Featured New Seminar Handouts
Microsoft Office 2007 Interface Overview
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Overview
Microsoft Access 2007 Overview
Below are handouts, notes, and links associated with many of the free training opportunities offered through ITS Training Services.
These are categorized by training topic (e.g. Microsoft Access is found in the Databases category). Please Note: Many of the handouts listed below are
restricted to those with a Penn State Access Account userid and password. It will be necessary to log in to access some of these files.
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PDF files.
Administrative Computing
ANGEL: Penn State's Course Management System
- Overview of New Features in Version 7.1
- Getting Started with ANGEL 7.1
Start Using ANGEL In Your Course Right Away - Effective Collaboration Strategies Using ANGEL Groups
- Using the ANGEL Course Gradebook
Communication & Collaboration Technologies
- Getting Started with Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional: Online Presentation, Meeting and Training Software
- Using Adobe Connect in the Classroom
- Getting Started with Adobe Presenter: A PowerPoint Plug-in
- Getting Started with Thunderbird E-Mail
- VoIP Telephone Features & Voicemail
Single Line VoIP Telephone Training Materials
(7905/7906/7911)
- VoIP Phone User Manual
- VoIP Just the Basics Training Manual with Exercises
- VoIP Self-Paced Training Manual with Exercises
- VoIP Telephone Features Quick Reference Guide
Two and Six Line VoIP Telephone Training Materials
(7940/41 - 7960/61)
- VoIP Phone User Manual
- VoIP Just the Basics Training Manual with Exercises
- VoIP Self-Paced Training Manual with Exercises
- VoIP Telephone Features Quick Reference Guide
VoIP 7910 Training Materials (discontinued model)
Databases
[back to top]General Computing Topics
- Adobe Acrobat
- Data Backup
- Digital Photography
- Eudora
- High Impact Presentations
- Introduction to Basic Computing Skills
- iPod and iTunes
- Listserv Management
- Oracle Calendar
- PC Maintenance and Upgrading
- PSUThesi/PSULight: Thesis Templates for Microsoft Word
- Purchasing a Desktop or Laptop Computer
- Setting up a Home Network
- SAS: Statistics
- TCP/IP and the OSI Model
- Thunderbird E-mail
- Wireless Computing
Graphics, Multimedia & Desktop Publishing
[back to top]High-Performance Computing
[back to top]Library Resources & Thesis Support
Network & Hardware
- Getting Started with Operating System Virtualization and VMware (no handout currently available)
- Getting Started with TCP/IP and the OSI Model
- Setting Up a Home Network
Office Applications
[back to top]Operating Systems
[back to top]Programming
Security
- Desktop Security: Overview
- Phishing: An Attacker's Tool for Identity Theft
- Sharing & Securing Data in Windows XP
- Windows XP Security
Technologies for Teaching
- Copyright in the Digital Age
- Cyber-Plagiarism: Temptations for Students and Tactics for Teachers
- Photo Editing for Presentations in the Classroom
- Plug in Your Gradebook: Manage Grading Electronically with Excel
- PowerPoint for the Classroom
- Teach Act: Overview
Video & Animation
[back to top]Visualization
- 3D Graphics Short Course 1: Fundamentals of 3D
- 3D Graphics Short Course 2: 3D Color and Rendering
- Introduction to Plotting
- Visualization Group-Complete Seminar Materials List
Web and Internet
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Content-Driven Web Information Systems
- Contribute
- Creating and Testing Accessible Web Sites
- Creating Database-Driven Webpages
- Dreamweaver
- FireFox
- Fireworks
- Flash
- FrontPage
- JavaScript
- The Penn State Portal: A Seminar for Portal Users and Content Providers
- PHP
- Web Editor
- XHTML
Supplemental Web Resources:
- Designing Accessible Web Sites
- ePortfolio with Dreamweaver and FrontPage
- Penn State Access Account (PASS) Information
- Penn State e-Portfolio
- Resources for Penn State Web Developers
- Web Reference Guide

