WPU Training Page

Welcome to our Training Home. We support and train UAEU Projects, Groups and Departments how to use:

  1. Website (aka LCMS) - our first choice program for institutional web site creation
  2. my.uaeu Portal - our primary UAEU wide internal web portal
  3. Resources for Web Site Best Practice - how to improve users' experience by writing a clear  message, planning well, using redundency and images eg icons, usability and more.
Ways to Learn More
  • Online Learning - At our Main Training Site. Use our specially designed flash videos, pdfs and web pages to help you learn more
  • Request a Face-Face Session - Email us to learn more about Team Workshops, Coaching or Starting New Website Projects
  • News & Tips - see the right hand side of our WPU web pages for News and Tips
  • Email Support - Contact Us with your query or questions   to m.alsseed@uaeu.ac.ae We will normally respond within 1-36 hours.
  • More Orientation and Training PowerPoint slideshows and other project files
  • University IT Center Website - myuaeu Portal and  Website Management Systems (Frontpage & LCMS)
  • Telephone Support - You can also call us for advice or troubleshooting. See the numbers on the left hand side of this page.
Arrange a Training Session or Workshop

We run regular training, demonstration and planning sessions on the following modules and topics.

  1. What is your site for?: Objectives, conflicts, Users and Management Expectations
  2. Luminis CMS: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Workshop, Follow Up, Development & Support
  3. Microsoft Front Page: Basic / Intermediate, Workshop, Follow Up, Development & Support
  4. Web Brand Identity: Guidelines, Migration, Workshop, Follow Up
  5. CMS Migration: Brand, CMS, Automated, Manual, Workshop, Follow Up
  6. Web best practices: Usability, Accessibility, Readability, Navigability, F-Shaped reading, Scrolling, Inverse pyramids
  7. Web graphics & images: Basic, Intermediate, Development & Support
  8. Web File Management: Labelling and Organisation for sites, news sections, galleries etc, by date or content
  9. Web Workflows: Requests, development, testing, approvals, go live, post live testing and promotion (includes webtest platform for CMS/Front Page sites)
  10. Web Site Management: Building Teams, Coordination, Duties, Approvals, Testing, Go Live
  11. myUAEU Portal Training: Introduction, Groups Basic, Groups Advanced, Groups Leaders, Channels and Tabs, Channel Development, Calendars, Announcements)
  12. English and Arabic Publishing: (Site Studio, Front PAge or new CMS 2011)
  13. Intranet: Planning, Promotion, Development and Support - coming in 2011-12
  14. Media Library/Archive images, video, other - coming in 2011-12
  15. Online or eForms: Planning, development and use - coming in 2011-12
  16. Content Development & Collection: Basic, content, Advanced content, coordination, approvals and publishing workflow
  17. Service Oriented Sites: audiences, navigation and usability, usefulness, non service oriented pages, coordination, content and responses

 

Tips

 
Time to Read?

We spend just seconds scanning web pages. Put Important Info at the Top. See:

Inverse Pyramids
MIT's News Styles

 

 
Click & Wait!
Tell people how big a document is BEFORE they try to open it. eg:

Download Name (Pdf, 2.3mb) 
is better than
"Download" 

 
Reminders in your Email
Calendar Event Reminders straight to you, just:

Open my.uaeu > Go to Calendars > Options > Scroll Down > Turn on Alerts & Reminders