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EndNote: for referencing

Virtual and in-person sessions are available for this course. Please check when booking. Virtual sessions will be delivered via Zoom. Please make sure you install Zoom prior to the training session. Visit the Zoom web page for instructions: https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/it-services/getting-started-with-zoom. Recurring Zoom link for all sessions is: https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/99882472149 This training is delivered on a Windows machine using EndNote 20. Participants wanting to follow along, should make sure they have the software installed before the session starts. Find instructions for downloading the software for free onto your personal device at: https://www.essex.ac.uk/student/it-services/endnote OUTLINE EndNote is the University’s free, recommended and supported reference management tool. EndNote will save you valuable time by removing the manual labour associated with creating and formatting references. You can now access the fully-featured desktop software (from software.essex.ac.uk) and manage your EndNote library from multiple computers including your personal device (via myendnoteweb.com). In this course you will learn how to use EndNote to collect, organise and then use references in your Word documents. In this training session, you’ll work through the following exercises: - Collect references from websites like Google Scholar, Albert Sloman Library, Web of Science etc - Find references using the online search feature from within the program - Create your own reference - Create basic groups and search groups to organise your references - Find and remove duplicates - Locate and attach full text articles, then annotate them - Import PDFs - Insert references into Word - Create categories for your references in your bibliography - Trouble shoot common problems - Sync with the online account For those submitting CADENZA applications/PGCHEP portfolios, these sessions map to the following: UKPSF areas of activities: A2, K4 JISC framework: 1, 2, 4 If spaces are available, please click on the white space below. ONLY add yourself to the waiting list if the date/s are not convenient.

Excel: conditional formatting

Virtual and in-person sessions are available for this course. Please check when booking. This training is delivered on a Windows machine using the latest version of Excel from the Microsoft Office 365 suite. Participants wanting to follow along, should make sure they have the software installed before the session starts. Essex members can find instructions for downloading the software for free onto your personal device at: https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/it-services/microsoft-office-365 OUTLINE Conditional formatting in Excel allows you to automatically apply formatting such as colours, icons, and data bars, to one or more cells, in order to highlight specific data in your spreadsheet. Applying conditional formatting to your data can not only help make your data easier to read, it will also allow you to isolate and then sort and filter your data to get specific results. In this training session you will follow a series of conditional formatting examples using both pre-set functions as well as applying a variety of formulas for more advanced formatting. - Naming ranges to use in formulas - Using pre-set conditional formatting rules - Modifying pre-set rules - Using a variety of formulas to create conditional formatting rules For those submitting CADENZA applications/PGCHEP portfolios, these sessions map to the following: UKPSF areas of activities: A2, K4 JISC framework: 1, 2 If spaces are available, please click on the white space below. ONLY add yourself to the waiting list if the date/s are not convenient.

Excel: pivot tables for dashboard reporting

Virtual and in-person sessions are available for this course. Please check when booking. Virtual sessions will be delivered via Zoom. Please make sure you install Zoom prior to the training session. Visit the Zoom web page for instructions: https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/it-services/getting-started-with-zoom. This training is delivered on a Windows machine using the latest version of Excel from the Microsoft Office 365 suite. Participants wanting to follow along, should make sure they have the software installed before the session starts. Essex members can find instructions for downloading the software for free onto your personal device at: https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/it-services/microsoft-office-365 OUTLINE PivotTables allow you to calculate, summarise, sort, and format your data quickly and easily to see comparisons, patterns and trends. In this session you’ll create and manipulate a variety of PivotTables to answer questions of your data, and finally produce some PivotCharts to create dashboards to visualise your data. - Creating a PivotTable - Configuring a PivotTable - Pivoting a PivotTable - Sorting/filtering data - Changing the data field summary - Creating and manipulating Pivot charts For those submitting CADENZA applications/PGCHEP portfolios, these sessions map to the following: UKPSF areas of activities: A2, K4 JISC framework: 1, 2 If spaces are available, please click on the white space below. ONLY add yourself to the waiting list if the date/s are not convenient.

