Lunchtime Learning, IT & Tea


OVERVIEW

Target audience: Entire McGill community.

McGill IT Services offers training on popular IT topics through our Lunchtime Learning and IT & Tea series. 

In this article:

General information

Time:

Where: 680 Sherbrooke, room 423 (unless otherwise indicated *)

Dates: View upcoming sessions on the Training & events calendar.

Register: Unless otherwise indicated click to register

And don't forget to bring your lunch or tea and cookies!

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NOTES:

If there is no scheduled session for the topic you are interested in, you can still register on the waiting list

These sessions are intended to be an introduction. For a more in-depth instructor-led workshop refer to the IT Training Index.


Lunchtime learning and IT & Tea topics

Video Production Basics (LTL 1)

Target audience: Students, faculty and staff
Prerequisites: None
Duration: 45 minutes
Course format: Demonstration
*Location: 688 Sherbrooke, room 1662

Want to create a video but don’t know how to get started? Wondering how to showcase yourself, your team or a special project using video?

Join us for an introductory workshop on the basics of video production and find out! This presentation offers planning tools, tips and techniques for video and audio recording, and an editing demo that will provide you with everything you need to start creating your own videos. 


Microsoft Forms & Surveys (LTL 2)

Target audience: Faculty, staff, students
Prerequisites: None
Duration: 45 minutes
Course format: Demonstration, hands on

Using Microsoft Forms, learn to quickly and easily create custom surveys, quizzes, and polls that can be shared with a particular audience or the whole world, and can be completed using any web browser, or even on mobile devices.


Microsoft Sway (LTL 6)

Target audience: Faculty, staff, students
Prerequisites: None
Duration: 45 minutes
Course format: Demonstration

Sway your audience with Microsoft Sway!

If your presentations can use a little more pizazz come join us at this session and learn how to create stylish presentations, newsletters, and interactive reports effortlessly with Sway, Microsoft’s digital storytelling tool. Topics covered include:


OneDrive directions and SharePoint pointers (LTL 7)

Target audience: Students, faculty, and staff
Prerequisites: None
Duration: 60 minutes
Course format: Demonstration

OneDrive and SharePoint provide you with secure environments to store files on Microsoft 365; OneDrive is a personal storage space, while SharePoint is for group file storage, and is used behind the scenes for file storage in MS Teams.

This session will cover:


Microsoft OneNote (LTL 11)

Target audience:  Students, faculty, and staff
Prerequisites: None
Duration: 45 minutes
Course format: Demonstration

Learn how to use Microsoft OneNote (a digital notebook) to capture, organize and share everything that matters to you.


Creating accessible documents in Microsoft 365 (LTL 12)

Target audience:  Students, faculty, and staff
Prerequisites: None
Duration: 60 minutes
Course format: Demonstration

This hands-on session will focus on creating accessible documents using Microsoft 365 apps.

This session will cover:


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