TRAINING AND CONSULTING

The UITS-Kokomo IT Training provides training services to students, faculty, and staff... FREE of charge.

All IU Kokomo students must be technology literate to make effective use of computers, university web services, basic software applications, and technology appropriate to their disciplines or fields. Future employers of IU Kokomo graduates expect them to come prepared with the technology skills to do their job effectively and efficiently.

Faculty and staff must also maintain their skills to be proficient in their job environment and work assisgnments.

Technology is advancing at a rapid rate... Are your computer skills up to date? Check out this Computer Skills Checklist!

Now is the time to develop and improve those skills that will be necessary to start your future career! If you are experiencing problems and need help with your technology skills, IT Training provides tutoring on the topics most important for your success as a student: OneStart®, Oncourse, IU Kokomo Student E-mail, the Microsoft Office Suite, and the Adobe CS tools. Many convenient tutoring options are available, and they are all FREE!!! Instructor-Led Training Workshops, One-on-One Tutoring, Online Tutorials, and Lynda.com!

UITS-Kokomo IT Training Mission Statement: Remove technology roadblocks to enable academic and work-related success at IU Kokomo!

Lynda.com:

Lynda.com is an award-winning provider of educational materials.The lynda.com Online Training Library® (OTL) includes video-based elearning courses on Adobe CS4 and CS5 applications and technologies; Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010; Web design; digital photography, video and audio; Mac applications; programming, and more. Lynda.com's all-star team of trainers and teachers provides comprehensive and unbiased movie-based training to an international membership of tens of thousands of subscribers.

IU staff, faculty, and students statewide can take advantage of fee-free 24/7 access to the entire Lynda.com elearning library.

To access Lynda.com, click here.

TASK-BASED TRAINING INITIATIVES!! UITS-Kokomo IT Training students, faculty, and staff to request training either one-on-one or "in the classroom" training on any of the following topics. Requests and appointments for this training can be made via email to the email account kotrain@iuk.edu or by calling IT Training at (765) 455-9589.

NOTE: Access to some of the accompanying tutorial documents is restricted to students, faculty, and staff of Indiana University. For these tutorials, users are required to log in with university credentials (username and passphrase). If the Log in dialog box displays, the username must be specified as "ads\username" (double-quotes omitted)... the characters "ads\" must precede the username, as shown below. Then, enter the associated password/passphrase and click OK.

Windows Security Log in Dialog Box

Our training initiatives for students are...

PREREQUISITES:

To be successful at IU Kokomo, each student must...

Get their Laptop Set up... Each and every student needs to have their laptop properly set up for classes at IU Kokomo. This includes the installation of several software programs that are needed in every course on campus. Details are listed in the section "Get your Laptop Set Up..." below.

Each and every student will be using the Web applications OneStart and Oncourse during their academic career at IU Kokomo.

OneStart is the universal student portal to all services used by students. OneStart is also used for course enroll/drop/add, tuition billing statements, academic transcripts, along with many other essential student services.

Oncourse is the universal Web application used for all classes. Students access course syllabi, download and submit course assignments, participate in forum discussions, view their grades online, and much more!

Expand the sections below to find out more!

Get your Laptop Set Up for Classes at IU Kokomo:

Students may bring their laptop to IT Training in the IT Support Center and get it set up properly for your classes. IT Training works one-on-one with students to make sure their laptop has all of the proper software and is properly configured for classes on the IU Kokomo campus... all at NO CHARGE! Our "setup" checklist provides:

Easy connection to the campus wireless network (IU Secure),

Properly installed antivirus that is up-to-date and configured to regularly scan for malware,

Installation of the current version of Adobe "free" applications (Adobe Reader, Flash, and Shockwave),

Installation/update for Java,

Installation of recommended Web browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox),

Ability for students to print from their laptop to campus printers (IU Printer Finder and GoPrint),

Proper installation of Audacity plus MP3 encoder,

Installation and configuration of Microsoft Lync for instant messaging faculty and IT Training support,

Installation of Microsoft Office and properly updating of Word's Citation & Bibliography tool for MLA/APA research papers (required).

All installed software is available at NO CHARGE to students. NOTE: This setup process does take from two to three hours and students must stay with their computer during the procedure. Please bring the laptop battery charging cable. The IT Support Center is in the IU Kokomo Library, 2nd floor, Room KA-221, and is open Monday-Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm. Contact (765) 455-9589 for an appointment.

Reminder to students: DO NOT purchase ANY software until you check IUware at http://iuware.iu.edu. Except for a very few specialized applications, all of the software needed for classes at Indiana University is available to students at NO CHARGE!

