Aurora College

QUALITY METRICS FOR PROJECTS
2025-01-22 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Inuvik)
Meeting cost and time constraints within a project often compromises quality. This course explores how to maintain your quality standards through a balanced approach to quality time and cost. The focus is on developing and applying a quality framework that works for your own projects.In this course, you will learn:

Defining quality

The quality approach

Prioritizing key quality metrics

The quality management plan – establishing metrics

Applying practical tools and techniques

Applying industry-standard techniques

Applying quality control tools and techniques

Compiling and documenting lessons learned

Sharing best practices

Date:January 22, 2025

Time:9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cost:$350.00

Instructor:Janet Dean

MANAGING AND ADMINISTERING CONTRACTS, JOINTS VENTURES AND PARTNERSHIPS
2025-01-21 09:00 - 16:00
Running a successful project is more than just aligning your project team to project goals. It also requires a clear and conscious focus on aligning corollary team participants, contractors and subcontractors through contract management and administration. In this course, you will learn:

Drafting RFP’s and bid documents

Analyzing and evaluating responses

Fundamentals of contracting

Identifying key deliverables and objectives

Establishing quality and delivery criteria

Monitoring budgets and delivery

Managing without micromanaging or “giving away the store”

Closing out agreements

Dismissing contracts

Date:January 21, 2025

Time:9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cost:$350.00

Instructor:Janet Dean

PROJECT MONITORING AND CONTROL
2025-01-20 09:00 - 16:00
In this course, you will learn to:

Establish a baseline from which to measure results

Develop contingencies for “unknowns” which may affect your project

Control the project scope and take measures to avoid “scope creep”

Implement a simple change management process

Apply techniques for shortening project duration

Track cost, schedule and quality data

Report project progress and status

Apply strategies for getting back on track when a project goes “off the rails”

Date:January 20, 2025

Time:9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cost:$350.00

Instructor:Janet Dean

Winter Registration closes
2025-01-17 00:00 - 23:59

Add/drop course deadline
2025-01-17 00:00 - 23:59

Intro to Excel CMPT 0012 - Online
2025-01-16 09:00 - 12:00
This three-hour session will introduce you to the capabilities of the MS Excel program. Learn the basics of what you can do with the powerful electronic spreadsheet program including:

Purpose of spreadsheets

Moving around the screen

Using the ‘Ribbon’

Entering data

Creating basic formulas

Selecting cells

Working with workbooks

Viewing & printing

Date:January 16, 2025

Time:9:00 a.m. – Noon

InstructorHeather Lyon

Course Planning and Assessment ADED 0135 (prerequisite – Elements of Instruction) - Online / Multi-Day
2025-01-15 19:00 - 22:00
Course Planning and Assessment is a course about how to plan courses and assess learning outcomes, particularly for adults. It is concerned with designing learning systematically by considering learners, content, intended learning outcomes, learning tasks, pacing, appropriate expectations, instructional strategies, and assessment.

Course Planning and Assessment will be useful for people who want to plan workshops as well as for those who want to plan a formal educational course, whether it be a new course or a course that has an existing course outline. It will cover the theory behind planning and present a number of models for course design.

As part of this course, learners will develop a learning assessment plan that includes a variety of strategies and tools. Learners will plan an actual course, thereby immediately applying the theory to a useful and practical project.

Delivery:Virtual Delivery via Microsoft Teams(You will need a computer with high-speed internet)

Dates: 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. on January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19, 26, and March 5, 2025

Textbooks:Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning – available on Amazon*Participants are responsible for ordering the textbook

Tuition: $475.00

Instructor:Mike MacPherson

Winter term begins
2025-01-06 00:00 - 23:59

Fall term ends
2024-12-18 00:00 - 23:59

Excel Extras CMPT 0016 - Online
2024-12-17 09:00 - 12:00
You know the basics of the Excel program. Now learn about what else you can do to make working with this program even easier and more effective in this 3-hour session. Topics include:

