Program Overview
This introductory Excel workshop is designed for professionals seeking to enhance their data management and calculation skills. Over a 4-hour online session, participants will gain a foundational understanding of Excel, enabling them to create basic spreadsheets, perform simple calculations using formulas, and organize data effectively. The workshop aims to empower participants to improve their workplace performance or pursue career advancement opportunities.
Program Outline
Teaching:
This introductory Excel course is suited to professionals from a variety of workplaces and organisations. You'll learn better manage your role responsibilities, or aim for a promotion with time-saving tips to organise data or calculate costs. Delivered over half a day, this 4-hour online workshop is led by an expert facilitator. It will give you a foundational overview of Excel that you can immediately apply in your workplace. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to plan and create basic spreadsheets, using formulas to perform simple calculations and organise data.
Careers:
This workshop will provide participants with a foundational understanding of Microsoft Excel introductory/beginner level. It is anticipated that the participants will be existing workers with a range of experiences in diverse workplace contexts to better manage their current role responsibilities or to expand their skill set to access employment or promotion.
For more than 100 years, Victoria University (VU) has offered accessible education to students in Melbourne’s west and beyond. Victoria University aims to continue creating positive outcomes for education, industry and our community into the future.
Services
Housing services
Victoria University is pleased to offer guaranteed accommodation to new and continuing full-time domestic and international students. This offer is in partnership with UniLodge, our accommodation provider.
UniLodge Victoria University offers modern purpose-built student accommodation apartments in Footscray with excellent facilities and a community environment – all within a short walking distance to classes!
Library services
Our online resources are available 24 hours a day from wherever you are. You can also visit any of our seven campus libraries for help with your information needs, access to a PC or a quiet place to study.
Student Life
Campus life
Victoria University has campuses across Melbourne's CBD and western suburbs. International students can also choose to study at VU Sydney, VU India or partner institutions overseas.
Our flagship campus is located in Footscray - study with us in Melbourne's western cultural and creative epicentre.
- City Flinders
- City Flinders Lane
- City King
- City Queen
- Footscray Nicholson
- Footscray Park
- St Albans
- Sunshine
- Werribee
- VU at MetroWest (Footscray)
- VU Sydney
Sports facilities
There are plenty of options for staff and students wanting to join a sporting club and play in local competitions.
Joining a Victoria University sport club helps keep you fit while doing something you love. You will also get to meet new people and maybe do some travelling too.
Student clubs
VU organises a range of activities on- and off-campus, including:
- Orientation Parties
- Annual Ball
- Mental Health training (subsidised)
- Be a Better Human Festival
- De-stress Festival
- Queernival
Participants will need access to a computer with an operational version of Microsoft Excel installed on their computer. The program requires participants to have basic level of computer skills to access and operate the online learning software to navigate a webpage and find information, attend a webinar using zoom or webex for online delivery. If the course is being delivered face-to-face onsite, computer access is not required.
