Course Overview

Format

• Intermediate
• 3-4 Study Hours
• Online Study

Accreditation

• Online Interactive Course
• Bathe Qualifications Endorsed

Course description

Made for those with previous experience of using Microsoft Outlook 2013, this online course is perfect for those who need to improve their knowledge of the program.

In the course Microsoft Outlook 2013: Intermediate, you will learn to use the Calendar folder to plan different appointments, the Tasks folder to monitor all your duties and the Notes folder to write down any ideas that come to your mind. In the Journal folder, you will record the details about various actions.

You will also learn to manage your contacts and send messages to them.

You will work with address books and learn to print the individual items from the entire mail client.

You will learn

• People view
• Creating and printing contacts
• Managing contacts
• Attaching contacts to messages
• Address Book
• Contact group
• Calendar
• Creating all-day events
• Recurring appointments
• Editing appointments and events
• Managing Calendar items
• Sending your Calendar
• Tasks
• Managing tasks
• Journal
• Managing the Journal
• Notes

Who is it for?

Roles including:

• Office Workers
• Those wanting to develop Microsoft Outlook skills and knowledge
• Job Seekers
• Those working with computers
• Those using Microsoft Outlook at work, home or in education

Course Overview

Format

• Intermediate
• 9-10 Study Hours
• Online Study

Accreditation

• Online Interactive Course
• Bathe Qualifications Endorsed

Course description

Our online course is perfect for those who have previous experience using Microsoft Word 2013 but want to become more familiar with the program and how to use it.

In the course Microsoft Word 2013: Intermediate, you will learn to adjust the program environment to your specific needs.

You will try effective formatting of text by using styles and will apply the templates offered by the program to create well designed documents.

You will examine the creation and editing of tables in order to better arrange the data of a list of records and will learn to insert various graphical objects to documents, including pictures, charts, SmartArt graphics and shapes and you will try out their further editing directly in Word.

You will learn

• Basic Word settings
• Customising the Quick Access Toolbar
• Customising the Ribbon
• Custom keyboard shortcuts
• Working with multiple windows
• Using styles and their customisation
• Creating styles
• Creating custom templates
• Editing multi-page documents
• Creating multilevel lists
• Sorting lists in documents
• Converting text to a table
• Tabs
• Creating a table
• Editing the layout of a table
• Editing the graphical appearance of tables
• Calculations in tables
• Design of an irregular table
• Creating charts
• Editing charts
• Inserting pictures
• Editing pictures
• Inserting and formatting SmartArt graphics
• Inserting and formatting shapes
• Inserting screenshots

Who is it for?

Roles including:

• Office computer user
• Those wanting to develop Microsoft Word skills and knowledge
• Job Seekers
• Those working with computers
• Those using Microsoft Word at work, home or in education

Course Overview

Format

• Advanced
• 2-3 Study Hours
• Online Study

Accreditation

• Online Interactive Course
• Bathe Qualifications Endorsed

Course description

If you have previous experience using Microsoft Outlook 2013 but want to become more familiar with the program this is the course for you.

In the course Microsoft Outlook 2013: Advanced, you will learn to organise your appointments by using the Calendar and assign tasks to your colleagues with the subsequent follow-up of their fulfilment.

You will try out importing and exporting your Outlook data and sharing the information with other Outlook users, and will also get acquainted with data files and the creation of custom forms for the individual Outlook items.

You will learn

• Scheduling a meeting
• Accepting a meeting invitation
• Proposing a new meeting time
• Recalling a meeting and adjusting the Calendar
• Assigning tasks to your colleagues
• Viewing the calendars of your colleagues
• Sharing the Outlook data with other users
• Delegate access
• Working offline
• Offline Outlook folders
• Importing and exporting data
• Outlook data files
• Setting an e-mail account
• Creating a custom form
• Sending custom forms to other users
• Advanced work with custom forms

Who is it for?

Roles including:

• Office computer user
• Those wanting to develop Microsoft Outlook skills and knowledge
• Job Seekers
• Those working with computers
• Those using Microsoft Outlook at work, home or in education

Package Overview

Format

• Basic to Advanced
• Up To 187 Study Hours
• Online Study

Accreditation

• Online Interactive Course
• Bathe Qualifications Certified

Package description

Microsoft Office is one of the most widely used programs in both businesses and at home. This set of 12 interactive courses gives the learner an extensive knowledge of the Microsoft Office and allows them to develop their skills from introductory level through to advanced.

