Badges
Appendices – Certifications & Courses
Design Thinking
| Name | Description | Source | Tool |
| Customer Journey Maps with IoT Touchpoints
by T. Bagley |
By the end of this project, you will be able to create a customer journey map that includes touchpoints from the internet (IoT). When customer journey maps include IoT touchpoints, they enable businesses to understand the holistic customer experience by considering their user experience (UX) and when user interface (UX) design may influence that experience.
To identify IoT touchpoints with customer journey maps, you will gain hands-on experience applying design thinking, user interface knowledge, and context from each step of the customer journey in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. |
Coursera | Miro |
| Reverse Brainstorming
by T. Bagley |
By the end of this project, you will be able to lead team idea generation with reverse brainstorming in Miro.
To do this, you will gain hands-on experience in Miro while you apply guided brainstorming strategies that focus on problems so that they can be identified and prevented before a product goes live. |
Coursera | Miro |
| Build Inclusive Personas in Miro by T. Bagley |
By the end of this project, you will be able to create an inclusive user persona that will help you leverage the opportunity to include customers and avoid excluding them from a brand experience.
To do this, you will work on a project that will help you understand the benefits and use cases for inclusive personas while you gain hands-on experience building one in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. |
Coursera | Miro |
| Design a User Interface Story Map
by T. Bagley |
By the end of this project, you will be able to create a user interface story map that your business can use as a roadmap for release planning and as a framework for version and improvement releases over time. The power of the user interface story map is that it places the spotlight of the release process upon the user. This enables the business to stay focused on user experience and needs throughout releases of products and makes it easier for cross-functional teams to home in on what is necessary to gain and maintain user acceptance so that an exceptional user experience is sustained.
To design a user interface story map, you will gain hands-on experience applying design thinking, user interface knowledge, and context from each step of the customer journey in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. |
Coursera | Miro |
Human Resources
| Name | Description | Source | Topics |
| Building a Hiring Plan by Analyzing Past Data in Sheets
by K. Bergner |
By the end of this project, you will understand how HR analytics are used to perform several analyses such as analyze total headcount to be hired, consolidate the position details, provide insights that would help the Talent Acquisition Manager to arrive at the sourcing strategy, set the selection process and the assessment guidelines. All these analyses will help create an annual hiring plan for an organization. All these steps in the project are performed by individuals of the Human Resources team. | Coursera | |
| Training and Development with Eduflow
by A. Saey |
Create a training and development course using Eduflow. Eduflow is a free, easy to use course builder that gives you the ability to create an interactive and customizable learning experience. Training and development is an essential part of operating any business. Without the personal and professional growth and advancement of your employees and team, your business will become stagnant. Eduflow makes continuing employee education easy and enjoyable.
This project will teach you just how simple it is to create an effective training and development program for your team. Eduflow courses are easy to create, manage, and update. With their wide variety of educational activities, you are sure to meet all of your training and development needs and successfully grow your team’s talents and advance their professional education. |
Coursera | EduFlow |
| Use Canva to Design Digital Course Collateral
by S. Shanklin-Langford |
By the end of this project, you will create digital course collateral for use in your digital courses. You will be able to incorporate a color scheme, images, and other design elements for aesthetically pleasing and value-added course collateral. This course will include intermediate to advanced level skills using the free version of Canva. You will create a course promo graphic, a fillable PDF, a worksheet, and a course certificate for your digital course collateral in this project. | Coursera | Canva |
| Build an HR Analytics Dashboard Using Power BI
by A. Jha |
Build an attractive and eye-catching HR dashboard using Power BI. We will begin this guided project by importing data & creating an employee demographics page that gives us the overall demographic outlook of the organization. We will then create pie charts and doughnut charts to visualize gender & racial diversity. In the final tasks, we will create an employee detail page that will provide you with all the important information about any employee with just a click. We will also explore buttons, themes, slicers & filters to make the dashboard more interactive & useful. By the end of this course, you will be confident in creating beautiful HR dashboards that you can use for your personal or organizational purpose. | Coursera | PowerBI |
| Create Training Videos with PowtoonCreate Training Videos with Powtoon
by A. Saey |
Powtoon is a free cloud platform that allows the user to design animated presentations to better engage and educate their desired audience. In this course, we will design an attractive and educational animated training video. Adding animation to your presentation through movement of text and graphics creates a more dynamic and eye catching experience for your viewer. Powtoon can help you design an effective presentation where your information is displayed in an organized and well-timed fashion. Animation allows you to present material in a fun, visually enhanced way which can improve audience engagement and add emphasis to key ideas and concepts. Powtoon provides a number of free presentation options that can get you well on your way to becoming a better animator and video designer. | Coursera | Powtoon |
Finance and Accounting
| Name | Description | Source | Tools |
| Getting Started with ProfitBooks
by C. Haddleton |
This project will give you the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the cloud-based platform, ProfitBooks. We will start this project by introducing you to the platform through creating an online account and taking a virtual tour of the software. This step will include updating your company profile in the settings. We will continue our introduction by building out a CRM through the customer profile feature. Once the customer profiles are created, you will be introduced to some beginner features on the platform.
This project will focus on the Item feature for products and services & invoice feature for billing. Upon completion of this project, you will understand how to add customers to your CRM, inventory items and services, and invoice customers. You will have the confidence to continue towards intermediate use of ProfitBooks in a continuation series. ProfitBooks is an online accounting and payroll management software for small businesses. It allows users to organize offices finances and track all activities related to their business. This free online tool allows you to manage your money without accounting knowledge, grow sales with powerful invoicing tools, track inventory with ease, and run your business with total confidence. |
Coursera | ProfitBooks |
| Building a Candlestick Chart
by B. Ochilov |
Learn how to use Python YFinance to extract stock price data and how to use Tableau to build a japanese candlestick chart. | Coursera | Python YFinance
Tableau |
| Profit Analysis Using Economic Value Added
by B. Ochilov |
Learn how to calculate the Weighted Average Cost of Capital, calculate capital invested, finance charge, and NOPAT, and use financial statements to calculate Economic Value Added. Economic Value Added is one of the most critical metrics in financial modeling and analysis and is used to measure the profitability of the projects and management performance. | Coursera | |
| Analyze Digital Marketing Spend in Tableauby C. Rojas | Tableau is widely recognized as one of the premier data visualization software programs. For many years access to the program was limited to those who purchased licenses. Recently, Tableau launched a public version that grants the ability to create amazing data visualizations for free. Account members can also share and join projects to collaborate on projects that can change the world.
In this project, we will learn how to create an account, how to upload and work with diverse data sets, and how to analyze marketing spend within Tableau. Learning to use this in-demand tool has applications in Marketing, Finance, Operations, Sales, and many other business functions. |
Coursera | Tableau |
| Compare Stock Returns
by B. Ochilov |
Learn how to compare the performance of different securities using financial statistics (normal distributions) and the Google Sheets toolkit to decide which one performed the best in terms of risk-to-return (risk-to-reward) metrics. This will teach you how basic risk management using quantitative analysis is done and is applied in calculating mean returns of the stock, variance, standard deviation, the Sharpe ratio, and Sortino Ratio. | Coursera | Google Sheets |
| Measuring Stock Liquidity
by B. Ochilov |
Learn how to use Average Daily Traded Volume and Share Turnover to measure liquidity, use Depth of Market (DOM) and Bid-Ask Spread to compare liquidity, and use Variance Ratio to quantify liquidity. | Coursera | |
| Build Stock Returns Heatmap with Tableau
by B. Ochilov |
Learn how to extract stock data using Google Finance, build a Heat and Treemap in Tableau, build a stock returns dashboard in Tableau. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions. This course’s content is not intended to be investment advice and does not constitute an offer to perform any operations in the regulated or unregulated financial market. | Coursera | Google Finance
Tableau |
| Construct Stock Market Indices
by B. Ochilov |
Learn how to use Google Finance to import stock price data, identify the free float of the stock, use free-floated weighting to construct an index. | Coursera | Google Finance |
| Investment Risk Management
by B. Ochilov |
By the end of the project, you will learn how to quantify risk-to-reward using Treynor Ratio, and calculate the value at risk for investment portfolio. |
Coursera |
Business Operations and Project Management
| Name | Description | Source | Tools |
| Introduction to Project Management
by M. Peck
|
This course is designed to give you the fundamentals of Project Management. You will learn the basic principles of Project Management by managing a fundraising event for your local farmers market. You will designate responsible team members to help you, build a timeline and see the different ways that you can manage the project. Together, we will walk through not only the documentation, but also the theories and reasoning behind each task. You will learn how to look at a large project and break it down into manageable pieces and then how to build an action plan so that you hit your deadlines with your team.
