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You will receive hands-on instruction and practice installing, managing storage and computer by using Windows Server 2016, including Windows Server 2016 vB, in this Microsoft Official Course.

This course is part one in a series of three courses that provides the skills and knowledge necessary to implement a core Windows Server 2016 infrastructure in an existing enterprise environment. The three courses collectively cover implementing, managing, maintaining and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2016 environment.

Although there is some cross-over of skills and tasks across these courses, this course focuses on the initial implementation and configuration of core services, such as Networking, Storage, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Group Policy, File and Print Services, and Hyper-V.

This course maps directly to and is the preferred choice for hands-on preparation for the https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/mcsa-windows-server-2016-certification.aspx#cp-section3-head, which is the first of three exams required for MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification.

For those who wish to commence with the MTA entry-level credential from Microsoft there are a number of Online courses listed in Related courses below that would be relevant.

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A series of very useful quick tip videos on using Microsoft Teams for Education, Teaching & Learning, provided by Microsoft Education.

The series can be acccessed here.

A introductory guide on the use of to specific educational technologies to support your teaching can be found on the CCTL website.

This course is designed to introduce Microsoft SharePoint features as a site owner. It covers how to create SharePoint components, manage workflow and setup site permissions.

This course is designed to introduce Microsoft SharePoint features as a user with little or no knowledge of SharePoint. It covers basic understanding of SharePoint components, navigation, and site content handling.

There is a follow on course for site owners / administrators Microsoft SharePoint for More Advanced Users

This course introduces the most commonly used features of SharePoint 2013 on premise and SharePoint Online platforms. It covers topics that will assist institutions in evaluating SharePoint for their institutional requirements. During the course there will be discussion on how to implement SharePoint solutions in existing or new SharePoint deployments. It is beneficial to have your institution requirements prepared for class discussion.

• The Microsoft Education channel on YouTube #MicrosoftEDU has a variety of training videos spotlighting the use of Office 365 in education

The training can be accessed on the Education Channel.

This is an opportunity for Cambridge’s teaching staff to see guest speaker, Dale Munday from Lancaster University, showcase how Lancaster University are using MS Teams in higher education.

NOTE: UIS is currently undertaking a review of all the digital collaboration services it provides with a view to rationalising the number of solutions it supports in future. Microsoft Teams is one of the solutions included in the scope of the review. The review is still in progress, and no decisions about which solutions UIS will support in future have yet been reached. This external speaker event is being hosted by UIS independently of the review, and is solely intended to share information about what other HE establishments are doing in the digital education space.

MS Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, and apps together in one 21st Century teaching and learning space. Educators can create collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, and communicate from a single experience in Office 365 for Education allowing them to create rich, persistent conversation makes learning more visible and accessible to the entire class.

Teachers can engage students in project-based learning with text, video, and voice using integrations. Harnessing student social interactions allow educators to enhance the learning and provide an engaging space to assess and feedback. The opportunity to empower students while helping them develop the skills they'll need to be successful in the future will be demonstrated throughout the session. Approaching assessment & feedback as an ongoing dialogue presented in multi-modal and digital form can support opportunities for learning that are creative, critical, and mirror our increasingly digitally-mediated society.

Delegates will be guided through Microsoft Teams and the process of utilizing a range of digital tools to create an engaging, inclusive and pedagogically underpinned curriculum/classroom. The session will focus on active learning approaches, harnessing the opportunities afforded through digital technologies, where inclusion and collaboration will be at the forefront. Amplifying the synergy between Microsoft Teams and the associated Class OneNote will demonstrate the power of individualised student portfolios and the variety of teaching approaches that can be enhanced through this delivery resource. Building on recent research, which explored the impact of drawing on to-be-learned information, highlighted enhanced memory and found it to be a reliable, replicable means of boosting performance. Teams & Class OneNote allow teachers and students to use digitally handwritten notes, drawings and graphic organisers to enhance the learning experience.

Miro is a online collaboration whiteboarding platform. This course is an online course delivered by the Miro.

This course wil show you how to facilitate retrospectives, backlog refinement, and remote team building in Miro.

If you do not have an account for Miro, you will be asked to create an account before accessing the course.

To access this course click here.

Miro is a online collaboration whiteboarding platform. This course is an online course delivered by Miro Academy.

This course wil show you how to work with the board, collaborate with my colleagues, and organize my team.

If you do not have an account for Miro, you will be asked to create an account before accessing the course.

To access this course click here.

Miro is a online collaboration whiteboarding platform.

These short online videos from Miro help you to get started in under 15 mins.

If you do not have an account for Miro, you will be asked to create an account before accessing the course.

To access these videos click here.

Miro is a online collaboration whiteboarding platform. This course is an online course delivered by the Miro.

This course wil show you how other UX design teams use Miro for research, customer journey maps, and workshops.

If you do not have an account for Miro, you will be asked to create an account before accessing the course.

To access this course click here.

This beginners course equips you with the skills to implement a relational database design entity relationship diagram (ERD) into a MySQL database. Please be prepared for a fast paced course, but the materials provided can be used for consolidation after the course.

This is a course created by the professional academic trainers at NVIVO and selected for curation by UIS training staff.

The course can be accessed here

This is a course created by the professional academic trainers at NVIVO and selected for curation by UIS training staff.

