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Tue 28 Jun 2016

Tuesday 28 June 2016

09:00	Fire Warden and Use of Fire Extinguishers Training (1 of 2) Finished 09:00 - 10:30 Greenwich House, Cairo Room Fire Warden training (0900-1030) will give clear instruction of the roles of designated fire wardens and assist fire safety managers to comply with current fire safety legislation. Use of Fire Extinguisher training (1045-1145) provides hands on experience in the correct use of portable fire extinguishers.
09:15	Finance Division - Taster Session - Helpdesk/Cash Management Finished 09:15 - 12:00 To provide an opportunity for someone from elsewhere in Fin Ops to spend a day in the Accounting Services Team to get an overview and appreciation of the function of the Helpdesk and Cashier.
09:30	Level 5 in Leadership and Management (6 of 6) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Greenwich House, Edmonton Room We are reviewing and redeveloping provision for leadership development at this level. The Level 5 programme is not scheduled to run at this time. Please visit our Leadership & Management training provision page to see currently available leadership and management development provision.
	GL Part 1: Getting Started in the General Ledger module Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) This course enables users to learn the basics of how the General Ledger module works, how to run online account enquiries and how to process journals.
	Excel 2010/2013: Functions and Macros (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 1 This course covers some of the more challenging functions such as IF, SUMIFS and VLOOKUP. Please note that the recorded macro section uses automated steps and does not teach VBA programming, if you want to learn VBA then please see the self-taught course Programming in VBA - Using Microsoft Excel 2013. Not all chapters will be taught in full due to time constraints but are included for self-study.
	Excel 2010/2013: Functions and Macros (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 2 This course covers some of the more challenging functions such as IF, SUMIFS and VLOOKUP. Please note that the recorded macro section uses automated steps and does not teach VBA programming, if you want to learn VBA then please see the self-taught course Programming in VBA - Using Microsoft Excel 2013. Not all chapters will be taught in full due to time constraints but are included for self-study.
	Ensembl API workshop (2 of 4) Finished 09:30 - 17:30 Bioinformatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building The Ensembl project provides a comprehensive and integrated source of annotation of mainly vertebrate genome sequences. This workshop is aimed at researchers and developers interested in exploring Ensembl beyond the website. The workshop covers the core, compara, variation and functional genomics (regulation) databases and APIs. The Ensembl Perl API Documentation can be found here. For each of these, the database schema and the API design as well as the most important objects and their methods will be presented. This will be followed by practical sessions in which the participants can put theoretical learning into practice by writing their own Perl scripts. Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book by linking here.
	CULP: French Basic (12 of 15) Finished 09:30 - 11:30 Language Centre, Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
	CULP: Italian Basic (12 of 15) Finished 09:30 - 11:30 Language Centre, Teaching Room 2 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
10:00	Raiser's Edge: Introduction - Essentials 1 Finished 10:00 - 12:30 Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations, Training Room Suite 2 This session will be an introduction to Raiser's Edge, you will be able to search for records, add an individual and pick up key terminology used at CUDAR in relation to Raiser's Edge.
	Medicine: The "Big Four" Databases For Your Literature Search Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session - four medicine and life science databases - widest coverage for your literature search. PubMed is great, but it doesn't cover all the journals relevant to life sciences and medicine. Embase, Web of Science and Scopus can also be relevant and each covers unique material. Come to this hands-on session to learn how to get the best from each of these "4 tops". Participants will need to bring their own laptop or tablet. If you cannot bring your own device, please contact librarytraining@medschl.cam.ac.uk
10:45	Fire Warden and Use of Fire Extinguishers Training (2 of 2) Finished 10:45 - 11:45 Greenwich House, Cairo Room Fire Warden training (0900-1030) will give clear instruction of the roles of designated fire wardens and assist fire safety managers to comply with current fire safety legislation. Use of Fire Extinguisher training (1045-1145) provides hands on experience in the correct use of portable fire extinguishers.
12:00	CULP: Russian Basic 1 (12 of 15) Finished 12:00 - 14:00 Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, Room 207 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
13:00	CULP: German Intermediate 1 (12 of 15) Finished 13:00 - 15:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: German Basic (12 of 15) Finished 13:00 - 15:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	Critical Appraisal For Doctors Finished 13:00 - 14:30 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room Critical appraisal is the process of carefully and systematically examining research to judge its trustworthiness, and its value and relevance in a particular context.' Amanda Burls, What is Critical Appraisal?, Feb 2009 'An Introduction to Critical Appraisal' will help you understand how to critically appraise a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT). Using the CASP Checklist the course covers samples and sample size, randomisation, bias, statistics, significance (P Values and Confidence Intervals) and relevance. We ask that you read a paper that will be provided before you attend the session, in order for us to make the best use of the time together.
14:00	Spanish: Beginner Intensive (7 of 9) Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Department of Engineering, Lecture Room 5 Fun introductory course to Spanish. This course is for those with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.
	Unix: Introduction to the Command Line Interface (Self-paced) (1 of 2) Finished 14:00 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site The course is designed to take someone from having no knowledge of the Unix command line to being able to navigate around directories, and doing simple file manipulation. Then some of the more basic commands, will be introduced, including information on how to get more help from the system itself. Finally accessing remote computers by ssh and the most basic of shell scripts will be introduced.