By the end of the course, you will have created a Project Scope document, Stakeholder Responsibility Matrix, sequenced a task list, added task owners, and a explored several popular project views using Project Management software. You will be ready to tackle a project on your own or will be equipped to take a higher-level course in Project Management. |
Coursera | |
| Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
by H. Aougab |
Learn how to build a WBS for your project. You will decompose your project into the main elements, then further decompose those into even smaller, more manageable pieces of work. As we decompose our project into smaller elements, we will be using decomposition rules such as the 100%, and the mutually exclusive elements rules. You will continue decomposition until you get elements that can be estimated properly and that you can delegate to a person or a team. You will also create a WBS dictionary, explaining the elements in your WBS. We will do all of this in Google Sheet, but the same concepts can be used with any tool, i.e. Excel SP, WBS creation tools, etc. | Coursera | Google Sheet |
| Design a Project Schedule
by H. Aougab |
Learn how to develop a schedule for your project. You will combine your project activities (activity list), their relationships (precedence) and their duration estimates to produce a project schedule. We will start by considering the list of the activities necessary to create our project scope, by decomposing the lowest elements of our WBS (see guided project: Develop a WBS), the relationships of the activities in a project precedence network diagram (there is another Guided Project for Developing the precedence Network Diagram), the estimate for the activities duration (And yes there another GP for Estimation the activity Durations). We will use ProjectLibre, an open source project scheduling swr to develop our project schedule. The concept are the same, if you are using another project scheduling tool. You will enter different type of tasks, different kind of relationships, and task durations, customize the calendar to your environment and produce a project schedule. | Coursera | |
| Create a Company Vision and Mission Statement
by M. Flores |
By the end of this project, you will learn how to create a company vision and mission statement from scratch using the free version of Canva. Mission and vision statements are important foundational elements of any organization. A Mission Statement defines the company’s business, its objectives and its approach to reach those objectives. A Vision Statement describes the desired future position of the company. You will be able to incorporate a colour scheme, different charts, and other design elements for aesthetically pleasing and value added business marketing collateral. We can use Canva to complete this project because it provides all the tools you need to create an organized and visually appealing product while offering a variety of options for sharing and collaboration. You will learn how to plan and organize your ideas and utilize graphic design tools as you create a vision and mission statement from scratch that will serve as a template for future projects. | Coursera | Canva |
| Scrum Team Building Using Games and Interactive Tools
by K. Grady |
By the end of this project, you will have created a Scrum Master’s toolbox of interactive websites and games you can use to improve communication, increase cohesion and camaraderie, and facilitate a smoother sprint experience. In every Scrum ceremony, there are opportunities to inspire improved teamwork and help your team build professional bonds that will make them more effective. Scrum should allow developers to double their output in half the time, as the saying goes, but solid teamwork is necessary to work efficiently. Using online tools and including games will build engagement and interest in team members and offer an opportunity for the Scrum Master to step back and observe, find weak points, and facilitate improvements. Whether distributed or collocated, your team will build strength and efficiency with the toolbox you will build. | Coursera | |
| Creating a Product-Market Fit with Value Proposition Canva
by O. Samuel |
By the end of this guided project, you will be able to use the Value Proposition Canvas (VPC) to position your products and services around what your customers truly value or need. The value proposition is the place where your company’s product intersects with your customer’s desires. It’s the magic fit between what you make and why people buy it. And for us to practically demonstrate how the fit is created, we will analyze a Social Venture startup. The example of the case study would empower you to use the model to analyze your startup or any other company of your choice. The project is for entrepreneurs who want to test their product-market fit. Also, for intrapreneurs who want to modify their existing products, or more importantly, develop new ones that truly reflects the needs of the customers. At the end of the project, you will be able to use the Value Proposition Canvas to differentiate your offering from competition | Coursera | Canvas |
| How to Write an Effective Project Objective
by A. Paolillo |
In this project you will write effective project objectives in Asana using the SMART methodology, connect them with overarching project and business goals, link deliverables and plan in Asana for the objectives execution. | Coursera | |
| Introduction to Project Management by M. Peck |
This course is designed to give you the fundamentals of Project Management. You will learn the basic principles of Project Management by managing a fundraising event for your local farmers market. You will designate responsible team members to help you, build a timeline and see the different ways that you can manage the project. Together, we will walk through not only the documentation but also the theories and reasoning behind each task. You will learn how to look at a large project and break it down into manageable pieces and then how to build an action plan so that you hit your deadlines with your team.
By the end of the course, you will have created a Project Scope document, Stakeholder Responsibility Matrix, sequenced a task list, added task owners, and explored several popular project views using Project Management software. |
Coursera | |
| Getting Started with Power BI Desktop
by A. Yadav |
Learn the basics of using Power BI Desktop software. We will do this by analyzing data on credit card defaults with Power BI Desktop. Power BI Desktop is a free Business Intelligence application from Microsoft that lets you load, transform, and visualize data. You can create interactive reports and dashboards quite easily, and quickly. We will learn some of the basics of Power BI by importing, transforming, and visualizing the data. | Coursera | PowerBI |
| Create a Budget with Google Sheets
by J. Schroeder |
By the end of this project, you will be able to build a basic budget using Google Sheets. You will use a template to add, delete, edit, and format a budget to meet the needs of your personal or professional goals. You will be able to read the summary tab, share the budget, and create permissions for others to access, format the charts, and use conditional formatting. You will also be able to take the Google Sheets Budget and put it into presentable files. | Coursera | Google Sheets |
| Tableau Public for Project Management
by M. Zvezdkina |
Now more than ever, people need access to data to gain insights and make quick business decisions. Some of the world’s top organizations choose Tableau to help teams organize, visualize, and analyze data to drive better results while saving time and reducing costs. Adding Tableau Public to your skillset will put you ahead of the curve in the current job market, aid in professional growth, and yield better business results.
