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Asta Powerproject for Beginners
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Asta Powerproject for Beginners

Learn the essentials of Asta Powerproject with this hands-on training, easy to follow steps and exercise files.
3.8 (18 ratings)
Course Ratings are calculated from individual students’ ratings and a variety of other signals, like age of rating and reliability, to ensure that they reflect course quality fairly and accurately.
35 students enrolled
Created by Duygu Bolikowski
Last updated 9/2017
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Asta Powerproject for Beginners
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This course includes
  • 2 hours on-demand video
  • 1 article
  • 2 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Certificate of Completion
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What you'll learn
  • Create projects using appropriate templates
  • Navigate with interface
  • Customize interface and add key shortcuts
  • Create tasks, move on the bar chart and edit their duration
  • Link tasks with various methods
  • Build project hierarchy with sub charts, expanded tasks and summary tasks
  • Work with hammock tasks
  • Set up a Work Breakdown Structure
  • Change project hierarchy appearance
  • Create codes and assign them onto the tasks
  • Filter tasks with defined criteria
  • Sort and group tasks with defined criteria
  • Add task notes
  • Enrich your project with OLE objects, pictures and text
  • Customize spreadsheet appearance
  • Display task data on the bar chart
  • Format task appearances on bar chart and control display switches
Requirements
  • No prior Asta Powerproject knowledge required. This course is designed for beginners
Description

This course is the first and only Asta Powerproject online training.

Asta Powerproject is easy-to-use and extremely powerful project management software and preferred by thousands of construction professionals throughout the world.

During this introductory course, we discover the basics of Asta Powerproject. We start with navigating interface and learn how to customize interface adding new commands and key shortcuts.  You will learn how to create a project, understand the concept of using templates, build up a portfolio of projects, set up project hierarchy with WBS, sub charts, summary and expanded tasks, enter data into a project plan, creating tasks and learn how to categorize tasks with codes, filtering, sorting and grouping options, enrich project schedule with adding text annotations, OLE objects and images, add task notes and formatting bar chart, display switches and customizing spreadsheet.

This course contains a quiz and plenty of exercises that help you fully understand all the concepts.

Who this course is for:
  • Project managers
  • Construction managers
  • Schedulers
  • Site managers
  • As well as project managers from other industries
  • Anyone who wants to use a powerful project management software
Course content
Expand all 51 lectures 01:53:44
+ – Building your project
21 lectures 35:20
Creating Tasks
02:39
Editing the duration of tasks
02:16
Moving tasks on the bar chart
02:12
Multiple tasks on the same bar
01:56
Adding new activities into schedule
01:11
Marking project milestones
01:20
Rolling up tasks onto a single bar
01:21
Marking tasks for hiding
01:15
Setting up WBN task IDs
01:48
Undo/Redo
01:03
Creating relationships between tasks
03:36
Block linking
00:58
Linking tasks using from/to option
02:42
Moving links
00:35
Linking tasks using spreadsheet
02:30
Curved link
00:40
Selecting links
00:42
Link category
02:12
Selecting links using link category
01:26
Maintain task offset
01:21
Linking multiple tasks on the bar
01:37
+ – Creating hierarchy
10 lectures 22:08
Project hierarchy using subcharts / expanded tasks
03:34
Turning sub charts into projects
01:09
Working with summary tasks
04:48
Summary tasks indicator in the spreadsheet
00:45
Nesting summary tasks
01:44
Project hierarchy appearance
03:10
Setting up a Work Breakdown Structure
03:32
Working with hammocks
01:41
Showing the project hierarchy at different levels
01:02
Counting the number of items in summary groups and charts
00:43
+ – Categorizing your tasks
9 lectures 20:29
Creating code libraries
02:45
Assigning codes to tasks
02:43
Filtering tasks using activity codes
03:48
Reverse selection while filtering
00:49
Using multiple criteria for filtering
01:43
Sorting and grouping tasks
02:04
Adding sub-heading while sorting tasks
02:37
Using multiple criteria for sorting/grouping
01:47
Sorting/grouping tasks with retaining hierarchy
02:13
+ – Annotating your project and display settings
7 lectures 21:53
Adding annotations
10:31
Adding task notes
01:50
Customizing spreadsheet appearance
04:18
Display task data on the bar chart
01:19
Changing hammock/expanded/summary task appearance
01:53
Formatting task appearances on bar chart
01:05
Displaying switches on bar chart
00:57
+ – Conclusion and Exercises
1 lecture 00:02
Asta Powerproject Basic Quiz
25 questions
Exercise
00:02