Canva for Business

1-Day Workshop

🎯 Target Audience

Business owners, marketers, administrative professionals, and anyone who wants to create professional looking content without a graphic design background.

📌 Course Objectives

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Navigate Canva’s interface and brand tools
• Create business-specific visual content (e.g., social media posts, presentations, flyers)
• Customize templates with branding
• Collaborate with team members and export designs for print or digital use

🗓 Agenda

🕘 9:00 – 9:30 AM: Welcome & Introduction

• Instructor and participant introductions
• Overview of Canva and its business applications
• Free vs. Pro: What’s the difference?

🕤 9:30 – 10:30 AM: Canva 101 – Getting Started

• Creating a free Canva account
• Exploring the interface (dashboard, folders, projects)
• Understanding design types (posts, presentations, logos, etc.)
• Hands-on: Create a simple social media post

🕙 10:30 – 11:30 AM: Branding with Canva

• Setting up your Brand Kit (logo, fonts, colors) (Pro feature)
• Creating branded templates
• Using consistent styles across materials
• Hands-on: Create a branded Instagram post or flyer

🕦 11:30 – 12:00 PM: Working with Templates & Elements

• Using and customizing Canva templates
• Adding photos, icons, and videos
• Layering and aligning objects
• Hands-on: Customize a business flyer or event promo

🕛 12:00 – 1:00 PM: Lunch Break

🕐 1:00 – 2:00 PM: Designing for Social Media

• Best practices for platform-specific designs (IG, FB, LinkedIn)
• Scheduling and resizing content
• Hands-on: Create a 3-post social media campaign

🕑 2:00 – 3:00 PM: Canva for Internal & External Business Use

• Designing presentations and pitch decks
• Creating business cards, brochures, and email headers
• Hands-on: Create a 2-slide pitch deck or business card

🕒 3:00 – 3:30 PM: Collaboration & Team Features

• Sharing, commenting, and real-time collaboration
• Organizing files and folders
• Downloading and printing options (PDF, PNG, MP4)

🕞 3:30 – 4:00 PM: Showcase & Wrap-Up

• Optional participant share-outs
• Recap of key tips and features
• Q&A and resources for continued learning

Microsoft® Project O365: Part 1

Course Number:

091062

Course Length:

1 day

Course Description

Overview:

Welcome to Microsoft® Project O365: Part 1. This course is designed to familiarize you with the basic features and functions of Microsoft Project Professional O365 so you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment.  This course covers the critical knowledge and skills a project manager needs to create a project plan with Project O365 during the planning phase of a project. In other words, if your supervisor assigns you to lead a project, this course will enable you to draft a project plan with Project O365 and share it with your supervisor (and others) for review and approval.

Course Objectives:

In this course, you will learn to create and engage in basic management of a project using Microsoft Project Professional O365.

You will:

• Identify project management concepts and navigate the Project O365 environment.
• Create and define a new project plan.
• Create and organize tasks.
• Manage resources in a project plan.
• Finalize a project plan.

Target Student:

This course is designed for a person with an understanding of project management concepts and who is responsible for creating and maintaining project plans. The course will give the student a fundamental understanding of Microsoft Project O365 necessary to create and save project plans.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success in this course, you should have basic project management knowledge and skills. The following Logical Operations course can help you in meeting this requirement: Project Management Fundamentals (Second Edition).

Course Content

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Microsoft Project

Topic A: Identify Project Management Concepts

Topic B: Navigate the Microsoft Project O365 Environment

Lesson 2: Defining a Project

Topic A: Create a New Project Plan

Topic B: Define a Project

Topic C: Assign a Project Calendar

Lesson 3: Creating and Organizing Tasks

Topic A: Add Tasks to a Project Plan

Topic B: Import Tasks From Other Programs

Topic C: Create a Work Breakdown Structure

Topic D: Define Task Relationships

Topic E: Schedule Tasks

Lesson 4: Managing Project Plan Resources

Topic A: Add Resources to a Project Plan

Topic B: Create a Resource Calendar

Topic C: Enter Costs for Resources

Topic D: Assign Resources to Tasks

Topic E: Resolve Resource Conflicts

Lesson 5: Finalizing a Project Plan

Topic A: Optimize a Project Plan

Topic B: Set a Baseline

Topic C: Share a Project Plan

ChatGPT Basics

Course Duration: 3 hours (including breaks)

Course Description: This course provides a condensed overview of ChatGPT, a large language model developed by OpenAI. The course covers the basics of natural language processing and how ChatGPT uses machine learning to generate human-like responses to user inputs. Participants will learn about the architecture of ChatGPT, its capabilities, and limitations. They will also gain hands-on experience using ChatGPT to generate text and engage in conversational AI.

Course Objectives: By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basics of natural language processing and conversational AI
• Explain the architecture of ChatGPT and how it works
• Use ChatGPT to generate text and engage in conversational AI

Course Outline:

Section 1: Introduction to Natural Language Processing and ChatGPT (30 minutes)

• Definition of natural language processing
• Applications of natural language processing
• Overview of ChatGPT and its architecture
• The capabilities and limitations of ChatGPT

Section 2: Using ChatGPT (90 minutes)

• Setting up and accessing ChatGPT
• Using ChatGPT to generate text
• Engaging in conversational AI using ChatGPT
• Analyzing the output of ChatGPT and identifying potential biases

Section 3: Real-World Applications of ChatGPT (30 minutes)

• Using ChatGPT for customer service and support
• ChatGPT in educational and training contexts
• ChatGPT in healthcare and mental health contexts
• Ethical considerations and potential risks of ChatGPT

Section 4: Conclusion and Next Steps (30 minutes)

• Recap of the course
• Discussion of further resources and tools for working with ChatGPT
• Practical advice on how to implement ChatGPT in real-world setting

MS Project – Level 1

ChatGPT Basics

Course Duration: 3 hours (including breaks)

Course Description: This course provides a condensed overview of ChatGPT, a large language model developed by OpenAI. The course covers the basics of natural language processing and how ChatGPT uses machine learning to generate human-like responses to user inputs. Participants will learn about the architecture of ChatGPT, its capabilities, and limitations. They will also gain hands-on experience using ChatGPT to generate text and engage in conversational AI.

Course Objectives: By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basics of natural language processing and conversational AI
• Explain the architecture of ChatGPT and how it works
• Use ChatGPT to generate text and engage in conversational AI

Course Outline:

Section 1: Introduction to Natural Language Processing and ChatGPT (30 minutes)

• Definition of natural language processing
• Applications of natural language processing
• Overview of ChatGPT and its architecture
• The capabilities and limitations of ChatGPT

Section 2: Using ChatGPT (90 minutes)

• Setting up and accessing ChatGPT
• Using ChatGPT to generate text
• Engaging in conversational AI using ChatGPT
• Analyzing the output of ChatGPT and identifying potential biases

Section 3: Real-World Applications of ChatGPT (30 minutes)

• Using ChatGPT for customer service and support
• ChatGPT in educational and training contexts
• ChatGPT in healthcare and mental health contexts
• Ethical considerations and potential risks of ChatGPT

Section 4: Conclusion and Next Steps (30 minutes)

• Recap of the course
• Discussion of further resources and tools for working with ChatGPT
• Practical advice on how to implement ChatGPT in real-world setting