Office 2007 - New Online Training Offered
The Instructional Technology staff and Service Desk staff are pleased to announce the availability of online training for Microsoft Word 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 (Outlook and Excel coming soon.) These courses are available in the UW Colleges instance of Desire2Learn, https://d2l.uwc.edu.
The courses are set up so they are self paced, have practice exercises and are easy to follow. All UW Colleges and UW Extension staff should be able to log into Desire2Learn using their email username and password.
Registration for Online Office Classes
Once logged into Desire2Learn, look for the blue bar near the top of the screen, just below the UW Colleges logo. There is a link in white text, Online Office 2007 Training on the navigation bar. Click on that link.
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Clicking on this link brings up the Self Registering Course Offerings page.
Step 1: The Description of the course appears, confirming the user has selected the course they want to register for. Click on the Register button to continue.
Step 2 - Note that in most cases, your First Name, Last Name, and Email will be auto-filled for you. To continue with the registration process, please select your Institution from the drop down list, and type your Division (UWEX) or Campus (UWC) in the Division/Campus text box. You DO NOT have to fill in the Org Defined ID text box. Please leave that blank. Finally, click on the Submit button.
Step 3 - Confirmation - This step confirms your enrollment in the course. Once confirming the accuracy of the process please click on the Finish button.
Finally, the user is given the option to go directly to their course, register for another course, or Click on the Done button.
Completing this process will enroll users in the course(s) they want to take. (note: this only works for these two Office 2007 training courses) Users will also receive an automated email form the Service Center confirming their registration.
All problems with the courses or the Self Registration process should be directed to the Service Center using the online form at: http://uwex.uwc.edu/it/forms/service/.
Remember, if you have ideas for the Computing Tip of the Week, please send them to Pat Fellows or Karen Franker. All of the Computing Tips are archived at: http://www.uwex.uwc.edu/outlook/tips/
The new UW Colleges/UW Extension training web site is located at: http://www.uwex.uwc.edu/it/instruct-support/training.cfm . There users will find links to many useful Office 2007 training documents, videos, and web sites. We encourage you to check out this site first when you have questions about Office 2007.