‘Tableau Public for project management and beyond’ guided project is for anyone who wants to quickly get hands-on experience with the public version of Tableau business intelligence software. If you are preparing for Project Management certification, completing this project will be complementary to your knowledge. By the end of the project, you will have a foundational knowledge of Tableau Public and will learn how to build and analyze charts, create dashboards, and share your data insights online. There are no prerequisites to take this guided project. |
Coursera | Tableau |
| Create a big Number KPI Dashboard in Tableau Public
by C. Rojas |
Tableau is widely recognized as one of the premier data visualization software programs. For many years access to the program was limited to those who purchased licenses. Recently, Tableau launched a public version that grants the ability to create amazing data visualizations for free. Account members can also share and join projects to collaborate on projects that can change the world. By the end of this project, you will learn how to create an easy-to-understand communication that will focus attention on specific metrics that guide decisions. | Coursera | Tableau |
| Create a Financial Statement Using Google Sheets
by J. Schroeder |
By the end of this project, you will be able to populate the Google Sheets Financial Statement Template and feel comfortable updating the different tabs on the Financial Statement Template. You will have a better understanding of how to use this tool to help track and present financial information for your company. | Coursera | Google Sheets |
| Jira and Agile Project Management
by A. Paolillo |
Create your first project in Jira using a Kanban board for agile methodology, creating issues, epics and tasks, setting up WIP limits, building a roadmap sharing work with team members and managing the workflow with transitions. | Coursera | Jira |
| Create a Project Tracker with Airtable
by H. Kong |
Airtable is a cloud collaboration service that combines the features of databases and spreadsheets. In this 1.5 hour guided project, you will learn the basics of relational database and get up to speed with Airtable and create a project tracker. No prior experience is required. Although experience with spreadsheets is helpful. | Coursera | AirTable |
| Build a Product Roadmap
by E. Tabakov |
learn what makes a good Product Roadmap, how to use Aha! to combine your product artifacts in a well-structured Product Roadmap, and how to customize Aha! to match the processes and requirements in your team. Using Aha!, step by step we will start from a blank sheet of paper to get to a comprehensive product definition. We will structure the information in a way that allows to switch between execution level information, like Features and Release and also being able to zoom out to high-level information like Goals and Vision. | Coursera | Aha! |
| Business Analysis & Process Management
by M. Ismail |
This is a guided project for both beginners and professionals managing small to medium enterprises or working in the fields of business analysis & business process management. It provides you with the initial know-how of analyzing businesses from a process view which allows you to further develop the skill needed to create solutions to your current business problems.
By the end of this project, you will be able to: analyze business processes and find solutions to existing business problems; define your business processes, their objectives and how they flow within the organizational context; identify the different process stakeholders and their roles in your business processes; and evaluate the current business from a process view, break down the problems, and find an applicable business solution. |
Coursera | |
| Business Model Canvas Analysis by J. Albert | By the end of this guided project, you will be fluent in identifying and creating Business Model Canvas solutions based on previous high-level analyses and research data. This will enable you to identify and map the elements required for new products and services. Furthermore, it is essential for generating positive results for your business venture. This guided project is designed to engage and harness your visionary and exploratory abilities. You will use proven models in strategy and product development with the Miro platform to explore and analyse your business propositions.
We will practice critically examining results from previous analysis and research results in deriving the values for each of the business model sections. |
Coursera | Miro |
| The Product Lifecycle: A Guide
by D.O. Taha |
Learn how to understand the product development stage, you will learn to differentiate and locate products in the introduction stage of the product life cycle as well as doing the needed financial analysis for products in different product life cycle stages | Coursera | |
| Strategic Analysis with Financial Competitive Profile Matrix
by O. Samuel |
By the end of this guided project, you will be able to use the Financial Competitive Profile Matrix (FCPM) to analyze your industry and identify your competitive advantage with key financial indicators. FCPM is a strategic management tool that enables you to benchmark your company in relation to competition and then identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of all the competitors based on some Financial Critical Success Factors (FCSFs) analysis. The FCSFs are assigned weight based on their importance, ranked on their strengths and weaknesses, then the weight is multiplied by the rank to determine weighted score. The sum of the weighted score reveals the company that has competitive advantage or disadvantage in the industry.
To demonstrate the application of the FCPM, we will use spreadsheet to analyze a division of our energy services company together. Example on the case study would empower you to use the model to analyze your company or any other company of your choice. The project is for business leaders who want have a deep insight on their competitive environment. Also, for strategist and financial analysts who are interested in helping organization in making informed strategic decisions. At the end of the project, you will be able to use the FCPM to analyze your company, identify the strengths and weaknesses of the competitors, and then use it to determine your strategic direction |
Coursera | |
| Predict Sales and Forecast Trends
by T. Bagley
|
By the end of this project, you will understand use cases for conducting forecasts in your workplace and be able to confidently conduct a trend forecast in any spreadsheet software. You will also understand when it is necessary to refine a model to improve the accuracy of forecasted trends. At work we use forecasted data for a multitude of purposes including developing strategies, budgets, to provide the right amount of resources to meet demand, and to create the best customer experience possible. In this course, you will build baseline prediction skills with statistical forecasting by designing, creating, and interpreting a sales trend forecast. You will do this as we work side-by-side in the free-to-use software Google Sheets. | Coursera | Google Sheets. |
| Visualize Project Milestones in Miro
by T. Bagley |
By the end of this project, you will be able to leverage Gantt charts to plan, schedule, and graphically represent the progression of a project plan over time so that stakeholders and sponsors can quickly understand the status, dependencies, and future requirements. | Coursera | Miro |
| Introduction to Project Management with ClickUpby A. Saey | In this project, we will learn how to create and organize a ClickUp workspace to best meet your project management and business needs. We will also learn how to use the tool to better collaborate and communicate with your team. Whether you’re assigning tasks, pushing out important information, scheduling meetings, or working through a to do list, ClickUp can help you keep track of it all.
ClickUp is a free, cloud-based program that helps to improve both your productivity and your budget. ClickUp helps to make both individuals and groups more productive in their work by consolidating tasks, documents, goals, and communication into one, all inclusive platform. |
Coursera | ClickUp |
| Automating Tasks with Zapier by C. Rojas |
This project gives you easy access to time-saving tools used by entrepreneurs, business administrators, and department leaders. We’ll learn about how to use a tool called Zapier to automate a common business activity, responding to a new subscription on a website, and sharing the information with other departments.
By the end of this project, you can use Zapier to automate a variety of tasks that will reduce errors and save you time. Saving you time at work will free up your time to devote to other interests. If you’re already using Zapier you may find new apps to connect and tasks to automate. If you’re struggling, you’ll see solutions and tips that can make things easier. If you want more time in your life this project will help serve as your guide. |
Coursera | Zapier |
| Get Started with Asanaby A. Paolillo | In this guided project we will get started with Asana project management software by creating a free trial account online, project, task and subtasks. We will create sections to group tasks and manage execution with team members, comments, files and dependencies. change the views and manage your work with tracking, sorting and filtering. We will achieve a comprehensive overview of project management and Asana with the most important concepts needed to start running your projects. |
Coursera | Asana |
| Create a Simple Gantt Using Excel
by A. Rodriguez |
Coursera | Excel | |
| Project Scheduling: Estimate Activity Durationsby H. Aougab | In this guided project you will learn how estimate the durations of your project activities. You will estimate the duration of your project activities, using techniques such as Expert Judgment, Analogy, and Parametric Estimation. Once you have developed a WBS, and decompose the work packages (lowest elements in the WBS) into the necessary activities, you can use the bottom up estimation technique. To improve the accuracy of your estimate you will learn how to use the three-point estimation technique, taking into account risk and uncertainty. You will also learn how use statistics to come up with an Interval Estimate with a up to a 99% confidence level. | Coursera | |
| Business Communication: Written and Verbal Presentation Skills |
This course allows students to develop effective written and verbal communication strategies specifically for the workplace. From idea gathering to drafting to delivery, this course will prepare students to effectively write, present, and communicate in a variety of methods and styles, tailored to professional audiences. | OER | |
| Create an Interactive KPI Management Dashboard
by E. Kund |
Learn how to connect to data, create key performance indicators, create sparkline charts, create a dashboard map, create dual axis charts and put it all together in a well-formatted and interactive dashboard. | Coursera | Tableau |
| Create a Balanced Scorecard to Align Priorities
by T. Bagley
|
By the end of this project, you will be able to create a balanced scorecard to communicate team goals and measure the progress made toward those goals.
