PeopleSoft - Faculty
During this session you will learn how to view faculty workloads, class rosters, student records, student advisement information, on-line grading and much more. Participation in this class is a requirement for account and security privileges.
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PeopleSoft - Staff
You will learn how to navigate the Student Services Center, obtain information on Work/Study students within your department, class information -- including faculty work schedules and rosters, and how to run departmental reports. Participation in this class is a requirement for account and security privileges.
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Department Chairs and Academic Secretary Training
The Department Chair / Academic Secretary session offers advanced training for newly appointed Chairs and Academic Secretaries. You will learn how to Add/Drop/Swap and Override courses; assign students to/or change an Advisor; and run departmental reports including graduation applicants for a department and degree progress reports.
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Basic SAP Navigation
This Basic SAP Navigation training session is a prerequisite for obtaining a SAP user ID which allows access to the SAP Financial system. Only employees who, as part of their official duties and responsibilities, are required to access budget, financial, and procurement information or to process purchasing requisitions should take this session.
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SAP BI Financial / Budget Reports
Tired of logging into the SAP Finance system to try to find budget and expense data? Confused about submitting the ZBUDSTAT report or the ZFM01_EXP report? The Finance and Business Services division and the Budget Department have a better answer. There is a new web-based financial report that allows you to easily view and/or download financial and budget information to Excel. Find out what is available for determining budget, commitment (encumbrance), and actual expense totals along with the resulting budget balance.
PLEASE NOTE: ONLY A COST CENTER MEMBER / DEPARTMENT MANAGER OR AN OFFICIAL DESIGNEE SHOULD REGISTER FOR THIS SESSION.
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SAP BI Reports Level II
Are you ready to take your SAP BI reporting skills to the next level? Do you want to personalize the initial variable screen so that you do not have to enter the same selection each time you run reports? Do you have a need to limit the reported information to specific time periods (first quarter, second quarter, first half or just a few specific months) within a fiscal year? Do you want to learn how to add criteria or filters to the data? Do you want to save your changes and additions by creating a new view that will be there every time you run the reports? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you should take the SAP BI Reports Level II training.
PREREQUISITE: SAP BI FINANCIAL / BUDGET REPORTS
PLEASE NOTE: ONLY A COST CENTER MEMBER / DEPARTMENT MANAGER OR AN OFFICIAL DESIGNEE SHOULD REGISTER FOR THIS SESSION.
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SAP ZFM01 Reports
Learn how to use the SAP ZFM01 and ZFM01_EXP reports to obtain current budget balances as well as review budget, expense, and commitment (encumbrance) transaction details. This course is available by request.
PLEASE NOTE: ONLY A COST CENTER MEMBER / DEPARTMENT MANAGER OR AN OFFICIAL DESIGNEE SHOULD REGISTER FOR THIS SESSION.
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SAP Electronic Requisitions
A requisition is a document requesting the purchase of goods or services. Electronic requisitioning empowers employees to create and manage their own requisitions while making the procurement process both faster and more responsive. Requisitions are electronically routed to Purchasing and Contract Services for the issurance of purchase orders. This electronic purchase requistioning class covers how to create and manage purchase requisitions. Only employees who, as part of their official duties and responsibilities, are required to purchase goods or services should take this session (pre-approval or appropriate cost center manager is required).
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SAP Multi-Year BI Reports
This new SAP BI report is designed to provide a financial/ budget history for multi-year entities like scholarships, grants, endowments, and projects. These fund centers typically span multiple years while the initial SAP BI report is limited to reporting on one specific fiscal year at a time. With this new BI report,users can get a complete SAP history for one or more of these multi-year entities. This course is available by request.
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BI Reporting To Go
Do you have some specific questions about using the SAP BI reports? Don’t want to sit through an entire class again? Then this is the place for you. Just “drop in” for a few minutes to cover your specific questions and then “drop out” when you are comfortable with the answers. Questions will be answered on a “first come ~ first served” basis. Just show up anytime between 9:00 AM and 11:30 AM.
Note: For existing BI users only.  New users must take the full intro class.

PDF Forms
Creating forms no longer needs to be a major challenge. With Adobe LiveCycle Designer you can create user friendly forms from existing documents created in Word or other Office applications. This software will analyze your file and place form fields where needed based on its appearance. You will learn how to create fillable forms that can be submitted back to you via email by the click of a button.

Introduction to PhotoShop
Get your feet wet with the industry standard tool for manipulating digital images. Learn how to work with images and discover the potential of this award winning application.

