Students will learn the basics of building forms using Adobe Acrobat. Students will add form fields like text boxes, check boxes, radio button and drop down lists. Students will learn how to send forms to be filled out and collect data from users. Students should have a basic familiarity with Adobe Acrobat. A copy of Adobe Acrobat is required. A 30-day trial version is available.

Adobe Acrobat allows users to convert documents you create in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or any other application into Portable Document Files (PDF). A PDF can be viewed and printed by any with a copy of Adobe's free Acrobat Reader. In this course students will learn to create and use PDF files. Students will learn to work with PDF documents and create PDF files from their appliations and web pages. Student will laern to add comments to PDF files and make their PDF documents accessible. Students must have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Standard. A 30-day trial of Adobe Acrobat is available for download.

One of the advantages of PDF documents is the ability to distrubute forms to your end user for them to fill out and return. LiveCycle Designer is the tool that comes with Acrobat that allows you to create interactive forms. In this class you will explore the LiveCycle Designer interface and build a basic form. The course content includes design and usability tips on how to build effective forms. You will create forms, add interaction and manage form data. Students will need a copy of LiveCycle Designer. A trial version is available.

Identified by many as a career-survival skill for the new millennium, problem solving is increasingly important at all levels in the organization. We are all problem solvers. Problems arise and we find ways to avoid them, adapt to them, or solve them. The extraordinary problem solver does much more by turning problems into opportunities. Learn the skills that take you beyond ordinary problem solving. Tools and techniques give you step by step guidance for solving your most challenging problems.

Blogging is a great way to get the word out about your product, expertise or anything that's on your mind. WordPress is one of the most popular blogging applications, readily available on a lot of web hosts. In this course you will configure WordPress options and customize its appearance. We explore options for blog topics and getting the word out about your blog. You will write blog entries, publish them and then set up accounts for allowing access to your blog.

Most workers today, regardless of their position and responsibilities, face an overwhelming need to use their brains more effectively. Learning and adapting to changing demands are the critical survival skills for today and the future. This course will help you sharpen your learning, remembering, and thinking skills through stimulating exercises and practical experiences. During the course, you'll explore your current strategies for learning and remembering as you map out techniques for dealing with new information and skills. Hands-on practice with concentration boosters and learning techniques can help you increase your effectiveness at work while decreasing fatigue. Your success in the business environment today and in the future depends on life-long learning. This course will help you develop personalized strategies for meeting this critical challenge.

Create pages that are section 508 compliant. Students will learn about page layout, HTML options, tag attributes and other requirements that will help to make their pages accessible to all users. Students will need to download a trial version of a screen reader so they can experience how their pages are "viewed" by the visually impaired.

Students will learn the important role that building relationships with reporters plays in getting stories about their businesses publicized, as well as the techniques they should use when dealing with the media. Students will also learn how and when to address the media, which will include information about understanding reporters' deadlines and the varying focuses of certain trade publications and/or newspapers and broadcast media.

This course will build on the general information in Part I, which covers relationship-building with reporters and the different focuses of different media. Students will gain a better understanding of why working with the media is crucial when it comes to getting the word out about their businesses. Many businesspeople have reservations about dealing with the media, especially when it comes to answering pointed questions about profits and losses and mergers and acquisitions. Students will walk away from this course with a clear understanding of how and why they should make efforts to answer, or at least respond, to questions from the media, even when the focus is not necessarily positive.

Students will learn strategies to write documents faster and better. They will learn how to customize their documents for a specific reader and to accomplish their writing purpose. They will discover ways to create documents when time is limited. Students will also master models to organize and format letters, emails, and reports in order to make them clear, direct, and reader friendly. Conversational writing style and parallel structure will also be covered.

Students will practice using different writing styles and determining which is most appropriate for a specific reader and purpose. They will learn to properly manage active and passive verbs, transitions, and words with a positive or negative connotation. They will acquire techniques to simplify documents and make them more concise. Students will be able to recognize common surface errors that undermine their professional written image and understand how to fix them. The writing essentials covered in Part 1 will be revisited and reinforced through practice.

This course explores individual communication styles and elements of communication.  It focuses the students attention to the finer points of communication.  Ultimately the student will gain a sense of the types of communicators he or she will deal with on a daily basis and offer techniques to improve the communication process.

Learn the latest tricks in web page design. Students will use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the layer tags to create page layouts. Students will position objects on the page and combine text and graphics for stylish layouts. Students should have a basic understanding of HTML. No software is required.

