CE Course Schedule
Course Listings as of November 21, 2009 at 3:30pm
Online Computer Courses
Fees are subject to change without notice.
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Update your skills, discover a new talent, or chart a career path at your own pace at your own convenience with instructor-led online courses. Each course runs for six weeks and consists of 12 lessons. The lessons are supplemented by interactive quizzes, assignments, tutorial, and an online discussion area. All materials will be made available to you over the World Wide Web. Requirements for all courses: Internet access, e-mail, Web browser.
Please visit www.ed2go.com/austincc for requirements, demonstrations and additional information.
CPMX 3000 Introduction to PC Troubleshooting
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Covers typical hardware and operating system problems encountered by technicians and teaches troubleshooting techniques to decipher any basic and more advanced problem. The course also shows how to maintain and optimize a Windows PC.
45 97390 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
49 97426 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
CPMX 3001 Introduction to PC Security
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn why you're at risk and what you can do to protect your PC. You'll learn the nature of the threats you face, how to assess your vulnerability, how to identify the weak links in your system, and how you can implement simple solutions to minimize your risks.
Prerequisites: A familiarity with general PC terminology, an understanding of Windows and an ability to locate programs and change settings (or completion of Introduction to Windows XP).
49 50143 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE Staff
50 50144 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE Staff
ITNW 5028 Introduction to Networking
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn the fundamentals of computer networking in terms you can easily understand; learn why networks have become so important; how software and hardware makes networking possible; and how networks function.
49 97391 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
49 97427 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITNW 5029 Wireless Networking
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Wireless networking is a hot topic. Learn how wireless devices make connections; how the connections actually work; and how you can plan, deploy, and connect to wireless networks yourself.
Prerequisites: ITNW 5028-Introduction to Networking or equivalent experience.
50 97392 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
49 97428 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITNX 3000 Achieving Top Search Engine Positions
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
With nearly 90% of web traffic coming from search engines, the most important thing you can do to increase your web site's traffic is to increase your search engine ranking. Learn proven, step-by-step strategies to achieve the highest possible position with the major search engines.
Prerequisites: Completion of the Introduction to WWW Authoring and XHTML course or equivalent HTML experience. Go to www.ed2go.com/austincc.edu for orientation and other information.
49 97410 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
49 97446 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITNX 3007 Introduction to InDesign CS3
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
This course will teach your students that they don't have to be artists or designers to use Adobe InDesign CS3 to create professional quality letterhead, business cards, brochures, PDF files that play movies, and more.
50 97413 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
50 97449 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSC 3002 Introduction to Windows
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
A great way to get started with Windows. Learn how to navigate using a mouse; understand the Windows components and selection techniques; access and use online help; understand and use the Windows Explorer, My Computer, Accessories, including Paint and WordPad, the Recycle Bin and printing.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of personal computers.
50 97388 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
49 97424 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3004 Introduction to Windows Vista
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Windows Vista is a radical departure from the previous Windows versions. In this course, specifically designed for beginners and casual users, you'll learn to use Vista's best and most important features. Discover techniques for personalizing Vista to your own needs and preferences; set up user accounts and enforce parental controls; keep your computer secure from internet threats; browse the world wide web; manage your e-mail; keep your names and addresses organized in the new contacts folder; manage and edit your digital photos with the new Windows Photo Gallery; and add fonts, color, and style to your written text.
49 97389 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
49 97425 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3009 Introduction to Ruby Programming
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn how to create an interactive Web blog that allows visitors to register and post articles and comments. You'll see how the popular Ruby on Rails framework environment creates much of the code for you, and how to use the Ruby programming language to modify the code to customize your Web site. The blog we'll create also uses the popular MySQL database server to store the blog data that appears on the site, and it provides a search feature to allow visitors to easily search past blog entries. Requirements: A Ruby on Rails software development environment is required for this course. The first lesson walks through installing the InstantRails software package, which provides a complete Ruby on Rails development environment, including the Apache Web server and MySQL database server, for the Windows platform. InstantRails can be downloaded from instantrails.rubyforge.org. You must have a Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista workstation or server to install the InstantRails software. Please note that InstantRails does not work on Windows 95, Windows 98, nor Windows Me. Prior HTML coding experience is helpful, but not required; Internet access, e-mail, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
50 97409 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3022 Microsoft Excel 2003: Introduction
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Discover shortcuts and tricks for setting up fully formatted worksheets quickly and efficiently. Learn how to write formulas, using the function wizard calculate statistics, loan payments, future value, and more. Also, learn the best ways to sort and analyze data, create custom charts and graphs, create 3-dimensional workbooks, build links between files, endow your worksheets with decision-making capabilities, and automate repeated tasks with macros and buttons.
50 97398 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
48 97434 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3023 Microsoft Excel 2007: Introduction
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Discover shortcuts and tricks for setting up fully formatted worksheets quickly and efficiently. Learn how to write formulas, using the function wizard to calculate statistics, loan payments, future value, and more. Also, learn the best ways to sort and analyze data, create custom charts and graphs, create 3-dimensional workbooks, build links between files, endow your worksheets with decision-making capabilities, and automate repeated tasks with macros and buttons.
49 97399 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
48 97435 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3037 Microsoft PowerPoint 2003: Introduction
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn how to create multimedia presentations for just about any audience. Create and display slides filled with formatted text, video, audio, animation, special effects, charts, outlines, video clips, images, and links to the Web. Work with task panes and the clip organizer, use the Design Gallery Live and Template Gallery Web sites; save your presentations in HTML so they can be shared with others over the Web. Also, learn how to use some of the features exclusive to PowerPoint 2003, including the PowerPoint Viewer, the Package-for-CD feature, and the Reference task pane.
