The start of a new semester is a great time to learn new software skills or take your current skills to the next level. DoIT’s Professional Technical Education program is offering dozens of affordable classes to UW employees and their family members, State employees and the community at-large this fall. The classes below are grouped into free brownbag sessions, new courses and courses by category.

Registration is required for all courses, except the free brownbag sessions. You can register online here, by email to classes@doit.wisc.edu or by phone at (608) 262-3605.

NOTE: Some of our classes are offered in two, half-day sessions. Choose only one set of dates, unless otherwise noted.

FREE BROWNBAGS – (No registration required.)

All brownbag sessions take place at Memorial Library, Room 126.

Wikis, Blogs and RSS Feeds
10/3, 12-1pm

Adobe Captivate: Should it be in your training toolkit?
10/23, 12-1pm

Content Management Systems: What are they and do I need one?
11/7, 12-1pm

Microsoft Office 2007: New Features
12/11, 12-1pm

NEW COURSES – (Registration required.)

OS X Leopard Server Admin (Mac)
12/10 – 12/14, 1-4:30pm

Hyperion/Brio Insight: Accessing Data & Shared Queries
10/2, 1-4:30pm

Intro to VISTA for Administrators
1/30, 8:30am- noon

Intro to Wikis
12/5, 1-4:30pm

Engaging Students with Clickers
Open to faculty/instructors who will use clickers (i.e., in class polling technology) ?with UW-Madison students.
1/9, 1-3pm

Give Your Computer a Security Health Check Up
10/24, 11am-12pm
11/13, 4-5pm

Photoshop CS 3 Beginners (Win & Mac)
11/1 & 11/2, 8:30am- noon

Photoshop CS 3 Beginners (Win & Mac)
1/9 & 1/10, 1-4:30pm

Photoshop CS 3 Intermediate (Win & Mac)
12/4 & 12/5, 8:30am- noon

InDesign CS 3 Beginners (Win & Mac)
11/28 & 11/29, 1-4:30pm

Getting Started with Adobe Captivate
12/5 & 12/6, 1-4:30pm

Microsoft Office 2007 – New Features
9/20, 1-4:30pm

Word Office 2003 Intermediate: Mail Merge
11/6, 1-3pm

Word Office 2003 Intermediate: Tables & Charts
12/18, 1-3pm

PowerPoint Office 2007 Beginners
9/25 & 9/26, 8:30am- noon

Getting Started with PowerPoint Office 2003
10/30, 1-4:30pm

PowerPoint Office 2003 Intermediate – Adding sound, movies & special effects
12/6, 8:30am- noon

PTE COURSE LISTING BY CATEGORIES – (Registration required. Click on ?the class category to link to full class descriptions.)

SPREADSHEETS

Excel Office 2003 Beginners
10/23 & 10/24, 8:30am- noon
11/14 & 11/15, 1-4:30pm

Excel Office 2003 Intermediate
12/13 & 12/14, 8:30am- noon

WEB DEVELOPMENT

Cascading Style Sheets Beginners (Fundamentals)
10/16 & 10/17, 8:30am- noon
12/19 & 12/20, 1-4:30pm

Cascading Style Sheets Intermediate (Layout/Design)
1/23 & 1/24, 1-4:30pm

Dreamweaver 8 Beginners (Win & Mac)
10/4 & 10/5, 8:30am- noon
12/11 & 12/12, 8:30am- noon

Dreamweaver 8 Intermediate (Win & Mac)
1/28 & 1/29, 1-4:30pm

Web Design Camp Using Dreamweaver 8
11/5 – 11/9, 8:30am-noon

Web Design with HTML/XHTML Beginners
9/18 & 9/19, 8:30am- noon
11/26 & 11/27, 1-4:30pm

Dynamic Websites Using PHP & MySQL Beg
10/15 – 10/19, 8:30am- noon

Building Dynamic Websites Using PHP: Advanced
9/17 – 9/20, 1-4:30pm

Using Learn@UW for UW-Madison Staff Training
1/9 & 1/10, 8:30am- noon

GRAPHICS

Flash 8 Beginners (Win & Mac)
11/15 & 11/16, 8:30am- noon

Flash 8 Intermediate (Win & Mac)
9/24 & 9/25, 1-4:30pm

Illustrator CS 2 Beginners (Win & Mac)
9/17 & 9/18, 1-4:30pm

Illustrator CS 2 Intermediate (Win & Mac)
11/7 & 11/8, 1-4:30pm

Photoshop CS 2 Beginners (Win & Mac)
9/26 & 9/27, 1-4:30pm

Photoshop CS 3 Beginners (Win & Mac)
11/1 & 11/2, 8:30am- noon
1/9 & 1/10, 1-4:30pm

Photoshop CS 3 Intermediate (Win & Mac)
12/4 & 12/5, 8:30am- noon

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Intro to VISTA for Administrators
1/30, 8:30am- noon

Linux Beginners
10/30-11/2, 8:30am-noon

OS X Leopard Server Admin (Mac)
12/10 – 12/14, 1-4:30pm

PROGRAMMING

Web Design with HTML/XHTML Beginners
9/18 & 9/19, 8:30am- noon
11/26 & 11/27, 1-4:30pm

Linux Beginners
10/30-11/2, 8:30am-noon

DATABASES

Access Office 2003 Beginners
10/9 & 10/10, 8:30am- noon
12/3 & 12/4, 1-4:30pm

Access Office 2003 Intermediate
1/24 & 1/25, 8:30am- noon

Dynamic Websites Using PHP & MySQL Beg
10/15 – 10/19, 1-4:30pm

Building Dynamic Websites Using PHP: Advanced
9/17 – 9/20, 1-4:30pm

WORD PROCESSING & DESKTOP PUBLISHING

InDesign CS 2 Intermediate (Win & Mac)
10/3 & 10/4, 1-4:30pm

InDesign CS 3 Beginners (Win & Mac)
11/28 & 11/29, 1-4:30pm

Word Office 2003 Beginners
10/22 & 10/23, 1-4:30pm

Word Office 2003 Intermediate: Mail Merge
11/6, 1-3pm

Word Office 2003 Intermediate: Tables & Charts
12/18, 1-3pm

QUERY TOOLS

Hyperion/Brio Insight: Accessing Data & Shared Queries
10/2, 1-4:30pm

Hyperion/Brio Insight Beginners
10/4, 8:30am-4:30pm

Hyperion/Brio Explorer: Advanced
11/8, 8:30am-4:30pm

CALENDARS

WiscCal (Windows Client Version)
10/9, 1-3:30pm

WiscCal – What Is It and How Can I Use It Demo
10/25, 11am-noon

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

MS Project 2003 Beginners
10/2 & 10/3, 8:30am- noon
1/16 & 1/17, 1-4:30pm