To do this, you will gain hands-on experience incorporating customer, financial, internal process, and employee perspectives within a balanced scorecard in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. |
Coursera |
Network Security and Information Technology
| Name | Description | Source | Tools |
| Microsoft Azure Relational Databases
by B. McKeown |
Learn how to create, and configure a Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL server and database. We will do this by walking through the process of creating a free trial subscription on Azure, logging in and getting familiar with the Azure Portal. We will create a Resource Group in preparation for creating the Azure database and then step through the process of configuring and deploying an Azure Database for MySQL server. From here we will connect securely to the cloud based server and create a new database. We will then populate the database with some sample data, query and update the data using the MySQL command line tool. Once complete we will restore the database to a point in time using the Azure restore database process and finally clean up unused resources keeping costs to a minimum. | Microsoft | Microsoft Azure Database
MySQL |
| Work With Azure Data Storage
by D Savovic |
This project teaches you avariety of ways to store data in Azure. You will learn the basics of storage management in Azure, how to create a Storage Account, and how to choose the right model for the data that you want to store in the cloud. After this project you will be able to define the appropriate settings for each storage account and create a storage account using the Azure portal. You will also understand how data lake storage can be created to support a wide variety of big data analytical solutions with minimal effort.
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to (create a storage account using the Azure portal, create an Azure Data Lake Store Gen 2 using the portal, upload data into the Data Lake Storage Gen2 using Azure Storage Explorer and copy data using Azure Data Factory). |
Coursera | Microsoft Azure |
| Predict Sales Revenue with scikit-learn
by S. Kekre |
Build and evaluate a simple linear regression model using Python. You will employ the scikit-learn module for calculating the linear regression, while using pandas for data management, and seaborn for plotting. You will be working with the very popular Advertising data set to predict sales revenue based on advertising spending through mediums such as TV, radio, and newspaper.
By the end of this course, you will be able to: |
Coursera | scikit-learn |
| Get Started With Microsoft Data Analytics | Businesses need data analysis more than ever. In this learning path, you will learn about the life and journey of a data analyst, the skills, tasks, and processes they go through in order to tell a story with data so trusted business decisions can be made. You will learn how the suite of Power BI tools and services are used by a data analyst to tell a compelling story through reports and dashboards, and the need for true BI in the enterprise. | Microsoft | PowerBI |
| Getting Started with Power BI | Learn how you can leverage Power BI to easily build reports and dashboards with interactive visualizations and see how other organizations have used this solution to drive business results with actionable insights. As a consumer, you’ll work in the Power BI service to review and interact with content that has been shared with you. This module provides the foundational information that you need to work effectively in the Power BI service. | Microsoft | PowerBI |
| Getting Started with Power BI Desktop by A. Yadav |
Learn the basics of using Power BI Desktop software. We will do this by analyzing data on credit card defaults with Power BI Desktop. Power BI Desktop is a free Business Intelligence application from Microsoft that lets you load, transform, and visualize data. You can create interactive reports and dashboards quite easily, and quickly. We will learn some of the basics of Power BI by importing, transforming, and visualizing the data.
This course is aimed at learners who are looking to get started with the Power BI Desktop software. There are no hard prerequisites and any competent computer user should be able to complete the project successfully. |
Coursera | PowerBI |
| PowerBI Report Development Crash Course
by A. Navgire |
In this project, we will see in detail the steps required to create a PowerBI report using PowerBI Desktop and also we will publish this report on PowerBI service in the respective workspace. This project is designed for beginners who have no idea about PowerBI so they can quickly get a glimpse of how to create a report in PowerBI. | Coursera | PowerBI |
| Prepare Data for Analysis | You will explore Power Query as you learn to extract data from different data sources and choose a storage mode and connectivity type. You will learn to profile, clean, and load data into Power BI in preparation for modeling your data. | Microsoft | Power Query
PowerBI |
| Model Data in PowerBI |
Success with Power BI begins with a great data model. In this module, you will learn how to design a data model that is intuitive, high-performing, and simple to maintain. You will learn about using DAX language to create measures. Those measures will help you create a wide variety of analytic solutions. Additionally, you’ll learn how to improve performance with your Power Query data retrieval tasks. |
Microsoft | PowerBI
Power Query |
| Work with Power BI Visuals |
Learn how to choose from the exceptional visuals that Power BI makes available to you. Formatting visuals will direct the user’s attention to exactly where you want it, while helping to make the visual easier to read and interpret. You will also learn about how to use key performance indicators (KPIs). | Microsoft | PowerBI |
| Power BI Report Development by A. Navgire |
In this project, we will see in detail the steps required to create a PowerBI report using PowerBI Desktop and also we will publish this report on PowerBI service in the respective workspace.
This project is designed for beginners who have no idea about PowerBI so they can quickly get a glimpse of how to create a report in PowerBI. |
Coursera | PowerBI |
| Create a data-driven story with Power BI Reports |
Power BI helps you create vibrant, highly useful reports that form a cohesive, data-driven story. You’ll learn how to use buttons, bookmarks, and other navigation techniques. Additionally, you’ll learn how to integrate Power BI reports with other applications. Power BI visuals can interact with each other, letting the user see exactly which data is appealing to them. You’ll also explore Power BI report themes to create a unified reporting experience across all reports. | Microsoft | PowerBI |
| Create Dashboards in Power BI |
Microsoft Power BI dashboards are different than Power BI reports. Dashboards allow report consumers to create a single artifact of directed data that is personalized just for them. Dashboards can be comprised of pinned visuals that are taken from different reports. Where a Power BI report uses data from a single dataset, a Power BI dashboard can contain visuals from different datasets. | Microsoft | PowerBI |
| Create Paginated Reports in Power BI |
Paginated reports allow report developers to create Power BI artifacts that have tightly controlled rendering requirements. Paginated reports are ideal for creating sales invoices, receipts, purchase orders, and tabular data. This module will teach you how to create reports, add parameters, and work with tables and charts in paginated reports. | Microsoft | PowerBI |
| Perform Analytics in Power BI |
You will learn how to use Power BI to perform data analytical functions, how to identify outliers in your data, how to group data together, and how to bin data for analysis. You will also learn how to perform time series analysis. Finally, you will work with advanced analytic features of Power BI, such as Quick Insights, AI Insights, and the Analyze feature. | Microsoft | PowerBI |
| Work with AI Visuals in Power BI |
This module describes the AI capabilities of Power BI. In this module, you will: – Use the Q&A visual. – Find important factors with the Key influencers visual. – Use the Decomposition Tree visual to break down a measure. |
Microsoft | PowerBI |
| Manage Workspaces and Datasets in Power BI |
