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- INSIGHT EDUCATION
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- 36 Mill Road
- Lode
- Cambridge
- CB5 9EN
- Telephone: 01223 812927 or 0385 510649
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- We offer approved Acorn training services for:
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- • home and educational users
- • businesses
- • service engineers
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- INSIGHT TRAINING COURSE DESTAILS
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- Start Here
- ==========
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- The Acorn Explorer (RE/1)
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- This is the course for new users of Acorn systems. Designed to benefit
- complete beginners and to include the Risc PC Range, the Acorn Explorer is
- also good preparation for other courses. It deals in a practical manner with
- all aspects of using the system and shows how to get the most out of
- programs in the applications suite.
-
- More importantly, it gives students the confidence to explore further
- according to their needs, and to explore the use of any applications which
- they might encounter in the future. The course covers:
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- • The RISC OS Desktop
- • Applications, files and directories
- • Windows, icons and menus
- • Running applications and printing
- • Manipulating files
- • Using applications - Draw and Paint.
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- Students are given a comprehensive tutorial book with disc files and
- clip-art.
- duration: 1 day
- price: £80
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- Applications
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- Beginning Impression (AIB/1)
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- Impression Style is a powerful desktop publishing package. This one-day
- course is ideal for anyone intending to use Impression Style (or Publisher)
- at home, in education or business. No previous knowledge of desktop
- publishing is assumed although you should have some experience of using an
- Acorn computer. The course is an ideal grounding for the more advanced
- Further Impression.
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- duration: 1 day
- price: £80
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- Further Impression (AIF/1)
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- For those already familiar with the basics, this course will take you
- through more advanced features as well as showing how to be more adventurous
- in the design of your documents. If you are not already familiar with the
- basic features of Impression Style or Publisher, you should attend Beginning
- Impression first.
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- duration: 1 day
- price: £80
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- ArtWorks (AW/1)
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- On completing this course you will have a range of skills at your fingertips
- for producing designs, posters, illustrations; in fact, a whole range of
- graphics for which this package is ideally suited. We can't turn you into
- Picasso but we can give you the tools to exploit your talent!
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- • RISC OS Overview
- • Simple lines and objects
- • Flat, graduated and radial fills
- • Scaling and rotating
- • Blending between objects
- • Text
- • Alignment
- • Distortion effects
- • Perspective
- • Layers
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- The ArtWorks package is published by Computer Concepts.
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- duration: 1 day
- price: £80
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- Special Interest
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- Creative Multimedia (MM/2)
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- What exactly is multimedia? How can you make use of it in education or in
- business? This practical workshop answers your questions and sets you on
- course for designing and developing your own interactive multimedia
- solutions.
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- As well as acquiring an understanding of multimedia and its potential, you
- will have an opportunity to enhance tour skills in other areas including the
- use of IT, graphic design, training, presentation and organisational
- abilities. Although the course uses Acorn hardware, the principles are
- general to multimedia computing on any computer.
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- Some experience of using Acorn systems is helpful but not essential.
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- duration: 2 days
- price: £160
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- DTP Design (DTP/2)
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- This course is packed with ideas for creative document preparation. Learn
- how to produce effective newsletters, cards, flyers and letterheads. DTP
- Design is a course for anyone who wants to use desktop publishing to produce
- effective documents, whether in a school, business, voluntary organisation
- or for personal use. The course uses Impression Style but the principles
- covered apply to any other sophisticated desktop publishing package on any
- type of computer. No previous experience is required.
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- duration: 2 days
- price: £160
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- The Technical Explorer (RT/1)
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- Many users hardly ever stray beyond the Desktop with its intuitive
- mouse-controlled user-interface. But much of the power of RISC OS is behind
- the scenes. The Technical Explorer is a practical training course which
- delves into the world behind the desktop. It is suitable for IT
- Coordinators, support staff, technicians, home enthusiasts; in fact anyone
- who is already able to use the RISC OS Desktop and would like to explore the
- system further including:
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- • The RISC OS Supervisor
- • Built-in help in RISC OS
- • Configuration & Status
- • Aliases, commands and variables
- • The !System application
- • The Relocateable Module Area (RMA)
- • Hardware upgrades and expansions
- • The RISC PC 600 and ARM600
- • VIDC20
- • 486 co-processor
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- duration: 1 day
- price: £80
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- Networks
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- Introduction to Acorn Networks (NE/1)
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- This is a practical introduction to Acorn networks. It explains in
- easy-to-understand terms the various types of network in use, and helps you
- cope with the most commonly used jargon.
