Westchester Community College, State University of New York

This one-day workshop will teach you how to transfer your photos, videos and music files from your mobile devices and digital camera to your computer, as well as how to scan your documents and pictures to your computer. You will learn how to organize and backup these files using different storage media devices. This course will also demonstrate how to securely manage your numerous Internet accounts and passwords, manage your email, and encrypt your sensitive files. Bring a flash drive.

CE-COMP 2210, 1 Sun., Mar. 15, 10:00 am-4:00 pm (30-minute lunch break, please bring lunch), GTW-215, $125. #15420

What, why, and how to use cloud storage online for personal use is the focus of this workshop. You will discover how to store and access your photos, music, and documents through your computer, smartphone, and tablet devices. Discussion will include how to find free and paid cloud storage sites.

CE-COMP 2209, 1 Sun., Mar. 22, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, GTW-215, $70. #15421

This workshop will teach you how to keep your phone, tablets, computers, and other electronic devices working during an emergency or when the power goes out. Learn to complete your Medical ID on your smartphone to list emergency contact information for medical personnel.

CE-COMP 2208, 1 Sun., Mar. 29, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, GTW-215, $70. #15422

Interested in exploring online auctioning? Would you like to make some additional income by selling from the convenience of your computer? Learn how to buy and sell online with this workshop. Learn how to post listings with platforms such as eBay and Craigslist, and selling with Amazon and PayPal will be explored. This course will include an overview of eCommerce, working with the eBay mobile app and several how-to demos.

CE-COMP 2207, 1 Sun., Apr. 5, 10:00 am-4:00 pm (30-minute lunch break, please bring lunch), GTW-215, $125. #15423

Never lose your work again! Organizing and managing your files is essential for the workplace and for the home. Learn best practices to organize your files; create and organize folders; search for files; work with shortcuts; and set some custom features to make it easier to work with Windows.

CE-COMP 2002, $145. Sec. A: 2 T/Th, Jan. 28 & 30, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-215. #15263 Sec. B: 2 Sat., Feb. 1 & 8, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-215. #15264 Sec. C: 2 M/W, Mar. 16 & 18, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-215. #15265

Knowledge of computers is not a prerequisite for this course. Whether you are new to computers or just want to brush up on your computer skills, this course is for you. Increase your proficiency using Windows-based computers with techniques and shortcuts. Build your confidence and get control of your computer by managing, organizing, and searching for your files and folders. Learn the benefits of different internet browsers and search engines, including safe and efficient internet use. Manage your email folders and attachments and get a glimpse of popular social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Knowledge of computers is not a prerequisite for this course.

CE-COMP 2163, $375 (+ textbook). Sec. A: 6 T/Th, Feb. 4-20, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-215. #15266 Sec. B: 6 M/W, Apr. 27-May 13, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-215. #15267

This course provides students with the basic skills necessary to learn touch-typing on a computer keyboard. The ability to type faster and more accurately saves time and increases productivity. A great course for anyone who uses the computer, including healthcare professionals who have to make entries in patient electronic records. Only basic operational computer skills are required for this hands-on class.

CE-COMP 2016, 9 Sat., Feb. 8-Apr. 4, 9:00-11:00 am, GTW-203, $210. #15268

Facebook and other social networks enable millions of older adults to stay involved with children, grandchildren, and distant family members. Learn how to find and connect with old friends and family members to share activities and renew relationships. Join millions of others in using social media networks to stay in touch by sharing photos and videos.

CE-COMP 2071, 2 Sat., May. 2 & 9, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-203, $130. #15269

The non-techie’s guide to living without cable. Learn about TV streaming solutions that will save you money. Showcases devices such as Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, and Chromecast. Learn about Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services. Discussion on internet requirements and how to determine which devices and services may work best for you.

