Granite University

Granite UniversityAbout GU

What is GU?• Corporate training department• Promote learning• Central routing for training records• Exchange information• Contact us:

• mailto:[email protected] • mailto:[email protected]• Phone: 1-813-242-7400• 1302 N 19th St, 1st Floor, Tampa, FL

33605 USA

Where is Granite University? (Step 1)

• Go to the GSI Portal, https://portal.gsinc.com

Click on the globe

Where is Granite University? (Step 2)

• Go to Main Menu > Granite University

Select the Granite University link

Where is Granite University? (Step 3)

• You’re there!

Here is the GU web page!!!

Training Media• Granite University

• Classroom training• Tampa and other offices• Or attend by Internet (GoToMeeting)• Schedule – see

GSI Portal > Main Menu > Calendar of Events• Online training

• Atutor is our learning management system• MindLeaders is our external training system• To access GU online:

GSI Portal > Main Menu > Granite University• Training by CD-ROM

• EHS

Computer Systems

MindLeaders Other

ATutor

FSM Home

Internal training

E-Learning, external Community college, GE MyLearning, etc.

Your training records go here

FSM Home

Here are the training records for this person

FSM Home• Our contact management system

• Applicants for jobs• Employees

• Job skills, resumes, training records• Clients• Customer companies• Vendors

ATutor

ATutor• Our learning management system

• Courses• Enrollments, content, tests

• People• Students, alumni, instructors

• “Atutor How To” course• The Atutor tutorial• First course you should study

• To get to ATutor:• Go to the GSI portal, as shown above• https://classroom.gsinc.com

MindLeaders

MindLeaders• Our external online learning system

• http://mindleaders.com • Many courses:

• MS Excel, MS Word, other software• Project Management• Time Management• Inter-personal skills• Managerial skills• Self-paced, study anywhere you have an

Internet connection• Note: Only works with MS Internet Explorer

List of CoursesClick on the mouse for the list

Note: When you’re done looking at the list, please hit the “Back” button on your browser

MS Office• Teach yourself MS Office by:

• Microsoft website• http://office.microsoft.com• Many lessons, practice files, etc.

• MS Office help screens• Very good help screens

Self-training• Making time for self-training

• 15-30 minutes a day• Lunchtime?• Before work?

•The alternative: doing nothing

Other resources• Library

• Tampa http://thpl.org • USA Library of Congress http://loc.gov • Your library – check it out!

• The world wide web• Google it! … or Wikipedia it!

• Note: Use above with caution; may not be 100% accurate

• Many universities and colleges have free learning web pages

• MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu

Questions?