1) Online Training
http://onlinetraining.wcu.edu/
On-demand training for the topics you want on your schedule! The system has a diverse course list, featuring both soft skills and technology intensive topics. These courses work on both Apple and Windows platforms and require no special software to download. Best of all, all courses are accessible from your desk, residence hall, or at home; anywhere you have an Internet connection!
Logging into the system is easy. Faculty and staff members use their WCU email username and password. Students use the first part of their Catamount email address (everything before the @ symbol) and MyCAT password to login.
If you don't see a desired course, checkout our full list of courses and how to add them in the training system.
Here are just a few of the great course topics (of the nearly 400 courses available):
Technology-
- Office 2007 Suite, all levels
- Windows Vista
- Adobe titles
- AutoCAD
- Accounting Professional/QuickBooks Pro
- MCSE/CCNA/PMP certification tracks
- Web authoring titles
Soft Skills-
- Interviewing Skills
- Writing for the Business Professional
- Making the Transition to Management
- Team Participation
- Career Coaching
- Time Management
- Decision Making
- Delegation – Leveraging Through Others
2) IT Workshops
Workshops are open to any Western faculty, staff, or student at no charge unless otherwise stated. If space is available, non-Western persons may register for designated workshops, with preference given to the spouses and other family members of Western employees.
To see the offerings and to register for a training session, you will need to visit the WCU TrainingRegister® web site.
If you are not associated with Western and you want to attend one or more workshops, you may register yourself manually. If you are not associated with Western there may be small fee charged to attend a session. Please call the Division of Educational Outreach at 227-7397 for more information.
Download your training materials.
Unable to attend a workshop? Watch the MS Office 2007 Demo video. It was created for on-the-go Office users wanting to familiarize themselves with the new look and feel of MS Office 2007. Users can view the demo without missing a beat.
3) Faculty Center Workshops
Western offers a variety of computer-related training services, including scheduled workshops, "HOW-TO" demonstrations, and departmental workshops upon request. Information Technology and the Coulter Faculty Center endeavor to assist the faculty, staff and students of Western with pedagogical and technological skills that will improve classroom instruction and make the use of computers more effective and efficient and appropriate to instruction.