop is part two of the Blackboard IV series. Topics include creating learning modules; creating and managing online assessments; creating groups; using selective release criteria; and managing gradebook functions such as: importing scantron files, exporting/importing spreadsheets, and creating calculated and letter grade columns. |
| E-Learning: Gradebook | In this session we will assist instructors get their grade data organized so that it can be submitted to the grade –a-gator system. This 2 hour session will also help instructors archive their course material and get ready for the next term. |
| E-Learning: PowerLinks | In this 2 hour session we will present a brief overview of the several powerlinks available in ELS. Some of the key powerlinks that will be discussed in this session include Turnitin, SafeAssign, Scholar and Respondus LockDown Browser. These powerlinks can be used from within the e-Learning. Pre-Requisite – Must have attend Getting your feet wet and Diving deeper or must be comfortable working with course management system. Completion of "Getting Your Feet Wet" and "Diving Deeper" or experience working with a course management system is required. |
| How to Plan and Execute a Successful Project | This two-part workshop deals with how to plan and manage a successful project. Based upon the Project Management Body of Knowledge published by the Project Management Institute, the workshop covers the following components of a project: Initiation, Planning, Management, Execution, and Closure. Includes how to develop a project plan and uses examples and exercises involving actual projects. |
| How to Use Microsoft Project | "Project management" can be very complicated and so Microsoft Project assists in designing the project and ensuring that all the tasks and resources work well together. Even if you have not been involved in project management before, on the completion of this course you will be able to put together and a schedule for a small-scale project. |
| Microsoft Access 1: Basics and Database Fundamentals | Topics include database concepts, introduction to tables, queries, forms and reports. This workshop is a prerequisite to the other Access workshops. |
| Microsoft Access 2: Tables | Topics include importing and linking tables, data types, formats, input masks, data entry, table analyzer, lookup values, copying tables, primary keys and AutoForms. |
| Microsoft Access 3: Relationships | Topics include one-to-one and one-to-many relationships; junction tables; primary and foreign keys; cascade update and cascade delete; and join properties. |
| Microsoft Access 4: Select Queries | Topics include table filters, select queries, sorting, using criterias, creating joined fields, totals, formatting numbers, and crosstabs. |
| Microsoft Access 5: Intro to Forms and Reports | Topics include using AutoForm, form wizards, AutoReport, report wizards, and creating simple forms and reports in a design view. |
| Microsoft Access 6: Forms | Topics include formatting fields in a Form, Tab Controls, SubForms, Menu Forms, startup options and Linking Forms. |
| Microsoft Access 7: Reports | Topics include using AutoReport, report wizard, sorting and grouping, using mathematical functions, using special queries and formatting reports. |
| Microsoft Access 8: Queries II | Topics include action queries; relationship join properties; logic statements, linking query values to forms. |
| Microsoft Access 9: Forms & Macros | Topics include formatting creating menus, linking forms through buttons, creating tabular subforms, creating macros, using macros in buttons and in other events. |
| Microsoft Excel: Charts and Graphs | This workshop assumes prior experience with Excel. Topics include data groupings; creating and modifying charts; chart types; source data; chart options; chart locations; formatting; adding trend lines and error bars. |
| Microsoft Excel: Macros | Topics include recording, running and editing macros; absolute and relative referencing; assigning macros to keyboard shortcuts and command buttons on the toolbar. |
| Microsoft Excel: Math and Functions | This workshop assumes minimal experience with Excel. Topics include working with series; number formatting; working with formulas; using basic functions; using absolute and relative references; and naming cells and cell ranges. |
| Microsoft Excel: Multiple Worksheets | Topics include inserting, deleting and renaming worksheets; linking worksheets; editing and printing multiple worksheets and linking workbooks. |
| Microsoft Excel: Navigating and Formatting | This workshop assumes no prior experience with Excel. Topics include an introduction to Excel; entering and editing data in cells; cut, copy and paste; formatting fonts, alignments, borders and shading. Lots of shortcuts! |
| Microsoft Excel: Pivot Tables | Topics include data groupings, pivot tables, pivot charts, formatting pivot tables, adding and removing data, multiple data forms, and sorting in pivot tables. |
| Microsoft Excel: Printing and Setup | Topics include print preview; printing selections; print areas; page orientation; scaling; margins; centering; headers; footers; printing titles; gridlines; column headings; page break preview; and page breaks. |
| Microsoft Excel: Sorting and Filters | Topics include single and multilevel sorting; data groupings; subtotals; applying and customizing data filters; and copying and totaling filtered data. |
| Microsoft Office: Drawing Toolbar | The drawing toolbar is available in Word, PowerPoint and Excel. This workshop will show you how to use it in all three programs to create and edit drawing objects to improve your desktop publishing, presentations and charts. |
| Microsoft Office: Excel vs. Word Tables | Topics include (for both programs) basic formatting and math; splitting and merging cells; when to use Word and when to use Excel. |
| Microsoft Outlook: Basics | Topics include reading, sending, replying and forwarding email, working with attachments, creating signatures, creating and using folders, posted appointments, alarms, privacy, repeating appointments, meetings, busy searches, and working with received appointments. |
| Microsoft Outlook: Calendar | Topics include appointments, alarms, privacy, repeating appointments, events, busy searches, and working with received appointments. |
| Microsoft Outlook: Email | Topics include reading, sending, replying and forwarding email, working with attachments, creating signatures, and creating and using folders. |
| Microsoft PowerPoint: Animations | This workshop assumes completion of "PowerPoint: Basics" or equivalent experience. Topics include automating your presentation, animating text, graphics, and a discussion of narrating a presentation. |
