Who should attend?
New or existing users of Microsoft Project, who want to develop their own project

Assumed Knowledge:
A working knowledge of PCs plus Windows is assumed, gained from the workplace or by prior attendance on an IT course.

Objectives:
To provide attendees with the skills required to plan and design a project and track and report on the progress of the project.

During the course of this Module, The following topics will be covered:

Planning Your Project and Creating a Schedule:

• Setting Up a New Project.
• Entering Tasks and Durations.
• Creating Milestones.
• Outlining the Project.
• Linking Task.
• Creating and Removing Relationships.
• Deleting and Reorganising Tasks.
• Printing Options with Each of The Views.
• Formatting the Gantt Chart.

Setting Up Resources:

• Entering and View Resource Details.
• Assigning Resources.

Dealing with Costs:

• Assigning Costs to Resources and Tasks.
• Dealing with Pay Rises or Reductions.
• Assigning Different Cost Tables.
• Viewing the Project Costs.

Microsoft Project – Basic – Intermediate Level Course Outline (continued)

 Setting Up Calendars:

 Company Calendars.

• Resource Calendars.

 Find Over Allocated Resources:

All the Methods of Dealing with Over Allocations:

• Changing the Task Assignment of An Over Allocated Resource.
• Decreasing the Amount of Work Assigned to a Resource.
• Delaying a Task.
• Splitting a Task.
• Changing the Work Schedule of a Resource Etc.
• Save the Baseline.

Tracking the Project:

Detailed Tracking the Progress of Your Project.

• Enter Actual Start and Finish Dates.
• Indicating Progress on A Task as A Percentage.
• Indicating the Number of Days Taken and Remaining Days.
• Previewing and Printing Reports

Claire Commins – Information Technology Trainer  – Teaching Experience Summary  

Teaching Microsoft Office classes to staff and students in NUI Galway, Trinity College, GMIT Galway, University of Limerick and University College Cork since 1999.

Teaching Microsoft Project, Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word to advanced level for private and public sector for 22 years.

Teaching study skills and exam techniques in Secondary schools to Teachers, Students and Parents.

Relevant Education / Training 

•  Honours degree in Training and Education from NUI Galway.
• Qualified as a Systems Analysis and Computer Programmer.
• Completed MOUS exams in Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Completed ECDL exams in Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

In order for us to continue to bring you subsidized content we will require you to fill out a profile sheet which will be emailed to you after your booking – completion of this sheet guarantees you a place on the training.

Please note our training courses are only available for people residing in the Republic of Ireland

Please note training sessions are live interactive training.