Once you have created your Power BI data sets and reports, it’s time to deploy them so the users can take advantage of all of your hard work. In this Learning Path, you will learn how to create workspaces in the Power BI service. You will deploy your Power BI artifacts here and share them to your users. You will also learn how to connect Power BI reports to on-premise data sources. Your users will appreciate seeing the latest data in your reports, so you will configure automatic refresh for your Power BI datasets. Row-level security allows you to create one report, but have users be restricted to see only the data that applies to them. This targets data to users, without having to create multiple reports. | Microsoft | PowerBI |
| Create an Interactive Graph in Tableauby E. Carlson | By the end of this guided project, learners will have created an interactive graph that applies principles of data visualization to tell a story using basic sales data. This project will illustrate some of the basic features of Tableau software and allow learners to obtain a good introduction to using the open source software, Tableau Public. In this project, learners will use sample data as a building block to create a shareable interactive data visualization chart. This skill is helpful for anyone interested in learning more about how to begin working with data to tell a story, highlight change over time, see and understand data, or make well-informed data driven decisions. | Coursera | Tableau |
| Wireshark for Basic Network Security Analysis
by M. ElSharkawy |
Learn how to use Wireshark to capture the Network Traffic you need and analyze it securely. You will have a better understanding of encrypted and unencrypted traffic and how to differentiate between them. You will dig deeply into unencrypted protocols such as RADIUS, HTTP, DNS and Telnet by generating the Traffic of each of them and capturing it yourself. Also you will generate, capture and look into secure and encrypted protocols such as HTTPS and SSH. Additionally, you will learn how to capture HTTPS Traffic and decrypt them by using a pre-master secret key. | Coursera | Wireshark |
| Create a Lead Generation Messenger Chatbot
by A. Jha |
Learn how to build a lead generation chatbot with Email and Google sheets automation which will be able to interact with your customers and generate lead automatically for you. We will be automating the entire process using email automation and Google sheets so that you will receive a mail every time a lead is generated and a copy of the contact information of the lead will be saved on Google sheets. The chatbot will be able to interact with your customers, generate a lead, take a booking, get ticket claims, send us their message and many more. By the end of this project, you will have a fully functioning chatbot deployed to your Facebook page and interacting with your customers through Messenger in real-time. You do not need any programming knowledge because we will be using the flow builder interface from Chatfuel which is very interactive, intuitive and logical. But you do need a Facebook account and a fully functioning Facebook business page in order to test the bot. |
Coursera | Chatfuel |
| Database Design with SQL Management Studio
by A.A. Souidan |
Design a database system by identifying the entities and their attributes as well as the relations between these entities. Furthermore, you will get to implement the database system that you have designed using Microsoft SQL Server through SQL Server Management Studio. This project will have you explore key concepts of database design and will have you get introduced to the building blocks of the world of databases. | Coursera | SQL Server Management Studio |
| Web Application Security Testing
by A Carraway |
Learn the fundamentals of how to use OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP). This tool greatly aids security professionals and penetration testers to discover vulnerabilities within web applications. You will learn how to perform a basic web app vulnerability scan, analyze the results, and generate a report of those results. This course includes steps on how to configure the browser proxy to passively scan web requests and responses by simply exploring websites. This course will also include how to use dictionary lists to find files and folders on a web server, and how to spider crawl websites to find all the links and URLs. Finally, the end of the course gives a brief overview of how to intercept, view, modify, and forward web requests that occur between the browser and web application. | Coursera | OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) |
Marketing and Sales
| Name | Description | Source | Tools |
| Email and Contact Marketing
by C. Sembler |
Master the fundamentals of email marketing. This email marketing course will teach you how to create an email marketing strategy that grows your business, and your career. From contact management and segmentation to email deliverability and analyzing your email sends, you’ll learn how to build an email marketing strategy that is human and helpful and builds trust with your contacts. | HubSpot | |
| Business Marketing Brand Kit
by S. Shanklin-Langford |
By the end of this course, you will create a marketing ready brand kit for a business. You will take a closer look at the free tools provided in Canva in order to create your brand kit. You will be able to incorporate a complete business style guide in order to create brand recognition as part of your multi-media marketing strategy. This course will include step by step guides to building an easily accessible style guide, creating folders for project organization, and building branded templates to add to your brand kit. You’ll have media that is ready for print or posting in your brand kit. | Coursera | Canva |
| HubSpot CMS For Marketers
by R. Sheldon |
Learn how to use HubSpot CMS Hub to create a high-performing website. Learn how to design and create a user-friendly, high-performing website with CMS Hub. Optimize your website and content strategy for search engines, and track your site’s performance over time. Leverage the power of the HubSpot CRM with your CMS to personalize your website experience. | HubSpot | HubSpot CMS |
| Sales Management Training: Strategies for Developing Successful Modern Team
by K. Jepson |
Learn how to define your target market, create a scalable sales process, and build training, coaching, hiring, and onboarding programs to help your sales team grow better. Define your sales process and playbook, and communicate it effectively. Build sales training, coaching, and onboarding programs to help your sales team grow better. Develop a sales recruiting and hiring strategy that elevates your team. | HubSpot | |
| Create Customer Support Data | By the end of this project, you will create a Google Sheet that transforms a business’s raw customer support data into a useful data set that provides the business with an overview of past support requirements. You will be able to determine which areas of the business are exceeding standards and which departments are performing below standard. This course will include an introduction to Google Sheets, how to leverage formulas, how to link multiple tabs, and how to utilize Google Sheets to determine if support is being provided within the required levels of service. |
Coursera | Google Sheets |
| Create an A/B Web Page Marketing Test with Google Optimize | Learn how to create an A/B web page marketing test with Google Optimize and Google Analytics, personalizing weight option, goals, targeting, activation, and using a sample Google Sites to practice. | Coursera | Google Optimize
Google Analytics |
| SEO
by R. Sheldon |
Use insights from keyword research and reporting to improve your search performance. Evaluate and improve your website’s SEO Build backlinks to your website at scale to increase your website’s visibility on the search engine results page. | HubSpot | |
| Search Engine Optimization with Squarespace
by H. Dileepan |
Squarespace is an all-in-one website platform that allows you to build a sleek and custom website without knowing any code. It also comes equipped with several options for optimizing your website for search engine optimization (SEO). Using the techniques found here, you’ll learn to fully optimize your Squarespace site so that it’s properly indexed and ranked by search engines.
In this project, we’ll cover site-level optimization, optimization for local search, on-page SEO, and blogging optimization. You’ll leave this course feeling confident in your ability to use the tools that Squarespace provides to improve your site’s searchability. |
Coursera | Squarespace |
| Brand Marketing and SEO Tools Using Wix
by A. Saey |
In this project we are going to design a company brand using Wix’s website builder, branding and marketing tools, and their SEO (search engine optimization) tools. By the end of this project you will feel confident and capable in improving the strength of your company’s brand and your website’s search ability.