| Microsoft PowerPoint: Basics | This workshop assumes no experience with PowerPoint. Workshop topics include an introduction to PowerPoint, creating slides, applying designs, finalizing and printing presentations. |
| Microsoft PowerPoint: Charts and Graphs | This workshop assumes completion of "PowerPoint: Basics" or equivalent experience. Topics include creating and editing organizational charts and graphs and inserting charts from Microsoft Excel into your presentation. |
| Microsoft PowerPoint: Images | Topics include inserting clip-art, images from the web, and scanning images into your presentation. Basic discussion of different image types. |
| Microsoft PowerPoint: Webify | Learn how to share your PowerPoint presentation on the web with a variety of tools in this hands-on workshop. |
| Microsoft Word: Bullets and Numbering | Topics include creating and customizing bulleted and numbered lists, creating an outline-style numbered list and inserting symbols. |
| Microsoft Word: Desktop Publishing | Topics include creating and using columns, using the drawing toolbar, inserting graphics, wrapping text, page borders, watermarks creating flyers, brochures and newsletters. |
| Microsoft Word: Formatting Paragraphs | Topics include aligning text in paragraphs, line spacing, paragraph spacing, applying borders and shading, indentations, and using text flow options. |
| Microsoft Word: Forms | Topics include working with tables, tabs, the forms toolbar, form fields, drop-down lists, check boxes, protecting documents and templates. |
| Microsoft Word: Headers and Footers | Topics include: Headers, Footers, Basic Sections, Different Headers/Footers in the Same Document, Different First Page, Different Odd and Even Pages, Footnotes, and Endnotes. |
| Microsoft Word: Macros | Macros allow you to automate repetitive tasks. Topics include creating, applying and deleting macros; basic editing of macros and customizing Word Toolbars. |
| Microsoft Word: Mail Merge I | Topics include how to create a main document, a data source, prepare envelopes and labels, sorting records, merging main document and data source, and using the Mail Merge Toolbar. (Word 2000 or earlier) |
| Microsoft Word: Mail Merge II | Topics include review of Mail Merge; query options (sorting and filters); "If...Then...Else" Word fields; and formatting data in fields. (Word 2000 or earlier) |
| Microsoft Word: Navigating and Formatting Text | Topics include undo, font formats, inserting and moving text, cut, copy and paste, copying formats, changing font and font size, find and replace, and character effects. |
| Microsoft Word: Sections | Topics include using creating, modifying, and deleting sections; different first page; odd and even sections; creating a landscape in the middle of a portrait. |
| Microsoft Word: Spelling, Grammar and AutoCorrect | Topics include using the spelling and grammar command; using the thesaurus; and creating and applying frequently used text with AutoCorrect. |
| Microsoft Word: Styles and Indexes | Topics include using predefined styles, creating styles, updating styles, using the outline view, creating an automatic table of contents, and editing a table of contents/index. |
| Microsoft Word: Tables I | Topics include creating tables, inserted and deleting rows and columns, using the tables and borders toolbar, formatting borders, merging cells, cell alignments and using AutoSum. |
| Microsoft Word: Tables II | Topics include basic math, updating formulas, converting tables to text, splitting and joining tables, imbedding tables in tables, and repeating row headers over multiple pages. |
| Microsoft Word: Tabs | Topics include creating and understanding left, center, right, decimal and bar tab stops, deleting tab stops, setting leaders and using the Tab dialog window. |
| Outlook: Questions and Answers | Come spend an hour (or part of an hour) getting answers about Outlook email and calendar. This workshop is designed for people who have a basic working knowledge of Outlook and who have questions about its features and functionality. |
| UF & COM Web Templates | This workshop requires a working knowledge of Dreamweaver and Cascading Style Sheets. This is an overview of the UF and COM Web Page Templates. |
| Vista to E-Learning Transition Workshop | WebCT Vista will upgrade to the next version beginning in Summer B 2007. If you have been using the current version, come check out the new simpler interface and increased capabilities of the new system. This workshop is for current Vista users. Training for instructors who have never used Vista will be forthcoming. |
| WebCT Vista: Bootcamp | This workshop will cover an introduction to Vista at the University of Florida, the core concepts and skills of WebCT Vista. The bootcamp will cover everything from WebCT Vista I and WebCT Vista II and will include a one hour lunch break. |
| WebCT Vista: End-of-Semester | This two-hour workshop will cover working with the Grade Book and Grade-A-Gator; downloading your Grade Book for retention; backing-up and downloading your Vista Section; copying your Vista Section(s) for future use; and deleting old section(s). |
| WebCT Vista: Part One | Come explore the power and flexibility of Vista! Vista is a complete course management system, which permits a full range of online learning activities and allows them to be organized and managed for optimal effectiveness. Vista's customizable interface allows instructors to build courses to support their teaching style and methods. UF has purchased a campus-wide license for Vista; therefore any faculty, staff, or graduate student teaching classes at UF can apply for a Vista course account. |
| WebCT Vista: Part Two | Description: So you want to go deeper, huh? Vista I: Getting Your Feet Wet just broke the surface, you say? Well, here's your opportunity to get a closer look at a few of Vista's more advanced features. |
| WebCT Vista: Respondus | UF now provides two new services from the Respondus company. This class covers using the Respondus online quiz creation software and its integration with WebCT Vista, the Respondus LockDown Browser as an added security measure for online testing, and Respondus StudyMate, a tool that can be used to create flash-based study aids such as flash cards and games. |
| What's New in Office 2007 | In this workshop we will investigate the new Microsoft Office 2007 Fluent Interface. Topics include the Office button, the Ribbon and Tabs, customizing the Quick Access Toolbar, shortcuts and tips for more efficient use of the Office 2007 products. |
