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The IT Training and Assessment Unit have collated a wide range of training resources, available to both staff and students. These include

  1. Workbooks and exercises (Office 2010, SharePoint and others) developed by Queen's staff
  2. Resources licensed to the University (Velsoft Courseware e.g MS Project, Access, Publisher, Visio, OneNote)
  3. Direction to materials freely available over the Internet (listed below)

Resources 1 and 2 are available from the SharePoint document library, Documents for Visitors (short link: http://go.qub.ac.uk/itdocs) (all staff members (and students) have automatic access using their Queen's Online credentials. For more information contact  itcourses@qub.ac.uk.

Important Information about Windows 7 and Office 2010 [2-page PDF].

Internet

The Internet Detective (online tutorial to distinguish between the good, the bad and the ugly when web searching).

University College Berkeley Guide to quality on the Internet http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

The Virtual Training Suite provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research: http://www.vtstutorials.co.uk/

Matlab

Matlab - on the Mathworks website, sign up for training materials - http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/index.html?s_cid=global_nav On the Queen's Online home page under Research you can download Matlab.

Arcinfo

Arcinfo For training on spatial and mapping analysis see ESRI site http://www.esri.com/ ESRI UK site is http://www.esriuk.com/

Programming

C from StrathClyde University http://www.strath.ac.uk/IT/Docs/Ccourse/ccourse.html

Java getting started http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/index.html

Unix http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/ University of Edinburgh
See also Online E-books available via the Library Web site: http://library.qub.ac.uk/qu_pages/azbook.html#S

Note: You will require Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer to download pdf files. This software can be downloaded from the Adobe website.


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