Conflict is an inevitable part of work life. It can block effectiveness or boost results, depending on how you deal with it. Explore your preferred approaches to conflict resolution and learn new strategies for resolving workplace conflict in this dynamic on-line course. Apply conflict resolution skills using practice scenarios and real situations. Prepare for anticipated conflict and lay the groundwork for positive interactions using the practical tools provided in this course.

Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to design the format and structure of your web pages can make your life as a web designer and web design maintainer much easier! CSS allows you to control the appearance of text, graphics and page layout for a single page or the entire site. If you decide later that you want to make a change to the design of the site you can change a few lines of CSS formatting and have the changes made without having to change the structure of the page. In this course you will learn to build web pages to best take advantage of using CSS to design the look of the site. You will learn to apply color, font and spacing attributes to pages for both web and print layout. Students will need a text editor or web site design tool. There are free tools available.

This class will give students a working knowledge of the quality standards required of all business correspondence. Standard procedures to follow before a document is sent and professional techniques to spot errors will be covered. Students will be able to construct complete sentences and punctuate clauses, phrases, and appositives. They will also learn how to correctly use quotation marks, dashes, parentheses, colons, and semicolons. Students will be able to avoid confusing common look-alike and sound-alike words. They will be able to locate and correct these surface errors in a variety of documents of differing lengths.

This class will continue the essentials of editing begun in Part 1. Students be able to match subjects and verbs, use correct verb tenses, use pronouns correctly, and make headings, bullets, and sentences parallel. They will be able to recognize when to use the active verb instead of the passive, and they will be able to avoid shifting between active and passive verbs. They will understand how to locate and correct surface errors in long and complicated documents. The editing essentials covered in Part 1 will be revisited and reinforced through practice.

This course will give the student a new recognition that they are able to construct a very large part of their own future. There is a relationship between what we want and what we can do and create. If you are seeking a new challenge in your current profession, a change of direction that seriously engages your intellect, passion and energy, or if you are ready to get a life-long ambition underway, then this course is for you. Through a process designed to ask tough questions, you will examine your current life, your values and beliefs, and chose a better future in your career and family life. In this course, students will review their past to create a sense of appreciation for their history. The course will also clarify the underlying values and beliefs that have determined the students' actions and the values and beliefs that they want in the future. Students will identify their current life situations and determine what's working and what isn't. Students will also create a preferred future vision and link their vision into actionable steps to propel them to the future they desire.

Create cool buttons for your web pages. Students will create movie clips, and buttons and combine them to create animated buttons. Students will use basic ActionScript commands to create menus. Students will need a copy of Flash. A 30-day trial is available.

This course will review the skills necessary to pass the Writing portion of the GED. Topics that will be covered include: Basic English Usage, Sentence Structure, Grammar, and Organization.

If you have thought about starting your own blog, then this is the course for you. In this course you will lauch your blog and learn to write for your audience. Topics to be discussed include writing and editing your blog, getting others to contribute, getting the word out about your blog, generating traffic to your blog, and ways you can make money from your blog.

Students will learn the basics of creating HTML documents by handcoding HTML. Students will create web pages that contain text and formatting. Students will learn to add graphic images to their web pages, as well as adding images as backgrounds. Students will learn the basics of using tables for page layout. No software or book is required for this course.

In today's business environment, not improving is not an option. If you aren't moving forward, you are moving backward, there is no staying even. Continuous improvement has become a part of our organizations. Successful organizations constantly measure and improve every internal and external process that contributes to customer satisfaction and organizational goals. Process improvement is used to advance those goals or to improve a measurement that is not acceptable, to obtain continuous improvement. In this course, students will learn to identify process issues, problems, and opportunities, and how the customer affects process improvement. Students will learn the steps that lead to improving a process and the importance of a process improvement team and their roles. Students will also learn the tools for understanding and accessing the current process, what is happening now. The difference between process improvement and redesign will also be covered.

Who Are Your Ancestors? What were they like? How and where did they live? Ever considered learning more about your family history? Learn to trace your family's roots and start your own family tree. This class will help you learn how to begin your hunt, introducing you to the resources available for performing genealogical research. Learn how to find online databases, obtain vital (birth, marriage, and death) records, and discover the resources available at Family History Library branches across the US.