Introduction to Dreamweaver
Expand your web design knowledge. Experience how simple it is to create and manage a professional web site using Macromedia Dreamweaver. You will gain a basic understanding of this web development application. Contribute Learn how to update your department website with the new Content Management software, Contribute. Discover how to collaboratively author, review, and publish web content without needing to know Dreamweaver or HTML.
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Introduction to Adobe Contribute
Contribute is a simple word editor that allows you to add tables, images, links, modify fonts, colors, etc. to web pages without ever viewing the code!
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Web Design for Contribute Users
Your competition is just a click away. Come learn how to best design your site to attract users and how to keep them interested in coming back. Topics include: homepage design, navigational menus, structure of secondary pages, as well as, the general dos and don'ts of web design.
PREREQUISITE: CONTRIBUTE

Fundamentals of D2L
This session will provide an overview of the D2L interface, loading content, and communicating with students. Participants will also receive a demonstration of key features that D2L offers.
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D2L Refresher
Forget how to use D2L? Brain freeze after the long summer? Then join us in this refresher course to bring your knowledge up to speed. Topics to be covered include: Copying your course from a previous session, Activating your course, Using the Gradebook and much more!

D2L: Gradebook
In this training session, instructors will learn how to set up gradebook items and categories, enter grades, weight grades, develop grading schemes, and adjust gradebook settings.
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D2L Open Lab
If you need help with your D2L course, have any particular questions about D2L, want to learn how to use a new D2L tool or just want to pick the brains of the D2L experts then this session is for you. This is a drop in session and a D2L expert will be on hand for the entire duration of the session to answer any questions you might have.

D2L: Quizzes and Exams
This workshop will show faculty how to create online Quizzes and Exams. Features of D2L Quizzes and Exams include: automatic grading, setting time limits and date restrictions, and report generation.
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D2L Homepage and Navigation Design
In this session you will learn what a widget is, and how to use them to customize the "Course Home" area of your course. Attendees will learn how to embed tools, links to content, and even videos to be available to students as soon as they access the course.
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D2L External Tools: Blogs, Wikis, and Journals
Are you interested in advancing your class discussions through D2L? Thanks to CampusPack External Learning Tools, faculty members can now create class blogs and journals to engage students in discussion and self-reflection. In this training, you will learn the basics to setting up a blog or journal in your D2L course, and different ways in which others have utilized this tool.

Using Impatica in D2L
Impatica is an application that will transform your narrated PowerPoints into a web formatted video. To be covered in this session: PowerPoint Narration, Using Impatica and uploading the videos to D2L.
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D2L: Discover ePortfolio
This session will focus on the D2L tool ePortfolio. It will explain the benefits to students and faculty and how it can be used in a classroom setting.

D2L Course Maintenance
The objective of this workshop is to demonstrate best practices in "closing" courses after the semester has ended, and start preparing content for the next term. Faculty will learn to Export their Gradebook, turn off old courses, and copy content into new courses.

D2L: Dropbox
This workshop will show faculty how to create online assignments that are electronically submitted and then graded, all in D2L. This course also provides instructors the ability to check papers for plagiarism using the TurnItIn Learning Tool. TurnItIn assisngments are securely and seamlessly submitted on D2L and are checked for plagiarism using TurnItIn's databases.
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D2L: Groups and Discussion Boards
This workshop will cover how to set up Discussion Boards and Groups in your course. Topics to be covered are: Discussion Board settings: restrictions, locking and unlocking forums and topics, grading and linking the discussion boards to your content, as well as the Groups tools: dividing students into Groups on D2L, setting up Group Discussion Boards, Group Lockers and Group Dropboxes.
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Wimba Live Classroom and Mediasite
This session will showcase the various web conferencing technologies that increase student involvement. The Pros and Cons of products like MediaSite, Adobe Connect, Skype, and Wimba will be under the microscope as we identify solutions face-to-face, hybrid and distance courses.

D2L: Kaltura Video Streaming
This workshop will cover the Kaltura audio/video streaming service, Kaltura allows faculty to upload and embed high quality media to D2L. You will learn how to upload the videos and insert them into your D2L course.

D2L: Collaborate/Kaltura
In this session, we will explore the comprehensive learning platform Collaborate, and Media Streaming service Kaltura.  Attendees will learn the advantages of using Collaborate for virtual class time, electronic real-time breakout rooms for group work, and even online office hours.  They will also learn how to upload audio and video to Kaltura to add rich streaming content to your course.

