Tue 16 Dec 2008
Microsoft E-learning is a self paced, online learning system for Microsoft products like Office. What’s great about the E-learning system is it allows you to learn just what you want to learn, how you want to learn it.
Within the E-learning portal you can move through the content in the order you want to, or alternatively just view the topics that interest you. Each topic includes different types of content such as text and graphics, animations you can watch, interactive activities, labs, and games relating to the content. So it suits many different learning styles.
We tried out the E-learning portal and here’s what we liked about it.
- There’s a nice navigation overview at the beginning of the course, so using the E-learning portal really easy.
- The different types of content mean you can choose to learn in the way that best suits you.
- The Self Test feature allows you to access what you have learnt after each topic.
- Each course has full text search capabilities to help you if you’re looking for something in particular.
- You can add bookmarks at selected topics so you can easily return to them.
- The Notes feature in the bottom right allows you to annotate topics as you go and then save the notes for later use.
All in all Microsoft E-learning seems like a really good way to learn how to use Office software. The only negative we could really find was that the animations can sometimes take a couple of minutes to load.
Subscribing to an E-learning course will allow you around 12 -18 months access to the course online (depending on the course), but you can also download modules of the course to study offline.
A collection of core training for an Office application e.g. Word 2007 will cost you around $118, but to purchase just one of the 6 courses within the collection will cost just $24.70.
To see the E-learning course catalogue click here, to view an online demo of how E-learning works click here.