This course is designed as a beginners guide to the Unix and Linux operating systems which have long been popular in academic contexts. Because of its inbuilt strengths in network computing, multi-threading, multi-user computing, Unix forms one of the back bone technologies of the World Wide Web and Linux is becoming increasingly popular as an operating system on desktop computers. The course covers the most basic and frequently used Unix / Linux commands and introduces important concepts in security and managing your computing environment.

This course is for those who wish to add to their existing knowledge of Silva and who have attended the Introducing the Silva CMS course as well as the Silva Intermediate course and who are completely confident with using Silva. The course will use the corporate identity template. It will provide further information about usability, good practice, Google Analytics and introduce a number of external sources (widgets, apps or extra features) in Silva.

Eligibility: This course is available to postgraduates as well as staff.

This course is aimed at Access users who need to extend their knowledge of designing queries and reports in Access 2010.

This course is an introductory level course aimed at those who would like to learn how to write formulae and use functions in Excel for basic statistical purposes. It aims to introduce you to built-in Excel statistical functions and introduce you to  building formulae by hand. The course covers major descriptive measures, some basic plots and introduces the elements of regression analysis.

It's time to take the toil out of finding and using bibliographic data. This talk looks at how the right application can help you in literature searching, compiling databases of reference material and integrating the results with word processing or document production software to handle citations and reference list. We will discuss EndNote and Reference Manager, look at online catalogues and databases and compare them with a different approach pioneered by the web application Zotero.

This is a one day course comprising our Dreamweaver 8 Part 1 and Dreamweaver 8 Part 2 courses. The course will get you started in building your own website using Dreamweaver 8, one of the most popular web authoring packages.

This session is for those familiar with Excel who would like to start to use it to create charts. If you can already create charts in Excel and require more advanced training, please contact the Open Learning Centre.

This lunchtime presentation aims to help you tame your inbox and cope better with email overload. It outlines some simple methods to process messages, and suggests techniques and shortcuts to help you clear your Inbox and keep it that way. It will also suggests ways you and your colleagues can minimise your own contribution to the deluge of emails received every day. Techniques will be demonstrated in Outlook 2010 but the principles are applicable to most email clients.

This one hour briefing session looks at key ways to keep your computer secure. The examples used are based on Windows systems, but topics are relevant to users of other systems including Macintosh computers. There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end. NB: No handouts will be available on the day so please click on More Info to visit the session web page and print handouts to bring along.

Queries help you see your data in different ways, compare data from different tables and can even update fields. There are many different types of Access queries. This course focuses on select queries and includes some grouping and aggregation.