Learn more about :

• Which Classes Should You Take?
• Office Basics Workshops
• Saturday Lite Byte Workshops
• Simple Basics Workshops
• HTML, Web and Ebay Workshops
• Strengthen Your Skills Training
• Quickbooks Pro 2004
• PC Training for Kids
• Video Game Programming

 

Which Classes Should You Take?

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Check our calendar for specific dates and class offerings.

 

Office Basics Workshops

Not sure if you’re ready even for the MS Office Beginner classes? Want to ‘taste’ Word, Excel, Powerpoint, or Outlook before you commit? Join us on Saturday morning for just 1 hour as we teach you a few very basic steps. Each Saturday, we’ll highlight the Office application whose Beginner class begins the following Monday. Open a simple document, cut and paste a bit of text, and learn to save your file. See if you like it and sign up for the full Beginner classes! The Beginner class will review what we cover on Saturday morning and so much more! Impress your family and friends.

Check our calendar for specific dates and topics.
9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Saturdays

Check out our prices here, and you also will be credited this price to be applied to a 5-hour (or more) flex pass to the lab or an instructor-led class! What a way to get 100% return on your money!

 

Saturday Workshops – Lite Bytes

Join us Saturday mornings, beginning in January, for 60-90 minute workshops covering cool tools in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook. These workshops are ‘beyond the basics’. We’ll talk about and practice creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and emails that are beyond the ordinary. Wow your friends and family by finally learning how to use those ‘fancy features’.

Check our calendar for specific dates and topics.
11:00 – 12:00 p.m. Saturdays

Check out our prices here, and you will also be credited this price to be applied to a 5-hour (or more) flex pass to the lab or an instructor-led class! What a way to get 100% return on your money!

Feedback from attendees :

• “The Lite Byte Workshop on Outlook last Saturday far exceeded my expectations. It is always my hope that, for my time and money, there will be one new thing to take home and use from a class. There were at least three practical, simple things I learned in the workshop, that will help me everyday going forward and several AH HA moments that I didn't expect.
  
  You are providing a much needed service, in a short and doable time frame and cost, for people like me, with little free time to spare. I will be back and will tell everyone I know about my great experience!!
  
  Again, Thank You so much!!!”
  
  - T. Jones, president Mark IV Enterprises, Inc.

 

Simple Basics Workshops

Are you a beginner? So much a beginner you are afraid to even join the beginner class of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, or Outlook? Can’t find the file you created yesterday? Don’t know what a worm is and how you keep getting them on your machine? Not sure what the D: drive even means, much less what it is? These are the workshops for you!

Four workshops cover The Internet; Files, Folders, and Drives; PC Basics; and PC Safety. Join us Monday mornings where there are NO STUPID QUESTIONS. This is a total learning environment. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.

Check our calendar for specific dates.
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Fridays.
Upon special request, these workshops can be given as a private tutoring session.

Check out our prices here, and you will also be credited this price to be applied to a 5-hour (or more) flex pass to the lab or an instructor-led class! What a way to get 100% return on your money!

 

HTML, Web and Ebay Workshops

Check out our newest set of classes for the masses. We had a lot of requests for website development, so we've created two classes.

HTML Basics will begin with simple tags, and in just a few hours, you'll be comfortable with fonts, lists, tables, and pictures.

Website Design Fundamentals is created for those of you who need to build a site for your personal or business use, but just aren't sure where to begin thinking. What are your options? What things drive up the cost? What makes a good site design? What can you do yourself, and what can you hire someone to take care of? How much time can it take to develop and maintain your site? Can you control and change the content as often as you like? Join us for a few hours and you'll know what you need to know to take the next step.

Mambo Website Builder - this class is great for those of you who want to build a website quickly, use some cool tools in your site, and maintain the content yourself. Mambo makes communicating and publishing via the web easy. Want to design and publish your own site, with the ease of just point and click? Mambo is the ticket. No HTML, XML, or other …XL skills required! Just enter your content, add a picture, choose a tool (guest book, photo album, survey tool), and go. Choose from a variety of templates for the background look and feel – no need to be a graphic designer! Learn from a pro as Matt Kenigson of Sheer Genius teaches the class.

The last of the new classes is eBay Buying & Selling. In just a few hours, you'll have your own account and understand all of the setup steps to buy or sell. We'll talk about how to search for items, how the bidding works, and how to pay safely & securely. If you prefer to sell something, we'll cover those steps, too. We'll touch on Paypal, eBay consignment services, and more. Take the mystery out of eBay and find a whole new way to buy and sell safely on the Internet.

Our eBay Class Will Teach You To : Open your eBay account Open a PayPal account (Enables you to accept a credit card for payment) How to buy on eBay How to sell on eBay How to ship an item Learn what to watch out for online (Protect yourself and your wallet) How you can make money on eBay

 

Check the online calendar or call us to sign up!

Cost: See our price list.

 

Strengthen Your Skills - Tech Training

An exciting, new, instructor-led series for anyone who feels left behind and overwhelmed by technology. We'll cover the most common applications used in the workforce and in student projects and whip you into shape. Prerequisites: These courses assume that you are familiar with using personal computers and have used a mouse and keyboard (basic typing skills are recommended). You should be comfortable in the Microsoft Windows environment and be able to use Windows to manage information on your computer. Specifically, you should be able to launch and close programs, manage files and folders, and navigate to information stored on the computer. Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Tech Training is a 4-week course designed to teach you the fundamentals of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook, while actually having fun. Unlike a "typical" training class, ours will foster good will and friendship in an uplifting environment. Upon completion, you will have a solid understanding of these programs and be ready to use them in real-life situations.

