All Amicus Training courses

This course covers the system steps and process required when de-duping and merging records within Amicus.

Learn about the new user interface for Amicus in this short presentation

Learn about the new user interface for Amicus in this short presentation

This course gives you a high level overview of the Amicus system with some hands-on experience for the following:

• How to log in and log out
• How to personalise your dashboard
• How to view reports

This is a pilot run of the Amicus Overview course. Attendance will be by invitation only. For enquiries about this course, please contact Sam Grimley, Will Dixon or Sue Bourne.

This course covers the prospect management functionality within Amicus:

• Identifying a prospect in Amicus
• Wealth ratings in Amicus
• Due diligence data in Amicus

The Prospect Information & Analysis team will give you an overview on key prospect fields and where to find them, they will also be on hand to answer any questions regarding prospect information in Amicus. Do you have any questions around CUDAR's wealth ratings? Do you want to know more about all things fundraising related in Amicus?

If so, come along to this interactive session with members of the Prospect Information and Analysis team who will be happy to answer any questions around this area of Amicus.

Submit any questions you have to amicussupport@admin.cam.ac.uk mentioning this session in the subject line.

For users unfamiliar with the reports area in Amicus, this give you a quick overview of how reports are used in Amicus. We will look at the work that you do in your team and how it goes towards generating valuable reports used by all users of Amicus We will cover the following areas:

• Amicus Reporting Services
• Dashboard
• The report button within Amicus

Please join Sam Grimley to find out what's coming up in the Amicus Development Programme. In this session we will showcase the developments we are working on over the next nine months, we'll share other developments that have been requested but not scheduled yet, and answer any questions you have about these or how to request further changes.

This course covers the system steps involved in creating solicitation cycles. The course gives you hands on experience of adding details for:

• Setting up a solicitation cycle
• Adding a purpose
• Adding a fundraiser
• Adding a strategy
• Requesting due diligence

Find out what standard reports are available to Colleges and where to find them in this short session.

• Learn how to customise your dashboard
• access the new report launched by the College Relations team

This course covers the system steps required to record stewardship details in Amicus.

This is a pilot run of the Amicus Stewardship course. Attendance will be by invitation only. For enquiries about this course, please contact Sam Grimley, Will Dixon or Sue Bourne.

This is an interactive overview session led by teams, showcasing how they are using Amicus and where you can view information that may be useful to you in your role.

If you wish to know more about how other teams use Amicus, use the Register interest box on the left hand side and please state in the Special Requirements section which team you would like an overview with.

This course is for development and alumni relations staff who are delivering Amicus training to their functional areas as part of the system rollout. This workshop is interactive and will cover:

• how the Amicus training sessions will be structured
• familiarisation of the training materials that will be used
• some practical training on how to lead an IT training session

This course covers the system steps to add or edit biographical data in Amicus:

• Adding and editing addresses
• Adding and editing email and phone numbers
• Updating primary contact details
• Adding and editing other biographical information

This course covers the system steps required for updating deceased or gone-away information:

• Updating a record with deceased information
• Updating a record with gone-away information

Following completion of the Amicus Basics course, this session will give you detailed knowledge of:

• Creating volunteers and opportunities
• Assigning volunteers to an opportunity and document checks
• Creating a board or committee
• Withdrawing or deactivating a volunteer
• Coding a speaker
• Creating an alumni group, updating alumni group records and the governance process

For users unfamiliar with the Volunteer module in Amicus, this overview will cover many of the major areas that are used by volunteer professionals. We will look at the work that you do in your team and how it benefits the users of this area in Amicus. We will cover the following areas:

• Activity
• Opportunities
• Creating a Volunteer

This is a pilot run of the Amicus Volunteers course. Attendance will be by invitation only. For enquiries about this course, please contact Sam Grimley, Will Dixon or Sue Bourne.

Learn why its important to record Contact Reports in Amicus. You will learn to find the correct contact, create an Action, then create a contact report which can then be linked to a solicitation cycle.

Add-ins are components which you can add to your Microsoft Office applications in order to provide extra features and functionality. There are three add-ins for Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook and Excel), which you will need to install if you want to be able to use features such as creating letter templates, logging documents and emails back into Amicus and using the Select From Excel found in the Yellow Box Search option

Find out what standard reports are available to Colleges and where to find them in this short session.

• Learn how to customise your dashboard
• access the new report launched by the College Relations team

This course covers the yellow box search functionality within Amicus:

• Creating simple data searches using yellow box searches
• Saving a search
• Transferring search data to a report
• Reporting rules and best practice

Yellow Box Searching is 'advanced searching' in Amicus. You can use it to find specific selections of data or contacts from within Amicus. Many Amicus users use yellow box search in the first step to creating a mailing or inviting contacts to an event. This session will be an introduction to Yellow Box Searching for anyone who has just gained access to Amicus.