50 97407 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
50 97443 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3038 Microsoft PowerPoint 2007: Introduction
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn how to create dazzling slide presentations consisting of slides that contain text, objects, animation, slide transitions, sounds, charts, outlines, media clips, clip art, and hyperlinks. Learn how to work with the PowerPoint Ribbon, task panes, the clip organizer, and how to access Microsoft's Web site to download clip art and templates. Make global changes to your slides with the Slide Master and discover how to save your presentations so you can share them online or copy them onto CDs.
50 97408 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
49 97444 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3046 Microsoft Excel 2003: Intermediate
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn how to work faster and more productively. Discover how the Pivot Table and AutoFilter can help you rapidly create reports and analyses. Learn advanced graphing techniques and how to use functions to get Excel 2003 to perform complex math, make decisions, and look up values in a table.
50 97400 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
50 97436 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3047 Excel 2007 Intermediate
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Master advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2007, including charting and PivotTables, and discover how this powerful program can boost your productivity. In this hands-on course, create informative and eye-catching charts, and learn to use filtering techniques. Create macros that eliminate repetitive tasks, discover how to use Goal Seek and Solver and apply them to real-world problems. Also, learn how to use VLOOKUP, INDEX & MATCH, and other time-saving functions.
49 97401 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
50 97437 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3049 Microsoft Excel 2003: Advanced
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn how to consolidate, analyze, and report financial information. Generate information with increased accuracy, timeliness, and usefulness that will lead to better decision-making. Become skilled in the use of validation to protect the integrity of your worksheets; learn how to use scenarios and data tables to perform multiple what-if analyses. Discover advanced techniques for PivotTables, such as creating calculated fields and calculated items, and become adept at consolidating and importing data from other sources.
20 97402 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
50 97438 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3052 Microsoft Access 2007: Intermediate
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Master the tools and techniques required to create user-friendly databases. Design one-to-many and many-to-many relationships and create queries, forms, and reports to reflect those relationships. Create a switchboard form, change database settings, and use macros to make a database easy and intuitive to use.
19 97406 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
49 97442 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3053 Microsoft Access 2003: Introduction
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn how to use databases to store, locate, and print just about any type of important information. Create tables, relationships, custom data entry forms, queries, reports, mailing labels, and macros. Also, learn how to merge the data in your Access tables with Microsoft Word form letters.
48 97403 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
50 97439 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3054 Microsoft Access 2007: Introduction
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn how databases can help you manage, store, search, analyze, and display important information about your business, home, community, or any other entity. Learn how to create tables filled with fields and records; build relationships between the tables to eliminate redundancies. Discover how to achieve huge reductions in data entry errors by setting default values, creating validation rules, and building input masks. Create custom data entry forms, smart lists, and other sophisticated controls. Learn how to retrieve exactly what you need from your database with queries and reports, and how to automate routine tasks with macros.
49 97404 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
50 97440 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
ITSX 3055 Microsoft Access 2003: Intermediate
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn how to create real-world business databases using Access. Design the tables that most businesses need to manage customers, products, orders, receipts, invoices, and mailing labels. Avoid the common pitfalls of poor table design. Learn how to use tools and techniques for designing professional-looking forms that make data entry quick and easy. Also, learn how to create forms that automatically do much of the work for you, such as calculating totals and applying sales tax. Create reports to print mailing labels, invoices, and receipts for orders.
50 97405 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
47 97441 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
POFX 3024 Microsoft Word 2003: Introduction
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn to use the word processor. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to add, move, through, and edit text, move words from one part of your document to another, work on two or more documents simultaneously, change the size or appearance of text, change margins and tab settings, automatically center, right align, justify, and indent text; run the integrated grammar and spelling checker; use the thesaurus; save, retrieve, copy, organize, and print your documents.
49 97393 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
50 97429 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
POFX 3025 Microsoft Word 2007: Introduction
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn to use this strong word processor. In hands-on workshop, you will learn how to add, move through, and edit text, move words from one part of your document to another, work on two or more documents simultaneously, change the size or appearance of text, change margins and tab settings, automatically center, right align, justify, and indent text; run the integrated grammar and spelling checker; use the thesaurus; save, retrieve, copy, organize, and print your documents.
49 97394 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
49 97430 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
POFX 3037 Microsoft Word 2003: Advanced
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn how to build time-saving macros, customize your toolbars, create shortcut keys, form letters and mailing labels, perform queries, make your own templates, use the style gallery, and much more.
50 97397 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
50 97433 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE Staff
POFX 3042 Microsoft Word 2003: Intermediate
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Create flyers, newsletters, and other heavily formatted documents. Gain an understanding of basic graphic design principles as you set up columns and tables within your documents; insert, reposition, edit and resize graphic images; draw lines; surround your text or graphics with borders; achieve dramatic effects by varying the size, appearance, and orientation of your text, and more.
50 97395 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
20 97431 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
POFX 3043 Microsoft Word 2007: Intermediate
(24.0 hours/$155.00)
Learn more advanced features, which can make writing easier, faster, and more fun. See how to perform a mail merge, explore macros, styles, and templates. Create signs, flyers, menus, brochures, and even newsletters; insert different types of graphics in a document including digital photographs from your own camera, clip art images, and different types of charts such as bar, line, or pie charts. Learn how to print labels, make form letters, and create an index, table of contents, and list of figures automatically.
49 97396 Sep 16 - Oct 28 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
49 97432 Oct 21 - Dec 2 ONLINE OH Nouzovska, Marcela
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