| What are the courses on offer? |
| The training catalog currently lists over 100 IT courses (with another 100 planned for this
year). The courses are aimed at high-end users as well as IT beginners and cover a wide
variety of IT tools. Most popular technologies are included as are emerging tools. Please
visit the Course Listing section for the complete catalog. |
Who are the courses aimed at? |
The courses are aimed at three kinds of users –
- Advanced – Experienced IT professionals seeking to learn new tools
- Intermediate – Entry level IT professionals preparing for more challenging roles
- Basic – Non-IT professionals who nevertheless use popular desktop applications
like word-processors or mail programs
The introduction to each course clearly describes the course's audience profile. Please
read this carefully to determine whether a course is useful for you. |
| Who can take these courses? |
The courses are available to all registered users of this site provided they meet one of the
following criteria –
- Paying customers – users who pay to access course material
- Corporate customers – users assigned courses on this site by corporations
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| What is the procedure to begin learning? |
For regular users, the procedure is as follows –
- Register on the site
- Browse or search through the course catalog and read course objectives and target
audience descriptions
- Select a relevant course or curriculum and put it in the shopping basket. Special
prices are available for larger packages
- Pay online using a credit card. If you do not wish to pay online, please contact the
site administrator
- After the payment is processed, the user receives the login information to access
the selected courses
For corporate users, the procedure is as follows –
- The company administrator buys users licenses online for a specific number of
users. The licenses are available through the My Training Center link
- The users, who have access to the entire catalog, receive login information after
payment has been processed
- Users can now use this login information to access all the courses on the site
- Company administrators, who do not wish to make online requests for new users,
should get in touch with the site administrator
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| How much does a course cost? |
| Please see the course catalog. |
| How much time does a course take? |
The courses on the site are designed to be self-paced which means that the user can learn
at his or her pace. Course duration thus depends on how much time each individual user
spends per screen.
We have however devised course-timing methods that help us average out a course's
duration. The course timing thus depends on the number of screens in a course and the
nature of interactive elements used. Please look for the course duration figure in the
introductory section of each course.
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| What are the learning features of the courses? |
The courses on this site are designed to be friendly and effective. The information is
presented through well-categorized content buckets that provide the context for the
information and are accompanied by simulations that encourage hands-on practice of
learning. Here are some of the key information buckets that the courses use –
- Objectives – these define, in tangible terms, the learning goals of a course
- Concept – this is the key information bucket and presents the central information
about a learning objective
- Hints – these are useful pieces of information (about shortcuts, or exceptions etc.)
that supplement the information in the concept bucket
- Examples – these are scenarios that illustrate the real life application of a concept
- Animated demonstrations – these are step-by-step guides to performing critical
operations and provide a visual tour of key processes
- Simulations – these let users perform key operations from within the learning
environment. All user actions are accompanied by relevant feedback and provide
users useful experience of the software concerned without investing in it
- Quizzes – these accompany each set of concepts and test user retention of what
has been described earlier
- Mastery module – this is a complete test that measures user learning at the end of
a course and quantifies it in terms of a score
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| How can I be sure about the quality of the available courses? |
| A dedicated team with over six years of experience in creating technology-based titles for
IT education creates the courses available on the site. The team has worked successfully
with clients like Gartner Group Learning, Oracle and Seagate, and members in team
possess relevant certifications from organizations like Microsoft, Sun and Lotus.
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| What are the benefits of taking these courses? |
The courses on the site cover some of the hottest technologies of the day and help IT
professionals and beginners –
- Get better jobs
- Improve own productivity
- Acquire new skills that lead to greater responsibility
- Get higher wages
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| Do I receive certification after taking a course? |
| Yes, you receive a certification after finishing a course. You can attach this certification
to your resume to improve your career prospects
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| How do I know if a course is right for me? |
| Please read the target audience description very carefully before you take a course. This
will help you determine whether the course will be helpful to you. Watch out also for the
Career Wizard that will provide complete information on IT careers and the skills
required in popular IT jobs.
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| I am clicking on the course name but nothing seems to happen. What could be the problem? |
| When you click on a course name, the course opens in a new window. If you have a course window already open, clicking on another course will simply refresh the existing course window. If clicking on the course link appears to do nothing, chances are that you have a course window already open and hidden behind some other open application. Try closing all open applications and then clicking on the course name. That should fix the problem.
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| I can see the course content screen and the objectives screen, but don't know how to proceed further. Where are the navigation buttons? |
| The navigation buttons are available on the top part of the screen. You need macromedia shockwave plugin to view the course navigation. You can install this simple plugin using the link available on the home page.
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| If I buy a training course, for how long can I access the course? |
| As an individual user, you have access to each course you buy for ONE year from the date of purchase. You can access the course for unlimited number of times during that one-year period.
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