Introduction to Advance HE PSF 2023

Find out about the new Professional Standards Framework (PSF), how this has changed and what impact this has on those with fellowship and those involved in supporting colleagues with fellowship applications. This online session is a brief overview with Q&A opportunity. It is supported by a short Moodle course: https://moodle.essex.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=18411 All staff are strongly recommended to attend this awareness session whether you are a new applicant, assessor, for direct application, or a mentor of a colleague who is currently going through fellowship PG CHEP. In addition, Faculty Deans, Heads of Departments/Schools, Directors of Education and colleagues involved in education delivery and excellence are very welcome to attend. You may be aware that in January 2023, Advance HE launched the revised PSF for teaching and supporting learning in HE. The PSF has become a globally recognised framework for benchmarking success within HE teaching and learning. The PSF 2023 builds on the strengths of the current PSF while placing much more overt emphasis on: • the effectiveness and impact of teaching • the context in which the teaching takes place • inclusivity – both from the perspective of the wider range of staff now able to engage with the PSF and how more inclusive approaches ensure all learners feel respected, valued and have equity in opportunity to succeed. • with a greater emphasis on digital/technology, professional values, support for students, and collaboration, the revisions will ensure the PSF is fit-for-the-future and remains relevant and compelling wherever and however higher education teaching and learning are delivered. As a University, we are transitioning from the current UKPSF 2011 to PSF 2023 during the academic year 2024-25, with our last panel under UKPSF 2011 planned for January 25. The next panel under PSF 2023 is planned for the autumn term of 2024-25 academic year. A firm date will be shared once confirmed.

Outlook: managing a busy inbox

Virtual and in-person sessions are available for this course. Please check when booking. Virtual sessions will be delivered via Zoom. Please make sure you install Zoom prior to the training session. Visit the Zoom web page for instructions: https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/it-services/getting-started-with-zoom. PREPARATION FOR THE TRAINING This training is delivered on a Windows machine using Outlook 365 (desktop version). Participants wanting to follow along, should make sure they have the software installed before the session starts. NB: Mac users please be aware that QuickSteps and Building Blocks functionality is not currently available on the Mac OS at this time. Essex members can find instructions for downloading the software for free onto your personal device at: https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/it-services/microsoft-office-365 OUTLINE Find out how to use the automatic features in Outlook to help organise your workload and save precious time. - Using Auto correct for your own common words and phrases - Drag and drop to create mail, task and calendar items - Natural language dates - Setting your working hours pattern in your calendar - Using folders to process email - Creating rules and quick steps to process emails automatically - Assigning colour categories to emails - Working with tasks - Using building blocks and email templates for repetitive information - Using the search function and creating search folders to find content quickly and easily For those submitting CADENZA applications/PGCHEP portfolios, these sessions map to the following: UKPSF areas of activities: A2, K4 JISC framework: 1, 4 If spaces are available, please click on the white space below. ONLY add yourself to the waiting list if the date/s are not convenient.

Values and preferences in career decision making

An opportunity to explore your values and personal preferences using the MBTI model and understand how these can be used in career planning and decision making. This session is about enabling you to articulate who you are and what is important to you in your working and personal life. It is designed as an opening to ongoing discovery around your ‘fit’ in different situations and environments, whilst encouraging acceptance and celebration of difference in the ways that we approach the world around us. The session includes: Guided discovery of your MBTI preferences. Exploration how different preferences relate to each other. How different preferences fit with different environments. How your MBTI preference relates to your work and career choices and changes you may wish to make. Guided discovery of your core values. Understanding how your values currently relate to your work and life. Developing a plan to better align what you do to what is important to you. A note on MBTI The MBTI assessment helps you identify your natural preferences in four areas of personality: • How do you direct and receive energy—by focusing on the outside world, interacting with people and taking action, or by focusing on your inner world and reflecting on ideas, memories, and experiences? • How do you take in information—by focusing on what you perceive using your five senses or by seeing the big picture and looking for relationships and patterns? • How do you decide and come to conclusions—by logically analysing the situation or by considering what’s important to the people involved? • How do you approach the outside world—in a planned, orderly way or a more flexible, spontaneous way? Your natural preferences in these four areas sort you into one of 16 distinct MBTI personality types. Understanding these types gives you objective insight that you can use to enhance your professional and personal relationships, as well as your direction, focus, and choices.

Word: themes, styles and templates

Virtual and in-person sessions are available for this course. Please check when booking. Virtual sessions will be delivered via Zoom. Please make sure you install Zoom prior to the training session. Visit the Zoom web page for instructions: https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/it-services/getting-started-with-zoom. This training is delivered on a Windows machine using the latest version of the desktop software from the MS Office 365 suite. Essex staff and students can download it for free on to your personal device: https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/it-services/microsoft-office-365 OUTLINE Learn how to create styles, templates and themes in your departmental Word documents. Using these automatic features will not only save time when dealing with long, complex documents; it will also help you achieve consistency across documents and make applying university branding guidelines easier. Content covered in this course includes: - Displaying hidden functions for editing eg formatting marks, navigation pane, ruler etc - Applying styles to headings and modifying these styles - Using multi-level list to automatically number chapter headings - Using the navigation pane to rearrange content - Creating automatic tables of contents using styles - The difference between page breaks and section breaks - Working with headers and footers - Arranging tabular content so it's easy to read - Inserting and positioning images For those submitting CADENZA applications/PGCHEP portfolios, these sessions map to the following: UKPSF areas of activities: A2, K4 JISC framework: 1, 2 If spaces are available, please click on the white space below. ONLY add yourself to the waiting list if the date/s are not convenient.