Working with graphics

Inserting a screenshot

Sorting & Filtering

Using hyperlinks

Using comments

Drop-down lists

Grouping & Subtotals

Quick Analysis

Date:December 17, 2024

Time:9:00 a.m. – Noon

Cost:$175.00

Instructor:Heather Lyon

Robert’s Rules of Order - Online
2024-12-12 09:00 - 16:00
Robert’s Rules of Order

Have you ever played a team sport where only a few of the players knew the rules? The same types of challenges can occur in your meetings if your group does not understand how to properly “play the game”. In this one-day online session, you will learn the basics of Robert’s Rules of Order, the foremost manual on parliamentary procedures that is used by most organizations with boards of directors. By following these rules and other tips included in this session, you can ensure your meetings will be fair, efficient, democratic and orderly.

What are Roberts Rules of Order?

History of the book

What are the principles behind these rules?

Motions

What is a motion?

Types of motions and their purposes

Presenting a motion

Seconding a motion

Debating a motion

Amending a motion

Withdrawing a motion

Voting on a motion

Requesting Points of Something

What is a ‘Point’?

Types of points and their purposes

Tips for chairpersons of a meeting

Know and teach your group the rules of order

Set meeting times and dates that work

Notify and confirm attendance

Prepare and distribute an agenda in advance

Request reports in advance

Start & finish on time

Stick to the agenda

Assign time limits for reports/debates

Ensure action items are clear and assigned

Do an Action Item Review each meeting

Dealing with “hot topics”

Make every decision unanimous

Date:December 12, 2024

Time:9:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Cost:$350.00

Instructor:Heather Lyon

Charts & Tables CMPT 0015 - Online
2024-12-10 09:00 - 12:00
In the Excel program, you can convert your data from a spreadsheet into a table and/or chart. Learn how you can turn dry financial and statistical information into a vibrant visual display that will have a powerful impact on your audience!

Charts vs. Tables

Creating a chart

Changing chart types

Changing chart layout and location

Using sparklines

Creating a table

Creating a Pivot Table

Date:December 10, 2024

Time:9:00 a.m. – Noon

Cost:$175.00

Instructor:Heather Lyon

MANAGING MULTIPLE PROJECTS
2024-12-05 09:00 - 16:00
Balance the conflicting resource and priority demands of multiple cross-functional projects, while maintaining the strategic values of your organizationIn this course, you will learn to:

Manage resources through project prioritization

Evaluate and select projects based on strategic importance to the organization

Learn to apply a filter mechanism to assess all projects prior to making a “go-no go” decision

Define success criteria for each project

Date:December 5, 2024

Time:9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cost:$350.00

Instructor:Janet Dean

Applied Topics in Northern Adult Education (pre-requisite – Elements of Instruction) - Online / Multi-Day
2024-12-04 09:30 - 10:00, 2024-11-27 09:30 - 10:00, 2024-11-20 09:30 - 10:00, 2024-11-06 09:30 - 10:00, 2024-10-30 09:30 - 10:00, 2024-10-23 09:30 - 10:00
This course focuses on current topics in education including, but not limited to, EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion), UDL (universal design for learning), decolonization, and Indigenization.

Participants will examine how the concepts can be applied in the context of their own teaching practice and identify strategies to be responsive to the needs of their learners.

Delivery:Virtual Delivery(You will need a computer with high-speed internet)

Dates:7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. on October 9, 16, 23, 30, November 6, 20, 27 and December 4

Textbooks:TBD

Tuition:$475.00

Instructor:Xiaoyi Yan

ALIGNING AND DEVELOPING YOUR PROJECT TEAM
2024-12-04 09:00 - 16:00
In this course, you will learn to:

Build high-performance project teams through effective leadership and team communication

Use power, politics and influence to motivate your team

Resolve conflicts using proven techniques

Implement effective and creative problem-solving and brainstorming processes

Select the right team members and balance resources between projects

Learn proven negotiation techniques

Explore the stages of team development

Work effectively with people with different personalities

Date:December 4, 2024

Time:9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cost:$350.00

Instructor:Janet Dean

STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT COMMUNICATION
2024-12-03 09:00 - 16:00
Stakeholder Management is one of the most critical factors of project success. This course provides the project manager with an understanding of stakeholder management processes using proven tools and techniques for managing the stakeholders during the various phases of a project.