Wix is a free website building platform that combines professional designs with easy to use editing features. In addition to their website building capabilities, Wix can also help you build your brand through a wide variety of helpful marketing tools included on their platform. Whether you’re designing a logo or business cards, trying to send out fun and informative emails, or trying to create posts for social media, Wix can do it all. Wix even has a number of search engine optimization (SEO) tools which can help you increase your website’s visibility on web search engines. |
Coursera | Wix |
| Getting Started in Google Analytics
C. Baughman |
In this project, you will learn how to connect your website to Google Analytics. You will be able to use Google Analytics to understand how your website is performing. You will become familiar with the Google Analytics interface and the standard reports to better understand your website audience. You will learn how to interpret this data to improve your website performance and effectiveness. | Coursera | Google Analytics |
| Custom Reports in Google AnalyticsC. Baughman | In this project, you will create three custom reports in Google Analytics, using three different methods. You will understand the building blocks of a custom report. You will determine what data is needed for a custom report. And, you will create the custom report to best meet your analysis and monitoring needs. You will also discover the Google Gallery where you can find various types of custom reports, and import the ones that best meet your needs. | Coursera | Google Analytics |
| Digging Deeper into Audience Reports in Google Analytics
by C. Baughman |
In this project, you will discover some of the potentially less familiar Audience Reports. You will learn about the Active Users report, the Lifetime Value report, the Cohort Analysis report, the Benchmarking reports and the Users Flow Report. But, even more importantly, you will learn how to use these reports to help you make better decisions when it comes to reaching and engaging your website audience. | Coursera | Google Analytics |
| Marketing with LinkedIn
by J. Arteno |
Learn how to use LinkedIn to promote your small business by creating a LinkedIn business page, connecting to the right customers, using the LinkedIn messaging feature, posting relevant content, joining groups, and creating your own group for your small business. This course will benefit small business owners with limited to no social media marketing experience. | Coursera | |
| Inbound
by J. Munroe & K. Jepson |
Discover the fundamentals of inbound, the inbound methodology and the flywheel and learn how to apply them to your business. The Inbound Certification Course teaches you how to run a successful inbound business, from marketing to sales to services. | HubSpot | |
| Inbound Marketing
by J. Munroe, C. Lee, & K. Susvilla |
Learn inbound marketing techniques that range from content creation to social promotion to converting and nurturing leads and beyond. By the end of this certification course, you’ll be well on your way to building your inbound marketing strategy. | HubSpot | |
| Sales Enablement
by K. Jepson |
The Sales Enablement Certification will teach you how to develop a marketing-driven sales enablement strategy. This course was designed with marketing managers in mind, but other marketers as well as sales leaders can benefit from learning the principles involved in this approach to sales enablement. | HubSpot | |
| Social Media Marketing
by C. King, B. Ducharme, D. Topkin, & C. Braccialini |
Develop an engaging and effective social media strategy for your business. Build an inbound social media strategy that delights your customers and grows your bottom line | HubSpot | |
| Growth-Driven Website Design
by L. Summerfield |
In the Growth-Driven Design certification course, you’ll learn how to build and optimize a peak-performing website that delivers user value and drives business growth. This includes video training, tools, quizzes, and templates to help you develop a strategy, build a launch pad website, and implement data-driven continuous improvement. The course is made up of seven lessons and a 55-question exam. In addition to the content, you’ll gain access to our global GDD Slack community, where you can ask questions and collaborate with the instructors and thousands of GDD practitioners. | HubSpot | |
| Content Marketing
by L. Thibeault, A. Donahue, A.J. Beltis, G. Delloue, C. Braccialini, J. Champion, & M. Howells-Barby |
Learn a content creation framework for producing effective content on a consistent basis. Create and repurpose content that both humans and search engines will love. Become a stronger, leaner, and more strategic content marketer | HubSpot | |
| Digital Marketing
by J. Munroe, A. Donahue, M. Howells-Barby, C. Braccialini, J. Champion, C. King, & C. Sembler |
Digital Marketing is any kind of marketing that happens on a digital platform. Whether it’s on your website, your social media, or through email, it’s digital marketing. On the other hand, Inbound Marketing is a business methodology that attracts customers by creating valuable content and experiences tailored to them. It’s a way to market (usually using digital marketing tactics) that draws in qualified leads, rather than blasting a message out to a mass audience. The Digital Marketing Certification Course will teach you how to become an effective digital marketer with an inbound-first mindset. | HubSpot | |
| Digital Advertising
by C. Braccialini, D. Mastin, B. Sanders, D. Topkin, & J. Munroe |
Today’s digital advertisers require many skills to be successful: design, audience targeting, optimization, analysis, and more. Organic content channels are flooded and not reaching as many people as before, so paid advertising is an effective way to get your content to the top of people’s feeds (and their minds). In this certification course, you’ll learn everything you need to create a customer-centric advertising strategy, including journey-based advertising, bidding and targeting strategies, paid search, social media advertising, programmatic, reporting, and more. | HubSpot | |
| HubSpot Reporting
by J. Munroe, A. Kim, K. Jepson, & A. Gulati |
Learn how to incorporate data driven decision making at your organization with the use of the HubSpot reporting tools. This certification course consists of eight lessons that discuss data literacy, and HubSpot reporting tools across the CRM, Marketing Hub, CMS Hub, Sales Hub, and Service Hub. To showcase your knowledge, you’ll be assessed with quizzes and worksheets at the end of each lesson. At the end of the final lesson, you’ll take a 60 question, multiple-choice exam and a hands-on practicum to earn your certification. | HubSpot | HubSpot Software |
| Service Hub Software
by A. Gulati |
The Service Hub Software Certification demonstrates your ability to execute an inbound service strategy using HubSpot’s Service Hub. This certification course consists of six lessons that discuss customer journey mapping, and HubSpot tools such as help desk, knowledge base, and customer feedback. To showcase your knowledge, you’ll be assessed through practical exercises and quizzes at the end of each lesson. At the end of the final lesson, you’ll take a 60 question, multiple-choice exam to earn your certification. | HubSpot | HubSpot Service Hub Softare |
| Getting Started With Figma
by H Baker |
Figma is a web-based graphics editing and user interface design app that works on your browser. What does that really mean? You can access your projects from multiple devices without installing software. You and others can work on the same file in real-time taking the project from brainstorming to prototypes. You can use Figma to design briefs, create storyboards, reduce complexity on websites and even design your CV or resume all while collaborating with others in realtime! By the end of this project, you will go through the steps to learn about the application to develop a web page or homepage for your own app. | Coursera | Figma |
| Get Started with Facebook Business Manager
by K. Michel |
By the end of this project, learners will know how to get started with Facebook Business Manager. According to Facebook, “Business Manager allows advertisers to manage their marketing efforts in one place and share access to assets across their team, partner agencies and vendors.” By the end of this project you will know how to create a Facebook page, a Facebook Business page, and understand how to effectively manage your Facebook Business page using Facebook Business Manager. | Coursera | |
| Building a Business Presence With Facebook Marketing
by K. Bergner |
By the end of this project-based course, you will understand the basics of applying Digital Marketing on Facebook. The course will walk you through setting up digital marketing for a fictitious company, the Belltown Bakery in downtown Seattle. The course begins with setting up a fictitious business page on Facebook. You will then learn how to navigate your Facebook account, including setting up advertisements. You will then learn how to post content and boost a post. We will then cover tools available to engage with Facebook users and grow your audience on Facebook. | Coursera | |
| Organic Marketing: Facebook Groups
by L. Labello |
In this project, the learner will build a client profile, master Facebook groups netiquette, and utilize them as a Marketing tool. We will learn how to generate clients using a free organic method without paid advertising. By the end of this project we will construct a step by step daily Facebook group action plan to promote a small business, and develop a strong influential Facebook account to attract high paying clients. | Coursera | |
| Measure a Marketing Strategy Using Facebook Insights
by K. Walker |
By the end of this project, learners will have a better understanding of ways they can enhance their Facebook Marketing strategies, which will ultimately improve users’ Facebook Insights.
We will take an in-depth look at how to incorporate marketing strategies that will more likely enhance overall analytics, and learners will develop a deeper understanding of how to use Facebook Insights to track and measure strategic marketing efforts. Having this knowledge, allows Facebook users to more easily adapt and update strategies according to Insight results to get the most out of their Facebook strategy. |
Coursera | |
| Create a Twitter Ad
by E. Ibekwe |
Learn how to
– understand Twitter’s ad dashboard |
Coursera | |
| Create a Promotional Video
by A. Jha |
Learn how to create a script and then create a Promotional Video around it and make the video appealing using video backgrounds, images and animations. By the end of this project, you will be confident in creating an eye-catching and professional Promotional Video in Canva which you can use to Market on Social Media Platforms.
