Webinars for UP Staff

To help strengthen the Work-From-Home (WFH) capabilities of the UP staff, a series of training webinars via Zoom will be offered by the Office of the Vice President for Development - Information Technology Development Center (OVPD-ITDC).

Below, you will find the details of the training webinars offered by OVPD-ITDC:

A. Webinar Descriptions
B. Requirements/Guidelines for Attending a Webinar
C. Webinar Schedule and Registration Links
D. Technical Support
E. Issuance of Certificates
F. Evaluation
G. Webinar Recordings

A. Webinar Descriptions

Privacy and Cybersecurity News Updates

This 30-minute recurring interactive meeting will give an awareness of the recent trends and news on privacy and cybersecurity.

Mobile Device Security Tips

This webinar will give basic security tips to mobile device users, specially those who are working from home or remote locations.

Alternative Video Conferencing Tools: Cisco Webex, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams Meeting

This webinar teaches the attendees on how to use the video conference calling tools such as Cisco Webex, Google Meet, and MS Teams Meeting as an alternative to Zoom.

UIS Project Procurement Management Plan (PPMP) Process

This course is intended for UP administrative staff who are responsible for the preparation of Purchase Requests (PRs)within their office. To be presented in this course are the prerequisites, types and processing of PRs including the monitoring of the status of submitted transactions.

Digital Well-Being Tech Tips and Tools

This webinar will focus on tech tips, tools, and healthy habits for digital well-being with respect to physical and mental health, coping skills, professional support at home, in school, in your community or remotely.

UP Document Routing System

The Document Routing System (DRS) is an information system capable of tracking the paper trail of documents created within the UP System. This also includes information on the originating and receiving office and personnel, as well as the time elapsed between offices/units/departments. Document attachments, revisions, updates, and remarks are also supported. This webinar aims to instruct participants on how to use the UP Document Routing System.

Google Public Calendar

This webinar teaches UP Offices and Units on how to manage their public events through the use of Google Calendar and how to publish them into their own websites.

Submission of Target Setting in UIS

This webinar will cover the submission and approval of target setting through the UIS.

Privacy and Cybersecurity News and Updates

This 30-minute recurring interactive meeting will give an awareness of the recent trends and news on privacy and cybersecurity.

Introduction to the FMIS Account Receivables Module

This course is intended for UP administrative staff who are responsible for the preparation of billing statements and collections. The prerequisites, billing process, and collection will be presented in this course, as well as the monitoring of the status of submitted transactions.

Google Authenticator

This webinar teaches an alternative for Two-Step Verification using Google Authenticator as a Multi-Factor Authentication Tool.

How to Avoid Getting Phished and Best Practices on Password Usage

This webinar will discuss how to avoid getting phished, how password attacks work, and best practices when it comes to password policies and multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Digital Well-Being Tech Tips and Tools

This webinar will focus on tech tips, tools, and healthy habits for digital well-being with respect to physical and mental health, coping skills, professional support at home, in school, in your community or remotely.

UP Document Routing System

The Document Routing System (DRS) is an information system capable of tracking the paper trail of documents created within the UP System. This also includes information on the originating and receiving office and personnel, as well as the time elapsed between offices/units/departments. Document attachments, revisions, updates, and remarks are also supported. This webinar aims to instruct participants on how to use the UP Document Routing System.

Google Public Calendar

This webinar teaches UP Offices and Units on how to manage their public events through the use of Google Calendar and how to publish them into their own websites.

Submission of Target Setting in UIS

This webinar will cover the submission and approval of target setting through the UIS.

Introduction to Slido for UP Faculty

This course will help introduce Slido to UP Faculty as an evaluation, assessment, and data gathering tool for their classroom activities. With the rise of hybrid and remote learning, eliciting instant feedback from students can be fully managed using Slido. This webinar will demonstrate several use cases of Slido in a classroom setting.

Privacy Tips on Taking Back Control of Your Data

This webinar will give an awareness on digital privacy in different aspects and tips on how to maintain your privacy online and offline.