In this course, you will learn to:

Learn the obstacles to project communication

Identify and Assess project stakeholders using proven tools and techniques;

Develop communications strategies for achieving buy-in and cooperation from stakeholders

Explore different types of communication methods

Prepare a communications plan and put it into action

Date:December 3, 2024

Time:9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cost:$350.00

Instructor:Janet Dean

Formatting the Worksheet CMPT 0014 - Online
2024-12-03 09:00 - 12:00
Make your Excel workbooks look professional and readable by learning how to properly format all the aspects of your spreadsheet. In this 3-hour session, you will learn how to work with:

Formatting dates & numbers

Cell alignment

Fonts & sizes

Borders

Colours and patterns

Format painter

Themes & Styles

Conditional formatting

Date:December 3, 2024

Time:9:00 a.m. – Noon

Cost:$175.00

Instructor:Heather Lyon

MANAGING CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN PROJECTS
2024-12-02 09:00 - 16:00
Improve the way your project team accomplishes tasks, and enhance their interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Identify operating stereotypes and other obstacles to communication. Learn different cultures’ approaches to work, relationships, time, and exchange of information and how this affects attitudes and performance on the job.Topics include:

creating and maintaining an environment that enables all participants to naturally reach their fullpotential in pursuit of organizational objectives.

clarifying roles and communication procedures for tolerance and flexibility

building on shared values, goals and similarities.

developing shared visions and agreeing on processes to accomplish it in an atmosphere of respect andtrust.

Date:December 2, 2024

Time:9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cost:$350.00

Instructor:Janet Dean

Formulas & Functions CMPT 0013 - Online
2024-11-19 09:00 - 12:00
In this 3-hour session, learn how to set up formulas and functions to get the Excel program to do the math for you. Topics include:

Creating and editing formulas

Mathematical operators

Common functions

Conditional functions

Absolute & relative cell references

Protecting your workbook

Date:November 19, 2024

Time:9:00 a.m. – Noon

Cost:$175.00

Instructor:Heather Lyon

Online Winter Registration opens
2024-11-18 00:00 - 23:59

PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS - Multi-Day
2024-11-13 09:00 - 2024-11-15 16:00
This workshop will examine project management from conceptualization through to completion. You will learn: setting up an effective plan, applying project-planning steps, developing the project plan and implementing it, managing work in progress, monitoring controls, and reporting status.

Date:November 13-15, 2024

Time:9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cost:$750.00

Instructor:Janet Dean

Intro to Excel CMPT 0012 - Online
2024-11-12 09:00 - 12:00
This 3-hour session will introduce you to the capabilities of the MS Excel program. Learn the basics of what you can do with the powerful electronic spreadsheet program including:

Purpose of spreadsheets

Moving around the screen

Using the ‘Ribbon’

Entering data

Creating basic formulas

Selecting cells

Working with workbooks

Viewing & printing

Date:November 5, 2024

Time:9:00 a.m. – Noon

Cost:$175.00

Instructor:Heather Lyon

Fall Reading Week
2024-11-12 08:00 - 2024-11-15 17:00

Holiday - Remembrance Day
2024-11-11 00:00 - 23:59

BOOKKEEPER & FINANCIAL OFFICER TRAINING – PART THREE - COMPUTERIZED ACCOUNTING - Online / Multi-Day
2024-10-28 09:00 - 2024-11-01 16:00
This is Part 3 of the Bookkeeper & Financial Officer Training Program. You do not have to have taken part 1 as long as you have some basic knowledge and experience with bookkeeping. This 5-day session uses an accounting simulation package to teach you more about the various aspects of bookkeeping while learning how to enter financial transactions using the QuickBooks Desktop software program. Topics include Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Banking & Cash Accounts, and GST.

DatesOctober 28 – November 1, 2024

Time9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

LocationOnline

InstructorHeather Lyon