CE-COMP 2148, 1 Sat., Apr. 25, 1:00-4:00 pm, GTW-203, $70. #15270

Learn to use the basic features of the 2016 version of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, three of the most fundamental software programs used in educational and professional settings. Provides skills for creating basic documents, working with spreadsheets, and creating effective presentations. Prerequisite: File Management or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2155, 6 T/Th, Feb. 25-Mar. 12, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-215, $390 (+ textbook). #15271

Go beyond the basics with the latest version of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint--three of the most fundamental software programs used in educational and professional settings. Learn to Mail Merge and work with images, section breaks, columns, styles, tables, headers, and footers in Word. Apply advanced formatting techniques to your spreadsheets and work with dates and lookup functions in Excel. Create presentations that include charts, tables, and hyperlinks. Prepare a presentation for delivery with PowerPoint. Prerequisite: Microsoft Office Basics or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2173, 6 T/Th, Mar. 17- Apr. 2, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-215, $390 (+ textbook). #15272

Office 365 is a subscription-based service offered by Microsoft that provides file storage and Office capabilities across multiple computers and devices. Data is stored encrypted in OneDrive, safely and securely. Westchester Community College has collaborated with Microsoft to bring our students a free download of Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus and Office Mobile upon activation of your student account. This course will provide an overview of Microsoft OneDrive, Word, and Excel in the 365 version, and requires no previous knowledge of Microsoft Office 365. Laptop required.

CE-COMP 2200, 3 M/T/Th, Apr. 6-9, 9:00 am-1:00 pm, GTW-219, $300. #15273

Get started with Excel even if you have never used a spreadsheet before. Includes building and editing worksheets, formatting a worksheet, working with charts and working with formulas and functions. Prerequisite: File Management or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2020, $300 (+ textbook). Sec. A: 4 Sat., Feb. 15-Mar. 7, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-215. #15274 Sec. B: 4 T/Th, Feb. 25-Mar. 5, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-215. #15275

Expand your skills in Excel by learning to use and analyze tables and enhance your charts and worksheets. Explore techniques for managing workbooks, sharing Excel files, and incorporating information from the web. Prerequisite: MS Excel Introduction or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2021, $300 (+ textbook). Sec. A: 4 Sat., Mar. 14-Apr. 4, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-215. #15276 Sec. B: 4 T/Th, Mar. 10-19, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-215. #15277

Master more advanced features of Excel such as analyzing data with PivotTables, exchanging data with other programs, and advanced worksheet management. Prerequisite: MS Excel Intermediate or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2022, $300 (+ textbook). Sec. A: 4 Sat., Apr. 18-May 9, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-215. #15278 Sec. B: 4 T/Th, Mar. 24-Apr. 2, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-215. #15279

Get started with Word even if you have never done word processing before. Covers editing documents, formatting text, paragraphs and documents, and creating and formatting tables–fundamental skills for creating letters, reports, and documents. Prerequisite: File Management or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2029, 4 Sat., Feb. 15-Mar. 7, 1:00-4:00 pm, GTW-215, $300 (+ textbook). #15281

Expand your skills and enhance your documents by adding graphics, using styles, and templates, and managing multi-page documents. Create personalized mailings by merging data into your documents. Learn how easy it is to turn your Word document into a web page. Prerequisite: Microsoft Word Introduction or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2030, 4 Sat., Mar. 14-Apr. 4, 1:00-4:00 pm, GTW-215, $300 (+ textbook). #15282

Master more advanced features of Word such as building forms, creating charts, and diagrams, collaborating with others on a document, working with references, advanced graphics, and integrating Word with other applications. Prerequisite: Microsoft Word Intermediate or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2031, 4 Sat., Apr. 18-May 9, 1:00-4:00 pm, GTW-215, $300, (+ textbook). #15283

A Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification helps you stand out to employers! This course will prepare you to take the Microsoft Office Specialist Exam in Excel 2016: MOS Exam #77-727. Prerequisite: MS Excel Introduction, Intermediate, and Advanced or equivalent experience and use of Microsoft Excel for six months. Exam can be scheduled and taken at Westchester Community College, with no proctor fee for WCC students. Exam voucher not included, discount code available upon course completion.

CE-TESTG 2013, 6 T/Th, Apr. 21-May 7, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-215, $390 (+ textbook). #15280

If our class schedule does not match your availability, you can still train for a new career and develop or enhance your technology skills by enrolling in our online classes offered in partnership with Education to Go. For more information, email michele.maya@sunywcc.edu or visit https://careertraining.ed2go.com/sunywcc

With new ways to reach clients, companies find themselves grappling to understand social media and implement new strategies. This course will introduce the social media landscape, how it works, and how much of a game changer it could be for your business. Explore how a variety of social media tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube can increase your business’s visibility and consumer impact. Get hands-on training on how to open accounts and participate in these networks to drive traffic to your company website. Look at tracking how effective your social media campaigns are and how to gather information for targeted marketing, as well as the data, decisions, and tools you will need to develop the social media plan for your business. Explore different methods such as video, and photo production, writing techniques, and more. Participants are encouraged to share ideas and get feedback to help in defining a successful and robust strategy. Prerequisite: File Management or equivalent experience.

CE-BUS 2108, 6 M/T/W/Th, Feb. 24-Mar. 3, 6:30-9:30 pm, GTW-203, $390. #15284

33% of email recipients open email based on subject line alone; emails that include social sharing buttons have a 158% higher click-through rate. Capitalize on this method of advertising by exploring which platforms to use, how to decipher the stats, how to merge your social platforms and website with your email marketing campaign, how to deal with those who unsubscribe, and the ethical requirements of email.

CE-BUS 2023, 2 W/Th, Mar. 4 & 5, 6:30-9:30 pm, GTW-203, $130. #15285

Go beyond email to improve your time and task management with advanced features of Outlook mail, the powerful calendar, meeting scheduler, contacts, address book, and task manager. Organize your inbox with techniques for managing your email. Learn the many options Outlook provides for creating, reading, and sending email, working with attachments, flagging and categorizing messages, and working with distribution lists and your contacts. Prerequisite: File Management or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2024, 4 M/W, Mar. 23-Apr. 1, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-215, $300. #15286

Use Microsoft Project to think through and organize your project’s details, develop a schedule, sequence tasks, assign resources and costs, track your progress, identify and analyze variances, manage your budget and revise your project plan. Prerequisite: File Management or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2113, Sec. A: 2 Sat., Mar. 14 & 21,9:00 am-3:30 pm (30-minute lunch break, please bring lunch), GTW-209, $300 (+ textbook). #15287

Learn how to build complicated formulas, use functions, and combine them in powerful ways. Covers using absolute and relative references in formulas and the order of precedence of operations. Troubleshoot formulas using the auditing tools. Document the formulas that you create. Use named ranges and cells in your formulas to better understand the purpose of the formula. Prerequisite: Microsoft Excel Introduction or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2052, 2 Thurs., Apr. 9 & 16, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-215, $150. #15288

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional networking site and is a valuable tool for creating and maintaining a list of contacts with others. Job seekers, employers, and those looking for business opportunities all benefit from the power of LinkedIn. Find out how to improve your profile to be most effective. Learn how to navigate LinkedIn. Prerequisite: Computing Fundamentals for Windows or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2099, 1 Sat., Mar. 7, 9:00 am-1:00 pm, GTW-209, $75. #15289

Individual sessions available. Please email pdc@sunywcc.edu for more information.

A PivotTable is an interactive table that automatically extracts, organizes, and summarizes your data, making it easier to analyze. If you work with large data sets, PivotTables can help you make comparisons, detect patterns and relationships, and analyze trends with ease. Prerequisite: MS Excel Intermediate or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2086, 1 Thurs., Apr. 23, 9:00 am-1:00 pm, GTW-215, $85. #15290

Need an electronic form? Adobe Acrobat Pro can create forms from existing Word or Excel files or you can scan a form in. Adobe will allow you to add new fields and adjust how your form looks. You can then save your forms and share them with others. Prerequisite: File Management and basic Word or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2202, 2 M/W, Mar. 2 & 4, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-215, $150. #15291

Learn how marketing professionals are able to create a campaign, measure the results and improve upon what is working while discarding what’s not. In this course, you will learn about marketing metrics including setting up website analytics, finding meaningful data, running reports, creating customized reports, and tracking the data. Specific Google Analytics metrics such as Events, UTM settings and Conversion Tracking will be discussed. Prerequisite: Computing Fundamentals for Windows or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2178, 4 Wed., Mar. 11-Apr. 1, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-203, $215. #15292

Excel Dashboards track complex data in one visual, dynamic, often interactive, central, and compact sheet. Learn to build dashboards that simplify data analysis and enhance decision-making. Prerequisite: MS Excel Intermediate or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2170, 2 Thurs., Apr. 30 & May 7, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-215, $150. #15293

Develop techniques to enhance your presentations with multimedia and web resources. Create more efficient and effective slide decks by using Slide Masters, creating your own templates, and mastering drawing tools and objects. Integrate with Excel to represent data graphically for more impact. Keep your audience engaged with tips and tricks for live delivery, including rehearsal and timing tools. Prerequisite: File Management or equivalent experience and knowledge of PowerPoint.

