UA Computer-Based Training (CBT)
UA CBT is free, self-paced, online training via the Internet and open to all UA NetID holders (instructors, students, employees).
A joint project of Learning Technology Services and the Office of Student Computing Resources, UA CBT offers free access to hundreds of tutorials on computer-related software and topics.
The UA currently has a contract with the Virtual Training Center to provide access to over 240 tutorials, covering a broad range of topics and applications, including:
- Business applications — Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project
- Programming — C ++, Cold Fusion, Visual Basic for Access
- Databases — mySQL, FileMaker, Oracle 9i:SQL
- Operating systems — A + certification, Mac OS X, Windows 2000/XP, UNIX
- Internet & Web design — Dreamweaver, HTML 4, FrontPage, Flash
- Graphics & page layout — Illustrator, Photoshop, FreeHand
- Animation & 3D — AutoCAD 2000 Basics, Bryce 5
- Multimedia & video — After Effects, Premiere, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Director
The tutorials, each containing five-15 hours of content, are divided into lessons from two-10 minutes long on average. Each lesson is a QuickTime movie (.mov file) that opens in a new browser window. UA CBT tutorials are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week from anywhere you have computer Internet access.
Learners may open and work in the appropriate software application (like Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop) while watching the lesson and may stop, start, rewind and review each lesson as often as desired.
