During the holidays, it’s always easy to shift into neutral and coast through the traveling, gathering, and meals that take us into the New Year. But before you know it, you’re back at work and have no time to sharpen your skills! Don’t forget that all students, faculty and staff have free access to LinkedIn Learning to help build your professional skills 24 hours a day. While you can use LinkedIn Learning’s handy new AI coach to find new courses for you, here are a few suggestions we have as you settle into the season!
Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft and LinkedIn
Discover the skills needed to apply generative AI in your career. Learn the core concepts of artificial intelligence and generative AI functionality.
Access CourseExcel: Macros and VBA for Beginners
If you’re a frequent user of Excel, chances are you have Excel tasks that you need to repeat often. Fortunately, you can automate these tasks by creating macros. Many people assume macros are complicated and reserved only for Excel power users. Not so! In this short course, Excel MVP Oz du Soleil first explains the best times to use a macro, and then how to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to set up a basic macro in Excel to record your mouse clicks and keystrokes. Learn how to set up macros in Excel now, saving time later.
Access CourseGetting Started with Adobe Premiere Pro for the Non-Video Professional
Do you ever find yourself needing to edit a video but not knowing where or how to begin? If you use Adobe Creative Cloud, you have access to a great application—Adobe Premiere Pro—but it can be a little daunting to learn how to use it on your own. This course can help you get started. It doesn’t rely on any background experience with video production or editing. It just walks you through all the basic skills you need to know, from organizing your media to finalizing your project, with detailed instructions covering every step in between. You can get amazing results right away, too, and get up and running with your first project in Premiere Pro.
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