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Computers and Software
The modern office is equipped with powerful tools to help us save time and operate a successful business. However, unless your employees know how to use them effectively, such tools are all too often wasted. Misuse or reluctance to use technology wastes your employees’ time. Use these online computer and software modules to give your managers and employees the confidence to make the most of office technology.
Computer and Software eCourses
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft FrontPage
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)
- Keyboard and Typing Skills
- Web Development
- Professional IT
- IT Applications
Having a good grip on our financial data can help everything else about your business fall into place. Microsoft Excel is amazingly powerful – it offers the tools to access, process, analyse, share and display the numerical information you need to run your business. You’ll learn how to create, manipulate and share spreadsheets, use a range of formulas and functions to make worksheet calculations and create and format charts.
| Excel 2000 | |
| Excel 3000 | |
| Excel XP | |
| ECDL 4 – Spreadsheets | Download Course Outline |
Help your staff to avoid ‘information overload’ and give them the skills they need to make the most of Microsoft Access. Microsoft’s database management system makes it easy to find information, analyse data and create accurate reports. These eLearning modules show you how to create tables and populate them with data, organise information, use filters and sort data, create relationships between tables and import data from other sources. Microsoft Access is ideal for managing stock and customer data.
| Access 2000 | |
| Access 2003 | |
| Access XP | Download Course Outline |
| ECDL – Databases | Download Course Outline |
Deliver your projects on time and to budget! Project 2000 provides you and your staff with all the tools needed to assign appropriate resources to a project, keep accurate budgets, monitor time scales and ensure each deadline is met. Learn how to create and use Gantt charts to plan, assign a calendar, create a task list and define the time scale of your project.
| Project 2000 | Download Course Outline |
Looking for a quick and cost-effective way to create a website in-house? Guiding you through the whole process – from initial planning to going ‘live’ on the internet – this module demonstrates how to design and create easy-to-navigate web pages that are both functional and pleasing to the eye. FrontPage covers the practical skills needed to organise a website, select an appropriate web server and maintain a site on a regular basis.
| FrontPage 2000 | Download Course Outline |
Well-presented, accurately written documents boost the credibility of your business. Microsoft Word is packed with features designed to help you produce highly professional business documents. Learn how to maximise the software’s capability by creating, inserting and deleting text and creating headers and footers. Grasp the basics then explore Word’s more advanced features
| Word 2000 | |
| Word 2003 | |
| Word XP | Download Course Outline |
| ECDL 3 – Word Processing | Download Course Outline |
A strong visual presentation helps an audience remember you and your message. Whether presented at a conference or communicated over the internet. PowerPoint provides the necessary tools to make a point – powerfully. Learn how to create and modify presentations by adding text, bullet points and graphics; enhance your presentations using text formatting, colour schemes, charts, tables, audio and video clips.
| PowerPoint 2000 | |
| PowerPoint 2003 | Download Course Outline |
| PowerPoint XP | |
| ECDL 6 – Presentations |
Improve you communications, optimise your time management skills and maximise your efficiency. Using Microsoft Outlook, you’ll be shown how to send and receive e-mails, use the calendar to manage schedules and arrange meetings, create contact lists, record tasks and make journal entries. The software will enable you and your staff to achieve more during the working day.
| Outlook 2000 | |
| Outlook 2003 | Download Course Outline |
| Outlook XP | Download Course Outline |
European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)
The ECDL is an internationally recognised qualification that improves computer skills, increases IT speed and effectiveness and removes the stress and frustration of not being able to use a computer effectively. This suite of seven modules can be used to work towards formal assessment for the ECDL qualification. The required assessments for the qualification can only purchased separately from an approved ECDL test centre such as Telematics. Research has found that people regained, on average, 35 minutes per working day as a result of new skills acquired through structured IT user skills training.
| ECDL – Skills Suite (all seven modules) | Download Course Outline |
| ECDL 1 – Concepts of Information Technology (IT) | |
| ECDL 2 – Using Your Computer | |
| ECDL 3 – Word Processing | Download Course Outline |
| ECDL 4 – Spreadsheets | Download Course Outline |
| ECDL 5 – Databases | Download Course Outline |
| ECDL 6 – Presentations | |
| ECDL 7 – Electronic Communication |
Employees with poor keyboard and typing skills can cost your business time and money, while errors and inaccurate documents look unprofessional. This module will help employees gain confidence and improve their typing skills in just 90 minutes, allowing them to focus more effectively on their work.
| Keyboard A-Z (KAZ) | Download Course Outline |
With the importance of the internet and business websites growing every year, it's more important than ever that employers make sure that staff can use the latest technologies and standards. We offer training in website design using HTML, XHTML and cascading style sheets (CSS) as well as an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of Extensible Markup Language (XML).
| Web Publishing and Design with HTML 4.01 and XHTML | Download Course Outline |
| XML | Download Course Outline |
| FrontPage 2000 | Download Course Outline |
We offer a number of professional IT courses which will equip learners with both practical skills and theoretical knowledge. Many of our courses for IT professionals help them prepare for exams while others focus on specific industry-standard systems, software or hardware. We have courses designed to prepare learners taking CompTIA examinations, training to prepare for the Cisco CCNA exam and a range of courses focusing on operating system installation and administration.
| CompTIA A+ Essentials 220-601 | Download Course Outline |
| CompTIA A+ Depot Technician 220-604 | |
| CompTIA A+ IT Technician 220-602 | Download Course Outline |
| CompTIA A+ Remote Support Technician 220-603 | Download Course Outline |
| Cisco CCNA 640-802 | Download Course Outline |
| CompTIA Network + 2005 | Download Course Outline |
| UNIX Systems | Download Course Outline |
| Windows Server 2003 Administration MCSA/MCSE 70-290 | Download Course Outline |
| Windows XP Professional MCSE 70-270 | Download Course Outline |
IT proficient staff are more efficient, more effective, more productive than those who shy away from computers. Make sure your employees have the skills they need to make software work for your organisation. Providing an introduction to databases, spreadsheets, e-mail and the internet, this eLearning module will help your staff get to grips with the basics of popular IT applications.
| IT Applications | Download Course Outline |