Overview

This set of Microsoft office courses has been designed to give you a complete knowledge of Microsoft office 2016 including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. These are the most widely used Microsoft applications in both the workplace and for students. These courses will cover an introductory level through to an advanced one.

Course Description

As the use of electronic documents is becoming the preferred method of sharing knowledge and information, it is becoming more important to understand how to create, design and use them. In order to achieve this, you need a decent knowledge of the whole suite of common office programs. The presented Microsoft Office suite has established a widely respected standard in this area through years, and at the moment, it represents the widest and most purchased offer of software used in business.

Each of the interactive lessons tackles one specific issue. After getting acquainted with the tools and processes related to it, you can immediately practice the acquired knowledge in the real application. Several quiz questions included at the end then help you realise whether you have mastered the topic or you need to review the content.

Why take this course?

This online training will help learners who may or may not have previous experience with the Microsoft Office programs to develop their skills and understanding of each software and how it works and create digital documents to improve their work or employability.

Who should take this course?

These courses are aimed at anyone who uses Microsoft Office, whether that is in study, at home or at work. This package is tailored to beginners who want to ensure they gain a complete knowledge of these popular Microsoft programs.

E-learning content

MS Word 2016: Introduction

MS Word 2016: Intermediate

MS Word 2016: Advanced

MS Excel 2016: Introduction

MS Excel 2016: Intermediate

MS Excel 2016: Advanced

MS PowerPoint 2016: Introduction

MS PowerPoint 2016: Intermediate

MS PowerPoint 2016: Advanced

MS Outlook 2016: Introduction

MS Outlook 2016: Intermediate

MS Outlook 2016: Advanced

Certificate

All learners who successfully complete the course will be able to download and print a certificate. As this is an excellent indication of your skills, we suggest you keep it for your own records in order to show current or future employers.

You will learn

• Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced Microsoft Word 2016
• Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced Microsoft Excel 2016
• Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint 2016
• Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced Microsoft Outlook 2016

Who is it for?

Roles including:

• These courses are aimed at anyone who uses Microsoft Office, whether that is in study, at home or at work

Package Overview

Format

• Basic to Advanced
• Up To 187 Study Hours
• Online Study

Accreditation

• Online Interactive Course
• Bathe Qualifications Endorsed

Package description

This course package has been designed to give you complete knowledge of Microsoft Office 2016 from introductory to advanced knowledge.

Overview

This set of Microsoft office courses has been designed to give you a complete knowledge of Microsoft office 2016 including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access and Outlook. These are the most widely used Microsoft applications in both the workplace and for students. These courses will cover from introductory through to advanced knowledge.

This training pack also contains the Excel 2016 Expert Tool. This tool give you insight into the most advanced aspects of Microsoft Excel and can help learners master these techniques.

Course Description

As the use of electronic documents is becoming the preferred method of sharing knowledge and information, it is becoming more important to understand how to create, design and use them. In order to achieve this, you need a decent knowledge of the whole suite of common office programs. The presented Microsoft Office suite has established a widely respected standard in this area through years, and at the moment, it represents the widest and most purchased offer of software used in business.

Each of the interactive lessons tackles one specific issue. After getting acquainted with the tools and processes related to it, you can immediately practice the acquired knowledge in the real application. Several quiz questions included at the end then help you realise whether you have mastered the topic or you need to review the content.

Why take this course?

This online training will help learners who may or may not have previous experience with the Microsoft Office programs to develop their skills and understanding of each software and how it works and create digital documents to improve their work or employability.

Who should take this course?

These courses are aimed at anyone who uses Microsoft Office, whether that is in study, at home or at work. This package is tailored to beginners who want to ensure they gain a complete knowledge of these popular Microsoft programs.

E-learning content

MS Word 2016: Introduction

MS Word 2016: Intermediate

MS Word 2016: Advanced

MS Excel 2016: Introduction

MS Excel 2016: Intermediate

MS Excel 2016: Advanced

Ms Excel 2016 Expert Tool

MS PowerPoint 2016: Introduction

MS PowerPoint 2016: Intermediate

MS PowerPoint 2016: Advanced

MS Outlook 2016: Introduction

MS Outlook 2016: Intermediate

MS Outlook 2016: Advanced

MS Access 2016: Introduction

MS Access 2016: Intermediate

MS Access 2016: Advanced

Certificate

All learners who successfully complete the course will be able to download and print a certificate. As this is an excellent indication of your skills, we suggest you keep it for your own records in order to show current or future employers.

