The Information Technology Department is excited to announce another round of courses provided to the Community. Below are briefs of the courses and topics to be covered in each course. Classes are 2 hours long and open only to the first fifteen (15) registered attendees as spaces are limited for our summer sessions. For any questions or concerns, please email: it.training@kaust.edu.sa.

To sign up please follow the link here.

Introduction to SharePoint 2013 (General Training)

This course teaches you how to perform general tasks in SharePoint 2013 for administrating a SharePoint site and will also cover Security & Permissions and Content Management.

General topics that will be covered:

• Login to the SharePoint websites
• Understanding the Ribbon
• Working with Pages
• Accessing the backend
• Working with the Home Page

Security & Permissions topics that will be covered:

• Users and Roles
• Permissions levels
• Restricting a site and access

  
  

  Content Management topics that will be covered:

• Content creation
• Library management
• Drafts, Check-In/Check-Out, Publishing

Course Duration:

2 hours (50 minutes class, 10 minutes break, 45 minutes class, 15 minutes Q&A)

Office 365: Introduction (General Training)

This course covers the basics of Office 365, the Microsoft Office Suite that gives users access to the Office cloud environment.  It allows users to work remotely on any device and includes many different applications and features.

Topics that will be covered:

• What is Office 365?
• Benefits of Office 365
• Login to Office 365
• Installing OneDrive Client
• Configuring OneDrive

Course Duration:

2 hours (50 minutes class, 10 minutes break, 45 minutes class, 15 minutes Q&A)

FormStack: Introduction (General Training)

This course covers the basics of FormStack; an online platform that helps users collaborate with teams, streamline internal processes, and collect and manage data.

Topics that will be covered:

• General overview of settings
• Design and building of forms
• Notifications and e-mails
• How to collect information
• Reporting

Course Duration:

2 hours (50 minutes class, 10 minutes break, 45 minutes class, 15 minutes Q&A)

Sitefinity (General Training)

Sitefinity is a modern web content management system (CMS) that you use to create, store, manage, and present content on your website. Sitefinity is being rolled out for public or Internet facing websites; not for internal/collaboration team sites.

Topics that will be covered:

• Creating webpages on Sitefinity
• Managing content on pages
• Reviewing and publishing of webpages
• Requesting access to Sitefinity

Course Duration:

2 hours (50 minutes class, 10 minutes break, 45 minutes class, 15 minutes Q&A)

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