Rai OpenCourseware offers freely available course content, or courseware, which is literally a “treasure trove of knowledge and related resources”.  Their Computing Courses provide higher education and learning for Information Technology to all students and professionals who like to study and learn on their own. Educational institutions can also use this free course content.

Here is Rai OpenCourseware’s Microsoft Office Training, that will teach you several important features of using Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access. These free Office training tutorials are well illustrated and provide step-by-step instructions for using these applications. The course tutorials are in pdf format and are also available here, here, and here.


Basic Concepts Of Computers

 - Computer Organisation
 - Operating System
 - Microsoft Office Overview
 - Introduction Word Processing


Getting Started With Microsot Word

 - Formatting Paragraphs
 - Styles
 - Tables
 - Macros
 - Mail Merge


Introduction To Microsoft PowerPoint

 - Adding Content
 - Color Scheme
 - Master Slides


Introduction To Microsoft Excel

 - Formulas and functions
 - Charts
 - Paper properties and printing


Microsoft Access

 - Table Relationships
 - Queries
 - Forms
 - Reports
 - Importing, Exporting, Linking

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Rai OpenCourseware offers freely available course content, or courseware, which is literally a “treasure trove of knowledge and related resources”.  Their Computing Courses provide higher education and learning for Information Technology to all students and professionals who like to study and learn on their own. Educational institutions can also use this free course content.

Here is Rai OpenCourseware’s Internet and Website Management Course, that will teach and show you how to use many Internet and Web development technologies, including HTML, Java, Java Servlets, Cookies, DHTML, CSS, VBScript, JavaScript, Perl, XML, software configuration, and website management. These free website application development training tutorial lessons are well illustrated and provide step-by-step instructions for using the Internet technologies and web programming tools and languages being taught. The course tutorials are in pdf format.


Internet and Website Management Course Lessons:

Introduction to Client / Server Model
Introduction To Protocols And Internet Service Providers
Introduction To Internet Service Providers
Introduction to Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML)
Frames In HTML
HTML Style Sheets
HTML Images And Image Mapping
HTML Images And Image Mapping
Making Animated GIF
Introduction To CGI Scripting
Introduction To Java
Data Types
Variables And Their Assignment
Objects And Classes
More On Classes, Java Classes
Object Oriented Design
The First Program
Abstract Window Toolkit
Applets
Servlets
Cookies
Introduction to DHTML & CSS
Filters and Transitions
DHTML Document Object Model
Direct Animation and The Structured Graphic Control
Introduction to Multimedia
VBScript Data Types, Variables, and Operators
String Processing, Classes & Objects
JavaScript
Arrays & Javascript objects
Common Gateway Interface Concepts & Perl Basics
Perl Programming Concepts
XML
Project Planning
Software Models
Software Configuration Management
Growth model & Risk Management
Website Management

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Here are several excellent PowerPoint Training Tutorials from the University of California. These will show and teach you how to use many features of PowerPoint, as shown and linked to below. The first document is a comprehensive PowerPoint Guide with 9 screen video tutorials. This free training document will take you through practices and recommendations for creating and using PowerPoint presentations. This tutorial guide was created using PowerPoint XP and 2003, but many of the specific instructions are also applicable to version 2000. The remaining PowerPoint tutorials are available in several formats: .doc, .pdf, and video.


PowerPoint Tutorials from the University of California:

• PowerPoint Guide
  • Introduction to the PowerPoint Guide (0.9mb)
  • Creating a Blank PowerPoint Presentation (1.67mb)
  • Inserting Text, Images, and New Slides (1.61mb)
  • Inserting Tables and Graphs in Your PowerPoint Presentations (2.83mb)
  • View Modes in PowerPoint (4.48mb)
  • Choose a Color Layout For Your PowerPoint Presentation (4.25 mb)
  • Adding and Modifying Animations and Slide Transitions in Your PowerPoint Presentation (2.48 mb)
  • Adding Speaker Notes to Your PowerPoint Presentation (2.14mb)
  • Adding Media to Your PowerPoint Presentation (3.73 mb)
• Creating an Image-Only Presentation (.doc, pdf, Video - 1.88mb)
• Manually Setting Animations and Slide Transitions in PowerPoint (.doc, pdf, Video - 0.4mb)
• Effective Presentation Visuals in PowerPoint (.doc, pdf)
• Combining PowerPoint Presentations (.doc, pdf, Video - 0.4mb)
• Timing PowerPoint Presentations Manually (.doc, pdf, Video - 0.5mb)
• Acceptable File Formats in PowerPoint for Windows (.doc, pdf)
• Searching for Images (.doc, pdf, Video - 4.4mb)
• Optimizing Images for PowerPoint and the Web (.doc, pdf)
• Resizing Images in Photoshop (.doc, pdf)
• Compressing Images in Powerpoint for: Mac (.doc, pdf)) or PC (.doc, pdf, Video)
• Batch Cropping of Images (.doc, pdf)
• Cross-compatilibilty Issues Between Mac and PC Platforms (.doc, pdf)
• Using the “Pack and Go” Tool in PowerPoint for Windows (.doc, pdf, Video - 0.4mb)
• Exporting PowerPoint Presentations onto CD or Other External Media for Mac (.doc, pdf)

