Non-Accredited Course
OMTI offers a wide veriety of non-accredited courses which are all free of charge at the moment.
They are free to all people no matter where you live, your age or financial position.
For a list of dates and times click here or select COURSE LIST on the left
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Please note that our lesiure courses (Digital Photography, Photoshop Elements, video Editing and Preperation for ECDL) now carry a refundable £20 deposit Payable on the first lesson. This deposit is refunded on completion of at least 80% of the course and all paperwork is completed. Failure to fulfil these requirements will result in the loss of the deposit.
Courses are
Introduction to computers
This is a short course aimed at complete beginners who havent used a computer before. It starts off with how to use a mouse and keyboard, create letter in Word, save it and print it.
This course lasts 3 weeks
Introduction to Word Processing
In this course you will learn how to type into Microsoft Word, Print a document and save it. You will learn formatting, tables, inserting pictures and much more.
It lasts 5 or 8 weeks
Introduction to Digital Photography
Aimed at Digital Photography beginners, you will learn about the parts of digital camera's, taking photos, the transfer to the pc, and basic editing. Having completed this course you should understand digital cameras, be able to take a photo, transfer it to a pc, edit it to get it to a printable state and then print it.
This course lasts for 5 weeks.
This course now carries a refundable £20 deposit payable on the first lesson. This is refunded if you attend a minimum of 80% of the course and complete all paperwork.
Photoshop Elements
Designed as a follow on course to the digital photography, this course is an imtemediate course that just deals with more advanced editing of photos. Its not really about editing a photo so it can be printed, its about making creations.
This course lasts for 6 or 8 weeks.
This course now carries a refundable £20 deposit payable on the first lesson. This is refunded if you attend a minimum of 80% of the course and complete all paperwork.
Prep for ECDL
The ECDL is a long and sometimes difficult course and you need a fair degree of knowledge before you start it, its definatley not for beginners!
This course is designed for those who would like to move on from the basics and for those who dont feel ready for an ECDL just yet. You dont have to move onto the ECDL if you dont want to.
It will introduce you to the7 subject of the ECDL. You wont go through the whole ECDL of course but you will have alook at each package so it wont be alien to you if you move onto the ECDL later.
This course will last 10 weeks
This course now carries a refundable £20 deposit payable on the first lesson. This is refunded if you attend a minimum of 80% of the course and complete all paperwork.
Making a Poster
You will use Microsoft Publisher to create a few different kinds of posters and Greetings cards.
This course will last for 3 or 5 weeks.
Managing Files
Ever lost a file or saved something an can't find it later?
Then this course is for you. This course will help you create folder structure in the correct manner, as well as help you to retreive lost files, folders and images. You will never lose anything again when you have completed this course!
This course will last for 3 weeks or 4 weeks
Interent and Email
One of our most popular course, it covers using and searching the interent and making the most of it whilst protecting yourself from threats. Then you will learn how to send emails and then reply and forward them. You will also learn about attaching documents.
This course will last for 6 or 8 weeks.
Excel
OMTI is delivering this excel course on its own for the first time. It is a beginners course and will start off at the beginning. You will learn about cel referencing, mathematical functions, multiple spreadsheets, format and much more.
This course will last for 4 or 8 weeks.
Video Editing
A beginners course to video editing. Using Pinnacle Studio you will capture footage, cut the footage, add music, add titles, add sound effects and burn your master piece out to DVD.
This course lasts 6 weeks.
This course now carries a refundable £20 deposit payable on the first lesson. This is refunded if you attend a minimum of 80% of the course and complete all paperwork.
Making a Newsletter
This course will allow you to create a simple newsletter using Microsoft Publisher. You will create a 4 page A5 newsletter and print it out.
This course lasts 4 weeks.
PowerPoint
OMTI has only delivered PowerPoint as part of the ECDL up to now, but not everyone wants to go through the ECDL just so they can use it. So we have created this course as an introduction to PowerPoint following a simular path as the ECDL but not to the same depth.
You might want to go on this course as preperation for the ECDL!
This course lasts 5 weeks
Databases
Previously only available as part of the ECDL OMTI now offers databases for the first time as a stand-alone course. Lasting 6 weeks it will take you from the basics of setting up a database, to extracting the information you need from the database. This includes tables, forms, reports, and querying the database.
Again this is ideal preperation for the ECDL
This course last 6 weeks
HTML Web Design
A new course to OMTI aimed at beginners. Here you will learn how to create a website from scratch. You will insert text, changing font colours and sizes, insert pictures, tables. Then you will make a number of pages with hyperlinks to create a fully working website. We will then host it to the internet.
You will use software based creation tools as well as viewing and creating the source code yourself.
The course lasts 10 weeks
For a list of dates and times click here or select COURSE LIST on the left