Onestart & Oncourse online training resources:

OneStart Tutorials (online) ... This online document is a great place to start learning how to use OneStart!
OneStart Tutorial (interactive)

Oncourse Tutorials (online) ... This online document is a great place to start learning how to use Oncourse!
Oncourse Features (online) ... multimedia videos about *all* Oncourse features!

TASK-BASED TRAINING MODULES FOR ACADEMIC COURSEWORK:

The following tutorials focus on common assignments in classes. These tasks include:

Research papers (Microsoft Office Word)
Brochures (Microsoft Publisher)
Multimedia PowerPoint presentations
Large format posters (36" x 48") in vivid color
Podcasts (Audacity)
Web pages (SharePoint Designer)
eBooks and Courseload (Oncourse)
Second Life virtual online environment
Using Microsoft Lync to contact IT Training

These tutorials provide step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow.

NOTE: If you find that you have difficulty with the tutorials and need additional instruction, please contact UITS-Kokomo IT Training! We are eager to assist you, and to enable your success!

Expand the sections below to find out more!

Research Papers... Using Microsoft Word's "built-in" Citation & Bibliography Tool:

Whether you write research papers in APA style, MLA style, Chicago style, or even Harvard or Turabian styles, you can save 90% of the time normally you normally spend adding the bibliography page and in-text citations to research papers! Don't add the bibliography and citations in "old school" typewriter style - character-by-character! Let Microsoft Word do the drudge work for you!

How to... Configure a Word 2010 document for either APA or MLA style (Log in required)
How to... Use the Citation & Bibliography tool in Word 2010 (SP1) (Log in required)

Instant Messaging... Communicating with Microsoft Lync:

IT Training is only an “instant message” away! Install Microsoft Lync (which powers the campus phone system at IU Kokomo) onto your laptop and your cell phone so that you have the ability to connect with IT Training via instant messaging! Then... you can ask your question to IT Training and get a quick answer to your technical issue. We encourage students to add their course instructors along with the IT Training resources, and then use Lync to instant message those resources for assistance.

"How to" use Lync? ... here are some specific tutorial documents from Microsoft for Lync 2010 that will show you how!!

Sign in to and out of Lync 1010 ... come to IT Training in the IT Support Center (KA-221 in the Library) to get connected!
Add a contact ... be sure to add your IU Kokomo IT Training resources ... Gregory Ogle and Mike Lynch
Manage your contacts and Contact list
Create and send an instant message
Change your presence status
FAQ about presence, contacts, and instant messaging

Contacts, presence, and instant messaging ... this is a group of training topics on Lync 2010.

Courseload - eTexts:

Indiana University, and IU Kokomo, are rapidly transitioning to the use of eTexts. eTexts are course textbooks accessed online. The cost of eTexts to students is a very cost effective alternative to traditional hardcopy textbooks. UITS IT-Training provides one-on-oe support and assistance to students as they make the transition to the new eText format. Here are some informative links to get started:

What is Courseload?
Getting started with Courseload
Using Courseload with eTexts
Courseload: Help contents
Using Courseload offline
At IU, how can I use Internet Explorer to access Courseload?

Library - E-books and Library online databases:

The IU Kokomo Library provides access to online E-books from a variety of providers, both subscription-based and free. All of these E-books are accessible via standard Web browsers (e.g. IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.). If you have questions about how to find, read, and/or download E-books from our Library databases, please contact a Librarian at our Ask a Librarian services desk.

NOOK - Barnes & Noble eTexts:

Some course eTexts are made available through Barnes & Noble and their NOOK facility. Here are some links that might be helpful...

How to... Print to NOOK Study
How to... Marking, Highlighting and Note-Taking
How to... Search
How to... Study on the Go
How to... Write a Paper

Multimedia PowerPoint presentations:

Create terrific PowerPoint presentations for course presentations that incorporate audio narrative clips, music clips, videos, timed slides, and all PowerPoint graphic effects into presentations that run as stand-alone multimedia presentation! Terrific for course projects!

How to... Create a multimedia presentation with embedded autio clips and timed slide transitions (Log in required)

Printing Large Format Posters for Projects and Symposiums:

Print course project and symposium posters (typically 36" x 48") in beautiful color! Use Microsoft PowerPoint to creat the posters and then print the psters on the HP DesignJet 4520 Multi-function printer in the Library Learning Comons! The cost to print the posters is very cost competitive compared to printing them at local commercial businesses!

How to... Create a large format poster in PowerPoint and print it on INDIGO! (Log in required)

Need assistance? Get with IT Training! We will help you GET IT RIGHT the first time!