PowerPoint In the Classroom:

• Create a Slide Presentation using PowerPoint XP. Add objects, images, and text. Learn how to use animations to build slides.
• Intermediate PowerPoint, The Next Step (pdf). Support filess: non-linear.ppt and .avi file
• Tutorial in PowerPoint format
• Tips for teaching large classes

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Here are two Web Design and Development Learning Guides hosted by the University of California. The first is a nice 73-page guide covering web design and usability. The second one is a 3-part HTML basics tutorial that will help you get started with developing a web site.


Web Design and Usability Guidelines
This 73-page pdf document is an excellent comprehensive Web Design Guide that will help you accurately design your website. (2.35mb)

Contents of Web Design and Usability Guide:
 - Design Process
 - Design Considerations
 - Content and Content Organization
 - Titles and Headings
 - Page Length
 - Page Layout
 - Font and Text Size
 - Reading and Scanning
 - Links
 - Graphics
 - Search
 - Navigation
 - Software and Hardware
 - Accessibility


Elementary HTML Tutorial – Part 1

1. Create a Web Page
2. Adding Headings
3. Inserting Breaks
4. Style
5. Indented Lists & Sublists

Elementary HTML Tutorial – Part 2

6. Visuals – incorporating images
7. In-house links
8. Internet links
9. A Touch-up
10. Link with Images
11. Niceties
12. Organizing Files, Links to folders

Elementary HTML Tutorial – Part 3

13. Links within a page
14. Tables
15. Tags & References

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Here are several well written Photoshop Training Tutorials from the University of California. These will show you how to use what the author considers the most useful and straight-forward Photoshop techniques for creating, preparing, and fixing images for web pages. They do not go into details about pixels, resolution, and color management.


Photoshop Tutorials:

 - Optimizing Images for the Web and PowerPoint (.doc, pdf, video-5.6mb)
 - Batch Processing in Photoshop (with emphasis on Cropping) (.doc, pdf)
 - Resizing Images (.doc, pdf)
 - Saving Images in Different File Formats (.doc, pdf, video-4.9mb)
 - Saving Images for the Web (.doc, pdf)

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial  (9 pages, 1.26mb, pdf format)
  I. Introduction
  II. Finding images
  III. To start this tutorial
  IV. Important Help
  V. Preparing digital images for website posting
  VI. Adding text
  VII. Improving appearance of graphs and figures
  VIII. Final image format

Photoshop Elements Tutorial  (9 pages, 852kb, pdf format)
Photoshop Elements is designed to be used with photos from digital camera images, it does have useful tools for editing Web images and it is much less costly than the full Photoshop.
  I. Introduction
  II. Finding images
  III. To start this tutorial
  IV. Important Help
  V. Preparing digital images for website posting
  VI. Adding text
  VII. Improving appearance of graphs and figures
  VIII. Final image format

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Using Dreamweaver, you can create, view, and organize an entire web site. Although it is possible to start constructing a web site by composing individual pages, it is best to define and set up the general site structure ahead of time. Here are several excellent Dreamweaver Training Tutorials from the University of California. These will show and teach you how to use Dreamweaver’s features to set-up and create a web site, along with preparing images for it.


