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Get more from the tools you already use

Excel, PowerPoint, Notion, Airtable, Monday.com, plus freelancing on Fiverr and Upwork. Skills that pay off at work this month.

11 certificate coursesLearn at your own paceCertificates included

Why this school

Get more from the tools you already use.

These are the compounding skills: an hour saved every day because your spreadsheet does the work, a presentation that lands because it was built properly, a project board the whole team actually uses.

Excel runs from a gentle introduction through to data analysis. The project management courses cover Notion, Airtable and Monday.com. And if the goal is working for yourself, the freelancing courses walk through building a real presence on Fiverr and Upwork, including when not to quit your day job yet.

11courses open now
547lessons, self-paced
1subscription, all 8 schools
27guides on the blog

The courses

Start where it makes sense for you

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Certificate in Microsoft PowerPoint

Templates, photo editing, animation and charts, then kiosk decks, animated video and art made from slide shapes.

111 lessonsSelf-pacedCertificate

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Introduction to Microsoft Excel

Spreadsheets from the very start: cells, formatting, formulas and functions, then charts and two builds from a blank sheet.

96 lessonsSelf-pacedCertificate

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Certificate in Microsoft Excel

Formulas, lookups and PivotTables, then charts, dashboards and maps, built in your own workbook.

125 lessonsSelf-pacedCertificate

Focused business analysis with charts and graphs on a laptop in a modern office setting.Certificate
Certificate in Excel Data Analysis

PivotTables, Power Query, Power Pivot and dynamic arrays on one dataset, then VBA to make it run itself.

78 lessonsSelf-pacedCertificate

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Certificate in Project Management Using Notion

Build a Notion workspace from empty: real databases, a project plan in seven views, a budget tracker and shared permissions.

24 lessonsSelf-pacedCertificate

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Certificate in Freelancing Using Fiverr

Build a Fiverr gig end to end, price it after commission, get it found in search, and run the order when it arrives.

15 lessonsSelf-pacedCertificate

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Certificate in Freelancing Using Upwork

Pick a niche, build a profile clients finish reading, write proposals that open on them, and handle the work that follows.

22 lessonsSelf-pacedCertificate

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Certificate in Project Management Using Monday.com

Build a monday.com board from a written plan, then add saved views, four kinds of automation and a dashboard people read.

20 lessonsSelf-pacedCertificate

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Certificate in AI-Powered Presentations using PowerPoint

Research, outline, slide content and images with AI, then a deck you assemble and fix in PowerPoint.

20 lessonsSelf-pacedCertificate

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Certificate in Project Management Using Airtable

Build an Airtable base with linked tables, field types chosen on purpose, forms, automations and an interface people can read.

23 lessonsSelf-pacedCertificate

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Introduction to Instagram

Build the profile, make posts, carousels, reels and stories, then grow with ten organic strategies and Instagram SEO.

13 lessonsSelf-pacedCertificate

All 11 courses are included in the one subscription. See pricing

Before you start

Questions people ask about Business & Productivity

Which Excel course should I start with?

Start with Introduction to Microsoft Excel if the formula bar is unfamiliar, and Certificate in Microsoft Excel if SUM, IF and VLOOKUP are already comfortable. The introduction opens at what a cell is and assumes nothing. The certificate picks up at the function library and runs through lookups, PivotTables and dashboards. Certificate in Excel Data Analysis is the third course, and it expects both of the others first.

Do I need Microsoft 365 for the Excel and PowerPoint courses?

No, though a recent version helps in places. A free spreadsheet program will carry you through most of the introduction course, at the cost of translating some ribbon paths. Dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP, Power Query and Power Pivot are the exceptions, and they want a recent Windows build. Check before buying anything, because work or school often supplies both applications already.

Should I use Notion, Airtable or Monday.com?

Monday.com for a working board with the least setup, Notion when the notes for a project should sit beside its tracking, Airtable when the same record has to appear in several tables without being retyped. All three courses are in the subscription, so trying one and switching costs nothing. If a plain task list would do the job, use a plain task list. Fifteen tasks with one owner do not need a database.

Can a freelancing course get me work on Fiverr or Upwork?

It can make your profile and your offer competent. It cannot promise that anyone hires you, and neither course pretends otherwise: both are explicit that the first few orders are the hard part and can take months. They teach the mechanics of one platform, not a skill to sell. If you do not yet have work someone would pay for, take a course in that skill first.

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