This 1.5 hour session will familiarize you with the My Teamwork features. My Teamwork is a full featured conferencing and collaboration tool that allows employees to have virtual meetings with internal and external entities. This session covers how to upload presentations and attachments, share a file or the entire desktop, use the instant messaging feature, view logs of past presentations, as well as how to record conference call phone conversations and more.

In this two hour session you will learn the basic concepts and skills necessary to create a standard worksheet, navigate in an existing worksheet, use built-in functions and create worksheets using the capabilities of Excel 2003. You will also learn how to create and filter databases, import and edit from HTML, pivot tables and chart report publishing to the web.

In this two hour session you will learn how to work efficiently in Word for Windows, to customize your workplace and to prepare documents with a professional appearance. The techniques presented will also enable you to create documents with an enhanced appearance and format.

In this two hour session you will become proficient using MS Outlook 2003. You will be able to use Outlook 2003 to compose, send and receive e-mail. You will learn how to schedule meetings, appointments and events. You will also learn how to create and store contacts.

In this two hour session you will learn the basic skills necessary to effectively begin creating presentations. Using PowerPoint's Auto Layouts and Wizard features, you learn the basics of working with a graphical program, creating slides and how to show graphic presentations.

This one hour session will help you navigate through the SIS Plus system. You will learn how to view student transcripts, student holds, grades and other student related information.

This two hour session will cover how to access Control-D via Passport and the Web. Employees will learn how to search for reports, view a report, navigate within a report, and print reports. This course is intended for employees who have a need for Control-D and who have requested a Control-D account.

Survey Point is a web-based application for creating surveys and forms online. In this two hour session you will learn to create surveys and define the users who will have access to take the survey. You will also learn how to send electronic invitations to users who may need to take the survey.

This one hour session orients users to the concepts, navigation, and basic functionality of the WebXtender software. Participants will learn how to batch index, query, and make any necessary corrections to documents that have been scanned into an application.

Requirement: Digital Document User

This two hour session orients scanner administrators to concepts, navigation, and basic functionality of the ApplicationXtender and ScanXtender software as well as the scanner. Participants will learn how to scan, batch index, insert, delete, replace, and print documents.

Requirement: Digital Document User

This two hour session provides a general overview of Elluminate. Elluminate is a tool used to enhance collaboration in online/distance education courses. The session will cover available virtual classroom tools such as the full-duplex audio functionality, the interactive whiteboard, instant messaging, and moderator tools. This course is intended for Faculty who wish to use Elluminate to enhance their online courses.

Requirement: Staff Only

This two hour session will give an overview of our new portal -- PALS (Personalized Access to Learning & Services). We will look at some of the basic and advanced features of the new portal environment and address ways the system can add value to communications and daily operations for faculty, staff, and students.

Requirement: PALS-01

This one hour session will provide training on the PALS Calendar. You will learn how to add events/tasks to calendars, create a calendar, set permissions to a calendar, subscribe to a calendar, and create calendar sets.

Requirement: PALS-01

The Course Studio applications give students, faculty, and employees the ability to create and manage homepages for courses. This one hour session will cover how to create links, articles, files, photo content, and announcements. Course Studio is a great way to have a Course homepage and its fast and easy to learn.

Requirement: PALS-01

The Group Studio application gives students, faculty, and employees the ability to create and manage group homepages. This one hour session is beneficial for special group activities, such as, clubs, committees, and organizations.

Requirement: PALS-01

This three hour session will introduce you to Acquisitions and is designed for those new to the Alamo Colleges Finance System. Acquisitions' policies and procedures will be explained and discussed. Participants will learn how to determine aggregate categories, understand commodity codes, gather quotes properly, and much, much more.

To register contact Margie Regalado at 208-8082 or mregalado@alamo.edu.

This two hour session will begin with an introduction to Banner and cover details on Banner access and Security. The session will also familiarize you with the Banner Interface and help you navigate through the various Banner terminology, naming conventions, forms, menus and shortcuts. This course is a prerequisite for all other Banner Training.

This four hour session will introduce you to the basic concepts of the Banner Finance System. The differences between the previous Finance system (Advantage) and the new Banner Finance system will be discussed. You will be introduced to the elements of the Chart of Accounts (FOAPL). You will learn how to monitor your budget, revenue and expenses and prepare budget transfers. Querying techniques will be demonstrated and you will learn to research journal entries.

Prerequisites: ACQ-01, GE-01

This four hour session is for Budget managers and second-level approvers who have the budget responsibility for a department. This course will introduce you to the basic concepts of the Banner Finance System. The differences between the previous Finance system (Advantage) and the new Banner Finance system will be discussed. You will be introduced to the elements of the Chart of Accounts (FOAPL). You will learn how to monitor your budget and approve or disapprove documents, look up approval history and perform budget queries. In addition, the course will address the roles and responsibilities of budget managers.

Prerequisites: ACQ-01, GE-01

This four hour session will introduce you to the purchasing processes using the Banner Finance System. This class is intended for the support staff that will use the Banner Finance System to initiate requisitions and receive purchases, follow up on requisitions, open PO's, vendor codes, commodity codes and related information. Using the guidelines of the Acquisition Department you will learn to track your requests and related encumbrances. You will learn to complete the key forms of the purchasing module. This course will also explain Stores Requisitions and the Direct Pay process.

Prerequisites: ACQ-01, GE-01, FIN-01

"COURSE DISCONTINUED"

This two hour session will introduce you to chargeback using the Banner Finance System. Querying Techniques and researching Journal Entries will be discussed. This training is intended for Banner Support Personnel / Initiators with access to departmental chargeback information.

Prerequisites: ACQ-01, GE-01, FIN-01, FIN-03

[Training provided by Acquisitions Dept] This four hour session will introduce librarians to the purchasing process for library holdings using the Banner Finance System. The class is intended for support staff to initiate library purchase orders (LPO) and receive those purchases. A brief overview of vendor and commodity code searches and other inquiries will be included in the session.

Prerequisite: GE-01, FIN-01, FIN-03

To register contact Margie Regalado at 208-8082 or mregalad@alamo.edu.

This one hour course is an advanced session regarding multiple invoices within direct pays and is intended for Support Personnel/Initiators who have completed Banner Finance Training. Creating a direct pay with multiple vendor invoices allows you to create an unencumbered/uncommitted payment for a vendor (payee) with more than one invoice. (ie. Pay a catering company with multiple invoices with one direct pay).

Prerequisites: ACQ-01, GE-01, FIN-01, FIN-03

Banner Finance Self Service is a secure web-based tool that allows Banner users the convenience of quickly doing many common tasks without having to log into the regular Banner System. Banner Self Service works in conjunction with regular Banner Finance. As a result, anyone with regular Banner Finance rights has the same right available in Banner Self Service; updates done in either Banner Self Service or regular Banner Finance are available in either system in real time. Banner Self Service provides a more flexible and user-friendly interface than regular Banner and can be accessed via any internet connection.

This two hour session is designed to teach participants important concepts and technology that every internet user should know. You will learn about different threats, password protection, SPAM, social engineering, viruses and identity theft. This session will raise your awareness and give you the basic skills to protect data and personal information on the internet. The steps that Alamo Colleges has taken in security will be discussed.

Prerequisites: Faculty, Staff