Dreamweaver Tutorials from the University of California:

• Dreamweaver Guide: Pointer and Tips (.doc, pdf)
• Creating Links in an Existing Document (.doc, pdf)
• Creating Non-English Webpages (.doc, pdf)
• Optimizing Images for the Web (.doc, pdf)
• Resizing Images for the Web (.doc, pdf)
• Batch Cropping Images Using Photoshop (.doc, pdf)
• Saving Images in Different File Formats (.doc, pdf, Video - 4.9mb)
• Saving for the Web (.doc, pdf)

Dreamweaver Tutorial
This 38-page, 5-part tutorial guides you through the process of creating a web site with Dreamweaver MX 2004. (38 pages, 2.9mb, pdf format)
   Part I deals with the basic tools.
   Part II tells how to put the material online.
   Part III pertains to site management, and more advanced topics.
   Part IV explains how to construct a style sheet
   Part V is a ready-to-use model for a course website

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Rai OpenCourseware offers freely available course content, or courseware, which is literally a “treasure trove of knowledge and related resources”.  Their Computing Courses provide higher education and learning for Information Technology to all students and professionals who like to study and learn on their own. Educational institutions can also use this free course content.

Here is Rai OpenCourseware’s Desktop Publishing Training, that will teach you important publishing features and tasks of  Word, PowerPoint, Pagemaker. These free desktop publishing training tutorials are well illustrated and provide step-by-step instructions for using these applications. They are also available here, here, here, and here.


Desktop Publishing: An Introduction

 - Principles Of Layout And Design
 - Grids And Columns Layout
 - Creating, Saving, Navigating And Viewing A Word Document
 - Working With Multiple Documents,Windows And Text
 - Correcting Spelling And Grammer, Using Theasurus And Symbols
 - File Management And Advanced Printing Options
 - Quiz
 - Assignment


Learning About Powerpoint

 - Identifying Toolbars
 - Creating Custom Design Templates
 - Creating Bulleted Lists
 - Drawing Objects
 - Using Images And Other “Clip Art”
 - Animating The Presentation-I
 - Animating The Presentation-II
 - Giving An On Screen Presentation
 - Introduction To Photoshop Interface
 - Earse Tools, Paint, Gradient,Transformation
 - House Styles- Styles Guide & Typeface
 - Styles Guide- Headlines & Fonts
 - Projects


Introduction To Pagemaker

 - Pagemaker Toolbox
 - Laying Out A Pagemaker Document
 - Working With Text
 - Working With Text Exercises
 - Working With Graphic Objects
 - Using The Story Editor
 - Working With Multiple Pages
 - Quiz
 - DTP- Quiz

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Here is the Internet Technologies Course from Rai OpenCourseware. The tutorials and lessons in this course review and cover serveral important Internet and Web development technologies, including networking and internetworking, OSI, TCP-IP, Internet Hubs and Bridges, Internet Routers, HTML, Java, Java AWT, Java Servlets, DHTML, and VB Script. These free Internet and Web training lessons are well illustrated and provide step-by-step instructions. The course tutorial lessons are in pdf format.


Course Lessons for Internet Technologies:

Internet
Networking & Internetworking
OSI & Tcp/Ip Model Interconnection: Maintaining End-To-End Service Through Multiple Providers
Internet Addresses
Internet Protocol Addresses Hubs And Bridges
Routing Router Security Switching & Internet Protocol Multicast Mobile Routing
Browsing The World Wide Web
Online Services
Hyper Text Markup Language
Hyper Text Mark Up Language-I
Frames & Graphic Designs
Learning The Java Language
Language Basics
Object Basics And Simple Data Objects
Classes And Inheritance
Java Input/ Output Streams
Introduction To AWT
Java Servlets
DHTML
Scripting Introduction To VB Script

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Here are 60 Free Word 2007 Tutorial Videos (in Flash  format) from Officesessions.com. These are excellent training modules for learning these features and tasks in Word 2007, including editing the fonts, creating a chart, adding clipart, creating headers and footers, home tab, insert tab, mailing tab, paragraph alignment, updating themes, using the thesaurus, add comments, tracking changes, adding graphics, creating tables, updating the style, performing a spell check, encrypting a document, creating bookmarks, make columns, and using watermarks.


