Wedding planners play an important role in the planning of a couple’s most important day. This 100% online course will teach you the concepts and techniques behind wedding planning. Upon successful completion of the course, you will receive a Certified Wedding Planner credential from the Wedding Planning Institute.

 

Course Objectives

- Learn the skills required for a job in the wedding and social event industry

- Create event concepts and plan celebrations from beginning to end

- Understand how to negotiate and handle vendor contracts

- Develop client contracts and service packages

As technology and innovation hubs grow across the country, so does the need for skilled technical writers. More so, the ability to provide clear explanations about complex subjects is one of the most in-demand skill sets a communications professional can have today. This 100% online course will help you master technical writing and build a robust portfolio that showcases this highly marketable skill. The course also includes a lesson on preparing for the (CPTC) Certified Professional Technical Communicator exam offered by the Society for Technical Communication (STC).

 

Course Objectives
Develop any type of communication used to explain complex technical processes. This includes executive summaries, reports, briefs, press releases, and emails. As long as a piece is designed to help others understand technical information, a technical writer is needed. Our technical writing course will teach you how to:

- Develop effective research methods

- Consider the needs and abilities of the audience

- Know how to incorporate clarity and utility

- Create memos, analyses, and reports

- Develop strategies to prepare for the Certified Professional Technical Communicator exam

Bookkeeping forms the backbone of every organization's need to carefully account for its financial activities. It accounts for sales, purchases, and payments that flow through an entity. Bookkeepers are crucial to every organization and certified bookkeepers are the elite of their profession. This 100% online course will prepare you for certification by the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers (AIPB).

 

Course Objectives

- Prepare to take and pass the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers (AIPB) certification exam

- Understand eligibility requirements, code of ethics, and maintenance requirements for bookkeeper certification

- Apply the concepts of accrual accounting to transactions that span fiscal periods and trace the effect of accrual and deferral transactions

- Record book and tax depreciation, using various methods of calculating depreciation

- Perform basic payroll duties, including paying wages, handling payroll deposits, and reporting taxes

- Know how to value inventory, record costs, make entries and report inventory on financial statements

- Use basic internal controls to prevent theft, embezzlement, or check and credit card fraud by employees, customers, or vendors

Become a Certified Microsoft Office Master Earning your Microsoft Office Master certification demonstrates your expertise in the most widely used business productivity suite. This 100% online course will help you build the technical skills you need to pass the Microsoft Office Master Certification exams for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

 

Course Objectives

- Prepare for the Microsoft Office Master Certification exams for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

- Gain the highest level of proficiency in the Microsoft Office 2016 suite

- Understand how these programs fit into today’s office and how to best use them

This 100% online course will teach you the concepts, skills and practices to become a certified physical therapy aide. Upon successful completion, you will be eligible to take the American Medical Certification Association's (AMCA) Physical Therapy Technician/Aide certification exam. Certification test voucher included.

 

Course Objectives

- Prepare to take and pass the AMCA Physical Therapy Technician/Aide certification exam

- Understand the role, responsibilities, and qualifications of the certified physical therapy aide in various healthcare settings

- Build knowledge of human anatomy, functional body movements, and system disorders as they relate to physical therapy

- Identify proper positioning, patient transfers, common exercises, modalities, and medical equipment

- Demonstrate ethical and legal behavior specific to healthcare settings

- Differentiate between tasks appropriate for a certified physical therapy aide and other healthcare professionals

In this course, you will learn medical terminology, medical law and ethics, HIPAA rules, scheduling systems, patient check-in and check-out, and more! This 100% online course will prepare you to work as a Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA), designated by the National Healthcare Career Association (NHA).

 

Course Objectives

- Prepare to take and earn the Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) exam

- Learn the skills necessary to function as a member of the healthcare team in an ambulatory setting.

- Know the standards for ethical behavior, therapeutic communication, and protecting the privacy of patient information

- Understand the importance of a first impression and a safe office environment

- Summarize the HIPAA Privacy Rule and HIPAA Security Rule

- Demonstrate basic medical terminology knowledge

- Discuss government and private insurance

- Identify the functions of the major body systems

- Demonstrate how to write a chief complaint and obtain a patient history

- Discuss the importance of medical and surgical asepsis

- Explain the information contained in different types of medical records

- Identify the three methods used to perform venipuncture

Workshops for CNA/HHA Certificate Renewal - Continuing Education Units (CEUs) As a California Certified Nursing Assistant you need to have 48 hours of continuing education to renew your certificate. In addition, you must show proof that you have worked at least one paid day within 2 years in a facility where you provided nursing-related services. A California Home Health Aide must complete 24 hours of CEUs within 2 years. Don't allow your certificate to expire! We offer classes and workshops to keep your certificate current. Choose from one of the options to meet your CEU requirements. All classes have been approved by the California Department of Public Health and qualify for CEUs. Masks are strongly recommended.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive cloud platform offering services to millions of customers including startups, large companies, and government agencies. Taking this course can serve as a stepping stone to employment within these enterprises. This is a foundational course to help prepare students for an entry-level AWS-certified cloud practitioner career using official AWS Academy Cloud Foundations material.

 

This course introduces cloud computing which shifts information systems from on-premises computing infrastructure to highly scalable internet architectures using the Amazon AWS platform. The course provides a basic understanding of cloud computing technologies and provides students with the ability to configure, deploy and manage cloud facilities including simple and complex compute instances, web servers, and web services

This hands-on course is offered in collaboration with Google to provide students with the digital skill set required for entry-level employment in project management. In this instructor-guided course, students will learn how to solve relevant real-life problems using Google Apps as a tool. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create spreadsheets and effectively organize, analyze, manipulate, and visualize data and identify patterns in data. Students will also develop research-based decision-making skills and will be able to collaborate digitally to communicate successfully with others. The course also covers programming basics and debugging as well as implementing algorithms.

This course offers proficiency in the core concepts of Python, and the skills and knowledge for building applications using any of the hundreds of thousands of task-specific Python libraries. The curriculum includes flow control, function protocols, exception handling, functional programming, all built-in data types, sequence manipulations, object-oriented features: classes and inheritance, building applications, decorators and dynamic coding.