Near North Side Classes Chicago, IL

Photoshop is the very powerful and popular photograph manipulation software used for newsletters, advertisements, and web sites. In this class students will work with color, retouch images with filters and other methods, create layered images, and use masks. Course Outline: Lesson 1: Getting started Using Adobe Bridge Organizing & Customizing...

You will learn to draw shapes, manipulate paths, and use color. This class also covers grouping content, basic typography, object stacking order, layers, print considerations, and exporting your work for both print and web. Course Outline Lesson 1: Getting started • Design Principles, Elements and Graphic Composition • Raster vs. Vector Graphics...

Students will learn to move and copy data, learn about absolute and relative references, and work with ranges, rows, and columns. They will also learn how to navigate worksheets and workbooks. Then they will enter and edit text, values, formulas, and pictures, and they will save workbooks. This course also covers simple functions used in formulas...

You will learn advanced path manipulation and appearance controls. This class also covers patterns, symbols, brushes, gradient mesh, perspective drawing, masking techniques, creative effects, print proofing and exporting directly to web. Course Outline Lesson 1: Drawing Complex Illustrations Grids and Guides Combining Objects Layers Perspective...

Atlassian JIRA is an issue and project tracking software to plan, track and manage projects.  JIRA is mainly used by angile development teams to customize their workflows, team collaboration, and release software with confidence.

Training in keyword research, on page search engine optimization (SEO), link building, and more. We’ll see how to use analytics, how to research your competitors links, and keeping your web site search engine friendly. You’ll learn on-page and off-page techniques to increase your ranking in the Google search engine results pages (SERP).

ITIL is the most widely adopted approach for IT Service Management in the world. It provides a practical, no-nonsense framework for identifying, planning, delivering and supporting IT services to the business. This class prepares you to sit for the ITIL Foundation certificate exam. Course Outline Unit 1: Introduction Topic A: Course Objectives...

This class will cover creating montages using channels, using drawing tools, highlights, cropping, combining illustrations and photos, colorizing an image, creating layers with paths, chiseled effects, textures, and more. Course Outline Lesson 1: Raster Images Brushes Gradients Tool Presets Lesson 2: Vector Images Vector Paths Shape Drawing...

QuickBooks is a very popular small business accounting software. You’ll learn how to invoice, receive payments and make deposits. We’ll enter bills, print checks, void checks and do manual checks, do journal entries, enter credit card charges, set up a petty cash account, set up a loan, customize your chart of accounts, and reconcile your checking...

In our Foundation Part I one-day class you will use, create, and edit content in a team site. You will also create and perform basic management of a team site using SharePoint Foundation 2016. Course Content Lesson 1: Interacting with SharePoint Team Sites Topic A: Access SharePoint Sites Topic B: Navigate SharePoint Sites Lesson 2: Working...

In our Part II one-day class you will take the role of a user with Design permission. You will learn how to add libraries, lists and page components, change the look and feel of a Team site, control the display of content and create workflows and content types. You must take our Basic class (or have used SharePoint for at least three months) before...

InDesign is a powerful page layout publishing application. In this class, we cover adding/removing document pages and master pages, adding columns and guides, formatting text, placing text from a word-processor, adding photos and graphics, creating a newsletter, and preparing your document for output to an offset printer all while learning multiple...

Learn to use Power BI Desktop Software to connect to, model and shape data. Learn to customize visuals, tooltips, create calculated messages and conditional columns.  Create interactive visualizations with Power BI with data hierarchies, filters, slicers, and dashboards. 1. Analyzing Data with Self-Service BI Data Analysis and Visualization...

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification is the premiere credential for project managers. This class will prepare you to sit for the PMP® exam from the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. This class also will give you the 35 PDU’s necessary to be awarded the PMP® certification. If you do not have the necessary work experience...

Businesses today have access to more data than ever. Learn decision making tools such as Cluster Analysis, Linear Regression, Outlier Detection, Decision Stumps, Monte Carlo methods, and more in our Business/Data Analytics class. Lesson 1: Data Mining Principles Topic A: Association rules Topic B: Cluster analysis Topic C: Principal component analysis...