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- The course covers general concepts of networks and the use of Acorn network
- stations. It is ideal for:
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- • school or college staff who are using Acorn networks or considering their
- purchasing options
- • network hardware and software suppliers
- • support personnel
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- No prior experience with networks is required, but previous use of an Acorn
- computer is desirable.
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- duration: 1 day
- price: £140
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- Acorn Network Management (NM/2)
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- This course will give you a thorough grounding in the principles and
- practice of managing Acorn networks. As well as providing an invaluable
- guide to day-to-day management, the course will equip you to make planning
- decisions regarding small or large network installations or extensions to
- existing installations.
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- This is the essential course for:
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- • new network managers in schools or colleges
- • experienced network managers seeking to update their knowledge
- • suppliers providing network support.
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- On Acorn Network Management you will learn:
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- • fundamentals of Ethernet including hardware requirements, cabling types,
- functions and cable data;
- • File Server management covering Level 4 and related versions, operation
- and configuration, Application Accelerator, user creation, privilege levels
- and command line management
- • Fault-finding tips: cable faults, software problems, using diagnostics and
- optimising performance
- • How to set up your printer server and clients for trouble-free printing
- • Networking options including client/server file service, peer-to-peer file
- service, electronic mail, the Internet and connectivity to other network
- types
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- (These technologies are provided by AUN Level4, Acorn Access, Intertalk, and
- OmniClient).
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- Newcomers to Acorn networking are advised to attend the Introduction to
- Acorn Networks beforehand.
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- duration: 2 days
- price: £280
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- Support and Servicing
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- General Support and Servicing (SA/2)
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- This practical introduction to Acorn's RISC-based hardware range is a must
- for anyone involved in providing technical support or maintenance services.
- It is suitable for:
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- school or college technical support staff
- engineers from support centres or workshops
- support staff from hardware suppliers
- anyone needing to service and maintain Acorn RISC based hardware
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- You will learn how to:
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- • Provide general support of the Acorn RISC-based product range including
- the Risc PC
- • undertake fault finding and modular replacement on the ARM2, ARM250 and
- ARM3 ranges, including the A3000 series, A4000 and A5000.
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- You will be issued with a comprehensive range of service information and
- software including:
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- • Course Notes
- • 300 Series Module Level Service Manual
- • 400 Series Service Manual
- • A3000 Service Manual
- • ARM250 Service Manual (A4000, A3010, A3020)
- • A5000 Service Manual
- • Test discs for 300 400 A3000 A5000 and ARM250
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- Some knowledge of digital electronics and computing is desirable.
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- duration: 2 days
- price: £280
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- Component Level Servicing (SC/2)
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- This is an optional two-day course following on from General Support and
- Servicing. It covers board level repairs to A3000, 300 series, 400 series
- and A540 products. You will be issued with Component Level Service Manuals
- and diagnostic Test ROMs.
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- duration: 2 days
- price: £280
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- INSIGHT TRAINING COURSE DATES
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- October 1995 to March 1996
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- The Acorn Explorer RE/1 1 day 31 October, 4 December, 22
- January, 12 March
- Technical Explorer RT/1 1 day 5 February
- Beginning Impression AIB/1 1 day 9 November, 5 March
- Further Impression AIF/1 1 day 10 November, 6 March
- ArtWorks AW/1 1 day 1 November, 22 February
- DTP Design DTP/2 2 days 7-8 December, 15-16 February
- Creative Multimedia MM/2 2 days 20-21 November, 30-31 January
- Introduction to Acorn Networks NE/1 1 day 6 November, 19 February
- Acorn Network Management NM/2 2 days 7-8 November, 20-21 February
- General Support and Servicing SA/2 2 days 13-14 November, 25-26 January,
- 26-27 March
- Component Level Servicing SC/2 2 days 15-16 November, 28-29 March
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- Your place or mine?
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- • All Insight courses described in this schedule are approved and certified
- by Acorn and are held in fully equipped training rooms in Cambridge.
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- • If the training you need is not featured here we have other solutions to
- offer, including customised courses on your own site. If you have a group
- of staff to be trained, talk to us about it. An on-site course tailored
- to your needs can be cost effective and will minimise disruption to staff.
- A visit from one of our training specialists may be just the answer you
- are looking for.
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- To discuss your training needs, contact:
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- Insight Education
- 36 Mill Road
- Lode
- Cambridge
- CB5 9EN
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- Telephone: 01223 812927 or 0385 510649
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