D2L: Wimba/Collaborate
This session will showcase the various collaboration tools Wimba and Collaborate have to offer.  These applications allow faculty to hold online classes, virtual office hours, webcasts, guest lecturers and online meetings. 

Distance Education Seminar Series
This is an ongoing seminar series that will be conducted by the Distance Education office. The first session of this series is an introduction to screencasting for Online and Hybrid courses using Camtasia.
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Mobile Pedagogy for Distance Education
Ready or not, we are entering the Post-PC era. A time when mobile technology, such as the Apple iPad, will change how we teach and how we learn in the Higher Education classroom. It must be said that no technology can answer all of our educational needs and each comes with both benefits and drawbacks, but when we consider how quickly the move to the Post-PC era is happening it is imperative that we close attention. This presentation will bring together the latest research, and the stories, from one-to-one mobile initiatives from around the country.
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Introduction to PowerPoint 2010
This introductory course gives instruction on creating a basic PowerPoint presentation, as well as explains various features and design methods that can be applied when creating new slides.
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Introduction to Publisher 2010
Microsoft Publisher 2010 is a publishing program that allows users to create professional looking documents such as newsletters, flyers, brochures, gift certificates, and business cards. Program includes several different pre-designed templates that make it quick and easy to create a professional-looking document.
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Introduction to Outlook 2010
This course provides detailed instruction for utilizing the organizational features in Outlook 2010. It also highlights changes and improvements put in place since the 2007 version.
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Outlook Calendar 2010
Utilize the electronic calendar in Microsoft Outlook to schedule appointments, arrange meetings, and generally organize your time. Learn how to "digitize" your date book and improve professional and personal efficiency. New 2010 features include a really simple calendar sharing process, calendar snapshots, task integration into your calendar and improved scheduling capabilities.
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Introduction to Excel 2010
This course provides instruction for creating a basic spreadsheet in Excel 2010, as well as how to apply various functions and features within your spreadsheet.
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Advanced Excel 2010
Master the advanced techniques Excel has to offer, such as linking worksheets, adding graphics, and the new feature "text to speech".
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Charts and Graphs in Excel 2010
In this session you will learn the basics of chart design as well as learn about the feature, Sparklines. Excel 2010 Managing Data Provides instruction for managing data recorded in Microsoft Excel 2010
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Managing Data in Excel 2010
Provides instruction for managing data recorded in Microsoft Excel 2010.
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Essentials of Word 2010
The Word Essentials course provides instruction for all of the basic functions of Microsoft Word. The course navigates through each tab on the Microsoft Word Ribbon, and explores the various functions and actions that are possible within these tabs. It does not cover every single button on the toolbar, but it provides an excellent foundation for basic proficiency in Microsoft Word.
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Mailmerge for Word 2010
Learn how to create and customize various document types for mass mailing with this time-saving tool. Utilize Word 2010 functionalities to produce professional form letters or mailing labels.
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Advanced Word 2010
Learn how to use the various page layout, review and reference features in Word 2010.
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Introduction to SharePoint
This class is open to current individuals who have been assigned rights to a WCU SharePoint site. This class concentrates on the non-technical user who will view, edit and contribute content to a Site.
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Creating a Teamsite
This class is open to current individuals who have been ASSIGNED OWNER RIGHTS to a WCU SharePoint site.  This class concentrates on the technical user who is responsible for editing their SharePoint homepage, creating libraries, lists and editing permissions for the users of the site.
PREREQUISITE: MUST BE A WCU SHAREPOINT SITE OWNER
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Web Parts: SharePoint 2010
This class is open to current individuals who have been assigned owner rights to a WCU SharePoint site.  This class concentrates on the technical user who will learn how to add and edit web parts on their SharePoint site.
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Working with Libraries: SharePoint 2010
Working with Libraries and Lists SharePoint 2010: This class is open to current individuals who have been assigned owner rights to a WCU SharePoint site. This class concentrates on the technical user who will learn how to create and customize libraries and lists within their SharePoint site.
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Introduction to SMART Board
Have you been to a classroom and wondered how to use the new Smartboard? This session will review the basics of Smart technology and how to incorporate it into your classroom.
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SMART Board Notebook
This course provides instruction on how to work with SMART Board Notebook to create presentation content. Highlighted topics include working with SMART Board tools to create Notebook content, and using existing resources for content creation, including SMART Exchange, Gallery Essentials, and Lesson Activity Toolkit.
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SMART Podium Basics
Have you been to a classroom that has a Smart Podium and wondered how to use it? This session will review the basics of Smart technology and how to incorporate the Smart Podium into your classroom presentations. Participants are encouraged to bring a presentation of their own to try with the Smart Podium.
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Introduction to Camtasia
This class will be an introduction to Camtasia.  Class will include a tour of the Camtasia workspace as well as an opportunity to complete a short project. A discussion of best practices of the use of Camtasia will be included.
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Digital Signage
Learn how to display your advertisement on the Digital Display flat screens located across campus. Whether your advertisement is for an event, activity or announcement; the Digital Display screens are a fast, green and a free advertising avenue. Learn how to create dynamic ads and learn how to run your ads on the Digital Displays. Learn more about Digital Displays.
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Scantron Test Scoring
The Scantron is the machine used to scan and grade grid/bubble test answer sheets. In this class, participants will be able to bring some completed grid type tests and learn how to use the scanning machine to grade them. This session is an “open lab” type class where participants may come in at any point during the scheduled times and learn how to use the machine.
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Introduction to Presentation Room Classrooms
Come to this session to learn firsthand how to operate the controls in the presentation classrooms.

