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Beth Asbury is an administrator at the Pitt Rivers Museum and she has several years of experience in similar positions elsewhere. She has had time management training, which she finds invaluable and is happy to share some of the tips … Continue reading →

This do: talk is for those who use mailing lists regularly and particularly for those managing them.  We will look at some common time-saving tricks and have time for general discussion about best practice in mailing list use. We’ll cover: … Continue reading →

Managing code changes in a programming project isn’t easy, especially when collaborating with other developers. Git automates many of these tasks such as merging, tracking, diffing and rolling back code. We apologise that this event has been cancelled

Social networking sites are great engagement tools for the University. But these can be a fraudster’s paradise. Social media is a target for “social engineering attacks” which harm your professional reputation, can shame the University and put your staff at … Continue reading →

Running an academic or training programme can mean grappling with several systems, lots of spreadsheets and, as a consequence, version control issues. This talk will consider how to run the administrative side of a programme in SharePoint to make things … Continue reading →

Microsoft Project can be an effective aid to accommodating the differences your colleagues bring to your project/event/research, and can enable you to keep your colleagues happy and get the job done. Do this successfully and you will create effective, collaborative … Continue reading →

In Excel you’ll soon discover the power of a well-chosen function. The problem is there are so many it’s hard to know what might be useful. This talk takes 15 favourites of mine and shows you how to use them … Continue reading →

Sharepoint is a powerful tool that can help you organise and share information, has granular security and is accessible from anywhere. This  do: talk is for anyone who needs to share information and wants to spend less time on admin. … Continue reading →

Committees at the University of Oxford can be simple, or very complex beasts. This do: talk introduces the idea of using SharePoint to help manage those committees. It will interest anyone who looks after a committee or working group, who … Continue reading →

Chorus is the University of Oxford’s new unified communications service. It will replace existing telephony systems in a phased approach by 2017 and offer new ways for people across the University to work better together. We apologise that this event … Continue reading →

Do you have data that you don’t want to lose? You can keep it safe with the HFS, IT Services’ Backup and Archive service. You can back up work-related data currently on your machine; or, if you have data that’s … Continue reading →

The Exams and Assessments team have been using IT to tackle various administrative problems. This do: session will be a case study of some of the things they have been working on and the systems used to tackle the business … Continue reading →

This do: session explores what computer programming is all about, why it’s fun to learn and what free software is available to help get started. It also explains how parents can support the new computing curriculum. No knowledge of coding … Continue reading →

Although WebLearn is useful for teaching and learning, did you know that it also has tools which can help with the administrative burden, so you can become more effective and efficient? This do: session will focus on these WebLearn tools: … Continue reading →