UP Office/Unit's Work Management System in Microsoft Teams

This webinar will teach UP Offices and Units on how to utilize Microsoft Teams as their Work Management System

Organizing Your OneDrive

This webinar teaches the attendees on how to organize their OneDrive files and folders.

UIS Disbursement Voucher (DV) Process

This course is intended for UP Administrative staff who are responsible for the preparation of disbursement vouchers within the unit that they serve. The Prerequisites, types and processing of disbursement vouchers will be presented in this course as well as the monitoring of the status of the submitted transactions.

UIS Purchase Request (PR) Process

This course is intended for UP administrative staff who are responsible for the preparation of Purchase Requests (PRs)within their office. To be presented in this course are the prerequisites, types and processing of PRs including the monitoring of the status of submitted transactions.

Private and Secure Communication Apps, Websites, and Practices

This webinar will give basic awareness on apps and websites that are secure and privacy-first as better alternatives to Viber, Facebook, Instagram, etc. that can be used for communication, information dissemination, and publicity.

UIS Requisition and Issuance of Items (RIS)

This course is intended for UP Administrative staff who are responsible for creating Requisition and Issuance Slip. This process allows the end user to check the availabilaty of the item assigned to the unit and sends RIS using Move Orders feature.

Introduction to Canvas for Teachers

This course will help introduce Canvas to UP Faculty/Trainners as an alternative tool for their Learning Management System (LMS). Maneuvering through the challenges of online learning, this course presents Canvas as a facility for flexible modular learning. It is a platform, for the delivery of UP’s Coursepack program and/or other self-paced Trainings.

Introduction to SPCMIS Quotations

This course is intended for UP administrative staff who are responsible for the preparation of RFQs/Invitations to Bid and Quotations/Bids within their office. To be presented in this course are the prerequisites, and processing of RFQs/Invitations to Bid and Quotations/Bids including the monitoring of the status of submitted transactions.

Integrating Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 with Canvas

This webinar teaches the attendees on how to utilize the Google Suite for Education Apps and Microsoft Office 365 Education Apps with Canvas.

UIS Cash Advance and Liquidation Process

This training for UP personnel who are responsible for preparing cash advances and liquidations.

Communication Tips for WFH or In-Office

This webinar will discuss some basic tips on efficiently communicating in a work-from-home setup or in-office. This includes tips on writing clear and effective emails, and others.

Google Appsheet

This webinar teachs the attendees on how to create Low-Code to No-Code applications in Google Suite for Education

Power Apps

This webinar teaches the attendees on how to create Low-Code to No-Code applications in Microsoft Office 365 for Education.

PowerBI

This webinar teaches the attendees how to create data visualizations in Microsoft 365.

Looker Studio

This webinar teaches the attendees how to create data visualizations in Google Workspace for Education.

Google Appsheet

This webinar teachs the attendees on how to create Low-Code to No-Code applications in Google Suite for Education

Alternative Video Conferencing Tools: GMeet and MS Teams

This webinar teaches the attendees on how to use the video conference calling tools such as Google Meet and Microsoft Teams as alternatives to Zoom.

Introduction to Workflows in Microsoft Office 365

This webinar introduces the workflow power automation tool in Office 365. It will discuss the basic templates of a workflow and how to create your very own simple automated Business process orchestration using the common apps within Office 365.

Basic Information Security

In this webinar, participants receive instructions on the basic concepts of information security, some threats and how to deal with them, and best practices to avoid compromising information.

Introduction to (Task) Planner in Microsoft Teams

This webinar will discuss a very helpful Task Management App called Planner as a quick tab inside Microsoft Teams. It will help your team keep track and monitor any Task assigned to them.

Introduction to List in Microsoft Teams

This webinar will discuss a very helpful Task Management App called List as a quick tab inside Microsoft Teams. It is from a template of Delivery of to-do items in a list from various templates to choose from. It will help your team keep track and monitor the progress of any item to be accomplished in the List.