Annotating PDF documents with Adobe Reader X:

Annotate PDF documents (for example, journal articles!) with text highlighting and sticky note comments and then save the document with those embedded annotations. No longer do you have to print out journal articles on paper and use a highlighter marker and Post 'em notes to annotate the article... do it electronically! Save paper... Go GREEN! This is a new feature of Adobe Reader X!

Adding annotations to PDF documents in Adobe Reader X ... Turn on your speakers to listen to this tutorial! (Adobe Acrobat User Community)

Using Audacity for Podcasts:

Learn how to record voice narratives and trim/clip music files, save them as MP3 files, and then embed the files into multimedia PowerPoint presentations.

Second Life at IU Kokomo! :

Some Fall 2012 online courses will be conducted completely in the Second Life environment. Students will meet online in the Second Life environment. For more information on Second Life, visit the links below:

About the IU Island in Second Life (IU Knowledge Base Article)
Second Life Quickstart (Second Life Knowledge Base Article)
Second Life KNOWLEDGE BASE (All the information you'll ever need about the Second Life virtual environment!)

Create professional-quality tri-folds with Microsoft Publisher:

These are great for projects and for handouts!

Web pages - Indiana University "Mypage" server = Mercury server:

To gain access, and to be able to use the Mypage server at http://mypage.iu.edu, it is necessary to set up an account on the Mercury server. To set up an account on the Mercury server, go to http://itaccounts.iu.edu... and follow the simple steps below:

1. Open a Web browser and go to http://itaccounts.iu.edu.
2. On the “Welcome to the Account Management Service at Indiana University” page, click on the Manage my IU computing accounts link.
3. Log in using your credentials (IU Kokomo computing account username and passphrase).
4. On the next page, click on the create more accounts: link.
5. On the next page, scroll down and select the Mypage/Mercury option.
6. Click the Create Account button.

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your Mercury account to be created. You will not have access to the Mypage/Mercury server until your account has been created. If you are experiencing trouble creating and accessing your Mypage/Mercury account, please contact IU Kokomo IT support Center for assistance at (765) 455-9315 or by e-mail at kohelp@iuk.edu. The IT Support Center is located in the Library in Room KA-221 (2nd floor).

Reference documents on the IU Knowledge Base:
"At IU, what is Mercury?"
"At IU, what is Mypage, and how can I publish a Web page there?"
"At IU, how do I remove my personal Web page?"

"At IU, what is the policy for information on personal web pages?

For more information about creating Web pages on the Mypage/Mercury server, go to the Indiana University UITS (University Information Technology Services) Knowledge Base and search for the keywords mypage and mercury.

FTP Client to upload personal Web content to IU "Mypage" server (Mercury):

To upload personal Web content to an established account on the "Mypage" (Mercury) server, students use an FTP client.

On campus workstations, the AnyClient FTP client is installed in both the Windows environment and the Mac OS environment...

To download the AnyClient FTP client to personal laptops, students can click this link <AnyClient> and download/install the client from IUware.

A tutorial is available for using AnyClient FTP client: How to... Use the AnyClient FTP client to upload Web content to the IU "Mypage" (Mercury) Web server

OTHER TRAINING RESOURCES

Here are links to more important information:

Tutoring Services:

Tutoring services are provided on campus by Gregory Ogle and Mike Lynch. To schedule an appointment, click this Tutoring Services link.

One-on-One Tutoring is available in two ways, either by appointment (preferred) or walk-in.
Tutoring sessions are up to 90 minute sessions (maximum per session).
Tutoring sessions are conducted in the Library Study Rooms Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. Sessions after 5:00pm when the Library is open are by appointment only.
Tutoring sessions may be conducted evenings or weekends in the Library, although by appointment only.
Tutoring sessions for staff and faculty can be conducted in their office (on campus), by request.

Tutoring services are available for any of the IT Training Iniatives listed above plus Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook. Tutoring is also available for Visual Studio tools (Visual Basic and Visual C), Podcasting and Vodcasting (video Podcasts), HTML/XHTML and CSS, and IU Kokomo Dept. of Education ePortfolios (technical portion).

CTLA: Pedagogical Workshops for Faculty and Staff at IU Kokomo

For pedagogical workshops and other general training topics of interest to staff and faculty including training on the WCMS tool, you can view the current schedule and find additional information about CTLA Training offerings at their CTLA Training Schedule Web page.

Contact UITS-Kokomo IT Training!

Phone: (765) 455-9589 ... If necessary, please leave your name, phone number, and a detailed message!
Email: kotrain@iuk.edu
On the Web at http://www.iuk.edu/it-training

Or... visit us in the IT Support Center... IU Kokomo Library, 2nd floor, Room KA-221

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