Learn to love IT
A realistic Guide to life at UCLan - written by students!
The LIS Training Team provide a range of short, concentrated IT skills sessions that address specific features and aim to help with your studies. Sessions are open to all students and are free of charge. Choose from Learn IT, Learn IT Online or Ask IT.
‘Learn IT’ are one hour tutor-led workshops, ‘Learn IT Online’ is online self-paced material provided on CDs or on the internet and ‘Ask IT’ are short, pre-booked slots with an IT Trainer answering questions relating to Microsoft Office, GroupWise (the email system) and Reference Manager.
Let’s see what students who have attended the training sessions have to say…
Ondray Botkoveli, studying Active Citizenship and Volunteer Development is a mature student and hadn’t had much experience of using a computer:
“Being an older student and having been out of structured education for far too long meant I had little experience of computers and so felt overwhelmed when I started my degree course. I contacted IT support who suggested that I came in for some one- to-one tutorials with a trainer. I can honestly say that I have benefited enormously from these sessions. The trainer’s guidance has been invaluable in helping me source research for my assignments.”
Amina Saeed is studying for an MA in TESOL with Applied Linguistics and wishes the courses were available when she was studying for her undergraduate degree:
“The LIS IT sessions have been really useful in terms of improving the quality of my work and speeding up the production of it. If I’d known about the courses when I’d been studying for my undergraduate degree, it would have drastically increased my work efficiency. Moreover, the skills I have learnt would certainly have reduced stress at assignment deadlines and in preparation for presentations.”
So whatever your IT problem, you can learn to love IT!
You can contact the LIS Training Team on 01772 894348 or via email at
LISTraining@uclan.ac.uk. They are also available online at mailto:www.uclan.ac.uk/LIS