You will learn

• MS Word 2016: Introduction/Intermediate/Advanced
• MS Excel 2016: Introduction/Intermediate/Advanced/Expert Tool
• MS PowerPoint 2016: Introduction/Intermediate/Advanced
• MS Outlook 2016: Introduction/Intermediate/Advanced
• MS Access 2016: Introduction/Intermediate/Advanced

Who is it for?

Roles including:

• Anyone who uses Microsoft Office, whether that is in study, at home or at work
• This package is tailored to beginners who want to ensure they gain a complete knowledge of these popular Microsoft programs

This package of 3 interactive courses will provide you with the essential skills to confidently use Microsoft Excel 2016 whether you are a beginner on the software or have some knowledge. Designed for all abilities, our Microsoft Excel courses are broken down into three levels – introductory, intermediate and advanced, so you can be sure to find the level you require.

Package Overview

Format

• Basic to Advanced
• Up to 33 Study Hours
• Online Study

Accreditation

• Interactive Online Training
• Bathe Qualifications Endorsed

Package description

This course will allow you to confidently use Microsoft Excel 2016 whether you are a beginner on the software or have some knowledge.

Our three interactive Microsoft Excel training courses provide the essential skills you need to effectively use the program, ensuring you feel confident in your work.

Designed for all abilities, our Microsoft Excel courses are broken down into three levels – introductory, intermediate and advanced, so you can be sure to find the level you require.

Course Description

In these three courses dedicated to Microsoft Excel, you will learn about the tools of the most widely applied spreadsheet program, and they will help you develop your skills from a beginner’s level to an advanced one. The courses will help you become familiar with the program environment, and you will cover:

• How to enter values to the cells of future tables and set their format
• How to derive new data by calculating them through formulas, including the applied functions from various categories.
• How to manipulate cell ranges and whole worksheets.
• How to adjust the appearance of created tables by setting the cell properties and by applying cell styles.
• How to analyse the entered data via charts and conditional formatting
• How to set the print properties before printing created tables and charts
• How to sort and filter more extensive data and to calculate their subtotals
• How to share workbooks and to set various levels of their protection.
• How to create and use macros
• Data validation, the creation of scenarios and with the application of the Solver tool.

Why take this course?

These Microsoft Excel online training courses will help learners who may or may not have previous experience with Microsoft Excel to develop their skills and understanding of the software and how it works, to improve their work or employability.

Who should take this course?

These courses are aimed at anyone who uses Microsoft Office, whether that is in study, at home or at work. As our courses are tailored to all abilities with introductory, intermediate and advanced levels, they are suitable for all learners. This ranges from beginners to those learners who want to refresh and update knowledge they already have.

Elearning content

MS Excel 2016: Introduction

MS Excel 2016: Intermediate

MS Excel 2016: Advanced

Certificate

All learners who successfully complete the course will be able to download and print a certificate. As this is an excellent indication of your skills, we suggest you keep it for your own records in order to show current or future employers.

You will learn

• How to enter values to the cells of future tables and set their format
• How to derive new data by calculating them through formulas including the applied functions from various categories
• How to manipulate cell ranges and whole worksheets
• How to adjust the appearance of created tables by setting the cell properties and by applying cell styles
• How to analyse the entered data via charts and conditional formatting
• How to set the print properties before printing created tables and charts
• How to sort and filter more extensive data and to calculate their subtotals
• How to share workbooks and to set various levels of their protection
• How to create and use macros
• Data validation the creation of scenarios and with the application of the Solver tool

Who is it for?

Roles including:

• Anyone who uses Microsoft Office

Course Overview

Format

• Introductory Course
• 1 Study Hour
• Online Study
• Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

• 1 CPD Hour
• CPD Certified

Course description

The Managing Your Professional Digital Profile course will help you understand the boundaries that should exist on social media between your professional and personal lives.

Overview – Managing Your Professional Digital Profile

Professionalism in the workplace is essential, regardless of your job. This means representing your company well both in person and online, including via your personal social media profile.

Of course, you don’t have to reference your job on your personal channels, but colleagues, clients and prospective employers are now easily able to search for you online and see how you spend your time outside of work.

If you’re self-employed, it’s arguably even more important to know how to manage your professional digital profile to ensure the lines between your private and professional lives remain clear.

What’s more, with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to come into force in May 2018, businesses need to ensure staff are not sharing sensitive information on their personal social media profiles, and know exactly how far their digital footprint stretches.

