Summary
This course steps up a level from beginner and intermediate courses and is predominantly aimed at business analysts as well as the Excel power-user. It will provide you with an overview of Excel’s programming model and provide solid grounding in many of the day-to-day solutions afforded to Excel power-users. Skills that you will gain include, filtering and presenting management data from a variety of sources, reading and analysing data, and using reporting tools and functions, including Pivot Tables.
Subject Matter Expert
Fred Benbow-Hebbert is an independent contractor with 23 years’ experience in the Microsoft client/server environment using Visual Basic, VBA programming of Excel, Access and [JB1] Outlook, and ASP/JavaScript/HTML/XML for web applications.
He specialises in reading databases with either VB6, Access or Excel front ends, depending on the amount of data-set manipulation required (Excel for the most complex).
Fred worked in London from 2001 to 2004, contracted to a newly established subsidiary of the personnel recruitment giant Pertemps. He continued to work for the company from Cape Town, until 2014.
Tutor Support
Each course is assigned its own Online Academic Tutor, who is ready and waiting to guide and assist their learners throughout their learning experience.
The Online Academic Tutor who is assigned to your course, is trained to build each student up to reach their fullest potential. Students can expect their Online Academic Tutor to answer questions, offering advice and provide further clarification on any academic aspects.
Course and Technical Requirements
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
To successfully access and complete this course, you will be required to have a registered email account, access to a computer/laptop/tablet and stable internet connection. You will be required to be familiar with using a computer as you may need to be able to read and download documents in Adobe PDF Reader, view Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, and read and create documents in Microsoft Word.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Our online short learning programmes may require additional software applications. These additional software applications requirements will be communicated to you in this information pack and/or on the website course page. Damelin Online does not provide any additional software applications required for online short learning programmes.
Please note: Google, YouTube and Vimeo may be used in our online course delivery. If any of these services are blocked in your jurisdiction, you may have difficult in accessing our course content.
How We Engage with Students
Our online short learning programmes are broken into self-paced manageable modules designed to be interactive and engaging:
- The programme is available to be viewed on smart devices and includes mobile, tablets and personal computers.
- Relevant case studies, articles and recommended reading are part of supplementary resources available.
- Apply and evaluate what you have learned in each module with the self-grading quizzes and assignment submissions
- View a range of Introductory course videos by your Subject Matter Expert.
- Scheduled live webinars are included with the Online Academic Tutor.
- Network, collaborate and interact with your fellow participants and Online Academic Tutor via the discussion boards.
Certification
Upon successful completion of this online short learning programme, you will be awarded with a Damelin Certificate of Completion.
