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Mastering Microsoft Word

$195

with Elizabeth Flanagan

Calendar Next available session starts May 5, 2025
2 additional sessions through Jul 7, 2025

Master the art of document creation and take your professional skills to the next level with Microsoft Word, which is essential for success in the modern business world. Discover how to format text, paragraphs, images, and pages with ease. Get hands-on experience creating professional-looking documents, from resumes and cover letters to reports and brochures. Find out how to use templates and themes to save time and streamline your workflow. At the end of this class, you will be equipped with the skills to create, edit and share polished documents that will impress employers and coworkers and give you a competitive edge in the workplace.

How it Works click HERE.

Project Management Processes

$195

with Jermaine Dykes MBA PMP CSM

Calendar Next available session starts May 5, 2025
2 additional sessions through Jul 7, 2025

Acquire a well-rounded knowledge of the five Project Management Processes relating to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide. This basic information will assist you in learning the beginnings of Project Management, whether you are interested in project management, in a project management field, or in any line of work.   Come away with a solid foundation of the five processes to learn and use when any type of project occurs in your employment arena.

How it Works click HERE.

QuickBooks Level 2

$195

with Marcus Lander

Calendar Next available session starts May 5, 2025
2 additional sessions through Jul 7, 2025

Now know how to work with more advanced QuickBooks Online topics. Become capable with such skills as how to customize settings, banking, credit cards, foreign currencies, statements for debts collection, using tags and projects.

How it Works click HERE.

The Basics of Bookkeeping

$195

with Sharon deFonteny

Calendar Next available session starts May 5, 2025
2 additional sessions through Jul 7, 2025

How do you keep track of the day-to-day financial transactions of a business?  Whether you are looking to advance in your career, or you’re an entrepreneur, (or maybe you are a part of a family business), this course will help you if you are looking to understand the numbers. 

The Basics of Bookkeeping course will help you understand, and know how to record, every penny that comes into your business and every penny that goes out of your business.  This course shows you how to create a chart of accounts that meet your needs.   All of the money you spend, and all of the money you earn, have a place to go.  How do your record them?  What are debits and credits?  What do the numbers mean?  How do I label accounts?  Even if you outsource your bookkeeping needs, you should still have a basic understand of what happens with the money earned and the money spent.  No one should be blind to his or her finances! 

In this course you will learn where the numbers go, and why!  You will learn the bookkeeping terminology as well as what it means to keep track of the numbers.  At the end of the cycle, what do the numbers mean?  The Basics of Bookkeeping will show you how to keep track of the numbers and why!

How it Works click HERE.

YouTube for Business

$245

with Rob Lee

Calendar Next available session starts May 5, 2025
2 additional sessions through Jul 7, 2025

Learn how to get your YouTube video on the first page of Google Search. Just like Facebook, YouTube is a social network that needs to be set-up, optimized, and used regularly to be effective. Your patters of behavior on YouTube may be working against you. Learn how YouTube can compliment your current marketing and social media strategy and how to maximize your YouTube Channel to get the greatest return.

How it Works click HERE.

Bus Driver CDL Class B Permit Pre
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Bus Driver CDL Class B Permit Pre

Free
Calendar Next session starts May 17, 2025 at 9 am

Bus drivers are in high demand in Maine! This course will help prepare you to take the CDL Class B permit exams. Participants will use the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles handbook, and there will be a specific focus on requirements for bus drivers. After successfully completing the course and passing the exams, students have the opportunity to work for Biddeford Public School as a bus driver trainee.

Prerequisites: Current Class C license, CASAS assessment score of 238 or higher.

Please call Anne at (207) 282-3883 or email abeaulieu@biddefordschools.me to schedule your CASAS test.

Adobe InDesign Essentials

$225

with Andi Helmi

Calendar Next available session starts Jun 2, 2025
1 additional session on Aug 4, 2025

Adobe InDesign is the industry standard page-layout program that works with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop seamlessly. InDesign allows you to create simple to complex multi-page documents such as brochures, flyers, books and magazines. This course is a comprehensive exploration of InDesign tools and capabilities to create professional documents. You will learn how to manage the InDesign environment, create, setup, design, enhance and finalize multi-page documents.

Access to Adobe InDesign software required.

How it Works click HERE.

Advanced Data Analysis

$195

with Jeff Kritzer

Calendar Next available session starts Jun 2, 2025
1 additional session on Aug 4, 2025

After taking this Advanced course in Data Analysis, you will be able to perform inquiries that will be useful to your business or organization and have the skill necessary to communicate these results through graphs and text that your fellow employees will understand.  Take the guesswork out of important company decisions and make decisions based on the statistically significant information.  Whether your business is home-based or a large company, this class will take you to the next level where important decision-making is concerned.

How it Works click HERE.





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