Our Managing Your Professional Digital Profile course is designed to ensure companies know how to mitigate the risk of financial, reputational and even criminal damage by understanding what is and isn’t acceptable to put into the public domain via digital communications.

Why take this course?

Managing Your Professional Digital Profile is designed to provide learners with the skills they need to use digital social communication tools such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook professionally.

It also aims to increase learners’ understanding of their benefits, how to manage the risks associated with these digital platforms and how to manage a professional profile on an ongoing basis.

Who is this course for?

This course is appropriate for anyone who uses digital or social media for either personal or professional use.

The digital footprint of these platforms can be huge, so it’s important that everyone knows how to protect their personal data and their business on these sites.

Course lesson plan

The Managing Your Professional Digital Profile course has the following lesson plan:

• Introduction to managing your professional digital profile
• Case studies, including professionalism examples
• Contextual advice and scenarios

After completing this e-learning module, learners will be able to:

• Describe what a digital footprint is and demonstrate a clear understanding of its importance to their professional and personal life
• Explain how to monitor and maintain their digital profile to enhance their professional reputation
• Describe their legal responsibility and obligations with regard to any information shared and posted via digital technologies
• Assess their digital profile and take necessary steps to remedy any discrepancies or correct any mistakes

Certification

After completing the course, you will be able to download a Virtual College certificate, which you can print off for your records.

Course duration

Our Managing Your Professional Digital Profile course should only take an hour to complete, but this depends entirely on your individual learning speed and how quickly you absorb the study material.

Entry requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

You will learn

• Describe what a digital footprint is and demonstrate a clear understanding of its importance to their professional and personal life
• Explain how to monitor and maintain their digital profile to enhance their professional reputation
• Describe their legal responsibility and obligations with regard to any information shared and posted via digital technologies
• Assess their digital profile and take necessary steps to remedy any discrepancies or correct any mistakes

Who is it for?

Roles including:

• Anyone who uses digital or social media for either personal or professional use

Course Overview

Format

• Intermediate
• 30 Study Minutes
• Complete at Your Own Pace; Online Study
• Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

• bathe Endorsed

Course description

This online course provides helpful and reassuring insights and advice about stress and ways to deal with stressful situations.

Stress can have a major impact on our lives, and can leave us feeling unable to cope, depressed, or lonely, as discovered by a recent study from the Mental Health Foundation.

Putting practices into place can help us cope when faced with stressful situations. Suitable for any learner, our free online course provides insights and advice regarding stress and all its components: triggers, responses, how different people cope, and tools and techniques that are frequently used to manage stress.

This dealing with stressful situations course explores the following topics:

• An overview of what stress is including triggers and responses
• How people cope with stress
• Tools and techniques to use to manage stress
• How to deal with stressful situations

This course is also included in our 15-course Personal and Professional Development Training Package.

You will learn

• Know what stress is
• Understand the different coping mechanisms for stress
• Be able to recognise some tools and techniques that may help you to deal with stressful situations

Who is it for?

Roles including:

• This course is suitable for anyone who wishes to learn more about stress and how to cope with stressful situations

Course Overview

Format

• Introductory Course
• 2 Study Hours
• Online Study
• Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

• 1-2 CPD Hours
• CPD Certified

Course description

This online Positive Attitudes and Behaviours course is part of an employability suite which will help learners search for and secure employment. It is ideal for anyone seeking to acquire and sustain employment.

Imagine a workplace where people have negative attitudes and unreasonable behaviours. Would you enjoy working there? How productive do you think you would be?

Positive attitudes and behaviours are important in the workplace, because they lead to productive thinking, productive relationships and productive working. Positivity makes a person approachable, which makes it easier to build relationships and to integrate into a team. It builds morale in teams and is related to being effective at work.

On completion of this module, learners should:

• Understand behaviours, attitudes and attributes required for employment;
• Appreciate the different types of communication and how it can affect behaviour;
• Have an awareness of how to be effective at work;
• Have an awareness of how their emotions impact their behaviour at work;
• Identify their own strengths and weaknesses;
• Develop techniques to manage their behaviour;
• Recognise the impact of their motivation in the workplace;
• Identify the causes of conflict in the workplace; and
• Appreciate the impact of equality legislation in the workplace.

