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Online Self-Guided Sessions

for Edmonton Public Schools Staff

Interested in learning independently?

  • The time required to complete one self-guided course is approximately 24 hours: (2 hours per lesson X 12 lessons).
  • Once you are registered, you have 3 months of access to complete the course.
  • Metro’s recommendation is that a self-guided course is completed over multiple PD days.

Deadlines to register

  • If you’d like to start your course on Apr 26, 2024, the deadline to register is Wednesday, Apr 24 before noon.
  • If you’d like to start your course on May 22, 2024, the deadline to register is Monday, May 20 before noon.

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Work & Life Skills

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Effective Business Writing

Individual | $139

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Improve your career prospects by learning how to develop powerful written documents that draw readers in and keep them motivated to continue to the end. This course will help you identify gaps and eliminate problem areas in your writing skills.

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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Individual | $159

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For decades, artificial intelligence (AI) has been a staple of science fiction stories, but thanks to modern advances in computational capacity and storage capabilities, it’s becoming a reality. Today, there are examples of artificial intelligence all around us. The purpose of this course is to provide you with an artificial intelligence practical knowledge foundation.

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Discover Sign Language

Individual | $159

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Gain confidence in your ability to sign with the Deaf community. This course immerses you in silence to help you gain an understanding of the perspective of the hearing impaired and uses videos to demonstrate not only how to make signs, but how to communicate with facial expression.

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Interpersonal Communication

Individual | $159

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Communication is more than just speaking, hearing, or having a good vocabulary. This course explores strategies for success in everyday interpersonal communication. You will explore clear examples of verbal and nonverbal habits, effective listening, self-concept, differences in conversational styles, and conflict management. You will also learn about practical strategies you can use to improve communication at home, in social situations, and in the workplace.

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Achieving Success with Difficult People

Individual | $159

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Do you want to know how to interact with anyone, regardless of how difficult you perceive them to be? This course will give you the skills to effectively meet your needs while protecting the dignity and rights of others to form more cooperative relationships.

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Individual Excellence

Individual | $159

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The Individual Excellence course will teach you twelve vital career-enhancing skills. You will establish a clear career path and use skills like interpersonal communication and time management to achieve your goals. You will also learn how to utilize your creativity and problem-solving skills to work through adversity.

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Keys to Effective Communication

Individual | $139

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Become more confident, make great first impressions, get along with others, and create better personal and professional relationships. This course provides a step by step process to become a great conversationalist as you use communication to build rapport and create trust, warmth, and respect.

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Listen to Your Heart and Success Will Follow

Individual | $139

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Enjoy the rewards that come from doing what really makes you happy! This course will help you fully understand your own interests, values, needs and abilities and help you use work to express yourself and share your interests and talents.

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Computer Skills

Keyboarding

Individual | $139

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Become faster and more confident at the keyboard. This course will help you learn how to touch-type the alphabetic, numeric, and symbol keys; create, save, and edit word processing documents; and successfully take a timed writing test during a job interview.

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Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2019

Individual | $169

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Make presentations go from “so-so” to sensational with PowerPoint. This course will help you learn to use Microsoft PowerPoint 2019/Office 365 to create professional-quality slide presentations that grab attention and make your message memorable from start to finish.

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Introduction to Microsoft Word 2019

Individual | $169

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Learn to create professional-looking letters, reports, and documents using Microsoft Word 2019. This hands-on course will help you master the basic features of this powerful word-processing program to type, edit, and format text, and spell check and print documents like a pro.

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Intermediate Microsoft Word 2019

Individual | $169

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Use Microsoft Word 2019 more efficiently by mastering its more advanced features. This hands-on course will teach you how to create an index, build a list of figures, design a table of contents, perform a mail merge, and use timesaving shortcuts to develop professional documents.

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Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2019

Individual | $169

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Learn to quickly and efficiently use Microsoft Excel 2019 as you discover dozens of shortcuts and tricks for setting up fully formatted worksheets. This course, taught by an experienced Microsoft Excel instructor, provides in-depth knowledge for beginners that will have you using Excel like a pro.

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Intermediate Microsoft Excel 2019

Individual | $169

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Master new skills and harness the power of Excel to become a power user. This hands-on course provides in-depth knowledge of charts, graphs, PivotTables, Slicers, Sparklines, AutoFilter, macros, and other advanced Microsoft Excel 2019.

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Advanced Microsoft Excel 2019

Individual | $169

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In this hands-on course, you will learn Microsoft Excel 2019’s advanced functions and often-overlooked features, including data analysis tools, data tables and databases, custom controls, and PivotTables.

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Register now for your Spring PD sessions

To register, you will fill out a short form with your information. Within 72 hours of your form submission, you’ll receive your class confirmation and be all set! Remember to have your school cost coding ready.

If you have any questions, contact Metro at 780.428.1111 or metro@epsb.ca.

 

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