Course Description

Microsoft Project 2013





A free online course to learn about Microsoft Project 2013, which is designed to assist a project manager. You will get a practical demonstration of how Microsoft Project 2013 works in this free online course. In this tutorial, the step-by-step explanation will demonstrate the tools and functionalities through which MS Project enables a project manager to develop schedules. You’ll also learn how to assign resources to tasks, track progress, manage budgets and analyse workloads. This is a valuable tool to master for management roles.

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Training ProviderAlison
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration5-6 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

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Career PathWhat You Will Learn In This Free Course
• Arrange and categorise the tasks with their start and finish dates within a project
• Label the predecessors for specific tasks to enable a detailed Gantt chart view
• Identify the functionalities of the WBS or Work Breakdown Structure, project and task calendars
• Describe how to open and close a project and generate a mini toolbar
• Identify the early and late start and finish and the slack for a task
• Identify the functions of the 'Task' menu in Microsoft Project 2013
• Recall the functionalities of the 'View' menu in Microsoft Project 2013 for managing timeline and costs
• Identify the key functionalities of the 'Project' menu in Microsoft Project 2013 to update and track a project
• Analyse the cost and resources of a project
• Estimate the level of available resources using the 'Resource' menu
• Compute, identify and adjust over-allocations and slippages and filter or group the tasks
• Analyse the project elements by using the 'Report' menu
Course Code3668
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