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Technology Training Movie Tutorials

Audience
Key
General Audience General
For Students Students
For Faculty Faculty
For Staff Staff

OTS is pleased to offer the following movie tutorials as self-help technology resources for the Towson University community. For other non-profit use please refer to Copyright Information. We have organized the tutorials by application. Further, we have used one or more of the four symbols defined in the rightward Audience Key to identify the target audience of each document. Most documents should prove useful to students, faculty and staff. But some may be pertinent to only one of those groups.

 

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Access

General Audience

 Level 1

Access 2003: Tables
                                                                              

Take a tutorial on the basics of Access tables.

General Audience

 Level 1

Access 2003: Relationships

                                                         

Take a tutorial on what relationships are and how to set them up in Access.

General Audience

 Level 1

Access 2003: Forms
                                                                              

Take a tutorial on creating forms in Access.
Blackboard

For Students

 

 Level 1

Blackboard: Students Enroll in Your Course Site
                                                                  

Take a tutorial on how to enroll in a Blackboard course that you are a student in.

For Students

 Level 1

Blackboard: Logging In
                                                                              

Take a tutorial on how to log into the Blackboard environment.

For Students

 Level 1

Blackboard: Discussion Board

                                                         

Take a tutorial on the basics of how to reply, attach and post new threads in the Discussion Board of a Blackboard course.

For Students

 Level 1

Blackboard: Accessing Your Grades
                                                                              

Take a tutorial on how to access your grades as a student in a Blackboard course.

For Students

 Level 1

Blackboard: Student Tour

                                                         

Take a tour of the basic screens you will use as a student in Blackboard.

For Faculty

 Level 1

Blackboard: Announcements
                                                                              

Learn how to use the Announcement area as an instructor of a Blackboard course.

For Faculty

 Level 1

Blackboard: Discussion Board

                                                         

Learn how to use the Discussion Board area as the instructor of a Blackboard course.

For Faculty

 Level 1

Blackboard: Content Area
                                                                              

Learn how to use the Content area as the instructor of a Blackboard course.

For Faculty

 Level 1

Blackboard: Faculty Tour

                                                         

Take a tour of the basic screens you will use as a faculty member in Blackboard.

Contribute

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 1

Contribute: Basic Editing and Publishing
                                                                             

Learn how to make basic edits to your Towson University Web site.

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 1

Contribute: Basic Links and the Roll Back Feature

Learn how to create basic links in your Web site, and how to use the Roll Back feature to go back to previously Published versions of your Web page.

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 1

Contribute: Advanced Links
                                                                              

Learn how to create advanced links on your Towson University Web site.

FrontPage

General Audience

 Level 1

FrontPage Basics

Learn how to open your FrontPage Web site and add basic features like clip art, pictures, tables and links.

New Students
For Students Level 1

Campus Computing Overview for Students New to TU

This presentation begins with a discussion of the TechOverture resources for new students and includes an overview of the student gateway page and Student Computing Services (SCS).

 
For Students Level 1
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Activating Your Student Account

In order to access the campus computer systems, students must have a UserID (username) and password. This document describes how a student new to TU can activate his or her account via any Web broswer.

 
Outlook

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 1

Outlook 2003 E-mail Basics

Take a tutorial on the basics of using Outlook 2003.

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 2

Outlook 2003 Calendar Basics

Take a tutorial on how to use the basic Outlook 2003 Calendar features.

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 1

Outlook 2003: Checking Your Folder Size

Take a tutorial on how to check your folder sizes to avoid going over your storage limit (quota).

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 2

Outlook 2003: Reclaiming Mailbox Space

Take a tutorial on how to clean up items in your mailbox to help you stay within your storage capacity (quota) limit.

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 1

Outlook 2003: Recover Deleted Items

Take a tutorial on how to recover deleted items within a short period of time.

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 2

Outlook 2003: Create Personal Folders

Take a tutorial on how to clean up items in your mailbox by moving them to personal folders to help you stay within your storage capacity (quota) limit.

