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Do you want to feel confident using digital tools during your studies, complete projects more efficiently, and find out how artificial intelligence can make your everyday university life smarter? Then doIT is the perfect place for you!

Our free IT training courses will help you get ahead – whether you want to master Word, Excel and PowerPoint or discover the possibilities of generative AI. Practical, easy to understand and immediately applicable.

Simply sign up via PANDA and expand your digital skills step by step.

 

Course of­fer

Here you’ll find our current course offerings. Our courses are available both online and in-person. You can register for online courses at any time. The dates for the next in-person sessions are listed in the course descriptions below. Each course run consists of two or three sessions, and attendance at the first session is compulsory for the rest of the course.

 

An over­view of our courses

In this course, the video editing software DaVinci Resolve is introduced. The focus is on functions that are particularly relevant for creating and editing videos in academic and creative contexts.

Contents:

  • Structure & basic functionalities
  • Creating and editing video projects
  • Cuts and transitions
  • Color correction and color grading
  • Audio editing and optimization
  • Exporting and rendering video
     

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This course introduces the image editing programme Affinity.

In particular, it covers the programme’s basic functions, enabling you to carry out simple image editing.

Contents:

  • Basics of image editing and an introduction to Affinity (user interface, programme overview, pixel graphics)
  • Programme tools: selection, retouching, design elements, etc.
  • The concept of layers & layer masks – best practices for image editing and cropping elements
  • Image corrections – filters and effects
  • Designing your own poster

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This course covers the basics of statistical data analysis using SPSS. The focus is on methods and functions that are particularly relevant for analyses in a university context and within the framework of bachelor’s theses. The course is aimed at participants who have little or no prior experience with SPSS or statistical methods.

Contents:

  • Data preparation and cleaning
  • Descriptive statistics and data visualisation
  • Inferential statistics (e.g. t-tests, correlations, regressions)
  • Interpretation and presentation of results

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This course covers the basics of spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel. The focus is on functions that are particularly relevant for calculations in a university context. The course is aimed at participants who have little or no prior experience with MS Excel.

Contents:

  • Basics of spreadsheet structure
  • Formulas (e.g. SUM, IF, MAX, MIN, COUNT)
  • Graphical representation of values and data

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This course is aimed at anyone who already has experience using MS Excel and builds on the content of the Excel Basic course. It covers more advanced topics in spreadsheets.

Contents:

  • Conditional formatting
  • VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP
  • Data analysis (Goal Seek, Solver, Scenario Manager)
  • Pivot charts and pivot tables

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In einer zunehmend digitalen und vernetzten Welt spielt Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) eine zentrale Rolle bei der Gestaltung der Zukunft von Bildung und Wissenschaft. Der Kurs richtet sich an Studierende mit und ohne Vorkenntnisse und vermitteln einen verständlichen Einstieg in die Welt generativer KI. Im Fokus stehen die technische Grundlagen und Funktionsweise, Grenzen des KI-Einsatzes, ethische Überlegungen sowie Tipps und Tricks für den Uni-Alltag.

  • Grundlagen generativer KI
  • KI & Ethik
  • Anwendung/Prompting

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This course introduces the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation programme. It focuses in particular on explaining features relevant to presentations in an academic setting.

Contents:

  • Programme structure
  • Creating presentations using different designs
  • Designing slides
  • Inserting and editing graphics and other objects
  • Using master slides
  • Using animations and slide transitions

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This course introduces the image editing programme Adobe Photoshop. In particular, we will cover the programme’s basic functions, enabling you to carry out simple image editing.

Contents:

  • Basics (user interface, introduction to the programme, pixel graphics)
  • Programme tools
  • Layers
  • Layer masks
  • Image adjustments

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This course introduces the word processing programme Microsoft Word. It focuses in particular on explaining functions relevant to academic writing in a university context.

Contents:

  • Structure & functions
  • Creating and editing text files
  • Formatting
  • Inserting and editing graphics and other objects
  • Creating references and citations

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NEW! Our Word crash course – a perfectly formatted assignment in 2 hours

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In­form­a­tion­en zur An­mel­dung und Teil­nahme

Die Selbsteinschreibung in die PANDA-Kurse ist unverbindlich! Ihr könnt euch also einfach in PANDA anmelden und euch erst einmal den Kurs genauer anschauen!
 
Präsenzkurse:

  1. Selbsteinschreibung in PANDA über den Link in der Kursübersicht
  2. Bestätigt eure Anmeldung durch die Abgabe in den jeweiligen Kursen. Genauere Informationen findet ihr in den Kursen in PANDA.

Onlinekurse:

  1. Selbsteinschreibung in PANDA über den Link in der Kursübersicht.
  • Jeder Studierende der Universität Paderborn kann kostenlos an den doIT-Schulungen teilnehmen.
  • Die Kurse finden in Online- und Präsenzformat statt.
  • Umfang Präsenzkurse: etwa 10 Stunden (2 x 4 Stunden + Abschlussprüfung)
  • Nach bestandener Abschlussprüfung und Teilnahme an der Umfrage erhaltet ihr eine Teilnahmebescheinigung.
  • Eine Teilnahmebescheinigung wird ausgehändigt, wenn die Prüfung mit mindestens 50% bestanden wurde. Diese können anschließend im Notebook-Café (H1.201) persönlich oder mittels Vollmacht sowie Lichtbildausweis auch von Dritten abgeholt werden.
  • Kontakt: doit@uni-paderborn.de

 

Kon­takt

doIT

Paderborn University
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn
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Team

Juuli Eckstein

Head -

Phone: +49 5251 60-4014
E-mail: juuli.eckstein@uni-paderborn.de

Bilal Pehlivan

doIT trainer for PowerPoint

Emily Weber

doIT Trainer for Word, Affinity, DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop