This free online course explores the benefits, challenges and helpful tools for working from home. This course introduces you to the concept of working from home. You will learn the benefits and challenges of motivating yourself when working from home. As an employer, you will explore the most popular online meeting platforms and project planning tools required for employees who work from home. In addition, we will also look at the concepts for teaching strategies, including work communication tools and their benefits.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201432 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like 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. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Discuss the benefits and challenges of how to motivate yourself when working from home • Outline various functions of the most popular platform for online meetings • Describe basic project management tools that can be used anytime, anywhere, such as Kanban boards • Explain why we need a project planning tool like Microsoft Planner, Teamwork, etc. • Summarise the benefits and importance of project planning tools • Outline work communication tools and their benefits • Discuss different features of Slack, Google Chat, Discord and Basecamp |
| Course Code | 4894 |

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