Free computing and research support workshops for international students. If you're a beginner or a more advanced user and want to improve your skills – come along!
All classes are held in TA 210 (TAFE Building A). Sessions are held on Friday mornings and lunch time, so you should be able to fit some of them in around your timetable.
Date |
Friday
9.00am–11.00 am |
Friday
12.30pm–1.30 pm |
Friday 1 August |
Library catalogues and databases
- Accessing catalogues
- Accessing data/information from journals, periodicals newspapers etc.
Touch typing
|
File management in Windows Explorer
- Folders and sub-folders
- Saving and filing documents
- Manipulating files and folders
Touch typing
|
Friday 8 August |
PowerPoint Session 1
- Creating slides
- Formatting
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Word Session 1
- Shortcut keys
- Language settings
- Spell check and thesaurus
- Word count
- Font types and sizes
- Headers and footers
- Page numbers and breaks
- Alignment, line-spacing, margins and page setup
Touch typing
|
Friday 15 August |
Word Session 1
- Opening and saving documents
- Spell check
- Moving around and highlighting
- Page breaks
- Keyboard shortcuts
|
Library catalogues
- Access, loans and effective search
Internet
- Effective search
- Useful websites
- Language settings
|
Friday 22 August |
Word Session 2
- Formatting (page numbering, headers, footers, margins, line spacing, thesaurus, finding information, copying, cutting, pasting)
- Word count
- Lots of keyboard shortcuts
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PowerPoint Session 2
- Making transitions
- Adding in extras
- Running a slide show
|
Friday 29 August |
Word Session 3
- Creating tables (inserting, deleting, merging, changing column widths, borders, shading, sorting information)
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Excel 1
- Tables: manipulating rows and columns
- Calculations using formulae
- Headers and footers
- Formatting
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Friday 5 September |
Word Session 4
- Table of contents and bibliographies
- Inserting pictures/graphics
- Borders
- Making section breaks
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Excel 2
- Creating and labeling charts and graphs
- Inserting Excel files into Word documents
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