Introduction to MS Project Online

New to Microsoft Project? Our new elearning will guide you through the basics to help you maximise your ability to utilise Microsoft Project to its full potential.

Course overview

About the course

This hands-on course provides practical experience using Microsoft Project. The course is designed for users with no prior knowledge of Microsoft Project. You will learn how to customise and schedule tasks and resources, optimise projects through planning, track and analyse project progress and create customised reports.

Duration

This elearning is expected to take approximately 10-12 hours.

Learning objectives

By the end of this course you will be able to:

Customise and schedule tasks and resources
Optimise projects through planning
Track and analyse project progress
Create customised reports

What's covered?

Project and project terms

Brief overview of how microsoft project relates to project management
Microsoft terminology

Creating project and resource calendars

Set the default working hours & week
Alter hours of working day
Set additional non-working days ie bank holidays
Applying a calendar to a project
Create a new project calendar
Create a new resource calendar and assign to resources

Entering tasks

Enter tasks, set durations and create milestones
Manual vs automatic scheduling
Task information dialog
Create summary tasks
Create project tasks
Using the outline tools
Add notes

Task relationships and critical path

Finish to Start, Start to Finish, Finish to Finish and Start to Start
Theory of critical path
Showing the critical path
Slack time
Creating lead and lag time

Resources

Enter resources
Resource types
Labels, names and groups
Set costs, standard and overtime
Cost per use
Resource information dialog box
Cost rate tables
Fixed task costs
Assigning resource calendars to resources
Viewing availability
Assign resources to tasks

Variance

Setting a baseline
Setting multiple baselines
Measuring variance against baselines using the gantt chart
Modifying the variance table to measure the required variance on the project

Task constraints & task management

General (default) constraints
Hard constraints
Soft constraints
Deadlines
Remove deadlines / constraints
Scheduling project from start date
Scheduling project from finish date
Fixed duration vs fixed units
Create and assign task calendars

Project Costing

Resource costs
Duration driven
Show project statistics for project cost and duration
Show cost table (Gantt view)
Identify over allocations
Deal with over allocations

Tracking

Setting a baseline
Clearing a baseline
Marking tasks % complete
Using the tracking gantt to spot slippage
Inactivate tasks
Reschedule workload
Measure tasks using the project status
Splitting tasks

Sorting, grouping & filtering

Sorting tasks by non-default sort order
Apply grouping levels
Use the autofilter
Use In-built filters for filtering tasks

Reporting

Customise project dashboards to measure required information showing
Project overview
Late tasks
Milestones
Tasks by resources

TimeLine

View the timeline
Add tasks to timeline
Export to word/powerpoint

What's included?

12 months online access to our Introduction to Microsoft Project e-learning

Target audience

This course will be suitable for individuals who want to familiarise themselves and utilise Microsoft Project to create, build and modify project plans.