We will be using Canva for this purpose and we will create a Promotional Video slide by slide. We will begin by creating video slides around the Customer’s pain points and introduce our Solutions. We will then persuade our target customers through USPs and Testimonials and finish the video with a Call to Action. |
Coursera | Canva |
| Use Mailchimp to Build an E-mail Marketing Campaign
by S. Shanklin-Langford |
By the end of this project, you will create a customized email for a business marketing campaign using a free version of Mailchimp. You will be able to create an interactive email complete with a call to action that is professional and engaging to your audience. You’ll set up an email campaign as one of several powerful digital marketing campaign tools available in Mailchimp.` | Coursera | Mailchimp |
| Frictionless Sales
by K. Jepson |
In the world of inbound, businesses are visualized as flywheels instead of funnels. A flywheel is a model adapted by HubSpot to explain the momentum you gain when you align your entire organization around delivering a remarkable customer experience. You can increase that growth by adding force to the flywheel or by removing friction from it. Sales organizations in general have no problem using force. If you want to help your sales team grow better, you need to find ways to remove friction. Learn how to use the frictionless selling framework so that your team can spend more time selling. Also, discover how to align your team with your target buyer and how to transform your team through a culture of learning. | HubSpot | |
| Inbound Sales
by M. Roberge, K. Jepson, E. Bailey, B. Signorelli, & A. Quinn |
Learn how to identify new prospects, connect with them, explore their needs, and advise them on a path forward. Identify the best contacts to reach out to Connect with and earn the attention of your most promising leads. Run sales calls and presentations that drive results. |
HubSpot | |
| Analyze Digital Marketing Spend in Tableau
by C. Rojas |
Tableau is widely recognized as one of the premier data visualization software programs. For many years access to the program was limited to those who purchased licenses. Recently, Tableau launched a public version that grants the ability to create amazing data visualizations for free. Account members can also share and join projects to collaborate on projects that can change the world. In this project, we will learn how to create an account, how to upload and work with diverse data sets, and how to analyze marketing spend within Tableau. | Coursera | Tableau |
| Predict Future Product Prices
by R. Ahmed |
Understand the theory and intuition behind Facebook times series forecasting tool – Import Key libraries, dataset and visualize dataset – Build a time series forecasting model using Facebook Prophet to predict future product prices – Compile and fit time series forecasting model to training data – Assess trained model performance |
Coursera | Facebook Prophet |
| Create a Sales Dashboard Using Power BIby A. Jha | Build an attractive and eye-catching sales dashboard using Power BI in a black and blue theme that will make your audience go “wow”. We will begin this guided project by importing data. We will then create bar charts and pie charts to visualize the sales data and then position the graphs on the dashboard. In the final tasks, we will create interactive maps to visualize sales data by countries and markets. By the end of this course, you will be confident in creating beautiful dashboards with many different kinds of visualizations. |
Coursera | PowerBI |
| Google Ads for Beginners
by I. Sinha |
Learn how to get started with Google Search Ads and create successful campaigns to reach new customers and grow your business. We’ll work on Google Ads, Google’s online advertising platform. You will drive qualified traffic, or best-fit customers to your business while they’re searching on Google, for products and services like the ones that you offer.By the end of the project, you will be able: – Create your account on Google Ads – Set up the first campaign structure – Set up conversion tracking – Add relevant audience, set bids and budgets and targeting – Set up ad groups – Do effective keyword research – Create impactful and relevant ads – Navigate through the Google Ads Dashboard – Learn about Tools and Settings available on Google Ads – Optimize ad campaigns to generate conversions and be profitable |
Coursera | Google Ads |
Game Development
| Name | Description | Link | Tools |
| Real-Time Rendering Fundamentals
by Sjoerd de Jong |
This class dives into the essentials of real-time rendering. Learn key concepts and terminology, get insight on workflows and limitations, and find out why performance is one of the most crucial elements. | Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine |
| Introduction to Packaging Projects
by Paul Kind |
This class introduces setting up a project for packaging and deployment to multiple platforms, covering Windows, Android, iOS, and HTML deployment, as well as performance considerations to think about. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Getting Started with Datasmith
by Mathew Wadstein |
This course covers how to use Datasmith to bring AEC and manufacturing 3D assets into Unreal Engine. Find out how to install Datasmith exporters, how to import and work with assets, and how to showcase the results. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Post Processing Essentials
by Sjoerd de Jong |
This video introduces the many post-processing features in Unreal Engine 4. Learn the basic concepts of post-processing, how to manipulate settings, and how to use a variety of effects. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Generating Oddly Oscillating Globe Lenses Yourself
by Alexander Paschall |
In this course, you’ll learn how to create googly eyes and add them to objects. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Character Kickstart
by Sjoerd De Jong and Mario Palmero Pavon |
In this course, you’ll explore character actors in Unreal Engine, including AI-controlled actors, actors for networking, and more. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Interactive Material Swaps Using Blueprints
by Simone Lombardo |
In this course, we explore how to create an interactive widget for swapping Materials using Blueprints. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Introduction to Twinmotion
by Matt Doyle |
In this first part of a three-part learning course, you’ll get a comprehensive overview of the user interface and tools available in Twinmotion, and learn how to import ARCHICAD, Revit, SketchUp, and FBX content. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Optimizing Projects for Real-Time
by Steve Biegun |
In this course, you’ll learn techniques to enhance performance and improve user experience when working on Unreal Engine projects. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Materials Kickstart
by Sjoerd De Jong and Mario Palmero Pavon |
In this course, you’ll learn about the philosophy behind Materials in Unreal Engine, including how they’re made and how they can be manipulated to create different effects. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Optimizing Geometry for Real-Time
by Steve Biegun |
This course explores how to optimally prepare models in a 3D modeling program before they are used in Unreal Engine. You’ll learn the tools and techniques needed to make data transfer into the engine smooth and easy. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Materials – Understanding the Production Workflow
by Sjoerd de Jong |
In this course, we look at improving workflows when working with Materials. Learn how to reuse Material settings, change a Material’s look without recompiling, and share global data into many Materials at once. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Pixel Streaming – How To Work With Interactive Video In Engine | In this course, you’ll learn how to deliver high-quality Unreal Engine content to any device, anywhere, using the Pixel Streaming plugin. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Comprehending Projects and File Structure
by Mathew Wadstein |
This course dives into the fundamentals of the Epic Games Launcher, creating projects, and adjusting project settings, as well as providing a tour of important project files. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Creating Photoreal Cinematics with Quixel | This course walks you through the creation of a scene from Quixel’s Rebirth cinematic, exploring the concepts and tools used. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Programming Kickstart | In this course, you’ll learn about programming in Unreal Engine along with tips and tricks for creating and developing C++ projects. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Animation Kickstart
by Sjoerd De Jong and Mario Palmero Pavon |
This course dives into Unreal Engine’s animation pipeline, providing an insight into its evolution and explaining how to get the most out of it. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Exploring Level Design for Game Development
by Patrick Haslow |
This course covers the fundamental steps in prototyping game levels, demonstrating how to build basic level geometry for block-outs using a variety of methods. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| First Hour in Unreal Engine 4
by Mathew Wadstein |
This introductory course to Unreal Engine 4 and the Unreal Editor will take you through the basics of project creation, navigation, and finding your way around the UI, as well as touching on lighting and Blueprints. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| SketchUp to Unreal Fundamentals
by Daniel Brown |
In this course, we walk through the steps for leveraging SketchUp designs in Unreal Engine, including a look at the tools and techniques that can improve the process. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine; SketchUP |
| Engine Structure Kickstart
Sjoerd De Jong and Mario Palmero Pavon |
Learn how Unreal Engine is structured and how each part interacts with the others, as well as advice on best practices for working with the engine. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Getting to Know Materials for Design Visualization
by Matt Doyle |
This course introduces the basics of creating PBR (Physically Based Rendered) Materials for archviz, including how to use the Material Editor, supported texture formats, and using Material expressions. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Blueprint Kickstart
by Sjoerd De Jong and Mario Palmero Pavon |
