Microsoft Publisher for Office 365/2021

TOTAL DAYS: 1 | TOTAL HOURS: 6.5

Microsoft Publisher for Office 365/2021

Microsoft® Publisher for Office 365/2021 is a desktop publishing software application capable of producing greeting cards, certificates, newsletters, and other printed publications. Publisher includes a large collection of templates that provide a great way to start a new publication. Publisher offers a large selection of “building blocks” that can be dragged into your documents, helping you to create page elements such as calendars, newsletter sidebars, and borders. Publisher integrates online sharing and mail merge features, which are handy when you need to send publications to a list of customers, and it’s possible to export publications as HTML web pages or PDF documents. With a user-friendly interface, Publisher makes it easy to create and edit publications.

This course presents information and skills that are appropriate for users of the Office 2019 or Office 365 desktop applications. However, the instructional environment for the delivery of this course utilizes Office 365.

Completion of this course will earn 0.6 CEUs.

Microsoft Visio 2016: Part 1

TOTAL DAYS: 1 | TOTAL HOURS: 6.5

Microsoft Visio 2016: Part 1

From the earliest eras of human existence, visual images have been used to represent knowledge, data, and information. Beginning with the Paleolithic cave paintings and continuing to today’s most complex computer networks, these images leverage the ability of the human brain to rapidly perceive patterns and trends from visual representations.

In today’s workplace, visual diagrams are an essential part of communication, from road maps to sales flows to process charts. Microsoft® Visio® provides you with an intuitive, customizable tool to easily create a professional-looking visual product by using its extensive gallery of shapes. By following the exercises in this course, you will create visually engaging diagrams, maps, and drawings, using graphical elements to make information easier to comprehend.

This course is the first part of a two-course series that covers the skills needed to gain a foundational understanding of Visio.
Microsoft Visio 2016: Part 1 (this course)
Microsoft Visio 2016: Part 2

Completion of this course will earn 0.6 CEUs.

Microsoft Visio 2019/2021: Part 1

TOTAL DAYS: 1 | TOTAL HOURS: 6.5

Microsoft Visio 2019/2021: Part 1

From the earliest eras of human existence, visual images have been used to represent knowledge, data, and information. Beginning with the Paleolithic cave paintings and continuing to today’s most complex computer networks, these images leverage the ability of the human brain to rapidly perceive patterns and trends from visual representations.

In today’s workplace, visual diagrams are an essential part of communication, from road maps to sales flows to process charts. Microsoft® Visio® provides you with an intuitive, customizable tool to easily create a professional-looking visual product by using its extensive gallery of shapes. By following the exercises in this course, you will create visually engaging diagrams, maps, and drawings, using graphical elements to make information easier to comprehend.

This material will benefit users of any current Office version. The classroom environment setup is based on Office 2019.

This course is the first part of a two-course series that covers the skills needed to gain a foundational understanding of Visio.
Microsoft Visio 2019/2021: Part 1 (this course)
Microsoft Visio 2019/2021: Part 2

Completion of this course will earn 0.6 CEUs.

Microsoft Visio 2019/2021: Part 2

TOTAL DAYS: 1 | TOTAL HOURS: 6.5

Microsoft Visio 2019/2021: Part 2

Microsoft® Visio® stands out among similar applications because of its unique ability to draw a wide variety of diagrams, flowcharts, workflows, and organization structures—anything that can be represented by shapes connected by lines. Most importantly, these shapes can be rearranged and with corresponding lines remaining intact. Visio has improved over the years as features common among Microsoft® Office applications have been added. Today, Visio is well integrated with other members of the Office family as well as Microsoft’s cloud-based services. This greatly enriches the sharing and publishing of Visio drawings.

In Microsoft® Visio® 2019/2021: Part 1, you learned the basic skills needed to create and modify various Visio drawings. In Microsoft® Visio® 2019/2021: Part 2, you will learn about more advanced features—making you a more efficient and effective Visio user.

This course is the second part of a two-course series that covers the skills needed to gain a foundational understanding of Visio.
Microsoft Visio 2019/2021: Part 1
Microsoft Visio 2019/2021: Part 2 (this course)

Completion of this course will earn 0.6 CEUs.