Project management provides significant benefits to companies and to managers when the principles and methodologies are consistently applied. A successful project manager uses both art and science, or more succinctly, both project leadership and management. Regardless of your position in an organization, good project management skills are essential. Everyone leads projects of some type, and the principles are the same for all projects - big or small. This course will help you understand those principles and apply them in both your professional and personal life. In this course, the student will learn the art and science of leading a project and the importance of being (or having) an active sponsor. Students will learn the different steps in a project's life cycle and the keys to leading and managing a successful project. How to manage "scope creep" and how to use structured tools such as activity diagrams, project plans, charters, and GANTT charts will also be covered.

The Introduction to Six Sigma course will give learners a flavor of some of the methodologies used in this popular quality tool. The learner will receive an overview of the Six Sigma movement itself and some DMAIC, Control and Causal methodologies.

Managers face a tough set of challenges each time they lead change efforts within their organizations. They must manage their personal reactions to change while guiding their employees through transitions. This course helps managers and supervisors explore their role as change managers. Practical scenarios and real examples will help you understand the predictable phases of change management and develop strategies for managing them. Checklists and tools provide the practical link you need to stabilize and re-energize your workforce.

Does it seem like some of your students get it with very little help from you while others never seem to even after a lot of one-on-one coaching? If so, it could that you are not speaking their learning language. Every person brings their own learning style to the classroom, even young children. By learning about your own learning style and the learning styles of others you will learn ways to reach all of your students and to help them to learn better.

This course is for students who want to get started using Linux. Students will install RedHat Linux Fedora Core on their computers. Once the installation is complete students will learn the basics of the command prompt and the graphical user environment. Students will be introduced to some basic system administration.

This class will give students a working knowledge of databases, what they are and how to use them. Students will learn to view data in a database and change the view by sorting and filtering the data. Students will create a database and learn to define forms for inputs and reports for summarizing the data. Students will learn to create queries to view a subset of data in the database. Students will create charts to display data and a switchboard to manage their database application. Students will need a basic understanding of Windows to complete this class. Students will need a copy of Office. A 30-day trial version is available.

Design forms to help speed up data entry. Students will create Forms using the Forms Wizard and by hand. Students will create subforms and combine data from multiple tables or queries. Students will learn ways to apply formatting. Students will create macros that will help to automate form data entry. Students will need a copy of Access. A 30-day trial is available.

Master the art of queries! Students will create Queries of their data using the Query Wizard and by hand. Students will create queries to update data, delete data and view data. Students will create queries that will combine data from multiple tables. Students will need a copy of Access. A 30-day trial is available.

Learn to create reports like a pro! Students will create reports in Access using the Reports Wizard and by hand. Reports will include calculations, data summaries. Students will combine data from multiple tables or queries. Students will learn to format reports. Students will create reports that allow for dynamic queries. Students will need a copy of Access. A 30-day trial is available.

This class will give students a working knowledge of electronic spreadsheets, what they are and how to use them. Students will be able to create and format Excel spreadsheets that include charts and multiple worksheets. Students will be able to create and execute formulas and use the EXCEL functions. Data sorting and manipulation are also covered. Students will create EXCEL spreadsheets for evaluation and "hands on" experience. Students will need a basic understanding of Windows to complete this class. Students will need a copy of Office. A 30-day trial version is available.

The Instructor for this course understands the needs and special requirements of the senior learner and will give special attention and support if needed. This course is designed to give the Senior Student a working knowledge of electronic spreadsheets, what they are and how to use them. Senior Students will learn to create and format a basic Excel spreadsheet that includes multiple worksheets. Ranges and simple formulas are also covered. Senior Students will create Excel spreadsheets for evaluation and "hands on" experience. Senior Students will need a basic understanding of Windows to complete this course. Senior Students will need a copy of Office. A 30-day trial version is available.

Learn to create charts like a pro! Students will create and format charts using Excel's charting features. Students will format charts and learn the best charts to use for various situations. Students will need a copy of Excel. A 60-day trial version is available.

Learn to manage data using Excel! Student will import data from a database and sort and query the data. Student will summarize data using the database functions and the subtotals command. Students will create Pivot tables and Pivot charts. Students will need a copy of Excel. A 30-day trial is available.

Learn to manage your money with Excel! Students will create spreadsheets to manage their money from balancing a checkbook to financial analysis. Student will create spreadsheets that use the Excel financial functions for calculating a return on investment or calculating payments on a loan. Students will need a copy of Excel. A 30-day trial is available.

