What's On at UWA

Intended Audience:

Lecturing staff who want to improve their teaching utilising their SPOT data and explore alternate ways to evaluate teaching in their class.

Workshop Description:

Effective teaching involves not only understanding the scholarship of research (...)

Microsoft Outlook can be used to combine information from your email, calendar and to-do list in a single view that will save you time and reduce frustration. Unfortunately the default setup for Outlook may make that goal harder to reach than it needs to be. This workshop will demonstrate a simple (...)

This workshop is designed to provide Purchasing Officers with the skills required to carry out the role in PeopleSoft effectively. After completing this workshop, participants will be able to: create consolidated and blanket purchase order (PO's), creare purchasing reports, assign multiple shipping (...)

This workshop is designed to provide participants with the knowledge to receipt and part-receipt goods or services in PeopleSoft, to cancel receipts, query receipts and utilise the backorder function to enable prompt payment of invoices as well as handy hints and tips.

This workshop will provide you with a broad overview of the operation of Human Resources at UWA including staff development services, equity and diversity practices, safety issues as well as salary and promotion information. In addition, this half day workshop will cover Enterprise Bargaining and (...)

Pivot Tables for the Novice is designed to enable participants to better understand the use of pivot tables to analyse data.

Whether you are new to UWA or have been here some time, this information session is designed to help demystify some of the workings of the University and to provide you with a broad overview of the University’s structure and decision-making processes. The session will cover key committees (...)

The Office of Industry & Innovation will be hosting its next “Intellectual Property for UWA Researchers Seminar" on Tuesday 23 October, 2012 from 0930 to 1230 (light lunch provided) at Love House, Seminar Room 1 (28 Broadway, corner Cooper Street).

All UWA researchers (staff (...)

This workshop is designed to provide participants with the knowledge to requisition travel using the Trobexis tool for you (the traveller) or a travel arranger (who books travel for others).

A good written application is crucial if you want to be shortlisted for a job. This workshop will focus on how to present yourself positively and effectively on paper through your resume, covering letter and statement addressing the selection criteria.

MySource Classic is an open source website content publishing and management system. It is designed to enable technically unskilled users to create and manage websites as well as individual pages. It requires no knowledge of HTML or any Internet programming language and users who are familiar with (...)

This session is for Academic staff who would like to encourage their students to do peer and self assessment.

Workshop Description:

Self-assessment provides a fundamental link with learning. Self-assessment is concerned with learners valuing their own learning and achievements (...)

PebblePad is a proprietary e-portfolio system. It has been designed with the learner at the centre of the system. It provides scaffolding to help users create records of learnin, achievement and aspiration, and has a reflective structure underpinning all of its core elements. PebblePad supports (...)

In this “hands on” training session you will learn: What pixels are and how they make up an image. What are the various graphical file formats used on the web. The differences between the various web graphic formats. Cropping an image Resizing an image. Image resolution. Saving an image in (...)

MySource Classic makes it easy to re-use information. There are some strong reasons to think about the re-use of content on your Web site including: the information is kept in one definitive source, it avoids multiple copies of the information, the information only has to be updated in one place.

Controversy continues to surround national student assessment in Australia. However, I argue that testing is neither good nor bad: the devil lies in what people – teachers, school, systems and even parents – do about the tests and the data they generate. I report the experiences of principals (...)

After completing this workshop, participants should be able to: Use disparate data sources for a pivot table analysis, Perform calculations within a pivot table that are not in the original dataset, Group and Ungroup items within a pivot table report, Format a pivot table report

Find out what’s involved in raising and training Guide Dogs and meet Bill (Guide Dog trainee) and others.

I am trying to raise the funds to sponsor a Guide Dog puppy, and only need to find another $1,000. My family will puppy-raise the dog we sponsor.

If anyone would like (...)

Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Maori, is a user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-Portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara is ideal for students at any (...)

If you have some material that you want to publish, or you are already in the throes of writing an article, then you can use your material in the exercises. From this base other forms of scientific writing such as report writing, theses and writing for a non-scientific audience will be examined.