CE-COMP 2174, 2 M/W, Mar. 9 & 11, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-215, $150. #15294

Tell your story. Visualize your message. Learn which graphic types are appropriate for different kinds of data. Learn how to use new graphic types such as Geographic Maps, Stock Market Charts, Tree Maps, Histograms, and more. Prerequisite: MS Excel Introduction or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2198, 1 Sat., Apr. 4, 12:00 noon-4:00 pm, GTW-203, $85. #15295

Debits, credits, journals, ledgers...having a working knowledge of the principles behind the bookkeeping capability of QuickBooks will simplify your mastering of this software. Understand how business transactions are correctly recorded and how QuickBooks handles them. No QuickBooks experience is needed; the perfect first class for someone who plans to learn QuickBooks, but also useful for QuickBooks users who need additional understanding of bookkeeping processes.

CE-COMP 2132, $185. Sec. A: 4 T, Jan. 21-Feb. 11, 10:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-209. #15296 Sec. B: 4 T/Th, Mar. 3-12, 6:00-8:00 pm, GTW-209. #15297

Learn how to handle accounts payable and receivable, customer info, inventory, and track your business’s financial health. Open to all students but particularly suitable for those who have some previous experience with bookkeeping. This class will use the QuickBooks 2018 Desktop Version. Prerequisite: File Management or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2013, $545 (+ textbook). Sec. A: 8 T, Mar. 3-Apr. 21, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, GTW-209. #15298 Sec. B: 8 T/Th, Apr. 7-30, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-209. #15299

Master skill and proficiency to become an Intuit QuickBooks Certified User. Thorough preparation for the certification exam for QuickBooks 2017/2018. Intensive and extensive overview encompassing all aspects of this bookkeeping software. Timed practice, sample exam, and review included. Prerequisite: Behind the Scenes of QuickBooks, QuickBooks Fundamentals, and Running Payroll or existing advanced QuickBooks experience.

CE-TESTG 2011, 6 M/T/Th, May 4-14, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-209, $390 (+ textbook + exam fees). #15300

This course will give you an understanding of basic programming concepts as implemented in Python. Topics include data types, assignment and conditional statements, basics of flowcharts, and analysis. No previous programming experience is required; however, some basic typing skill is recommended.

CE-COMP 2140, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-209, $390 (+ textbook). Sec. A: 6 M/W, Jan. 27-Feb. 12. #15303 Sec. B: 6 T/Th, Mar. 17-Apr. 2. #15304

This course will give you an understanding of programming concepts as implemented in Python. Topics include Functions, Objects and Classes, GUI Programming Using Tkinter, Recursion, Lists, Tuples, Sets, and Dictionaries. Prerequisite: Introduction to Python Programming or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2191, 6 M/W, Apr. 6-27 (skip 4/8), 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-209, $390 (+ textbook). #15305

This course will introduce students to the use of code as a springboard for their creativity The class will include how to blend photographs, design stickers and use green screens with code. It will also cover some of the basic expressions of the Python coding language and basic computer programming concepts such as data types, assignment statements, conditional statements, and loops. No previous programming experience is required; however, some basic typing ability is recommended.

CE-COMP 2199, 9:00 am-1:00 pm, GTW-209, $155. Sec. A: 2 Sat., Feb. 15 & 22. #15306 Sec. B: 2 Sat., Apr. 18 & 25. #15307

This course will give you an understanding of basic programming concepts as implemented in Ruby. Topics include variables and assignment, methods, arrays and iterators, conditional statements and keyword arguments. No previous programming experience is required, however typing speed of 25 wpm is recommended.

CE-COMP 2206, 6 T/Th, Jan. 28-Feb. 13, 6:00-9:00 pm, GTW-209, $390 (+ textbook). #15424

Gain basic systems administration skills to manage and deploy small to large systems. You will get a conceptual and hands-on understanding of UNIX/LINUX administration for a business environment. Prerequisite: Computer Fundamentals or equivalent experience.

CE-COMP 2123, 2 Sat., Mar. 28 & Apr. 4, 9:00 am-12:30 pm, GTW-209, $165. #15308