Author: Ali Levine

ITS Applications Training is excited to announce new training available to faculty and staff: Microsoft Lists Essentials. Microsoft Lists is so much more than just a list maker. This powerful tool can be used to track expenses, manage inventory, organize events and so much more. Lists is also fantastic for collaboration, integrating seamlessly into both Teams and SharePoint. This could be a game-changer if you are in need of a simple database tool for your team.

Are you interested in attending Microsoft Lists Essentials? Visit myTraining in myWSU to sign up for a session.

Sessions will be held:

• 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 12
• 9 a.m. Thursday, March 21
• And more coming soon

Looking for a New Year’s resolution? Earn a digital credential, WSU Microsoft Office Power User, by attending a suite of ITS-led Microsoft Office sessions. In addition to earning a badge and certificate, these live training sessions will refresh your knowledge of Microsoft applications, old and new, and offer numerous tips to maximize your use of these powerful tools.

All training is available for faculty and staff at no additional charge and is offered remotely. For training calendar and registration, visit myTraining. For more information about the program requirements, and to see a list of fellow Power Users, visit the Microsoft Office Power Users webpage (wichita.edu/poweruser).

Interested in learning more about Microsoft Teams and SharePoint? Live training sessions on these powerful Microsoft cloud services are now listed for January. These sessions are available to WSU faculty and staff at no additional charge and offered through ITS Applications Training.

Current sessions listed for January include:

• Teams Essentials
• Teams Advanced for Team Owners
• SharePoint 1: Foundations
• SharePoint 2: Site Creation Basics

Sign up for these sessions and future training sessions through myTraining.

If you’ve been hearing the buzz about cloud storage and are curious to learn more, ITS has a new video series available (shortcut URL: wichita.edu/onedrive). Learn how to get started with OneDrive, your personal cloud storage location at WSU. In the video series, you will learn how to access your OneDrive, upload files, share files, collaborate and more.

Students will also be able to access the video series, so if you are encouraging OneDrive use in your classes, the series would be an excellent resource to share with students.

Interested in learning about additional cloud platforms? More information about all the cloud storage options at WSU can be found from ITS Resources (shortcut URL: wichita.edu/cloud).

Faculty and staff making the switch from Zoom meetings to Teams meetings should check out the new Teams Meetings video series created by ITS Applications training.

Just like Zoom meetings, Teams meetings have advanced functions like breakout rooms, polls, detailed meeting permissions and more. Also, like Zoom, anyone can attend your Teams meeting via a link, including people outside WSU or people who do not have a Microsoft account.

To register for a live Teams training session, visit myTraining in myWSU.

Are you interested in utilizing the class team features in Microsoft Teams with your classes this fall? Attend the virtual training session, “Class Teams in Microsoft Teams,” to learn about the unique features of the class type of team, including assignments, quizzes, grading, reflections, insights, basic editing of the team home page and more.

Note: Before attending this session, please attend “Teams Advanced for Team Owners,” the basics of team creation, ownership and team types will be discussed in that session.

Current listed dates for the “Class Teams in Microsoft Teams” sessions are:

• July 25, 9-11:30 a.m.
• Aug. 3, 9-11:30 a.m.

Other Microsoft Teams training sessions faculty and staff can attend:

• Teams Essentials
• Teams Advanced for Team Owners
• Virtual Meetings in Teams

Full descriptions and available dates are listed in myTraining; new sessions are listed regularly.

Interested in learning more about hosting virtual meetings in Microsoft Teams? Attend the new ITS training sessions listed in myTraining titled “Virtual Meetings in Teams.”

The sessions will focus solely on the meeting functionality in Teams, including creating meetings, meeting settings, screen sharing options, meeting polls, break out rooms, attendance lists, meeting recording, meeting whiteboards and more.

To learn more about the additional features of Microsoft Teams, like chat, Team channels and group file storage, look for the “Teams Essentials” and “Teams Advanced” training sessions. All Teams training sessions will be in regular rotation. Select “Notify me of new sessions” in myTraining to be the first to hear when new sessions post.

Are you interested in learning more about Microsoft Cloud services available to WSU faculty and staff? Live training sessions on Teams, SharePoint, and more are available through ITS Applications Training.

Current sessions on Microsoft Cloud services include:

• Teams Essentials: Jan. 10
• Teams Advanced for Team Owners: Jan. 11
• SharePoint — Foundations: Jan. 17
• SharePoint 2 — Site Creation Basics: Jan. 19

Sign up for these sessions, and future training sessions, through myTraining. For more information, visit: wichita.edu/myTraining.

ITS Applications Training is excited to announce two new training offerings for faculty and staff who are eager to learn more about SharePoint:

• SharePoint 1: Foundations
  • 9 to 11 a.m. Oct. 11
  • Learn about basic SharePoint navigation, creating news pages and webpages in SharePoint, creating web parts, basic document settings, and more.
• SharePoint 2: Site Creation Basics
  • 9 to 11 a.m. Oct. 13
  • Learn how to get started creating sites in SharePoint, manage site membership, alter site appearance and layout, modify the Quick Launch, set up libraries, and more.

Both sessions are offered in remote format, and interested WSU faculty and staff can sign up in myTraining. These sessions will be in regular rotation in the future, listed in the myTraining calendar. If you have questions, please contact Ali Levine at ali.levine@wichita.edu.

The next University Staff Senate (USS) meeting is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today, Aug. 16 via Zoom. All USS meetings are open to the Wichita State campus community.

To learn more about USS meetings, visit the WSU USS website.