Specialized Training

AIS is happy to arrange training tailored specifically to your office's needs. If your department has a need for one-on-one training, classroom training, or business consulting regarding Datatel, please contact your AIS support person to arrange it.

AIS has recently offered or organized classroom training sessions regarding:

• Financial Aid COD software
• An overview and review of Registrar usage of Datatel
• Informer Web Reporting for the Registrar
• Datatel and Informer for new hires in Admissions and Athletics

Datatel Training

Allegheny hosted a regional Datatel workshop on the new computed column language in Colleague R18. The workshop was held from January 23 to January 25 in Murray Hall, Room 117. For additional training opportunities either locally or at Datatel's headquarters in Fairfax Virginia, visit the Datatel website.

Campus Training Program

Starting in the summer of 2005, AIS has offered a battery of classes tailored to the needs of administrators and staff. Past trainers have included members of AIS, the Learning Commons, Public Affairs, Instructional Technologists and contract employees from Computer Showcase's Learning Center. In 2008 this training program was handed off to User Services and was a complete success! Please visit the User Services website to learn more about general computer training that may be offered by Computing Services.

View sessions offered this year here.

Some of the classes offered in the past have been:

• Charting Your Way Through Excel
• Data Superhero - The Excel Pivot Table
• Making Excel Dance
• Microsoft Excel - The Basics
• Datatel User Interface
• Desktop Publishing (for the rest of us) - Microsoft Publisher
• When Good PowerPoint goes BAD
• Introduction to Microsoft Access
• Changing Data into Information (Microsoft Access Queries)
• Mail Merge - Personalize Your Office Documents
• Road Warrior: Mobile Computing
• Staying Sane - Organization in a Digital World
• Surf Bored - The Web's Next Big Wave
• Get the Word Out - Blogs for Work and Home
• Ways Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Can Work Together
• Get the Picture? (Working with Images)
• Using FormBuilder (Introduction and Advanced)
• Web Email Forms