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Vevox – Live Polls | Q&A | Surveys in a QUB Lecture Room

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Vevox: Polls, Q&A, and Surveys Discover how Vevox can transform your teaching practice by fostering real-time interaction and feedback. This hands-on session will explore the platform’s key tools: Polls, Q&A, and Surveys, showing you how to: Gather live feedback to keep your audience engaged. Facilitate seamless Q&A during sessions to address questions effectively. Use surveys […]

Excel 2: Managing Data

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Continuing from Excel 1: Essentials, this course looks at how to arrange and display both numeric and non-numeric data in Excel to present it in a meaningful manner. Through a series of practical exercises, participants will learn about a variety of techniques which can be employed to make spreadsheets more comprehensible, such as sorting, basic […]

Vevox: Getting Started

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Introductory session to Vevox - the University's audience engagement tool which provides interactive polling and surveying for virtual, in-person and hybrid settings. Vevox is a web-based solution available across multiple devices, and also integrates seamlessly into the likes of Microsoft Teams and PowerPoint. Sessions delivered via Microsoft Teams unless otherwise stated. Calendar invite will be […]

Introduction to Power Automate (Microsoft 365)

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Power Automate is a service that helps you build workflows that automate time-consuming business tasks across applications and services. Power Automate can be used to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and more. Power Automate is one of the Microsoft 365 suite of apps. Course objectives: Understand what Power Automates is and how it works […]

Vevox: Getting Started

Microsoft Teams

Introductory session to Vevox - the University's audience engagement tool which provides interactive polling and surveying for virtual, in-person and hybrid settings. Vevox is a web-based solution available across multiple devices, and also integrates seamlessly into the likes of Microsoft Teams and PowerPoint. Sessions delivered via Microsoft Teams unless otherwise stated. Calendar invite will be […]

Further Power BI

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Power BI is Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) solution for visualising and sharing data. Power BI enables you to quickly develop interactive reports and dashboards and share impactful visualisations with others.   Access on iTrent

Advanced Word Processing: Making Best Use of Word

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This course concentrates on useful features of Word 2007 such as creating master and subdocuments, tracking changes and use of form fields. Auto Text and Quick Parts will also be covered, along with an overview of macros, which can be used to automate repetitive tasks. Participants will learn how to increase their efficiency when word […]

Microsoft Bookings

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Microsoft Bookings is an Office 365 scheduling app that lets you configure an online booking calendar that integrates with Outlook. Use it to create a booking form that allows QUB students and staff (and external contacts), to book a service or resource. It also integrates with MS Teams, so appointments can be set up as […]

OneDrive: An Overview

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The aim of the is session is to introduce you to the key features and functionality of OneDrive to help optimise your use of the app in day-to-day work processes. The session will focus on navigating around the OneDrive landing page (My files, Shared areas etc) and how to easily access folders/files in a SharePoint […]

Using Panopto on Canvas

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Panopto is fully integrated with Canvas VLE. This training session will show you how to use Panopto from within Canvas.  Topics covered include: Accessing Panopto  A tour of the Panopto folder  Creating and uploading videos  Managing your videos  Embedding videos in Canvas pages Adding quiz questions into Panopto videos  General tips and advice Note that […]

Panopto – Getting Started with Lecture Capture

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In this short, introductory session, QUB staff will be introduced to the University's video content management system, Panopto. Panopto is a best-in-class video platform that complements the Unversity's approach to lecture capture and video recordings. It integrates seamlessly with Canvas and can be used to capture recording from your personal laptop/desktop in your office (campus […]

Further Power Automate

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Creating infographics and visual content

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“People expect the world to be so much more visual than it’s ever been before.” David Marcus, Facebook’s Head of Messenger In this workshop we will practice using Piktochart, Canva and Sway, free tools which allow us to create professional, visually appealing social media posts, infographics, newsletters and more.   Access on iTrent

Introduction to Microsoft Publisher

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Using Microsoft Publisher templates, you will learn how to create a range of documents, including brochures, cards, flyers, etc. You will also create documents from a blank document, inserting text boxes and images. Prerequisites: Experience of using other Microsoft applications with ribbon and tabs (Word, etc.) Previous attendance at the Diagrams made easy in Word […]

Build a SharePoint Online Site using Web Parts

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A SharePoint business/communication site allows you to share news, reports, status, and other information in a visually compelling format. When you add a modern page to a site, you add and customize web parts. This course will provide some working examples of Share Point Online Communication sites and how you can build your site by […]

Vevox – Live Polls | Q&A | Surveys in a QUB Lecture Room

Microsoft Teams

Vevox: Polls, Q&A, and Surveys Discover how Vevox can transform your teaching practice by fostering real-time interaction and feedback. This hands-on session will explore the platform’s key tools: Polls, Q&A, and Surveys, showing you how to: Gather live feedback to keep your audience engaged. Facilitate seamless Q&A during sessions to address questions effectively. Use surveys […]

An Introduction to Site Settings (main focus ‘Site Contents’) in SharePoint Online

Microsoft Teams

This course will focus on the Site contents functionality available under Site settings icon. The site contents page provides site owners with a list of all pages, libraries, lists, and other apps on their sites. This session will demonstrate how you can access the familiar view and interaction capabilities of all of the content on […]

Excel: Creating Charts

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This specialised course looks at the improved charting feature in Excel 2007 and discusses some of the different types of charts that can be created, in particular, line, scatter, pie, bar and column charts. It also covers how to edit scientific or statistical charts to include features such as secondary axes and error bars and […]

Manage a Project Using M365 Apps (Part I)

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Virtual Course offered via MS Teams This course (offered over two separate sessions - Part I (1 hour) and Part II (1 hour)) is aimed at staff who wish to become more familiar with M365 suite and how some of its cloud apps available can be used to enhance the delivery and communication of a […]