The course can be accessed here

This course will introduce NVivo a Computer Aided Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) which supports qualitative and mixed methods research. It provides a means to collect, organise and analyse content from interviews, focus group discussions, surveys and audio.

These are a series of free webinars run by the professional academic trainers at NVIVO and selected for curation by UIS training staff.

You can access the webinars here

Please note! Other courses which may be found on the NVIVO site will need to be paid for.

Haven't had the time to fully explore all that Excel, Word and PowerPoint has to offer? If so, now's your chance to pick up a few handy tips that you may not have discovered yet. You can save a lot of time and effort working with Excel, Word and PowerPoint if you know a few tricks and shortcuts.

Do you keep hearing the term collaborating online and are wondering if you and your co-workers should be doing it, or if you are doing it correctly? If so, this one-hour instructor-led course is for you. The session will blast through the jargon of OneDrive and SharePoint to explain how working online together can improve productivity, and it will give you hands on practice collaborating in real time using Word and Excel. By the end of the session your questions will be answered and you'll be working online with confidence.

• This is the In Person Face to Face version of the Live Online Office 365: Collaborating Online Top Tips - Bitesize Learning course.

Please Note: It is important that when you book on this course, on your booking confirmation page, click on Add to Calendar to start the process to import the course appointment into your calendar.

• See Related Courses below to take your skills further

Do you keep hearing the term collaborating online and are wondering if you and your co-workers should be doing it, or if you are doing it correctly? If so, this one-hour instructor-led course is for you. The session will blast through the jargon of OneDrive and SharePoint to explain how working online together can improve productivity, and it will give you hands on practice collaborating in real time using Word and Excel. By the end of the session your questions will be answered and you'll be working online with confidence.

The link to join the course is sent in the booking and reminder emails.

Confused between Office 365 and OneDrive and Office Online? Want a clear explanation of these and help getting started? Then this course is for you.

After a short presentation there will be the opportunity to set up your Office 365 account and use Office Online. You can try the new online applications such as Sway, Yammer or Forms and collaborate with others using online documents. Also bring your own device if you would like to get support installing the applications or working online away from your desk.

To participate in the course activities, if you have not already done so, you will need enable your account by synchronising your UIS Password with your University Microsoft account. Please do this at least one day before the class.

This 90 hour online course introduces you to the techniques and tools required to develop database driven web applications. The course teaches you how to design, develop and deploy beautiful, responsive, database-driven web applications using Oracle Application Express. Leveraging project-based learning techniques, you will create and work with projects which challenge them to design, implement, and demonstrate a database-driven web application solution for a business or organisation.

This course should be taken after Database Programming with PL/SQL

This 40 hour course of study builds on the skills gained by students in Java Foundations and Java Programming. Students are introduced to Machine Learning concepts within Artificial Intelligence and will learn terminology, syntax, and the steps required to create a Machine Learning solution in Java using hands-on, engaging activities. There is no external exam associated with this course.

This 180 hour online course engages you to analyse complex business scenarios and create a data model—a conceptual representation of an organisation’s information. It comprises two equally sized halves, DB design, and DB programming using SQL.

You will implement your database design by creating a physical database using SQL. Basic SQL syntax and the rules for constructing valid SQL statements are reviewed. This course culminates with a project that challenges you to design, implement, and demonstrate a database solution for a business or organisation.

Exam Information

Through Oracle's Certification paths, you demonstrate a professional level of technical skills recognised throughout the information technology industry, this gives you a competitive edge in your career.

Completion of Database Design and Programming with SQL course prepares you close to being ready to sit the optional external exam Oracle Database SQL | 1Z0-071. Read more about this exam.

If you have no or little database experience and want to learn database design techniques using a modelling tool and to begin programming using SQL to implement and query databases using hands-on, engaging activities, this 90 hour course is for you. This course should be taken before Database Design and Database Programming with SQL .

The course teaches you relational database terminology, as well as data modelling concepts, building Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), and mapping ERDs. Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeller is utilised to build ERDs and Structured Query Language (SQL) is used to interact with a relational database and manipulate date within the database. Leveraging project-based learning techniques, you will create and work with projects which challenge you to design, implement, and demonstrate a database solution for a business or organisation.

Exam Information

Through Oracle's Certification paths, you demonstrate a professional level of technical skills recognised throughout the information technology industry, this gives you a competitive edge in your career.

Completion of Database Design and Programming with SQL course prepares you close to being ready to sit the optional external exam Oracle Database Foundations | 1Z0-006. Read more about this exam.

This 180 hour course introduces you to PL/SQL, Oracle’s procedural extension language for SQL and the Oracle relational database. Participants explore the differences between SQL and PL/SQL. You also examine the characteristics of PL/SQL and how it is used to extend and automate SQL to administer the Oracle database. This course culminates with a project that challenges you to program, implement, and demonstrate a database solution for a business or organisation.

Exam Information

Through Oracle's Certification paths, you demonstrate a professional level of technical skills recognised throughout the information technology industry, this gives you a competitive edge in your career.

This online course prepares you toward the external exam (please note that this exam retires on 31-October-2020): Oracle Database 11g: Program with PL/SQL Exam Number: 1Z0-144 Read more about this exam and its associated fee.