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Office Skills Starter: Email, Calendar and Excel
Learn the everyday office skills behind administrative work in Alberta: professional email, scheduling across time zones, file organization and Excel basics. Six short lessons and a quiz, with a certificate of completion.
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About 75 minutes
6 short lessons and one final quiz. Your progress is saved, so you can stop and come back on any device.
Certificate of completion
Finish every lesson and score 70% or more on the final quiz. Retakes are unlimited.
Not a program
This free short course is not part of a Ucademy diploma or certificate program and gives no program credit.
Lessons
- 1Writing professional email12 min
- 2Calendars and scheduling across time zones12 min
- 3Organizing and sharing files12 min
- 4Excel essentials: formulas, sorting and references13 min
- 5Excel for everyday office tasks13 min
- 6Putting it together: an administrative morning13 min
- ✓Office Skills Starter: final quizfinal quiz
Where this course can lead
Administrative Assistant Diploma
This course is a short, practical introduction. The full program goes much further: 806 hours online plus an 86-hour internship: Microsoft Office, business communication, bookkeeping basics and office procedures.
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Yes. There is no fee and we do not ask for payment details. You only need a free Ucademy campus account, which takes about a minute to create.
Yes. Finish every lesson and score at least 70% on the final quiz to download a certificate of completion. Quiz retakes are unlimited.
No. It is a free short course, not part of a Ucademy diploma or certificate program, and it does not give program credit.
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