Programming and Data Wrangling with VBA and Excel

TOTAL DAYS: 3 | TOTAL HOURS: 19.5

Programming and Data Wrangling with VBA and Excel

VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) enables you to enhance and extend the capabilities of Microsoft® Excel® and other applications in the Microsoft® 365 application suite. You can use VBA to perform tasks that would be difficult or impossible to do using only worksheet functions, and you can automate a wide range of tasks involving the collection, processing, analysis, and visualization of data. This course will give you a good foundation for understanding, creating, and using VBA in your own Excel workbooks, show you how to work with data across different applications, and how to package the macros and functions you create so you can back them up, move them to other computers, and share them with other users.

Completion of this course will earn 1.8 CEUs.

Project Management Essentials

TOTAL DAYS: 3 | TOTAL HOURS: 19.5

Project Management Essentials

If you are taking this course, you probably have some exposure to managing projects, or you may be considering embarking on a career as a professional project manager. Your ability as a project manager to demonstrate best practices in project management on the job is becoming the standard to compete in today’s fast-paced and highly technical workplace. In this course, you will apply the generally recognized practices of project management to successfully manage projects.

Project managers are always under severe pressure to complete projects on time and within budget. However, most projects fail to meet these demands, and, as a result, many projects are terminated early. Successful project management requires knowledge and experience. This course is designed to provide you with the skills needed to be a successful project manager in today’s rapidly changing world. The skills and knowledge you gain in this course will help you avoid making costly mistakes and increase your competitive edge in the project management profession.

Completion of this course will earn 1.8 CEUs.

Project Management Fundamentals

TOTAL DAYS: 1 | TOTAL HOURS: 6.5

Project Management Fundamentals

Successfully managing a project requires effective planning and adherence to the industry’s best practices in every step of the process. By understanding the fundamentals of project management, you will be better prepared to initiate a project in your organization and position it for success. In this course, you will identify effective project management practices and their related processes.

Completion of this course will earn 0.6 CEUs.

Project Management Fundamentals (Third Edition)

TOTAL DAYS: 1 | TOTAL HOURS: 6.5

Project Management Fundamentals (Third Edition)

Successfully managing a project requires effective planning and adherence to the industry’s best practices in every step of the process. By understanding the fundamentals of project management, you will be better prepared to initiate a project in your organization and position it for success. In this course, you will identify effective project management practices and their related processes.

At this point in your professional development, you are ready to take on the responsibility for managing projects. You can manage a project by developing a solid understanding of the fundamentals of project management and its underlying structure and elements, including project phases, project life cycles, stakeholders, and areas of expertise. These, coupled with the ability to identify the project management processes that are recognized industry-wide as good practice, will help you to apply effective project management techniques to improve the efficiency of your projects and ensure their success.

Completion of this course will earn 0.6 CEUs.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Boot Camp

TOTAL DAYS: 5 | TOTAL HOURS: 35

Project Management Professional (PMP) Boot Camp

Are you a project management professional with knowledge and experience in leading your team to success? Is it time to take the next step and certify your project management skills? Stand out from the pack. Attend the PMP Boot Camp and prepare to earn your PMP Certification!

Project Management Professional (PMP) Prep – for New PMP Exam

TOTAL DAYS: 2 | TOTAL HOURS: 15

Prerequisite:
Must have taken the 35-hour PMP Boot Camp course for the previous version of the PMP exam

Course Overview:
The new Project Management Professional (PMP) exam (effective January 2, 2021) is based on three domains – People, Process, and Business Environment. This may seem very different than the five domains in the previous version (Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing), especially if you prepared for the exam prior to 2021.
This two-day course is to help candidates successfully bridge-the-gap between the old and new exams.

Learning Objectives
– Understand what the different domains are on the current exam
– Learn to successfully execute a project while maintaining risk and change
– Learn Leadership styles to keep your team performing and on track
– Practice the new format of the PMP exam – Agile and Hybrid Methodologies