PeopleSoft (Towson Online Services)

For Students

 Level 1

Activating Your Student Account                                                         

In order to access the campus computer systems, students must have a UserID (username) and password. This document describes how a student new to TU can activate his or her account via any Web broswer.

 

For Students

 Level 1

Towson Online Services: Logging In and Accessing Information
                                                                              

Take a tutorial on how to log into the PeopleSoft (Towson Online Services) database to access important data.

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 1

Faculty/Staff: Activating Your Account and Reset Your Password

                                                         

Take a tutorial on to activate your Towson University account for logging into Towson Online Services and other University systems.  It also reviews how to reset your password.

For Faculty

 Level 1

Faculty: Grading
                                                                              

Take a tutorial on how to enter and submit your student's grades using PeopleSoft (Towson Online Services).

Picture Manager

General Audience

 Level 1

Picture Manager: Cropping

                                                         

Learn how to crop pictures using Microsoft Picture Manager software.

General Audience

 Level 1

Picture Manager: Auto Correct and Red Eye Tool
                                                                              

Take a tutorial on how to use Auto Correct and the Red Eye tool.

PowerPoint

General Audience

 Level 1

PowerPoint2003: Basics
                                                                              

Take a tutorial on how to use the basic features to create a presentation in PowerPoint.

SharePoint

General Audience

 Level 1

SharePoint -NEW
                                                                              

In this tutorial, you will get a general description of the most frequently used features of SharePoint as well as other uses.

SPSS

General Audience

 Level 1

SPSS Version 13 Define and Enter Data
                                                                              

Take a tutorial on terminology and how you begin to use SPSS software.

General Audience

 Level 1

SPSS Version 13 Read From Excel
                                                                              

Take a tutorial on how to retrieve your data that you have already collected and entered into Excel and bring it into SPSS.

General Audience

 Level 1

SPSS Version 13 Descriptive Statistics
                                                                              

Take a tutorial on learning how to create categorical variables and run a cross tabulation procedure.
TowsonU From Home

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 1

Accessing Your H and O Drives

Take a tutorial on how to access your H and O drives from on and off campus.

 

For Faculty

For Staff

 Level 1

Virtual Workspace: Overview - NEW and UPDATED

Take a tutorial on how to access and use the Virtual Workspace.

 

 Tiger
For Students Level 1
  Accessing Your Files on Tiger with UserDrive

This movie describes how to use the UserDrive utility available in many campus labs to access the files stored in your Tiger account.
   
Webmail

For Students

 Level 1

Checking Quota

Take a tutorial on how check your quota in Webmail and temporarily raise it for 2 days.

For Students

 Level 1

Deleting Large Files Quickly

Take a tutorial on how delete large files in Webmail to help you stay within your quota limit.

Windows

General Audience

 Level 1

File Searching

Take a tutorial on how to do a file search in Windows.

General Audience

 Level 1

File Management

Take a tutorial covers how to name files, create folders, rename files and folders and the difference between Save and Save As.

General Audience

 Level 1

Flash Drives -NEW

Take a tutorial on how to do use and disconnect Flash Drives.

General Audience

 Level 1

Shortcuts -NEW

Take a tutorial on how to create and delete shortcuts on your Windows desktop.

Word

General Audience

 Level 1

Word 2003: Mail Merge to Label

A short tutorial to help you walk through the Word 2003 Mail Merge to create multiple address labels at the same time.

General Audience

 Level 1

Word 2003: Designing and Modifying Tables - NEW

The following tutorial demonstrates how to create and customize tables.  It includes creating tables, entering data, adding rows and columns, merging

and splitting cells and sorting data.

 
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Access

Blackboard
Contribute

Outlook
FrontPage

New Students

PeopleSoft (Towson Online Services)

Picture Manager




 

PowerPoint

SharePoint

SPSS

TowsonU From Home

Tiger
Webmail

Windows

Word


 

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