SkillPort Web-based Training Now Available on a Mac -  
Full Course Library Coming Soon

You may already be aware that Miami provides a great online learning resource for software, advanced technical topics, and business skills in SkillPort. The good news – it just got even better!

• SkillPort now runs on a Mac. Up until Miami’s upgrade to SkillPort 6.4 last month, access to SkillPort was available only from a Windows computer. That’s no longer true – you can now access SkillPort from any Mac running Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) using the Safari web browser (version 2.0 or 2.0.4).
  
  
• The number of courses available is about to increase from 300 to over 2,500. To date, Miami’s SkillPort license has provided access to 300 courses of our choosing from a library of over 2,500 courses. SkillSoft (the company that provides SkillPort) has now agreed to open the entire course library to us:

As new courses are released, they will immediately become available on Miami’s SkillPort site – we will no longer need to wait for the annual summer course exchange to get access to new content. The full course library should be available by early May, 2007.

Getting to SkillPort

SkillPort is available through myMiami. To access SkillPort, simply go to myMiami (http://mymiami.muohio.edu), log in, and click the “Training” link in the Web Page Index. From the training page, you can click “SkillPort” as well as access a number of other university-provided training resources.

Want an Instructor-Led Introduction to Miami’s Web-based Training Options?

IT Services offers monthly web-based training “open” sessions in 362 Gaskill.  These sessions provide an opportunity to learn how to get the most out of Miami’s web-based training options, SkillPort and VTC, with the help of a web-based training coach. (View schedule in TRAIN.)

If you have any questions about SkillPort or would like to arrange a group introduction to SkillPort for your department, please contact the IT Services Learning & Information Services group at LIS@muohio.edu.