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This free training day hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a hybrid event, with a choice of attending online using Chime in a web browser, or there are 28 places available to attend at Amazon's offices next to Cambridge railway station.

Please confirm your choice of venue by the end of Wednesday (tomorrow) with one final survey:

AWS Immersion Day: confirm your choice of venue

Are you interested in machine learning, but not sure where to start? Join us for this session with an AWS expert and demystify the basics. Using real-world examples, you’ll learn about important concepts, terminology, and the phases of a machine learning pipeline. Learn how you can start unlocking new insights and value for your business using machine learning.

This is a free course, register and sign in for the following dates:

22nd July 2021
30th September 2021

In this introductory course, you will learn about AWS products, services, and common solutions. You will learn the fundamentals of identifying AWS services so that you can make informed decisions about IT solutions based on your business requirements.

This is a free course, register and sign in for the following dates:

26th July 2021
9th August 2021
23rd August 2021
6th September 2021

Learn about AWS's strategy and best practices for performing large-scale migrations. Synthesized from AWS's experience of helping hundreds of enterprise customers move to the cloud, you will learn proven techniques that make migrations successful and tools that will accelerate your migration journey to the AWS Cloud.

This is a free course, register and sign in for the following dates:

30th July 2021
23rd September 2021

This is a bespoke 1-2-1 session with an Amicus trainer. The agenda is yours!

This is a bespoke 1-2-1 session with an Amicus trainer. The agenda is yours!

This course covers the system steps required to add actions in Amicus:

• Adding an action
• Assigning actions
• Reminders
• Completing actions

This course is for development and alumni relations staff responsible for adding and maintaining event information in Amicus. It covers:

• Creating an event, budgets, resources and sending invitations
• Managing bookings, dietary requirements and attaching documents
• Creating a guest list, name badges and attendee itineraries

This course will go through the system steps to creating a volunteer in Amicus:

• How to create volunteers and opportunities and activities
• Assigning volunteers to an opportunity and document checks
• Creating a board or committee
• Withdrawing or deactivating a volunteer
• Overview of coding a speaker

This course covers the system steps in Amicus to add or update employment records:

• Adding employment
• Updating employment

This course covers the mass communications functionality within the Amicus system:

• How many users can be part of mass communications
• How to set up a mass communications
• Using communication templates
• Managing salutations and contact preferences

This course covers the system steps required in Amicus to add and update relationships and households:

• Adding a household
• Adding a relationship
• Editing households and relationships

On completion of Amicus training, you will need to enrol on an assessment course. You will need to complete a maximum of 3 scenarios within Amicus. This will ensure you are comfortable and confident using the system in preparation for when we go live. It's not a scary test - remember:

• You can bring your training notes
• A trainer will be on hand to answer any questions

This course is designed to give you the foundation knowledge of what is held in Amicus and help you get started using it. It will cover:

• How to view and edit contact records
• Where to find employment, education, relationships, giving details and interests
• Recording actions and interactions
• An overview of the prospect solicitation cycle and how to complete contact reports
• How to create a contact records
• Corresponding with individuals
• How to view reports

This is a pilot run of the Amicus Basics course. Attendance will be by invitation only. For enquiries about this course, please contact Sam Grimley, Will Dixon or Sue Bourne.

This session is a working session to help you add and edit Biographical Details, add Addresses, and link Business Addresses in Amicus.

This course covers the communications functionality within the Amicus system:

• Sending mass communications
• Corresponding with individuals or small groups
• Managing salutations and contact preferences
• Recording famous individuals, social media and CAM contributors
• Managing templates and managing the Communications working group

This is a pilot run of the Amicus Communications course. Attendance will be by invitation only. For enquiries about this course, please contact Sam Grimley, Will Dixon or Sue Bourne.

Learn why its important to record Contact Reports in Amicus. You will learn to find the correct contact, create an Action, then create a contact report which can then be linked to a solicitation cycle.

This course covers the system steps to add a new contact record in Amicus:

• Create a contact
• Updating core biographical information
• Primary and secondary categories
• Data protection essentials

This course shows you how to create bespoke reports containing complex and detailed data sets.

This session will give you an overview updates are received by Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations. We will also look at how updates are recorded (with an overview of key fields in Amicus). You will also be shown how to download and filter the monthly data exchange reports.

This course covers the system steps and process for maintaining:

• Donor list
• Recognition groups
• VC letters

This course is a short refresher session of the Introduction to Amicus for new College starters course. This is ideal for anyone who completed the introductory course and either hasn't used Amicus since or would like some reminders of where to find essential information.

Following completion of the Amicus Basics course, this session will give you give you detailed knowledge of:

• Creating an event, budgets, resources and sending invitations
• Managing bookings, dietary requirements and attaching documents
• Creating a guest list, name badges and attendee itineraries