Classes meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:15 am - 12:15 pm for four weeks. In addition to morning classes, we also have an evening option, from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.  Short, 3-hour time blocks improve retention, limit fatigue and free you from a huge time commitment.

Each application has two levels (except Outlook); beginner and intermediate. While we strongly recommended that you attend the entire set of seven classes, you are free to sign-up for only those classes you're interested in. If you wish to skip the "beginner" level of a program, we ask that you visit the Mouse Pad to review the basic skills. Many times, students don't know what they don't know. In fairness to the other students in the intermediate classes, we need to ensure that no student will slow the pace of the class.

Individual Classes cost : See our price list.

Individual Classes are : (Click a selection for details)

• Word Beginner
• Word Intermediate
• Excel Beginner
• Excel Intermediate
• Powerpoint Beginner
• Powerpoint Intermediate
• Outlook

Each class includes :

• 6 hours of Training
• Student Manual
• One-Hour Pass to Computer Lab ($15 value)

The entire training program includes :

• 42-hours of Training (All Seven Classes)
• Student Manuals for Each Program
• 7-Hour Pass to Computer Lab ($105 value)
• Certificate of Completion

Entire Package : See our price list.

Classes starting soon.  Check the web calendar for specific dates.

This Series Will Sell Out Fast. Call Now to Reserve Your Spot.

 

Quickbooks Pro 2004 - Basic

By popular demand, we are now offering Quickbooks. Much like our Boot Camp, we have spread this course out over two sessions to improve retention, limit fatigue and minimize your time away from home or work.

This course includes:

• The Basics
• Setting Up a Company
• Working with Lists
• Setting Up Inventory
• Selling Your Product
• Invoicing for Services
• Processing Payments
• Working with Bank Accounts
• Entering and Paying Bills
• Using the EasyStep Interview
• Using Online Banking

Two 4-Hour Sessions (8 Hours of Instruction) See Calendar for Dates 4:30 - 8:30 PM See our price list for cost. Class size limited, call soon! NEW! Advanced Class Available!

 

Quickbooks Pro 2004 - Advanced

Our Quickbooks Pro class has been so popular, we are expanding our offerings to include a Quickbooks Pro Advanced class. Please read above and verify you are comfortable with these topics before continuing to this class.

This course includes:

• Customizing Forms
• Using Other Quickbooks Accounts
• Using Other Quickbooks Account Types
• Tracking Credit Card Transactions
• Working with Asset Accounts
• Working with Liability Accounts
• Creating Reports
• Creating Graphs
• Creating QuickInsight Graphs
• Creating a New Graph
• Using QuickZoom with Graphs
• Working with the Sales Graph
• Customizing Graphs
• Printing Graphs
• Tracking and Paying Sales Tax
• Setting Up Tax Rates and Agencies
• Determining What You Owe
• Doing Payroll with QuickBooks
• Printing Paycheck Stubs
• Tracking Your Tax Liabilities
• Paying Payroll Taxes
• Estimating, Time Tracking and Job Costing
• Writing Letters
• Synchronizing with Contact Management Software
• Synchronizing with Microsoft Outlook or ACT!
• Changing Synchronization Settings

Two 4-Hour Sessions (8 Hours of Instruction) See Calendar for Dates 4:30 - 8:30 pm See our price list for cost. Class size limited, call soon!

PC Training for Kids

Are you looking for a fun and educational outing? The Mouse Pad now has a series of workshops just for kids! This is especially great for home-schooling families whose computer capabilities might be limited (in quantity, speed, or skills). We like to start kids with the first PC Basics class, but the other classes have no specific sequence. Pick whichever works for you.

We suggest keeping the group of students at a common grade range, such as 4th – 6th grade, or 5th – 7th grade. We also love teaching parents, so you can choose to be a student, too, and join in on the learning fun.

The HTML class is a bit longer and more complex (perhaps 3 hours), so we suggest waiting until kids are in the 7th grade for this one, or scheduling this as a private tutoring time.

A few rules:

• The classes do not have a set schedule. They are available on request.
• 1 week advance notice please.
• 4-Student minimum. Partner up with another family and let kids learn together.
• The workshop lasts approximately 1 hour, sometimes a bit longer. If you’d like to let your students stay longer and play games or surf the ‘net, please let us know.
• Parents can be students, too.
• See our price list for cost.

Individual Classes are : (Click a selection for details)

• PC Basics for Kids
• Making Fancy Reports (with MS Word)
• Word Games with Excel
• Spreadsheet Charts & Graphs
• Internet Research & Powerpoint Reports
• Using Powerpoint for Vacation Research
• Designing your own Brochure in Publisher
• HTML Basics

Video Game Programming

Learn using C++ and OpenGL on the Linux platform
Course designed for teens 7th to 12th grade
No experience necessary
See our price list for cost | 2-person minimum
Available on Request

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Pricing & Registration

• 10% discount for seniors 65 and over
• Only one discount applies
• Reservations and prepayment required
• Classes require a minimum of students
• Students will be notified if class is cancelled and advance payments will be refunded
• Call The Mouse Pad at 615-250-0860 to register

We hope to implement online class registration and payment soon.