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Volume 48, No. 16, Sepetember 7, 2006

CONTINUAL LEARNING: Build your skills with new online CAMPUS courses, including Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX. Photo by LACW Melina Mancuso

DEFENCE uniformed and civilian personnel will have access to another 150 electronic courses on the CAMPUS system, following a recent partnership between Defence and e-learning course provider, SkillSoft.

CAMPUS is an online e-learning system available to all Defence staff on the DRN, which provides computer-based access to courses and learning material. CAMPUS is accessed by the DRN intranet: http://defweb.cbr.defence.gov.au/det/campus

The courses will replace the existing Thompson NetG courses. Those predominately Microsoft Office courses will be deactivated from that date.
The new courses include:

 Microsoft Office courses such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Project, Front Page and Visio. These are offered for Microsoft Office versions 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003,
 Microsoft Windows XP,
 Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0,
 Adobe Acrobat and Reader, and
 Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX.

Learners currently enrolled in Thompson NetG courses will still be able to access those courses until October 30. After that, learners will be directed to enrol in a new SkillSoft course.

Learners who have partially completed any of the NetG courses should complete it by October 30 if they wish to receive credit for the completion in PMKeyS. Alternatively, contact the DRN Support desk on 133 272 to have the enrolment removed.

No PMKeyS and other Defence-related courses and mandatory courses will be affected by the introduction of the new SkillSoft courses.

 For more information, go to: http://defweb.cbr.defence.gov.au/home/documents/deptinstructs/administrative.htm

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