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Category: Data management
Sept. 3: Exploring Microsoft Excel (Essentials)
Exploring Microsoft Excel (Essentials) training is scheduled 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, on Zoom.
About Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is the foremost spreadsheet program in use today.
It is commonly used to:
- Conduct calculations
- Clean data
- Graph or plot data (to identify data patterns)
- Create data visualizations (both static and interactive)
- Apply visual styles to data tables and data visualizations
- Create interactive data visualizations (interactive pivot tables, interactive dashboards with sliders, and others)
- Create simple macros for continuing data handling (with Visual Basic programming language)
- Process data for analytics in other software programs
- Enable the share-ability of information
- Access online survey data (in analyze-able format), and more…
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CRM introduction training scheduled for Fall 2021
CRM Introduction Training has been scheduled for the Fall 2021 semester starting on Sept. 8. To participate in the training, you must complete and submit the CRM Access Form. The form must be completed and submitted before your training date.
Topics to be covered
- Introduction to the CRM
- Basic structure and terminology
- Hierarchy
- How to sign in
- Home screen, personal settings, navigation, and tabs
- List views
- Questions
Available sessions
- Sept. 8 – 1:30-3 p.m.
- Sept. 20 – 9-10:30 a.m.
- Oct. 6 – 2-3:30 p.m.
- Oct. 18 – 9:30-11 a.m.
- Nov. 3 – 1:30-3 p.m.
- Nov 15 – 9:30-11 a.m.
- Dec. 1 – 1:30-3 p.m.
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August 2021 CRM training sessions
Additional CRM Introduction Training has been scheduled for the August 2021. To participate in the training, you must complete and submit the CRM Access Form. The form must be completed and submitted before your training date.
Topics to be covered
- Introduction to the CRM
- Basic structure and terminology
- Hierarchy
- How to sign in
- Home screen, personal settings, navigation, and tabs
- List views
- Questions
Available sessions
- 1:30-3 p.m., Thursday, August 12
- 1:30-3 p.m., Wednesday, August 18
July 16: Intro to NVivo
An “Intro to NVivo” training is scheduled from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, July 16, for all faculty, graduate students, and staff who may be using this qualitative (and mixed methods, multimethods) data analysis tool. This session will occur on Zoom.
This presentation, which covers NVivo 12 Plus / NVivo (newest) basics, will address the following:
- The basic parts of the NVivo 12 Plus interface
- How to start and structure a research project (including a team project)
- How to set up a project around a base language (Chinese/PRC, English/US, English/UK, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese/Brazil, and Spanish
- How to ingest various multimedia file types (and curate heterogeneous and semi-structured digital data and digitized contents)
- How to ingest some social media contents
- How to begin manual and/or automated coding various media file types
- How to run data queries in the tool and analyze resulting data visualizations (word clouds, word trees, matrices, geographical maps, bar charts, and others)
- How to back up the .nvp / .nvpx project file
Reminder: Retention schedule for Zoom recordings goes into effect July 5
Beginning Monday, July 5, all Zoom recordings older than 180 days will be automatically moved to Zoom Trash. Going forward, all Zoom cloud recordings will be deleted from Zoom cloud storage 180 days from the date of creation. These recordings will be moved to the Zoom Trash folder and available for 30 additional days for recovery before permanent deletion.
Recordings that need to be kept beyond 180 days should be downloaded from Zoom and stored on your own local storage or in a different cloud location such as YouTube, OneDrive, or Mediasite. Zoom recordings created using the ‘Record on this computer’ option are stored locally on your computer and are exempt from the 180-day retention policy. Continue reading “Reminder: Retention schedule for Zoom recordings goes into effect July 5”
IT Policy Update
The Division of Information Technology continues to review and update IT policies in PPM Chapter 3400. The process is outlined in KB 14656, The Division of Information Technology (IT) Policy Review Process.
The following policies have been updated or retired.
Updated Policies
- PPM 3420 Information Technology Usage Policy: Statements regarding downloading of unauthorized software and compliance with federal legislation (FERPA, DMCA, and Gramm Leach Bliley) were added, including:
- Not install or use peer-to-peer software or software commonly used for unauthorized acquisition or distribution of copyrighted or licensed material on university computers or those attached to the university network.
- Be in accordance with state and federal laws (including FERPA, Gramm Leach Bliley Act, DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), US copyright laws, and policies regarding the protection of data).
- PPM 3480 Wireless Network Policy: Changes include updating the title, cleaning up terminology, and adding a statement and definition regarding the IoT (Internet of things) and a statement about accommodating needs.
Retired Policies
Technology Considerations for Employees’ Return to Campus
As K-State faculty and staff prepare to return to campus during July/August, there are several technical considerations to keep in mind to make the transition successful.
To learn more, view the Technology Considerations for Employee’s Return to Campus webpage.
If you need help, contact the technical support staff in your unit or the IT Help Desk, 785-532-7722 or helpdesk@ksu.edu. To avoid delays and overwhelming technical support staff, coordinate plans with IT in advance, particularly if you anticipate needing assistance. Also, consider staggering your department/unit’s return to campus rather than returning all at once.
Reminder: archive content from the K-State Online LMS by Aug.1
K-State Online, the homegrown Learning Management System (LMS) developed and used at K-State from 1998-2013, was retired in 2016. Course content, including syllabi, has been maintained based on the University Retention Schedule. However, beginning August 1, IT will no longer retain any course content data following the Course Content Records Retention Schedule. Continue reading “Reminder: archive content from the K-State Online LMS by Aug.1”
Reminder: retention schedule for Zoom recordings goes into effect July 5
Beginning Monday, July 5, all Zoom recordings older than 180 days will be automatically moved to Zoom Trash. Going forward, all Zoom cloud recordings will be deleted from Zoom cloud storage 180 days from the date of creation. These recordings will be moved to the Zoom Trash folder and available for 30 additional days for recovery before permanent deletion.
Recordings that need to be kept beyond 180 days should be downloaded from Zoom and stored on your own local storage or in a different cloud location such as YouTube, OneDrive, or Mediasite. Zoom recordings created using the ‘Record on this computer’ option are stored locally on your computer and are exempt from the 180-day retention policy. Continue reading “Reminder: retention schedule for Zoom recordings goes into effect July 5”
