Will there be training for LiveWhale?

• 9 April 2009
• David McKelvey

Morgan recently wrote a post on the redesign blog about all the different types of content/pages that we currently have on the Lewis & Clark website and Boot chimed in with some concerns about training. He asked:

Good to know that most content will just transfer over - but what about generating whole new pages which we in APP do at the rate of roughly 1/week? When do you envision training staff on how to use/update/create/publish pages in Live whale? Or is it just so easy that training would be silly?

Well, if you’ve used any blogging software or other types of web apps recently, then yes — LiveWhale will be just that easy. But, for those who haven’t or perhaps like you Boot, they’re heavy users that want to get all the nitty-gritty of what the system is capable, there is training available.

Group Training Sessions
In fact, we’re partnering with IT Client Services to help us manage LiveWhale and being experts in user training, Kelly Wainwright is going to be leading six 90-minute training sessions over the course of late April to early June. Here’s the present schedule:

Tuesday-April 21, 10-11:30am,  Watzek Library Classroom  (rm 245)
Tuesday-April 28, 12:15-1:45pm, South Conference Center rm. 107
Thursday-May 7, 3-4:30pm, Watzek Library Classroom (rm. 245)
Friday-May 15, 10-11:30am, Watzek Library Classroom (rm. 245)
Wednesday-May 27, 1:30-3pm, South Conference Center rm. 107
Tuesday-June 9, 9-10:30am, Watzek Library Classroom (rm. 245)

(We also have this on our redesign calendar at Google.)

To sign up, contact Leslie Wagner at wagner@lclark.edu or call #7229. They’ll be limiting the number per class to about 20 so that everyone has a good chance to see and get questions answered. If some of these times don’t work for you, or you want to get a large group training for your entire office, contact Kelly to arrange something special.

Self-Taught Training
For those of you that prefer a self-taught method, Morgan is also going to be creating some online screencasts of how to do some of the most frequently performed tasks in LiveWhale. He’s just starting to create them, but we’ll be sure to post them as soon as they’re ready.

Also published: https://media.zendesk.com/forums/22045/entries/31065

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• Redesign

• group, IT Client Services, livewhale, screencasts, self-taught, training