Google Approvals

This webinar teaches the attendees on how to request approvals for Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets

Communication Tips for WFH or In-Office

This webinar will discuss some basic tips on efficiently communicating in a work-from-home setup or in-office. This includes tips on writing clear and effective emails, and others.

Need-to-Know Gmail Lifehacks

This webinar presents an in-depth discussion on the possible features of Gmail that are rarely known to most office administrators and staff. These lifehacks will be helpful for them to greatly maximize the use of Gmail, increase productivity, and improve their efficiency in their day-to-day operations, their communications, and their collaborations.

Google Jamboard for Virtual Classrooms

This webinar introduces the use of Google’s Jamboard as a tool for synchronous online classes or virtual classroom activities that require real time doodles, which is an equivalent of an actual physical blackboard/whiteboard.

Automating Email Responses from Forms

This webinar teaches a simple Google App Script that can help automate a sending of an email template from a Google Form Response.

Digital Hygiene and Personal Safety Tips

This webinar will focus on practical tips towards doing a cleansing of online and offline digital footprint, as well as keeping your device and data safe.

B. Requirements/Guidelines for Attending a Webinar

For those interested in attending the training sessions, your UP Mail account will be required. Take note of the following reminders:

• Use your UP Mail to access the Zoom webinars.


• You can download the Zoom app here: zoom.us/download


• You can access Zoom for UP by following these steps: How to Login to Zoom


• To familiarize yourself with Zoom, you may go here for some tutorials: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206618765-Zoom-Video-Tutorials


• To test your computer or device, please visit: https://zoom.us/test


• For the Google Apps training, use the G Suite of your UP Mail account.


• For the Document Routing System online training, it is advised that your UP Mail be registered to the DRS.


• For the Microsoft Office 365 training, it is advised to have an Office 365 account, which is also linked with your UP Mail.


• Certificates of attendance will be available after the training sessions, thus participants MUST use their personal UP mail account (not an office UP mail account) to register for the webinars.


• Certificates of attendance will be issued only to those who will satisfy the following requirements:
  1) Those who have attended at least 80% of the webinar presentation they registered in; and
  2) Those who have accomplished the evaluation form AFTER the webinar (please refer to SECTION F for the Evaluation Form).

Please TAKE NOTE that you need to register so you can attend any of the webinars.

Upon confirmation of your registration by the training team, you will RECEIVE an EMAIL containing instructions on how to attend the webinars. To register, please refer to Section C below.

C. Webinar Schedule

Please NOTE that you need to use your personal UP mail account (not an office UP mail account) to register and join any of the online training sessions.

When you register, you will be asked to sign into your UP mail account. Please sign in using your UP mail account.

D. Technical Support

For questions regarding your UP Mail account and other concerns, please go through our FAQs: https://itdc.up.edu.ph/faqs

Should you have any questions or concerns on the Webinar offerings, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

E. Issuance of Certificates

Certificates of attendance will be available after the training sessions, thus participants MUST use their personal UP mail account (not an office UP mail account) to register for the webinars.

Certificates of attendance will be issued only to those who will satisfy the following requirements:

1) Those who have attended at least 80% of the webinar presentation they registered in; and
2) Those who have accomplished the evaluation form AFTER the webinar (please refer to SECTION F for the Evaluation Form).

If you have complied with the above-listed two (2) requirements, you can generate and print your certificate here: https://ems.up.edu.ph. Your certificate will be ready 2-3 working days AFTER you have completed the 2 requirements.

F. Evaluation

If you have attended at least 80% of the entire webinar session and you want to receive your certificate, kindly fill out the evaluation form in this link: https://ems.up.edu.ph/. This evaluation form must be accomplished AFTER attending your chosen webinar topic.

Your feedback would be very much appreciated and would help us improve our future online training sessions.

Thank you very much for your interest in our webinars.

G. Webinar Recordings

You may find the recordings of the webinars here.

NOTE: The webinar recordings published in the link above are the only recordings that can be viewed by all. Otherwise, access credentials to the webinar recordings will be provided only to those who have attended the webinar itself. Please take note that watching the published recordings will not automatically grant a certificate of attendance, if you have not attended the webinars.