	CULP: French Intermediate 2 (12 of 15) Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Japanese Basic 1 (12 of 15) Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 2 The courses are delivered in a blended-learning mode, face-to-face and online through CamTools (the Cambridge University virtual learning environment). The focus is on spoken, oral/aural communicative competence. Students are required to attend to online multimedia materials and read the proscribed texts in their own time so that the classroom time is dedicated to face-to-face communication/discussion. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	LabVIEW: Introduction to Making Measurements with LabVIEW and CompactDAQ Finished 14:00 - 17:00 University Information Services, 17 Mill Lane Training Room This instructor-led course has been commissioned by the UIS through National Instruments, a third party company. Secure your spot at this hands-on seminar where you will build a data acquisition system using LabVIEW Software and Compact DAQ Hardware. You will have the opportunity to choose between numerous hands-on exercises that are designed to help you build a data acquisition system, take a variety of sensor measurements, and learn how to program LabVIEW for automating measurements and signal processing.
	JTC: 1-to-1 Language Learning Advice Finished 14:00 - 14:30 John Trim Centre A 30 minute appointment with a Language Adviser to explore learning opportunities and resources to help you with your plans and aims for your language learning. We advise on strategies for autonomous learning across a range of 160+ languages in our learning centre. Click here to view our current index of languages. (Please note that midway through the academic year, if you are seeking advice about our taught courses, you are encouraged to drop in to the Language Centre or book early in the term rather than wait for an appointment. See our website for details.) Advising appointments can be used to: Decide on your short term and longer term goals Discuss learning strategies for independent language study Formulate a personal learning plan Evaluate your progress so far and identify your next steps Talk about ways of shaping a self-study session Explore resources in specialist areas Tackle more challenging aspects of your language learning Consider how taught course options in Cambridge can fit in to a longer term plan Find out more about intensive language courses abroad
15:00	CULP: French Intermediate 1 (12 of 15) Finished 15:00 - 17:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	JTC: 1-to-1 Language Learning Advice Finished 15:00 - 15:30 John Trim Centre A 30 minute appointment with a Language Adviser to explore learning opportunities and resources to help you with your plans and aims for your language learning. We advise on strategies for autonomous learning across a range of 160+ languages in our learning centre. Click here to view our current index of languages. (Please note that midway through the academic year, if you are seeking advice about our taught courses, you are encouraged to drop in to the Language Centre or book early in the term rather than wait for an appointment. See our website for details.) Advising appointments can be used to: Decide on your short term and longer term goals Discuss learning strategies for independent language study Formulate a personal learning plan Evaluate your progress so far and identify your next steps Talk about ways of shaping a self-study session Explore resources in specialist areas Tackle more challenging aspects of your language learning Consider how taught course options in Cambridge can fit in to a longer term plan Find out more about intensive language courses abroad
16:00	CULP: Spanish Intermediate 2 (12 of 15) Finished 16:00 - 18:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Arabic Basic 1 (12 of 15) Finished 16:00 - 18:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 2 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: German Intermediate 2 (12 of 15) Finished 16:00 - 18:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Italian Intermediate 1 (12 of 15) Finished 16:00 - 18:00 Faculty of Classics, Room 2.03 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
	JTC: 1-to-1 Language Learning Advice Finished 16:00 - 16:30 John Trim Centre A 30 minute appointment with a Language Adviser to explore learning opportunities and resources to help you with your plans and aims for your language learning. We advise on strategies for autonomous learning across a range of 160+ languages in our learning centre. Click here to view our current index of languages. (Please note that midway through the academic year, if you are seeking advice about our taught courses, you are encouraged to drop in to the Language Centre or book early in the term rather than wait for an appointment. See our website for details.) Advising appointments can be used to: Decide on your short term and longer term goals Discuss learning strategies for independent language study Formulate a personal learning plan Evaluate your progress so far and identify your next steps Talk about ways of shaping a self-study session Explore resources in specialist areas Tackle more challenging aspects of your language learning Consider how taught course options in Cambridge can fit in to a longer term plan Find out more about intensive language courses abroad
16:30	French: Beginner Intensive (8 of 9) Finished 16:30 - 18:30 Department of Engineering, Lecture Room 5 Introductory course to French. This course is for those with no previous knowledge of French. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.
	JTC: 1-to-1 Language Learning Advice Finished 16:30 - 17:00 John Trim Centre A 30 minute appointment with a Language Adviser to explore learning opportunities and resources to help you with your plans and aims for your language learning. We advise on strategies for autonomous learning across a range of 160+ languages in our learning centre. Click here to view our current index of languages. (Please note that midway through the academic year, if you are seeking advice about our taught courses, you are encouraged to drop in to the Language Centre or book early in the term rather than wait for an appointment. See our website for details.) Advising appointments can be used to: Decide on your short term and longer term goals Discuss learning strategies for independent language study Formulate a personal learning plan Evaluate your progress so far and identify your next steps Talk about ways of shaping a self-study session Explore resources in specialist areas Tackle more challenging aspects of your language learning Consider how taught course options in Cambridge can fit in to a longer term plan Find out more about intensive language courses abroad
18:00	CULP: Spanish Basic (12 of 15) Finished 18:00 - 20:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Spanish Intermediate 1 (12 of 15) Finished 18:00 - 20:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 2 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.