Word 2007 Video Tutorials:

1. About the Add-Ins Tab
2. How to Change the Background Color
3. How to Make Font Bold
4. How to Change the Font
5. How to Change the Font Size
6. How to Create a Chart
7. How to Add Clipart
8. How to Change The Text Color
9. How to Create a Document Compatible with Microsoft Word 97-2003
10. How to Copy Text
11. How to Create a New Document
12. How to Cut Text
13. How to Create a Footer
14. How to Create a Header
15. About the Home Tab
16. About the Insert Tab
17. Intro to Microsoft Word 2007
18. How to Put Words in Italics
19. How to Left Justify, Right Justify, and Center
20. About the Mailings Tab
21. How to Insert Page Numbers
22. How to Insert Text Boxes
23. How to Change the Page Color
24. How to Change Themes
25. How to View the Word Count
26. How to Use The Thesaurus
27. How to Translate Text
28. How to Add a Comment
29. How to Track Changes
30. How to Use the Research Function
31. How to Open a Document
32. How to Change the Page Layout
33. How to Paste Text
34. How to Add a Picture
35. How to Print a Document
36. How to Do a Print Preview
37. How to Do a Quick Print
38. About the References Tab
39. About the Review Tab
40. How to Edit the Ribbon
41. How to Save a Document
42. How to Save a Document Compatible with Word 97-2007
43. How to Do a Spell Check
44. How to Change the Style
45. How to Create a Table
46. How to Save a Document as a Template
47. How to Underline Text
48. About the View Tab
49. How to Zoom
50. How to Modify Word Properties
51. How to Inspect a Document
52. How to Mark a Document as Final
53. How to Encrypt a Document
54. How to Turn Marked as Final Off
55. How to Create a Bookmark
56. How to Go to a Bookmark
57. How to Use Symbols
58. How to Make Columns
59. How to Change Orientation
60. How to Use a Watermark

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Here are 78 Free Excel 2007 Tutorial Videos (in Flash  format) from Officesessions.com. These are well done training tutorials for the following functionality in Excel 2007: Add-Ins Tab, Data Tab, Formulas Tab, Home Tab, Insert Tab, View Tab, Inspect and Encrypt the worksheet, Edit Fonts, Formta Cells, Find and Replace, Spell Check, Using the Thesaurus, Protect Sheets and Workbooks, Insert Pictures, Insert Clipart, Insert Shapes, Create Charts, Create Headers and Footers, Update the Theme, Display Sum of Cells, Change the Background, Undo and Redo, and the Quick Access Bar..


Excel 2007 Video Tutorials:

1.About the Add-Ins Tab
2. About the Data Tab
3. How to Delete a Cell
4. How to Delete a Column
5. How to Delete a Row
6. About the Formulas Tab
7. About the Home Tab
8. About the Insert Tab
9. How to Create a Document
10. How to Open a Document
11. About the Page Layout Tab
12. How to Print a Document
13. How to Use the Print Preview
14. How to Use the Quick Print
15. About the Review Tab
16. How to Save a Document
17. How to Use the Save As
18. How to Save as a Binary Document
19. How to Save for Excel 97-2003
20. How to Save as a Macro-Enabled
21. About the View Tab
22. Properties
23. Inspect Document
24. Encrypt Document
25. Mark as Final
26. Turn Mark as Final Off
27. Run Compatibility Checker
28. Change Font
29. Change Font Size
30. How to Put Text in Italics
31. How to Bold Text
32. How to Underline Text
33. How to Change the Text Color
34. How to Change the Cell Color
35. How to Center, Left or Right Justify
36. How to Change a Cell to Dollars
37. How to Change a Cell to Other Currencies
38. How to Put a Cell Into Percentage
39. How to Increase Decimal Places
40. How to Find Something On the Sheet
41. How to Replace Found Text
42. How to Use the Autosum Feature
43. How to Cut Something
44. How to Paste Something
45. How to Use the Spell Check
46. How to Use the Research Function
47. How to Use the Thesaurus
48. How to Use the Translate Function
49. How to Protect a Sheet
40. How to Create a Table
51. How to Zoom In/Out
52. How to Insert a Picture
53. How to Insert Clipart
54. How to Insert Shapes
55. How to Insert Smart Art
56. How to Create a Column Chart
57. How to Create a Line Chart
58. How to Create a Pie Chart
59. How to Create a Bar Chart
60. How to Create a Scatter Chart
61. How to Create a Area Chart
62. How to Add Hyperlinks
63. How to Insert a Text Box
64. How to Create a Header
65. How to Create a Footer
66. How to Insert Word Art
67. How to Insert a Object
68. How to Decrease Decimal Places
69. Into to Excel
70. How to Copy Something
71. How to Change the Theme
72. How to Display Sum of Cells
73. How to Change the Background
74. How to Protect a Workbook
75. How to Add a Sheet
76. How to Use the Undo Function
77. How to Use the Redo Function
78. About the Quick Access Bar

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