For the Trainers
Everything a Computer Pals trainer needs in one place — the training sessions we have recorded, the answers to what members actually ask, and the ordinary things nobody writes down. Nothing to sign into.
Free, from the eSafety Commissioner Practise on a device you do not own Nobody here knows all four. Twenty-four of our thirty-one trainers are down as knowing one platform, and one in five of our members walks in with a Windows laptop and a phone from a different world. Every platform has a working simulator you can tap through in your browser, and a free course behind it. Learn it yourself →The one thing we ask of you. When a member asks you something you haven't got the answer to — and we all get those — ask it for everyone. That is how the next hour gets made.
What’s all this AI fuss about?
What AI actually is in plain English, why it is not the same as Googling, what it is already doing to your family and their jobs, how to have a go yourself, and what never to type into it.
Cloud Services, and the Google Shared Workspace
What "the cloud" actually is, how to tell which account you are in, why your storage keeps filling up, and what to set up now so a lost phone costs you nothing.
Tips
See all tipsShort, one subject each — some for members, some just for us.
Outlook: the Inbox looks right but Sent is tiny
How to free up space on your phone
Something you were asked this week?
If a member asked you, they are asking every trainer. Somebody else has met the same thing this term and said nothing. Put it up and one question becomes an hour for all of us — that is not a gap in you, it is the job.
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