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Introduction to Microsoft Project 2019/Office 365

Course ID: OST-3100AJE
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Microsoft Project is a staple for project management and remains the most widely used project management software across all industries. If you manage projects, learning how to use this resource is key to successfully seeing them through to completion. Discover how to effectively plan, implement and control projects – sequencing tasks, producing a baseline, assigning resources and costs, tracking progress and revising. Armed with this information, you can avoid stalling or overloading your schedule. And if you encounter trouble, you will know how to get it back on track.

Course Objectives

Know how to use Microsoft Project

Gain transferable skills

Learn how to enhance your project in the areas of efficiency and security

Outline of Instruction

Overview of Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project can help you manage your project's schedule, costs and scope in a way that you've never dreamed of. Learn the basics of Microsoft Project, including a summary of the Gantt Chart view and ways to create and enter project tasks.

Creating a Solid Foundation
Create a project schedule, enter tasks in project's Gantt Chart view and set a schedule by using a calendar and assigning lead times. Then, create task dependencies, sometimes known as links. As you perform these activities, you become comfortable using Project's many dialog boxes.

Creating and Managing Resources
While tasks create the backbone of your project, you also need people, equipment and materials to bring your project to life. Find out how to apply two types of Project resources (work resources and material resources) and about two more dialog boxes (Resource Information and Assign Resources). Learn how to analyze resources by using the Resource Sheet and Resource Usage views.

Defining and Assigning Costs
No matter what project you work on, the bottom line is always important. So, get ready to add the final piece to your basic project schedule: costs. Review a brief overview of cost accounting, exploring fixed, variable, relevant and accrued costs. Learn how to assign costs by using the Resource Sheet. Discover how to assign different costs for the same resource and analyze the overall costs for your project by using the Cost Table.

Project Templates, Security and Constraints
Successful project managers are known for their efficiency and for safeguarding private information. Microsoft Project provides two excellent methods to help you in these areas: project templates and project security. Find out how to use some of the many templates Project has to offer, including the Residential Construction template and the New Product template. Learn how to protect your project information with backups, passwords and write protection. Discover how to put Project's task constraints to good use.

Working With Views and Managing Information
Discover how easy it is to modify your basic schedules and work with project data. Look at the various Project views, such as the Calendar, Leveling Gantt and the Network Diagram. If you don't like the default colors or fonts in your schedule or table, you can make changes. Learn how and why you might want to create a combination view, add notes to your project, or sort, filter and group data.

Fine-Tuning Your Project Plan
Many projects experience schedule compression when management or clients ask that the project be completed sooner and for less. Discover how to improve your schedule's performance. Explore the Project Statistics dialog box, and learn how to determine the ideal starting point in terms of planned costs and completion dates. See how to change task dependencies to speed up your project, and find out how to split tasks to add more lead time. Learn how to create recurring tasks and attach notes to your project's taskbars.

Baselines and Tracking
Before you implement your project, you need to create a baseline to track actual results against what you originally set out to accomplish. Microsoft Project makes it possible to set up a baseline with a few mouse clicks. Learn how to do that and then see a variety of ways, including using the Tracking toolbar, to record your actual project results.

Managing Variances
Learn how to compare actual results to your baseline by using the Gantt Chart and reviewing a table. Discover how useful status identifiers and progress lines can be to quickly gain information about your project's position. Use the Tracking Gantt and filters to automatically identify slipping tasks. Learn the basics of variance analysis by discussing the Start and Finish Date, Resources and Work Variance Tables.

Closing Your Project
No project is complete until it's officially closed. Find out how to close your project and use the Organizer to help you customize and copy views for future projects.

Printing Views
Now that you're using reports to share project information, you will occasionally need to print various views and tables. Delve into printing Microsoft Project documents, using the Page Setup dialog box to create different views of your project, and the Print Preview and Print dialog boxes.

Using and Creating Reports
Once your project gets rolling, outsiders will probably want to know how things are going. Microsoft Project offers the perfect solution: Reports. Examine a representative sample of the standard reports, as well as discuss how to modify and create new reports. Learn how to create visual reports as Project automatically exports data to Microsoft Excel and Visio.

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Industry Standard, State or National Certification

Certification

None

Website

None

Certification Learning Outcomes/Requirements

CE or CU Articulation

Prerequisites

N/A

Learning Supplies Needed

Hardware requirements:
This course must be taken on a PC. Macs are not compatible.

Software requirements:
PC: Windows 10 or later
Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is preferred. Microsoft Edge is also compatible.
Microsoft Project 2019 (not included in enrollment)
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:
Email capabilities and access to a personal email account

Instructional material requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

Clinical Site/Special Facilities

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Requirements for Successful Completion

90% attendance
Students must pass 10 quizzes with a minimum grade of 70% by the second quiz attempt. If all quizzes are not passed with 70% or better by the second attempt, the final exam score must be 70% or higher on the first attempt. The final exam must be taken by the Wake Tech course end date.