IT Skills
The IT Training and Assessment Unit have collated a wide range of training resources, available to both staff and students. These include
- Resources to get started with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, File Management: go to the Queens Online home page, then look in the folder IT and Library Guide
- Office 2010 workbooks and exercises to an advanced level developed by Queen's staff
- Resources licensed to the University (Velsoft Courseware e.g MS Project, Access, Publisher, Visio, OneNote)
- Direction to materials freely available over the Internet (listed below)
Resources 2 and 3 are available from the SharePoint document library, Documents for Visitors. The link to this library is http://go.qub.ac.uk/itdocs [log in as you would to Queen's Online, for any assistance contact itcourses@qub.ac.uk].
Email in the Cloud (or OWA 2010): Reference Guide [PDF]
If you would like to gain an IT qualification (ECDL) please visit the IT Accreditation pages. These qualifications also contibute to credits on the Degree Plus Award.
Important Information about Windows 7 and Office 2010 (2-page PDF).
| New Student's Guide to Library and IT Facilities | The Guide can be accessed via the Queen's Online Home page - in the folder entilted: IT and Library Guides. |
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Core IT Skills [Microsoft Office 2010] |
To getting started with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and File Management go to the home page of Queen's Online where you will find each document, look under IT and Library Guides. The files below are used in the Word exercises. Data Files for Use IT @ Queen's: Facilities for Clubs and Societies.doc | Student Computer Centres.doc  This image has the file name SCCS.gif(To download this file point at the image then press the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON and select Save Picture As from the Menu. Then Save the file with the file name sccs.gif) |
| Internet |
Resources for the course: Refine and Consider the Quality of your Web Searches: 1) Web Searching - Course Outline 2) Searching: The University of California at Berkeley Library have a Five-Step Search Strategy - Step #1 has a a printable form (PDF file) as a guide in analyzing your topic 2) Quality: Notes: Web Sites - Evaluation of Quality: issues and solutions (PDF) and The University of California at Berkeley Library have Webpage evaluation checklist, see link at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Handouts.html#EvalForms The Internet Detective (online tutorial to distinguish between the good, the bad and the ugly when web searching).The Intute 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 |
| 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 QUB Fortran 90 Course slides http://www.pcc.qub.ac.uk/tec/courses/f90/ohp/f90-ohp.html and 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.
