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Professional Learning and Ethical Practice for Paraprofessionals |
1.00 |
This course covers what paraprofessionals need to know about professional learning and ethical practice. This course will help you develop new knowledge about professional roles and responsibilities as a paraprofessional. It will help you understand what your role as a paraprofessional is regarding certain protocols that you must follow. It is just one out of many paraprofessional courses we offer. |
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Professional Learning and Ethical Practice for Teachers |
1.00 |
This course covers what teachers need to know about professional learning and ethical practice. This course will help you develop new knowledge about professional roles and responsibilities as a teacher. It will help you understand what your role as a teacher is regarding certain protocols that you must follow. |
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Project Management - Advanced: Contract Administration and Closeout |
0.50 |
This course will cover how to administer a contract and identify contract administration structures. You will also learn how to identify the elements of contract administration, and close out a contract. |
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Project Management - Advanced: Execution, Control, and Project Closeout |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to identify the steps in the executing process group, close out a project, identify the importance of writing closeout reports, and identify methods to terminate a project. You will also learn how to measure, monitor, and adjust aspects of a project to produce a desired outcome. |
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Project Management - Advanced: Implementing Plans and Controlling Change |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to use a project management information system, implement a work authorization system, and conduct mid-project evaluation. You will also learn how to identify the information and supplies needed to control project change, implement a change control system, and identify control maintenance methods. |
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Project Management - Advanced: Planning, Soliciting, and Selecting |
0.50 |
This course will cover how to plan to solicit contractors. You will also learn how to evaluate proposals and identify the importance of negotiation in selecting contractors. |
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Project Management - Advanced: Procurement Planning |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to identify the components of the contracts and procurement variable and define contract types. You will also learn how to identify the role of procurement planning in project management and identify factors that influence procurement planning. |
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Project Management - Advanced: Project Integration and Plan Development |
0.50 |
This course will cover how to measure data during project integration and differentiate between project and product life cycles. You will also learn how to identify the importance of developing a project plan, the elements of a project plan, the key input required for project plan development, and methods used in project plan development. |
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Project Management - Advanced: The Project Management Process |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to identify the project management process groups and variables and differentiate between product-oriented processes and project management processes. You will also learn how to initiate and plan a project. |
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Project Management - Basic: Budgeting and Cost Control |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to use capital budgeting and depreciation methods for project budgeting. You will also learn how to control project costs, calculate cost and schedule variance, and calculate a project’s estimate at completion (EAC) and variance at completion (VAC). |
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Project Management - Basic: Characteristics of a Project |
2.25 |
This course will help you identify characteristics of a project’s internal and external environments, the influence stakeholders have on a project, and different organizational structures. You will also learn how to identify the critical functions, necessary skills, responsibilities, and challenges of a project manager. This course will also cover how to staff a project team, create a skills inventory, and identify the benefits of team building and of establishing a project office. |
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Project Management - Basic: Fundamentals of Project Management |
0.50 |
This course will help you identify the features and characteristics of a project, and identify the difference between product management and project management. You will also learn how to identify the steps and variables of the project management process, and identify some common pitfalls to avoid. |
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Project Management - Basic: Project Initiation and Scope Planning |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to initiate a project, identify project deliverables, use effective project selection methods, identify project constraints, and write a project charter. This course will encourage you to create a scope statement, create a statement of work, and follow a scope management plan to prevent scope creep. |
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Project Management - Basic: Resource Identification and Cost Approximating |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to identify the necessary project resources by using a WBS and other tools, identify resource types, and assign resources. You will also learn how to make cost approximations, assess the effect of risk and activity duration on cost estimates, and apply cost estimating techniques. |
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Project Management - Basic: Schedule Development and Control |
1.50 |
This course will cover how to describe schedule development, identify various mathematical analysis techniques for schedule development, and identify the different ways you can present project schedules. You will also learn how to implement schedule control, level resources, and calculate schedule variances. |
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Project Management - Basic: Scope Definition, Verification, and Change Control |
1.50 |
This course will cover how to identify the process and benefits of scope definition and verification, and develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) and work package. You will also learn how to identify the types of information that stakeholders need in order to verify a project’s scope, and determine the timing of scope verification. You will be able to better understand how to control changes in project scope, identify the benefits of a scope change control system, and describe why it’s important to create a project database. |
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Project Management - Basic: Time Management |
1.25 |
This course will teach you how to identify the components of time management, identify the purpose of activity definition and sequencing, and recognize different diagramming techniques. You will also learn how to identify the factors that affect activity duration, and identify techniques for estimating activity duration. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Organizational Planning |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to identify the characteristics of a successful project manager, different types of power, and the different project organizational structures. You will also learn how to create a project team, and identify the many facets of organizational planning. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Planning and Distributing Information |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to plan for communication during a project, and identify factors that influence people’s perception of communication. You will also learn how to identify the most appropriate method for distributing information, determine the number of lines of communication in a given context, identify common barriers to effective communication, and facilitate trust and strong working relationships. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Project Performance and Conclusion |
0.50 |
This course will cover how to classify performance reports and evaluate the performance of a project by using variance analysis, trend analysis, and earned value analysis. You will also learn how to identify the benefits of close-out reporting and ways to close a project. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Quality Management |
1.00 |
This course covers how to identify the characteristics and goals of quality management, incorporate quality management directives into projects, and address the key issues of quality management. You will also learn how to implement quality planning during the initial phases of a project, identify the techniques of quality planning, and the characteristics of a good quality management plan. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Risk Analysis, Response, and Control |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to identify the goals and benefits of risk assessment and follow the qualitative risk analysis process and how to use the quantitative analysis techniques and draw a decision tree. You will also learn how to follow the risk response process and identify the categories for possible risk response plans and how to use the methods of monitoring and controlling project risks and identify the outcomes of monitoring and control. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Risk Identification and Management |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to classify project risks and identify risk management goals and how to identify the steps in the risk management process, design a risk management plan, and identify key issues that a risk management plan must address. You will also learn how to identify common sources of risks and tools you can use to help in the identification process, and describe and classify risks once they are identified. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Staff Acquisition and Team Building |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to identify the right team members for a given project, negotiate for project staff, and identify categories of personnel problems. You will also learn how to develop a project team, overcome barriers to effective team development, and apply motivational techniques. |
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Project Management Essentials: Activities and Dependencies |
0.75 |
This course will focus on how to identify project activities and recognize the types of project activities and the categories of dependencies and dependency relationships, analyze activities by creating an activity analysis form, and estimate the time duration and cost of project activities. |
