On-Demand Learning


Tuesday Tech Tips

Tuesday Tech Tips provides hands-on experience with electronic tools and systems for daily communications and tasks.

Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Delivering Engaging Presentations

Description: Provides tips for designing and delivering an engaging presentation.

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Evaluating Learning Opportunities

Description: Provides instructions for designing evaluations to ensure your learning opportunity meets targeted objectives.

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Excel for Research Administrators

Description: Demonstrates how to use Excel to aid in research administration common tasks. Topics range from simple to moderately complicated, from quick tricks to improve the usability of Excel to pivot tables for data analysis.

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Locating Subrecipient Information in the OSP Subaward System

Description: The Subaward System is a centralized platform designed to act as a central repository for subrecipient-related information and streamline finding information about subrecipients. You will learn how to search for a subrecipient using this system during this Tech Tip. 

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Microsoft PowerPoint: Advanced Features

Description: Introduce best practices for creating engaging PowerPoint presentations for telling your stories.

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Microsoft Teams

Description: Introduce basics such as chats versus teams, video and audio calls, file sharing, forms, tasks, and more.

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Microsoft OneNote

Description: Introduces best practices in creating, sharing, and searching Notebooks using OneNote.

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Outlook Calendars

Description: Introduces scheduling meetings including links for Zoom and Teams meetings, using the scheduling assistant, categorizing meetings, sharing calendars, group calendars, calendar notifications and calendar views.

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Outlook Email

Description: Introduce tips for inbox management and desktop versus web features. We will cover basics such as setting an office message, creating & changing your email signature, handling incoming emails by creating folders and setting rules, managing focused, junk, and other email, sending email to groups, inserting an inline image in email, delay sending email, searching for email, and managing multiple Outlook accounts.

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: PowerPoint 101

Description: Introduces PowerPoint basics such as using pre-made templates, inserting videos, adding transitions and automation, along with best practices for telling your stories.

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Qualtrics for Survey Creation

Description: Demonstrates the use of Qualtrics to create and distribute surveys, run survey reports, and best practices in program evaluation.

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Registering for a Training Opportunity in Brainier

Description: Brainer is Emory's newest learning management system. It contains live classes, on-demand courses, and curricula on a wide variety of training topics. You will learn how to access and register for training opportunities in Brainer during this Tech Tip. 

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Using Brainier

Description: Demonstrates how to access Brainer and how to use Brainer to find, register for, and recommend a learning object. Learners will practice finding and registering for a class or course in Brainer.

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Voice Commands in Microsoft

Description: Demonstrates how to use dictation and other accessibility features using Microsoft products. 

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Course: Tuesday Tech Tip: Writing Presentation Objectives

Description: Provides tips on writing engaging and descriptive presentation objectives.

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Job Aids

Job Aid: Brainier Job Aid Course Registration

Description: Brainier is Emory's newest learning management system. It containes online classes, on-demand courses, and related materials. This job aid walks you through the three ways to register for a learning opportunity in Brainier. 

  • Logging in directly and searching for a learning opportuity or resources (preferred method)
  • Using a registration link while logged into Brainier (preferred method)
  • Using a registration link when not logged into Brainier

Job Aid: Epex Job Aid Most Common Challenging Questions

Description: The purpose of EPEX is to assist in electronic routing, budget development, and institution approval related to sponsored funding at Emory. Additionally, EPEX provides the data necessary to record information sufficient for internal tracking and reporting purposes and facilitates the entry of Proposals in the Compass Grants system. This job aid provides additional guidance and tips for answering the most common challenging questions in EPEX.

Job Aid: SciENcv Workspace Tutorial

Description: Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) is a system that helps researchers assemble the professional information needed for participation in federally funded research. SciENcv gathers and compiles information on expertise, employment, education, and professional accomplishments.

For NIH and NSF, researchers must use SciENcv to create and maintain biographical sketches (aka biosketch) submitted with grant applications and annual reports. Faculty investigators must create their own SciENcv workspace. The following tutorial guides investigators on managing biographical information, research activities, and other details relevant to building a biosketch.