UWG Faculty & Staff Training

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ITS (including the Learning Resource Center), Distance & Distributed Ed Center, the EXCEL center, UWG Ingram Library, and support units within each of the colleges, all strive to collaborate and offer training on one central calendar site: http://www.westga.edu/~training Have questions? e-mail jgubbins@westga.edu.

November 1, 2009    -    November 7, 2009
(Week 44)
Public Access

Description:

PeopleSoft Financials Travel & Expense Module – Approvers

This course provides approvers with information on using the Travel and Expense module of PeopleSoft V8.9. Participants will receive instruction on approving travel expense reports that have been entered into the Travel and Expense module.


Date and Time: Please email for training appointment


The University of West Georgia offers a variety of end-user training to provide assistance to faculty and staff in using the various software applications used by the Business and Finance Division of the University.

For information on any of the training sessions or to register for a particular course,
Please Contact Patricia Durrough
pdurroug@westga.edu; ext. 96392

Description:

ADP Managers

This course is for both bi-weekly and monthly employees (faculty and staff) who supervise and approve another employee’s (full-time, student, casual labor, etc.) timecard. This course will instruct participants on how to enter their own hours worked or exception time into the ADP eTime system. It will also provide instruction on how to approve another employee’s timecard. Participants of this course should be the supervisor for at least one other employee.

Date:Training conducted on an “as-needed” basis. Please email for appointment.
Time: TBD
Place:TBD


The University of West Georgia offers a variety of end-user training to provide assistance to faculty and staff in using the various software applications used by the Business and Finance Division of the University.

For information on any of the training sessions or to register for a particular course, please contact Patricia Durrough; pdurroug@westga.edu; ext. 96392.

Description:

ADP Non-Managers

This course is for both bi-weekly and monthly employees (faculty and staff) who do not supervise nor approve another employee’s timecard. This course will instruct participants on how to enter their own hours worked or exception time into the ADP eTime system. Participants of this course should not be a supervisor of any other employee.

Date:Training conducted on an “as-needed” basis. Please email for appointment.
Time: TBD
Place:TBD

The University of West Georgia offers a variety of end-user training to provide assistance to faculty and staff in using the various software applications used by the Business and Finance Division of the University.

For information on any of the training sessions or to register for a particular course, please contact Patricia Durrough; pdurroug@westga.edu; ext. 96392.

Time:

2:00pm

Description:

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:00 PM US Eastern

The Best of BbWorld Webinar series for K-12 brings highlights of our 2009 Users Conference right to you. Join blendedschools.net as they describe what goes into planning and pulling together a quality online program including essential characteristics, sources and information that should be investigated during design and development and how schools are expanding and enhancing instruction with online teaching and learning technologies and curriculum. Jed Friedrichsen, Chief Administrative Officer, blendedschools.net and Mark Gensimore, Project Manager, blendedschools.net will share a practical process and ready tools for creating your own online program. This includes how they have been combining quality standards for online programs, blue ocean planning, rethinking schools, cultivating communities of practice and essential business strategies Blendedschools.net has experience helping 160 school districts design and implement online programs and will share their strategies for success. Go to http://www.blackboard.com/Company/Events-Center/Webinars-and-Demos.aspx for more info and to register.

Time:

3:00pm-4:00pm

Description:

Budget Progress Report

This course provides budget managers with information on using PeopleSoft Financials to run Budget Progress Reports. This training will instruct users on running their departmental budget reports that can be used for reconciling departmental budgets. Pre-registration is required so that access to the reports can be given for training.

Date: Wednesday, November 4
Time:3:00 pm
Place:Row Hall 310

The University of West Georgia offers a variety of end-user training to provide assistance to faculty and staff in using the various software applications used by the Business and Finance Division of the University.

For information on any of the training sessions or to register for a particular course, please contact Patricia Durrough; pdurroug@westga.edu; ext. 96392.

Time:

3:30pm-5:30pm

Description:

• Using RSS feeds to stay in contact with students

• Adding RSS feeds from the Internet to add content

• Other communication tools: Twitter, iTunes,  and trends

• Innovative approaches to online communication and networking tools

Please RSVP to kmobbs@westga.edu

Education Center 201

Attendees: Debra Cobia (Education)

Kathleen Wagstaff (Publicity)

Barbara Kawulich (Education)

Myrna Gantner (Education)

Li Cao (Education)

Connie Williams (Education)

Description:

Sign up by sending email to bvalcke@westga.edu


Zotero for Faculty (Beginners)
Dates: 11/6/2009
Location: TLC 1106
Duration: tba
Maximum Capacity: tba
Description: Zotero is an ‘open source’ research tool produced by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University that allows you to collect manage and cite sources very efficiently. This is a combination presentation/ workshop about the software that will give you the tools to get started.

WILL BE UPDATED WITH MORE DETAILS

Description:

PeopleSoft Travel & Expense Lab

This session provides employees with an opportunity to receive additional assistance on entering travel and expense reports into the PeopleSoft system. This session is conducted in a computer lab where the employee has the ability to login to the live system and enter real transactions. Prior to participating in a lab, it is recommended that the employee complete the training session for PeopleSoft Travel & Expenses for travelers. Seating is very limited for this session, so pre-registration is required.

Date:Friday, November 6
Time:9:00 am
Where: Row Hall Room 310

The University of West Georgia offers a variety of end-user training to provide assistance to faculty and staff in using the various software applications used by the Business and Finance Division of the University.

For information on any of the training sessions or to register for a particular course,
Please Contact Patricia Durrough
pdurroug@westga.edu; ext. 96392