Canva for Business

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

Canva for Business

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