If you are making the move to Office 2007 from an earlier version, this course will have you ready to use Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook without missing a beat. You will get an overview of the new Ribbon interface that is common to the new Office applications. You will explore the basic features of each of the Office applications while you get accustomed to the new Office 2007 interface.

Students will use Outlook to create email, schedule events, define contacts and tasks. Students will learn to organize their email, add formatting and personalize their email. Students will learn to share their calendar across the Internet. Students will need a copy of Outlook. A 30-day trial version is available.

The Instructor for this course understands the needs and special requirements of the senior learner and will give special attention and support if needed. Senior Students will use Outlook to create email, schedule events, and define contacts and tasks. Senior Students will learn to organize their email, add formatting and personalize their email. Senior Students will learn to share their calendar across the Internet. Senior Students will need a copy of Outlook. A 30-day trial version is available.

Is there more than Spam cluttering your Inbox? Students will configure Outlook to route their incoming mail to various mailboxes based on the sender or recipient. Students will use the Find command to locate messages. Students will archive old mail. Students will color-code messages for follow-up. Students will need a copy of Outlook. A 30-day trial is available.

We all know that Outlook helps us to manage our electronic communications but did you know it can also help you manage your time? Join us as we explore the topic of time management and learn to use the features of Microsoft Outlook that can help us to keep up with appointments, track time spent on projects and organize our work and personal lives a little better. Student will need a copy of Microsoft Outlook. A trial version is available.

This class will give students a working knowledge of creating presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. Students will learn to work with the various PowerPoint views to create and view their presentations. Students will learn to give slideshows using PowerPoint and use PowerPoint to create web-based presentations. Students will learn to incorporate Excel data, charts and animations into their presentations. Students will need a basic understanding of Windows to complete this class. Students will need a copy of Office. A 30-day trial version is available.

The Instructor for this course understands the needs and special requirements of the senior learner and will give special attention and support if needed .This class will give Senior Students a working knowledge of creating presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. Senior Students will learn to work with the various PowerPoint views to create and view their presentations. Senior Students will learn to give slideshows using PowerPoint and use PowerPoint to create web-based presentations. Senior Students will learn to incorporate Excel data, charts and animations into their presentations. Senior Students will need a basic understanding of Windows to complete this class. Senior Students will need a copy of Office. A 30-day trial version is available.

Wow your audience with a multimedia extravaganza at your next presentation. Students will add sound, animation and video to their presentations. Students will create a presentation that is synchronized to music or a recorded speech. Students will add slide transitions to their presentations. Students will need a copy of PowerPoint. A 30-day trial is available.

Students will be able to track the progress of a project and troubleshoot problems with schedules and resource usage. Students will be able to customize the Project environment and to publish the project information using various reports, charts and web page options. Students will be able to pool resources within a project and to link multiple projects together. Students will need a copy of Project. A 30-day trial version is available.

Students will advance their Microsoft Word skills by exploring more advanced topics in Word. Students will create a newsletter that uses columns, drawings, and object linking and embedding. Students will create web pages using Word and learn how to create a website. Students will learn how to use the Workgroups features of Word, how to create Forms, Master Documents and Macros. Students will need a basic understanding of Word to complete this class. Students will need a copy of Office. A 30-day trial version is available.

Learn to create newsletters and flyers using Microsoft Word. Students will format their page using column layout. Students will add graphics, tables and embellishments to their documents. Students use styles to make formatting and updating the newsletter easier. Students will need a copy of Word. A 30-day trial is available.

Learn to create professional-looking research papers and proposals. Students will add headers and footers, set page layout, create title pages, tables of contents and indices. Student will create outlines and use the outlines for organizing and managing long documents. Student will create references for automatically generating tables of illustrations. Student will create a master document for combining multiple files into one. Students will need a copy of Word. A 30-day trial is available.

Learn to edit Microsoft Word documents like a pro! Students will edit their documents with the spell-checker, thesaurus, and grammar checker. Students will use the proofing tools to track changes in a document. Students will cut, copy and paste text using the clipboard, spike and drag and drop tools. Students will need a copy of Word. A 30-day trial is available.

Building an online course is not the same preparing to teach in the classroom. A well-designed online course requires more preparation. And since learning online is different than learning in the classroom, you will need to be aware of what works and what doesn't. This course will introduce you to the process of instructional design for online learning and walks you through the process of building one unit of study for your course. You will learn how to build online interactions and to make your courses more student-centered

Every student in your class is intelligent. The trick is to finding out just how he or she is intelligent and tapping that to help your student to learn more easily and to allow him or her to add a new a dimension to your course. Howard Gardners's Multiple Intelligence Theory defines students as intelligent in one of eight areas. By teaching to a student's intelligences and by allowing them to express themselves using their preferred intelligences the entire classroom can be enriched. Students will explore the Multiple Intelligences theories and learn to design lesson plans that appeal to various intelligences.