A Presentation classroom is designed to meet all of the basic multimedia needs. This facility provides the Instructor with a projector, a supporting audio system and a wall plate with appropriate connections for a Laptop/PC, and in some locations, a connection for a VCR/DVD. Instructors will be responsible for bringing the needed equipment to connect to the presentation system.

Promoting the Creative and Useful Arts on Campus
Digitization has created new opportunities to post and access a myriad of new content and services. How do you determine if you need to obtain permission and what avenues to follow in order to use the intellectual property of others?

Copyrights and Lefts
Changes in copyright laws have international impact. Learn what are your exclusive rights as authors but also what rights are left to you as educators! Copyright is a balance between protection of the author's exclusive rights and the exception to these rights for certain purposes.

Computer Club
This class is specially designed for individuals to practice typing skills, check e-mail, and perform other basic computer tasks with the assistance of a software trainer.

Safe Surfing at WCU
How do you keep your computer safe while surfing the internet? In a world where security is constantly changing it can be hard to protect your computer. In this class you will acquire knowledge and some best practices you can use to surf safely.

Creating Online Surveys (Using Survey Monkey)
Online surveys have become an important mechanism for gathering information, conducting research and performing assessments. Survey Monkey is an online tool for developing and launching online surveys, which also includes functionality for compiling and analyzing respondent data. Come learn the basics of this inexpensive and feature-filled program.
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Computer Maintenance
Software Maintenance and Disk Clean Up
FTP

D2L
Uploading Content

MS Office
Electronic Signatures
Excel '07 - Auto Sum and Other Functions
Excel '07 - Inserting Charts
Excel '07 - Manipulating Cells
Excel '07 - Splitting Columns
Outlook '07 - Add a Mailbox
Outlook '07 - Create a .PST File
Outlook '10 - Creating a Rule
PowerPoint '07 - Printing Multiple Slides
PowerPoint '07 - Review
Set Word '07 to look like Word '03

myWCU
Scheduling Classes

SharePoint
SharePoint 2010

Smartphones
Mobile Device Shortcut
Webmail Configuration - Smartphones and iPhones
Webmail Configuration - Android and Blackberry

Other
Accessing Public Folders
Changing Names in Webmail
Double-Sided Printing

Fake Emails
Presentation Room Projector

Introduction to Windows 7
The Windows 7 Intro course provides basic instruction for navigating within Windows 7, as well as introduces changes and developments that have been made since Windows Vista. It is a hands-on course with the opportunity for Q&A.
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Introduction to Clickers
This class will be an introduction to the use of Student Response Systems or “Clickers”. Class will include a demonstration of how the polling works. Also the participant will learn the software that is used for the polling process. A discussion of best practices with the use of clickers will be included. Information about how to obtain clickers for class will also be shared.
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Clicker Make and Take
This class will be an opportunity to use Student Response Systems/“Clickers” and the Turning Technologies software with the assistance of a trainer and other colleagues. Class will include an overview of the software and a discussion of best practices with the use of clickers.
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Introduction to Mediasite
This training session focuses on the audio and video lecture capture device, Mediasite. We will give you an introduction to the product as well as discuss the benefits of using the device. If you are unable to attend the scheduled Mediasite training sessions contact Theresa Boppell for one-on-one training.
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Mediasite Workshop "Make and Take"
This training session allows participants to try Mediasite with a short presentation (bring your own).  You will be provided with a sample link of your recording after the session. We will also train you on how to operate the equipment and best practices for creating recordings.
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