Frequently Asked Questions

NUSSU commIT is a CCA under the National University of Singapore Students' Union (NUSSU), providing IT and software training services for NUS students.

NUSSU commIT provides free training workshops each semester, aiming to impart NUS students with the basic knowledge and skills to use certain widely-used software, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel. More information on our training workshops can be found on our Training Workshops page.

Additionally, we organise three major events each academic year, Cyberia Camp in semester 1, CREATION and charITeach in semester 2. In summary, Cyberia is a camp that teaches participants Adobe Photoshop, CREATION is a design competition and charITeach is a charitable event where participants can learn and teach a certain software to underprivileged students. More information on each respective event can be found on our Events page.

We are also in charge of handling two PC clusters in NUS at the Yusof Ishak House and also Block AS8. In these centres, We offer both printing and scanning services but do not provide photocopy services. More information on our computer centres, such as our operating hours and printing rates can be found on our Computer Centres page.

Please go to our booth at the Student Life Fair (SLF) held every first semester to find out how to apply. Unfortunately, we only open our application to new members in semester 1 of each academic year.

Login to NUSync and access the NUS Student Union’s portal. Our workshops will be listed under the NUSSU Events. RSVP for our workshop and proceed to make the $5 refundable deposit payment.

No, as our workshops are usually high in demand and have limited vacancies, slots for our workshops are allocated on a first-come-first basis, where placement is given to the first few participants who have paid their $5 refundable deposit for their respective workshops during the dates allocated for the collection. When the quota is reached, you will be turned away from making your $5 refundable deposit.

Payment is collected at NUSSU Secretariat, Yusof Ishak House (YIH) from Monday to Wednesday of the week of the respective workshops during office hours, from 1000 - 1800, excluding lunch time from 1300 - 1400. Kindly look for Madam Shilla at the help desk in the NUSSU Secretariat for assistance on the collection of the $5 refundable deposit. Please note that we do not offer the NUS FastPay option for the collection of the refundable deposits.

The NUSSU Secretariat is at Level 5, Yusof Ishak House. At YIH, go to the 3rd floor (a floor above the canteen), where you will see the entrance of the Study Room. Climb up the stairs on the right of the Study Room and once you arrive at the landing, continue to climb up the stairs on your left. Upon arriving at the top of the stairs, walk straight along the corridor and you will see a big room on your right with a sign that reads “NUS Secretariat”.

They are absolutely free. However, there will be a $5 refundable deposit for registration of each workshop, which will be returned to you at the end of the workshop.

No. Computers with the installed software is available. However, please bring your own laptop for the Microsoft Excel workshop as computers will not be provided.

Yes. As long as you have the software installed in your computer. However, there may be different interfaces used for different versions of the same software. Hence, it would be better if you are using the same version that our computers have.

We usually open around 50 vacancies for each workshop. Please check the respective event pages on NUSync to see the number of vacancies that we have opened for each workshop.

The time and location of each workshop is specified on our Training Workshops page and also on the respective NUSync event pages.

All of our workshops are around 6 hours long, inclusive of a 1-hour lunch break.

We will return the deposit if you inform us about your situation latest by 9.00pm, Wednesday on the week of the respective workshops. Otherwise, your deposit will be forfeited regardless of any provided reasons.

(Refundable deposit is implemented to ensure everyone who has signed up is responsible for their registration as there are limited vacancies)

You are still required to make the payment for the refundable deposit to the NUSSU Secretariat, as we do not offer the NUS Fastpay option for the collection of these refundable deposits. However, you can ask your friend to make the payment on your behalf.

The trainer are NUS students who has proficiency in the software. There will be 3-4 trainers with 4-5 helpers.

The workshops are aimed at teaching beginners, who have little to no experience in using the software being taught. However, we do cover some useful application of the software during the workshops, thus students with intermediate to advanced proficiency in the software may still find our workshops beneficial to them.

Yes, you can. However, we recommend just sitting in for the entire thing because there may be some continuing exercises for certain workshops.