Collaboration Training in Chicago

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level professionals who wish to optimize their use of Microsoft Teams and Read AI to enhance meeting outcomes and workflow efficiency.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure and optimize Microsoft Teams for efficient meetings.
• Integrate and personalize Read AI within Teams.
• Use AI-powered features like summaries, transcripts, and participation analytics.
• Improve collaboration, task tracking, and follow-up actions post-meeting.
• Apply advanced strategies and use cases for sustained productivity.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level business professionals who wish to use Microsoft Teams along with its powerful integrations with Outlook, OneDrive, and Lists for effective team collaboration and productivity.

• Navigate the Teams interface, create teams and channels, and manage communication through posts, chats, and meetings.
• Schedule and join Teams meetings via both Teams and Outlook, use in-meeting collaboration tools such as screen sharing, and manage meeting notes and recordings.
• Efficiently manage emails, calendars, and Teams meetings using Outlook, and shift between email and Teams communication workflows smoothly.
• Use OneDrive for cloud storage, sharing, and collaborating on documents in real time within Teams and Outlook, including file version management and recovery.
• Create, customize, and manage Lists to organize tasks and projects, collaborate with team members, and integrate Lists with Outlook and OneDrive.
• Seamlessly connect Teams with Outlook, OneDrive, and Lists to create a productive and integrated work environment, reducing redundant tasks and improving workflow efficiency.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers who wish to customize, extend, and integrate XWiki into their business solutions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure XWiki for development and production environments.
• Create and manage XWiki extensions using scripting and APIs.
• Develop custom applications within the XWiki ecosystem.
• Integrate XWiki with external systems and databases.

Rocket.Chat is a popular open-source group chat application and server. Although the user interface is simple and clean, the system is powerful and complex. There are many configurable settings for different use-cases. Deploying the server, configuring it properly, managing and extending it can be challenging.

In this instructor-led, live course, we get you up and running fast, providing you the practical experience to deploy, manage and extend your own Rocket.Chat server.

Format of the Course

Part lecture, part discussion, heavy hands-on practice

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at system administrators who wish to learn how to install, customize, troubleshoot, maintain, and manage Zimbra Collaboration.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Installation, management, and maintenance of Zimbra Collaboration suite.
• Migration and troubleshooting.
• Streamlining and enhancing Zimbra administration.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at project managers who wish to create and update company content with Alfresco.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn best practices for document and content management using Alfresco.
• Design and use content models to organize content.
• Work with the Alfresco web client to manage workflows, folders, and files.
• Import and export documents into the Alfresco repository.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at system administrators who wish to set up a collaborative environent for centralized content production with Confluence.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up Confluence for team collaboration as an administrator.
• Use attachments to manage project files and documents.
• Restore and back-up a Confluence site.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at end users who wish to learn how to use XWiki to better collaborate with team members within their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able:

• Create, manage, and customize team pages and blogs.
• Customize XWiki for the right look and feel.
• Track changes to content using version control features.
• Set up a blog, manage comments, and customize the display.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at system administrators who wish to deploy and manage an XWiki server.

By the end of this training, participants will be able:

• Install a configure an XWiki server on premise.
• Create and manage users.
• Secure and optimize an XWiki server.
• Upgrade, back up and restore an XWiki server.
• Extend and customize the functionality and look and feel of XWiki.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at persons who wish to learn how to use Slack to collaborate and communicate seamlessly with team members within their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Join a channel and create new channels.
• Send messages and make calls in Slack.
• Upload and share documents and files.
• Create, customize and manage their own workspace.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at persons who wish to learn how to use Slack to collaborate and communicate seamlessly with team members within their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Join a channel and create new channels.
• Send messages and make calls in Slack.
• Upload and share documents and files.
• Create, customize and manage your own workspace.
• Add apps and services to Slack.
• Build a Slack bot to automate tasks.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use Element to collaborate with anyone on the Matrix network openly, while keeping control of privacy and security.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the benefits of using Element compared to other instant messaging clients.
• Set up and configure Element to start collaborating with other developers.
• Extend connections with other apps or chat platforms (Gitter, Slack, Discord, etc.)

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at HR, trainers, or event hosts who wish to use Microsoft Teams to facilitate engaging online meetings or live events.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn about the features of Microsoft Teams and how to use them for online meetings and events.
• Set up live events or meetings in Microsoft Teams, and then send invites to attendees.
• Familiarize with all available tools in Microsoft Teams to make virtual meetings more effective and engaging.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use Matrix to create an open collaboration platform where users can share real-time messages and data securely.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand and explore the features, APIs, and services in Matrix.
• Learn how to set up and configure a Matrix client and implement end-to-end encryption.
• Set up a homeserver with Synapse or get a free Matrix server using Oracle Cloud.
• Connect bridges to existing communication platforms (WhatsApp, IRC, Slack, Gitter, etc.).

This course is designed to teach Systems Modeling Language (SysML) from a reviewer's perspective, along with an introduction to the Cameo Collaborator tool. 

Full day of lecture and demo covering the core features of Teamwork Cloud / Magic Collaboration Studio including roles, model management, collaborative modeling, and project architecture.

This course has been created for anyone who would like to learn how to create, edit and organize content using MediaWiki software.

This course has been created for people who are going to use MediaWiki software as editors, users and website administrators.

This course explains how to:

• Find the information you are looking for on an existing site
• Create, edit and remove pages
• Design a structure of the page
• Analyse the best solution for the structure of the entire project
• Manage users
• Create and manage a community  

Some projects using MediaWiki:

Wikipedia - Free encyclopedia

Wiktionary - Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikinews - Free content news source

Wikiversity - Free learning tools

Commons - Shared media repository

Wikibooks - Free textbooks and manuals

Wikiquote - Collection of quotations

Wikisource - Free source documents

Wikispecies - Directory of species

MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. This one-day course provides participants with an introduction to Semantic MediaWiki.