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How's Sasha?
For all of our students who have been asking after Sasha, our office German Shepherd, here she is “learning Excel” with Rosie. Like all of us, she can’t wait to get back into the Training Centre soon!! We’ll keep you posted…
MS700 Managing MS Teams - Virtual Classroom 16th March
The Managing Microsoft Teams course is designed for persons who are aspiring to the Microsoft 365 Teams Admin role. Microsoft Teams administrators configure, deploy, and manage Office 365 workloads for Microsoft Teams that focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in an enterprise environment. This course covers six central elements - Microsoft Teams overview, implementing governance, security and compliance for Microsoft Teams, preparing the environment for a Microsoft Teams deployment, deploying and managing teams, managing collaboration and managing communication in Microsoft Teams.
This course leads to the Microsoft Teams Administrator Associate certification exam. If you would like to attend this course then you can book directly via our website on the course page or contact one of our team on 01752 227330
Virtual Classroom - ITIL® V4 Foundation on 11&12 February
The ITIL® V4 Foundation course introduces students to the essential concepts associated with ITIL® V4 and prepare students to take the ITIL® V4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management.
The course will give students an understanding of the common language and key concepts of ITIL® V4. Furthermore, the qualification will enable students to progress onto more specialised ITIL® V4 courses. To view the full course profile please visit the IT Service Management section on our website.
If you are interested in attending, either book through our website or contact us at enquiries@skilltec.co.uk.
Merry Christmas from the Skilltec Team!
We will be closed for Christmas from 18 December until 4 January and operating on slightly reduced hours from 10 December. Contact us by phone from 10am-2pm or by email to trainingsupport@skilltec.co.uk.
Merry Christmas from the Skilltec Team!
We're Expanding!
Three new socially-distanced starters join our Business Development Team today - please welcome Claire, Jack and Matéo!
If you are looking to join a progressive, innovative, fast-moving company then get in touch with us – we will be recruiting again in January!
It's Time! Our Training Centres Re-Open
Our Training Centres will reopen for exam delivery with effect from the 1st July with a limited schedule of in-centre training courses starting from Monday 6th July.
We look forward to welcoming you all back and we want you to know that we’ve been busy behind the scenes changing our systems and procedures to ensure a safe training environment for all.
Following a detailed COVID-19 Risk Assessment, we have reconfigured our Training Centre and put in place new protocols to ensure the safety of our exam candidates, our students and our staff, while ensuring the quality of training and support you have come to expect from us.
Prior to re-opening, the Training Centre was subject to a deep clean using antiseptic, antibacterial cleaning products. This process was carried out over the course of a week and involved every part of the Training centre including shared entrance areas.
The classrooms and delegate rest areas have been reconfigured to enable effective Social Distancing. This has involved not only reducing classroom sizes considerably but also capping the total number of people coming into the Training Centre at any one time – down by two-thirds.
We have put hand sanitiser stations at key points in the Centre including at the front entrance to the building, at reception and in the delegates rest area. On-going antibacterial cleaning will be carried out during the day with particular focus on high-touch areas.
We have installed safety and information signage throughout the Centre.
If requested, face masks and gloves are available - but currently this is not mandatory.
We hope you are as excited as we are about being back but if you have any queries regarding coming in to the Centre, please contact our Training Support Team at trainingsupport@skilltec.co.uk
Re-Opening for Classroom-based Training Soon - 5th June 2020
As some of the Covid-19 restrictions begin to lift, we are working behind the scenes to ensure that we can re-open our training centres for classroom-based training soon.
Our priority is always to ensure the safety of Skilltec Training students and staff and we are currently testing our safety protocols to ensure that all our students receive a high quality learning experience in a safe environment.
We hope to make a further announcement on this shortly
ITIL® V4 Managing Professional Transition
All ready for the next week’s Managing Professional Transition course for our first cohort of certified ITIL Expert’s. Only a few at this level in the South West!
ITIL Version 4 is coming!
The next generation of ITIL, the most globally recognised Service Management framework, is scheduled for release by AXELOS in Q1 2019.
More details will follow as soon as release dates are confirmed. ITIL v4 Foundation will be available as a public scheduled course in Plymouth as soon as it becomes available. We are currently holding a wait list for delegates that wish to be first-to-market with these new skills, if you would like to be included for the first courses please contact David Bogart on 01752 227330.
Office 365 Migration Training
The Client was looking for a training provider to support their move from a desktop-based legacy installation of MS Office 2007 to a new collaborative cloud-based Office 365 environment. The migration was to potentially touch up to 2500 users across 6 geographical locations. They had identified user training as a fundamental and key element for the overall success of the deployment and, as such, Skilltec worked with them to:
- Excite and enthuse their workers to the powerful new opportunities available within a collaborative cloud-based environment.
- Introduce and motivate users to the new features and capabilities available within the Office 365 toolset.
- Provide users with a structured understanding of the Client way of working with this new technology highlighting Client protocols and embedding best practise.
Working in coordination with their L&D team as well as the migration project managers, Skilltec designed, wrote and delivered a range of specific courses uniquely geared to the their requirements that embedded their policies, procedures and protocols within the training delivery.
The shift to Office 365 is culturally different and managing this change to a better way of working through effective training was an important key to the success and uptake of this major new deployment.
The curriculum designed and delivered for this migration project included:
- Office 365 – An Introduction to WebApps
- Groups & Site Owner
- SharePoint 2016
- Microsoft Flow
- Power BI
- MS Office OneNote 2016
SkillTec New Combined Training Schedules Released
Our new course schedule for Spring 2018 has now been released and is available for download here. This schedule now includes public-scheduled dates in Exeter for the first time allowing us to offer courses across 3 centres in the South West – Plymouth, Exeter & Bristol.
Don’t forget that we can always come to you! We do a lot of onsite training for clients throughout the region, course dates can be set up to fit your diary and courses can be tailored to precisely meet your needs. There is also a mobile classroom that we can bring with us if you don’t have access your own computer suite.