
Watch this video to learn how to access downloadable exercise and instructor files, unzip them, and optimize high-definition playback and speed for the course.
Compare desktop Microsoft Project 2016 editions—Pro for Office 365 and Standard—and learn how to acquire, install, and verify system requirements.
Discover what's new in Project 2016, including multiple timelines, better control over resource scheduling, Tell Me, and new themes, plus insights on third-party extensions and the project workspace.
Explore the project 2016 workspace, start a simple project from the start screen. Use templates, new from existing project or Excel, and understand manually versus auto scheduled modes and backstage.
Explore how the ribbon and toolbars organize commands in Microsoft Project 2016, including contextual tabs, the Gantt Chart Tools format tab, and quick access toolbar customization.
Explore the status bar in project 2016: left indicators like filter and cell mode, right-side view shortcuts and the zoom slider; switch views and adjust time scale via the ribbon.
Learn how to use touch mode in Project 2016 to tap, select, bold, and access contextual menus with tap and hold, and pinch to zoom the time scale.
Open and close projects in project 2016, save a first version with save as to a course file folder, pin locations, and switch between open projects.
Demonstrate how to break high level tasks into subtasks using indenting and outlining, and manage summary tasks, levels, and the project summary task in project 2016.
Learn to link and manage task dependencies in project schedules, including finish-to-start, lag and lead, and other types, illustrated by wedding planning examples and Gantt chart arrows.
Learn how to apply constraints and deadlines in project scheduling using a wedding plan example, including start dates, finish dates, deadlines, and task predecessors in Project 2016.
This lecture walks through exercise three on a bathroom refit, teaching how to set task durations, add dependencies, and divide the project into four phases: planning, purchasing, implementation, and completion.
Explore how adding resources to tasks reshapes the schedule across fixed duration, fixed work, and fixed units tasks, with emphasis on effort driven behavior and default options.
Explore project 2016 views to manage resources with resource sheet and resource usage view, identify over allocations using the resource graph, and master split view and calendar view.
Create, format, and share timelines in Project 2016 to communicate progress, highlight key tasks, and present multiple timelines for focused phases.
Learn to set task costs in project 2016, including standard and overtime rates, accrual methods, calendars, and material costs for a bathroom refit with floor and wall tiles.
exercise five adds costs to bathroom refit: hourly and overtime rates for contractors and plumber, tile and paint costs, delivery charges, costs accrue at start of their tasks from 5a.
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Effortlessly Bring Project Together
If you're new to Microsoft Project, or upgrading from older versions, then you should take this class, and master
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How, you ask? MS Project saves you time by offering an intuitive graphical user interface. When you think of what Project is good at, you probably first think of tracking: resources, tasks, costs, deadlines and all kinds of information and data. You can use these easy-to-understand classes to reach the next level of project management.
Contents and Overview
Microsoft Project 2016 For Beginners: Master the Essentials
This course starts right at the very beginning. It doesn't assume you know anything about Microsoft Project. Beginners will feel right at home.
The first video lesson introduces you to the software. You learn how to get your own copy of Project 2016, what's new in version 2016, and the structure of this course.
The 2nd chapter takes on the basics you need to start using Project 2016. It first discusses the Help section where you can get answers and tutorials for any question that comes up. This chapter also discusses creating a Workspace, using Toolbars, using Ribbons, and the Status Bar.
Next comes using Touch, Task basics, and Project Options. By now students are becoming proficient with Project 2016. The chapters that follow lead learners through all the various aspects of managing a project.
These more advanced topics carry the student through Tracking Costs, Tracking the Project, Budgeting, and Reporting.
Each topic is explained with its own professional video that shows you in detail how to properly use the function. Nine hours of enlightening video gives you in-depth understanding of each topic.
There are 63 individual lessons included. Students will complete the course with an excellent mastery of Microsoft Project 2016, one of the world's most popular software applications.
Microsoft Project 2013 Beginners/Intermediate Training
This course is designed for those who are new to Microsoft Project 2013, as well as those who are upgrading to 2013 from previous versions of the software. Knowledge of Microsoft Project is a great tool for anyone whose job involves managing many people and resources. The only requirement is access to the Microsoft Project 2013 program.
Over the course of sixty-three lectures, downloadable transcripts and MP3s, and more than thirteen hours of content, this Simon Sez IT tutorial will guide you through the fundamentals of Microsoft Project, beginning with the basics, and marking your progress with an online quiz. Content will cover: designing custom projects, using templates, learning to trace task paths, exporting your work to other Microsoft programs, uploading to the cloud, accessing the ribbon and other toolbars, managing tasks, allocating resources, defining deadlines, managing calendars, and much more.
Upon completion of this course, you will possess all the tools you need to use Microsoft Project 2013 to organize, access, and deliver your projects on time.
** Updated July 2017: English close captions added
** Updated June 2017. Course transcripts now available.