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What’s included: 

  • Microsoft SharePoint (Working with Documents, or Site Owner training) 

  • Microsoft OneDrive 

  • Microsoft Teams 

  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Forms, Planner, OneNote, To-Do etc) 

  • Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Premiere Pro) 

  • Browser tips: Chrome, Firefox 

  • Windows 10/11 tips 

Options for skills development within the areas above:

There are no regular ‘open’ training sessions for the above. Instead, we’ve moved to a model whereby UON staff can: 

  1. work through Top Tips IT guides and LinkedIn Learning materials at their own pace (see below for links to various content). 

  1. and / or book a team-based training session (in-person or online) for just you and your team to go through whatever IT skills you feel you require (be this Excel, SharePoint, OneDrive, Forms etc). To inquire and book a team-based training session, please email sdbookings@northampton.ac.uk  

Top Tips IT guides:

The best place to start with IT skills development is to use our top tips IT guides:  

What’s included within these guides are: 

  • GDPR: Email Do’s and don’ts, GDPR tips when using email, How to encrypt documents and more. 

  • Microsoft 365: Microsoft Forms, OneDrive, OneNote (online), Planner, Teams and Word (online). 

  • Microsoft Desktop apps: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word 

  • Chrome tips: how to get the most out of using the Chrome browser 

  • Windows 10 and Windows 11 tips: how to best use the Windows operating system 

These PDFs act as a handy checklist to help you explore the features of each app. Scan through quickly to gain an overview of what each offers. If you're intrigued by something specific, the PDFs provide links to relevant LinkedIn Learning content. These links take you to demonstrations or let you download practice files for hands-LinkedIn Learning: on learning.

Although the above IT tips PDFs link to various LinkedIn Learning content, you can go directly to LinkedIn Learning to browse content and find exactly what it is you need. Either use the below collections to view 'curated by UON' content, or simply log into the LinkedIn Learning homepage and then search for and browse content yourself. 

Queries on using LinkedIn Learning: 

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