In this course, you’ll explore the Blueprint visual scripting system and how it can be harnessed for different types of projects. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Landscape Essential Concepts | In this course, you’ll learn how to use Unreal Engine’s Terrain tools to create outdoor environments. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Creating a Scatter Tool with Blueprints | In this course, author Joel Bradley explains how to create a tool that randomly scatters user-selected Static Mesh files inside a defined area, such as flowers in a flower bed. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Materials – Exploring Essential Concepts | In this video, we look at creating and using Materials in a production environment. Explore the different types of Materials in Unreal Engine, the ingredients for creating them, and how to use them. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Bringing a Scene To Life in Twinmotion | In this second part of a three-part learning course, you’ll learn how to add life to a Twinmotion project using built-in tools and assets. We’ll look at materials, landscape, entourage, lighting, and more. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Introducing Unreal Engine | In this video, we walk through the fundamentals of the Unreal Editor and its components, covering the interface, functionality, and important settings to adapt the Editor to your workflow. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Blueprints – Essential Concepts | This video introduces the fundamentals of the Blueprint Visual Scripting system. Learn what Blueprints are, how to create and work with them, and about some of the different types available. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Studio Lighting | This course explains the look development process for Studio Lighting, looking at the assignment of IES light profiles, light panels for fill lighting and reflections, and how to create a turntable Blueprint. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Creating VR Walkthroughs | This course covers basic VR theory and best practices, adding teleportation and interaction into a VR scene in Unreal Engine, creating VR-based user interfaces, and optimizing your VR content. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| High-End Product Lighting and Rendering (Exterior) | In this course, we go through the steps for setting up your scene to make use of High Dynamic Range (HDR) sky-domes. Discover the tools you need to make simple reusable outdoor lighting scenes. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Lighting Essential Concepts and Effects | This course explains the basics of setting up lighting in Unreal Engine. Learn about the different types of lights, how to use them together, and how to add special effects like fog and reflections. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Revit to Unreal Engine Fundamentals | This course explains how to export models from Revit to Unreal Engine, how to swap materials, migrate elements from other projects, enhance surfaces, light the scene, and then create a real-time multi-camera animation. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Rendering Kickstart | This course takes you through the process of rendering a frame in Unreal Engine and provides tips for achieving the best results. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Balancing Blueprint and C++ in Game Development
by Rob Brooks |
In this course, you’ll learn how to make the most out of Unreal Engine by utilizing Blueprints and C++ in ways that complement their individual strengths. By the end, you’ll be able to assess which option best fits your needs in your own projects. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Mastering Twinmotion 2020 | This course teaches how to use the key features of Twinmotion 2020.2 and provides tips and tricks for getting the most out of the software. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Blueprints and Gameplay for Game Designers | This course explores how to use the Blueprint visual scripting system along with other Unreal Engine features to create gameplay elements and prototype ideas. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Preparing Design Data for Optimal Performance | This course teaches the basics of moving design data into Unreal Engine from applications like 3ds Max, and introduces functionality like lightmaps, creating collisions, and adjusting textures in the engine. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Getting to Know UVW Mapping for Architectural Visualization | This course has been designed to help you quickly get up and running with UVW Mapping process and to understand how it affects both static meshes and levels in Unreal when creating architectural visualization pieces. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Understanding Global Illumination for Architectural Visualization | This course introduces the techniques you’ll need to create outstanding lighting in UE4. Learn how to master the subtle adjustments that can make lights in Unreal Engine breathtaking. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Stylize Renders with Post-Process Materials | This course teaches strategies for non-technical animators and artists to achieve stylized renders with post-process Materials. Learn the theory, methodology, and tools to experiment in your own projects. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Physics-Based Shotviz | In this course, you’ll learn about shotviz. Save time and money while filming on location when you scout and pre-plan setups using physically accurate lighting and cameras on a virtual location. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| AEC Blueprints by Example | In this course, you’ll create four Blueprint templates that can be used in AEC projects including automatic doors, connected switched lights, Material switching, and construction scripts, learning essential Blueprint concepts in the process. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Real-Time Compositing Basics | In this introductory course to compositing in Unreal Engine, you’ll learn the basics of creating an A over B composite. Follow along and learn different techniques to get the best results from the Composure plugin. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Best Practices for Creating and Using Plugins | This master class explains how to develop plugins for UE4. Learn techniques and best practices for creating, compiling, and using plugins. This class is suitable for developers and non-developers alike. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Material Editor Fundamentals for Game Development | Learn the basics of building shaders for games in this course, from creating your first material right through to customizing it to your requirements. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| 3D Map Navigation in VR | This course teaches how to create a 3D map and motion controller-based navigation system for architectural models in virtual reality. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Making the Switch from Unity to Unreal Engine | This course teaches Unity users how to transfer their skills to Unreal Engine. Learn about setting up, asset importing, lighting, Materials, scripting, packaging, and visual scripting. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Build a Detective’s Office Game Environment
by Justin Mohlman |
Learn how to create a scene from scratch, from planning and prototyping to adding the elements that will take it to an alpha state. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Sound and Space
by Richard Stevens and Dave Raybould |
In this course, we’ll look at all aspects of sound and space, exploring how correct use of sound can make the spaces in a game feel more realistic and immersive. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Creating a Level Blockout for Game Development
by Patrick Haslow |
In this course, you’ll learn how to build a fully playable 3D space, from initial planning in 2D and rough blocking out using primitive Static Meshes, through adding more detailed geometry and final refinements like lighting and collisions. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Dynamic Audio
by Richard Stevens and Dave Raybould |
In this course, you’ll learn how to use audio in response to dynamic game events and conditions. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Getting Started in VR with Unreal Engine
by Rune Berg |
In this three-part course, you’ll learn how to create a virtual reality game. First, learn how to create a flexible template you can use in all your VR projects. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Ambient and Procedural Sound Design
by Richard Stevens & Dave Raybould |
In this course, you’ll learn the core techniques you need to get started in game audio design in Unreal Engine. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Introduction to AI with Blueprints
Chris Wilson |
This course introduces Unreal Engine’s AI tools, exploring how AI agents work within a video game environment and the systems used to achieve realistic behaviors. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Advanced Techniques for Architects
by Chris Wilson |
This course provides advanced techniques, tips, and tricks for creating stunning architectural visualizations in Unreal Engine. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Creating PBR Materials
by Matt Doyle |
This course explains how to create high-quality physically based shaders. Learn about working with Material instances at runtime using Blueprints, building Material parameter collections, and more. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Becoming an Environment Artist in Unreal
by Clinton Crumpler |
In this course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of working as a junior environment artist with Unreal Engine for the first time in a production scenario. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Preparing Engineering Data
by Paul Neale |
This course explores importing CAD data to Unreal Engine via Datasmith. Learn how to correct geometry and Material issues in applications like 3ds Max, how to organize and set pivot points, and more. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Creating an Architectural Interior Real-Time Project
by Matt Doyle |
This course teaches new users how to create real-time architectural visualizations in UE4. Learn how to import your design using Datasmith, adjust lights and Materials, package your project, and more. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Converting Blueprints to C++
by Sam Pattuzzi |
This course teaches you how to convert a Blueprint project to C++, explaining the core concepts of using C++ in Unreal Engine. Learn how to create an AI agent that senses, reacts to, and navigates the world around them. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Creating an Architectural Exterior Real-Time Project
by Matt Doyle |
This course covers everything you need to know about creating architectural exteriors in Unreal Engine. Learn the process from start to finish, with a special focus on adding terrain, foliage, and other effects. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Unreal Futures: Careers in Advertising | New to Unreal Engine? Explore the Advertising industry with MediaMonks and create your first 3D advertisement for your portfolio. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| An In-Depth Look at Real-Time Rendering
by Sjoerd de Jong |
This course provides an in-depth look at how UE4 renders out a single frame. Learn how real-time rendering impacts performance, features, and workflows. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Twin Stick Shooter with Blueprints
by Zak Parrish |
This course looks at the Twin Stick Shooter project, walking through a Blueprints/C++ workflow. Learn the coding framework, including how to build up characters, how to pass damage via Blueprints, and much more. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Building Better Pipelines
by Sam Deiter |
In this master class, we explore ways to take your visualization pipeline to the next level. Learn how to build better meshes, Materials, and textures, as well as how to improve optimization and performance. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Making a Blueprint Product Configurator
by Paul Kind |
This video covers the use of Blueprints to add functionality and usability to your Unreal Engine project. Learn the basics of Blueprints and find out how to create a fully functioning product configurator. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
| Materials Master Learning
by Paul Kind |
Learn the many ways to work with Materials in the engine, starting with an introduction to the general behind-the-scenes architecture, the concept of physically-based rendering (PBR), and how to work with textures. | Unreal Engine | UnrealEngine |