Lesson Plan

Areas covered include:

• 1. Welcome
• 2. Introduction to Positive Attitudes and Behaviours
• 3. Communication and Behaviour
• 4. Personal Effectiveness at Work
• 5. Strengths and Weaknesses
• 6. Goals and Objectives
• 7. Planning and Prioritisation
• 8. Feedback
• 9. Conflict in the Workplace
• 10. Company Policies and Procedures
• 11. Motivation at Work
• 12. Summary

Accreditation

The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Certification

On completion of this course you will be able to download a Virtual College certificate.

Duration

This online positive thinking course takes approximately 1 – 2 hours. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly you can study and absorb the material. You can proceed as quickly or slowly as you like.

Target Audience

This Positive Attitudes and Behaviours module is suitable for anyone who would like to learn more about how they can analyse their own skills, create an action plan and be more efficient when applying and interviewing for jobs.

Entry Requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

You will learn

• Understand behaviours, attitudes and attributes required for employment
• Appreciate the different types of communication and how it can affect behaviour
• Have an awareness of how to be effective at work
• Have an awareness of how their emotions impact their behaviour at work
• Identify their own strengths and weaknesses
• Develop techniques to manage their behaviour
• Recognise the impact of their motivation in the workplace
• Identify the causes of conflict in the workplace
• Appreciate the impact of equality legislation in the workplace

Who is it for?

Roles including:

• This Positive Attitudes and Behaviours module is suitable for anyone who would like to learn more about how they can analyse their own skills, create an action plan and be more efficient when applying and interviewing for jobs.

Course Overview

Format

• Intermediate
• 5-6 Study Hours
• Online Study
• Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

• 6 CPD Hours
• CPD Certified

Course description

This digital business skills suite is a course built from 27 bite-size modules, designed for learners developing their digital marketing knowledge for business. Learn about social media, writing for websites, analytics and SEO.

Businesses are now firmly planted in the digital age, with more people able to access the internet than ever before. It’s important to have a social media presence, a working website and associated analytics, but without any digital business objectives can you truly measure the progress you are making?

With more customers available online than ever before, it is important that businesses recognise the importance of being active on social media, running social media campaigns, having effective and user-friendly websites, and are able to measure the effectiveness of their digital marketing campaigns.

This digital business skills suite is a course built from 27 bite-size modules, designed for learners developing their digital marketing knowledge for business

Who should take this course?

The digital business skills suite is aimed at those with little or no prior experience in digital business and marketing and who wish to develop their knowledge of how to use digital methods to market their business.

This includes training providers who deliver face to face training in digital skills who wish to offer a blended programme, individuals who wish to up-skill in using digital marketing techniques and businesses who wish to increase skills in-house in using digital marketing tools and technologies.

What does this course cover?

Upon completion of this training suite, learners will be able to implement digital marketing skills and strategies into writing for websites and social media campaigns, and begin to have an understanding of analytical data and how to measure the success of a digital marketing campaign.

With this online training, learners will be able to identify the popular social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, be able to describe what they can be used for, and understand how to implement a social media campaign. Learners will also understand the full benefits of a strong company website, will be able to write for the website and have a clear understanding of basic web design.

E-learning modules

This e-learning suite is made up of the following modules:

• Introduction to Social Media Tools
• Introduction to Facebook for Business
• Introduction to Twitter for Business
• Introduction to LinkedIn for Business
• Introduction to Social Media Management Tools
• Implementing a Facebook campaign for your business
• Implementing a Twitter campaign for your business
• Implementing a LinkedIn campaign for your business
• Introduction to the use of websites for businesses
• Website design tools advantages and disadvantages
• Website design basics
• Writing for your website
• Mobile friendly websites
• Website user experience and psychology
• Hosting a website
• Website security
• Introduction to and using digital marketing and analytics to drive business
• What is data analytics?
• Overview of SEO
• Developing digital business objectives
• Analysing the success of a digital marketing campaign

Having completed this training, learners will be able to:

• Understand the importance of social media for business
• Recognise what impact a social media campaign will have on your business and how to implement one
• Be able to understand key website aspects from design, writing web copy, SEO and data analytics, website hosting, and mobile friendly websites
• Develop business objectives and be able to look at how successful a digital marketing campaign has been

You will learn

• Understand the importance of social media for business
• Recognise what impact a social media campaign will have on your business and how to implement one
• Be able to understand key website aspects from design, writing web copy, SEO and data analytics, website hosting, and mobile friendly websites

Who is it for?

Roles including:

• Those with little or no prior experience in digital business and marketing
• Those who wish to develop their knowledge of how to use digital methods to market their business