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ARDC accessibility testing guide for digital training content

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This guide helps testers, designers, and developers evaluate digital content against WCAG 2.2 AA. It provides a clear, practical breakdown of all 59 criteria, grouped by the POUR principles, with steps for testing each - individually and together - ensuring accessible and inclusive user...

Getting started with NVivo for Windows at Deakin Online

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Does your research see you working through unstructured and non-numerical data? With the ability to collect, store and analyse different data types all in the one location makes, it’s easy to see why NVivo is becoming the tool of choice for many researchers.

NVivo allows researchers to...

Unix Shell and Command Line Basics at Deakin Online

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The Unix environment is incredibly powerful but quite daunting to the newcomer. Command line confidence unlocks powerful computing resources beyond the desktop, including virtual machines and High Performance Computing. It enables repetitive tasks to be automated. And it comes with a swag of...

Getting started with HPC using Slurm at Deakin Online

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Is your computer’s limited power throttling your research ambitions? Are your analysis scripts pushing your laptop’s processor to its limits? Is your software crashing because you’ve run out of memory? Would you like to unleash to power of the Unix command line to automate and run your analysis...

Learn to Program: Python at Deakin Online

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Python has deservedly become a popular language for scientific computing. It has all the friendly features and conveniences you’d expect of a modern programming language, and also a rich set of libraries for working with data.

We teach using Jupyter notebooks, which allow program code,...

Excel for Researchers at Deakin Online

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Data rarely comes in the form you require. Often it is messy. Sometimes it is incomplete. And sometimes there’s too much of it. Frequently, it has errors. We’ll use one of the most widespread data wrangling tools, Microsoft Excel, to import, sort, filter, copy, protect, transform, summarise,...

WORKSHOP: Spatial omics

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This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘Spatial omics. This workshop took place over two sessions on 28 - 29 October 2025.
Event description
Spatial omics provides unprecedented opportunities for the understanding of cells, tissues and systems...

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R for reproducible science

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A collection of training events and materials that relate to using R to provide training and background on helping me make my research reproducible.