Prerequisite: Basic accounting skills Note: Textbook required, flash drive recommended Become productive with QuickBooks as you learn to create a company and develop its chart of accounts. Learn banking procedures, how to track customers, vendors, bills, invoices, inventory, employees, and payroll, finish by learning to run reports and create graphs.

Prerequisite: QuickBooks Basic Skills or equivalent Note: Textbook required; flash drive recommended In this advanced course, you will expand your reporting knowledge as you learn how to analyze financial data using QuickReport, preset reports and graphs. You will learn to track and pay sales tax, set up and run payroll, create and write payroll checks, practice paying payroll taxes. You will create estimates and learn how to invoice from estimates. You will also learn how to set up the software to track time and mileage.

In this course you will create and edit basic Microsoft Excel worksheets and workbooks. You will learn to create basic formulas and perform basic calculations.

Prerequisite: Basic computer skills Note: Textbook required Learn the vital fundamentals of security such as understanding security layers, authentication, authorization, and accounting. Become familiar with security policies, network security and protecting the server and client.

Prerequisite: Basic computer skills Note: Textbook required; DVD-RW disc required Learn server fundamentals such as managing Windows Servers (including virtualization) and storage, along with monitoring and troubleshooting servers. This course also covers such topics as essential naming, directory, and print services. Students also learn of popular Windows Network Services and Applications.

Prerequisite: Network and server administration skills Note: Textbook required Students who will be administering SharePoint sites will benefit from this course. It covers command-line administration with WIndows Powershell. It reviews service applications in deepth and addresses backups and disaster recovery. Yet you will begin with some SharePoint 2010 theory, get introduced to the new interface and the architecture. You will walk throught the installation and upgrade and all of the available options step by step. Finally you will learn the funcions - Search. claims, taxaonomy, Business Connectivity, Enterprise Content Management, and even social computing.

Prerequisite: Microsoft Office Skills Note: Textbook and flash drive are required This certification course will teach the tasks required to create SharePoint content that you need to store on a SharePoint site by designing SharePoint repositories such as document libraries and lists, as well as structuring navigation of the site so that users can access the content. You will learn to managing pages and the Web Parts on a page and analyze site activity. The course will also focus on the features and benefits of SharePoint 2010 My Site, configuring and consuming site search results, and the integration of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Services and Microsoft Office 2010 applications. All of these skills are required to pass the SharePoint 2010 certification exam.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of Microsoft office Interfaces Note: Textbook required SharePoint is Microsoft´s web-based collaboration tool that allows users to share resources and create shared content. In this course, you will set up a team site and customize its layout and features. You will capture and organize content into libraries and lists and manage the data. You will use blogs, wikis and workspaces to connect and collaborate. You will learn to integrate the Microsoft Office applications into the site and learn to use workflows in business processes.

Prerequisite: Windows for the Desktop or equivalent knowledge and Internet fundamentals Note: Textbook required; flash drive required This course offers instruction in internet web site design. You will learn to format text and apply styles to text and to other elements of a site you will build. You will use color background, images, and multimedia to enhance your site. All of these skills will be presented in a manner consistent with good design techniques. You will learn how to publish your site.

Note: Textbook required, flash drive required In this course you will learn to install, configure and manage the Windows 7 operating system. This course will present the essential tasks of operating system configuration and maintenance and provide hands-on experience. You will learn the wide variety of tools and techniques that allow administrators in various job settings to perform these essential tasks efficiently. Finally, you will be prepared to take the MTA exam 98-349.

Prerequisite: Computer Concepts or equivalent knowledge Note: Textbook required, flashdrive recommended Open the Window on computer opportunities. Understand the Start menu; the desktop and icons; create shortcuts to applications and documents. Utilize the Documents and Computer folders as you learn file management basics. Create, find, move and delete files, documents, and folders. Learn to use the Help Function. Use the Control Panel to customize the Windows environment. Learn to use the Windows applications including installing and uninstalling applications. Acquire partial certification level knowledge required to pass one of the three optional IC3 exams.

Prerequisite: Word - Intermediate Skills or equivalent knowledge Note: Textbook required, flash drive recommended Become an Expert User in Microsoft Word 2010. Learn to create and apply styles. Work with shared documents tracking changes, creating multiple versions, protecting documents, and creating custom dictionaries. Create table of contents, indexes, tables of figures and tables of authorities. Acquire skills and knowledge necessary to pass the optional MOS exam in Word.

Prerequisite: Windows for the Desktop or equivalent knowledge Note: Textbook required, flash drive recommended In this course, you will work with Word 2010, a powerful application to create and format documents. You will begin with preparing and editing techniques. You will learn how to format, save and print a document. You will be using fonts, keyboard shortcuts, manipulating tabs, cut, copy, and paste text. You will learn page setup - margins, page orientation, inserting page numbers, page breaks, headers, footers, date, time, symbols and other images. You will learn to create tables, populating and formatting them. You must be able to type. Begin to acquire skills and knowledge needed to pass the optional MOS Core certification exam in Word.

Prerequisite: Word - Basic Skills or equivalent knowledge Note: Textbook required, flash drive recommended In this course, you will work with Word 2010, a powerful application to create and format documents. The focus of this course is intermediate skills. You will begin by merging letters, envelopes, labels and a directory. You will create bullets, headers, footers, print sections. You will display synonyms antonyms display word and character counts. The translation feature will translate from English to other languages. You will use the AutoCorrect Options button and you will sort and insert building blocks. You will customize the Quick Access toolbar. You will create custom theme colors, theme fonts, theme effects. You will apply styles, navigate the document using Document map, thumbnails, bookmarks, hyperlinks, and cross references.

Textbook required Learn the basics of Word 2010 and be able to create and edit a simple document, format text and paragraphs, add tables, graphics, watermarks, headers and footers.

Prerequisite: Windows for the Desktop or equivalent knowledge; Word- One Day or equivalent knowledge Note: Textbook required, flash drive recommended In the first course in this series, Word: One Day, students gained all the basic skills needed to create a wide range of standardized business documents. This continuation provides the next step: to improve proficiency. To do so, one can customize and automate the way Microsoft Word works, and improve the quality of work by enhancing documents with customized Microsoft Word elements. In this course, participants will increase the complexity of their Microsoft Word documents by adding components such as customized lists, tables, charts, and graphics. Participants will also create personalized Microsoft Word efficiency tools.