Multiple demands, conflicting priorities, and impossible deadlines are a way of life for many professionals. It doesn't have to be that way! This course will help you refocus your energy and regain control over your workday and your life. Focus begins within as you explore your personal preferences for organizing and thinking. You will develop a personal mission statement to guide you as you improve your skills to prioritize and focus. Worksheets and questionnaires provide tangible tools to help you plan, manage, and track responsibilities while managing multiple priorities. You'll complete this course with renewed energy and personalized tools that will help you get results!

Does your cube-mate seem to be speaking a language you don't understand? Is your boss impossible to get along with? Are you having a hard time motivating one of your employees? Is your spouse from another galaxy? The key could be their personality and yours don't mesh. This course will explore personality theories and allow you to discover your own personality and how that affects the way you think and work. You will also explore how other personalities think and work and some communication and motivational tools you can use to be able to work better with them.

Students will learn the basics of image correction in Photoshop. Students will learn to correct the overall appearance of the image by improving contrast, color and composition. Students will learn to save their images to be used on web pages. Students will need a copy of Photoshop. A 30-day trial version is available. No book is required for this course.

Create scrapbook pages using your digital photos! Students will use Photoshop to touch up their images and to create scrapbook pages. Students will learn to create patterned backgrounds, add text and embellishments to their pages. Students will need a copy of Photoshop. A 30-day trial is available.

Create cool text for your web pages or other projects. Students will create and edit text objects in Photoshop. Students will work with layer effects and filters to create text that looks like it is made of wood, metal, plastic or marble. Students will need a copy of Photoshop. A 30-day trial is available.

Fail to plan, plan to fail. We've all heard that piece of wisdom before. It's true in our personal lives and well as for organizations. Combining two activities, thinking strategically and long term planning, strategic planning can provide goals, communicate priorities, and keep an organization focused on what is important. Successful organizations have learned that a few people in a conference room cannot develop a strategic plan. Whether you are leading a planning effort, participating on a planning team, or just need to understand your organization's strategic plan, this course will provide the fundamentals to build upon. In this course, students will learn the importance of strategic planning and who should be involved. Students will be taught how to build a model for strategic plans and a methodology for creating a strategic plan. Students will also learn how to evaluate the external and internal environment of your organization as well as how to ensure that the organization will follow the plan. The importance and differences between business level, corporate level, and functional level strategies will also be covered.

This course will challenge your thinking and about how you view stressor in your life and in organizations. Stress is inevitable and essential to push individuals and organizations to grow, develop, perform and succeed. This program recognizes that work life is stressful and at times risky. The challenge and opportunity in stressful and changing times is to learn more about ourselves and how we may better respond to a changed world of work and organizational life. Students will learn about stress and its relationship to a healthy lifestyle and productivity. Students will also examine their methods of dealing with stress and their personal stress reactions. Students will be given instruction on practical new coping skills to reduce the negative impact of stress and to how to convert stress into energy. This course offers a historical perspective of stress and provides tools to enable students and the organization to be stronger, healthier and more productive. It is about achievement and health, not achievement or health.

Principals of Management is an introductory course which explores the role of the manager in modern organizations. This course looks at who managers are, what management is, what managers do, and what an organization is. In addition to providing some history to how management has evolved, it will provide some insight in what it takes for a manager to be successful in the 21st century. In this course, students will learn basic management concepts and terminology as well as the history of management theory. Students will also learn how organizations are structured and why managers are important. The different roles of a manager in today's organizations and the different skills a manager must hone to be successful will also be covered.

In this course students will define communication, learn about its key components and discuss ways they can improve their communication skills. Topics include defining communication, form v. content, communications issues, two major communications theories, and communications ethics. Participants will discuss aspects of good communication, their own communication styles and how best to communicate with their audience.

This course is developed for employees, managers and owners, all of which may have different needs. You will learn step-by-step, how to set-up QuickBooks, track customer information that is important to you and handle all of the day-to-day accounting needs of a business. With this software you will have options to create estimates, track job costs and progress, track inventory, invoice customers, track receivables, pay bills including sales tax, handle payroll, track employees' time worked, write form letters in Microsoft Word, create reports in Microsoft Excel, and create financial statements. Students will need to have a copy of QuickBooks.

RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a tool that allows web site developers to share information about their sites with other sites or include information from other sites in their own. It can be used to show weblogs or newsfeeds on a website. Students will explore the XML code behind RSS and how to create and use syndicated text in their own web site.

The role of the teacher in the online classroom is no less important than it is in the traditional classroom, it is just different. Get insights in to how to make the move from "stage on the stage" to "guide on the side" as you move your classroom into cyberspace. This course will introduce you to the tools used in the online classroom, the concepts of student-centered learning, give you ideas on how to encourage student participation. All of this will help you find your place in the virtual classroom.

Participants will raise their awareness about the image they are projecting over the telephone through their words and tone of voice. They will explore ways to develop an appropriate telephone personality and convey information clearly, tactfully, and professionally. Good and bad telephone practices will be covered, along with current business telephone etiquette. Participants will learn the real sources of customer satisfaction and analyze the tension between the need to handle many calls and the need to satisfy each caller. Techniques to manage angry and other difficult callers will be offered.

This class will cover guidelines to plan and organize a meeting, create an agenda, keep a meeting on-track, conduct a discussion, maintain control, and close a meeting on time. You will learn how to deal with problem meeting members and review the roles and responsibilities of both meeting leaders and members. You will discover the common frustrations most people have with meetings and how to avoid them. You will also be able to improve future meetings through evaluation and feedback.

In today's business environment, change is the only constant. Let this course help you explore your personal and professional reactions to change as you identify ways to positively manage transition.  After reviewing the psychology of change, your instructor will guide you through a self-discovery and planning process. Next, you'll begin developing a personalized resilience plan to help you prepare for and handle a wide range of transitions. Strategies for managing reactions at all stages of the change cycle are also offered.

Does your genealogy research include Civil War Ancestors? Trace an ancestor who served in the Civil War through a large variety of sources of material. Civil War records were kept in greater detail than previous wars. Confederate Soldiers groups kept much better records of the veterans after the war than the Union groups. In this class you will learn to assemble as much information about the veteran as you can from County Histories, family records and recollections of the older members of the family. Which Company formed in your ancestor's area, and how did they spent their days?

Whether you are designing object-oriented applications or planning a project deployment, UML can help you better visualize the process and communicate design requirements to those involved in the project. In this course you will create UML Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams. You will create UML Class, Object and Package diagrams and use them show composite structures and component diagrams. You will also create State Machine and Deployment diagrams.

This course will help both you and your employees understand the true nature of performance problems and take positive action to solve them. A wide range of performance issues will be addressed, including low productivity, unacceptable quality, tardiness, and poor attendance. This course provides a step-by-step tool kit to help you analyze any performance problem, identify the best strategy for solving it and carry out the solution. The techniques empower both managers and employees to take control of their work performance. Take the course together for even greater benefit.

Ever felt overwhelmed when using the Internet? The Internet is a terrific resource with millions of websites dedicated to almost any topic. With so many websites, it is easy to get lost. Search engines gather web pages for their indexes automatically. Directories have human editors who look at page content and decide how and where, or even if, pages should be listed. Learn more about how to find the websites you are searching for in less time by learning more about these valuable sources of online information.

The secure shell (SSH) provides an encrypted connection allowing users to attach remotely to Linux computers. This course will introduce the new Linux user to the SSH. Students will learn to configure SSH on their Linux computers and how to connect through SSH and use the SSH commands to control their Linxu computers. Students will need access to a computer running Linux and the SSH.

The Vi editor is one of the most popular editors in the Linux environment. Vi can be used to create or edit configuration files and can be used to create scripts or programs. Students will learn to navigate in documents, edit text in a file and to customize the environment. Students will need access to Linux with a copy of Vi installed.

What are your options for including graphics in your web pages? Students will learn about the various image formats that can be used on web page and the advantages of each. Students will add images, background images, bullets and graphics to their pages. Students should have a basic understanding of building web pages. No software is required.

Whether you are new to Windows or upgrading from an earlier release of Windows, the course will get you up and going with the basics and give you a chance to get comfortable with the more advanced features of Windows Vista. You will explore the new Vista interface and learn to use the redesigned Explorer. You will learn about the updated Entertainment and Media features as well as some new and many improved Accessories. You will explore the internet using the enhanced internet features and keep up with correspondence using the redesigned windows mail feature.