Microsoft Project Level 1: Introduction

This course is designed to familiarize you with the basic features and functions of Microsoft Project so you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment.

This course covers the critical knowledge and skills a project manager needs to create a project plan with Project during the planning phase of a project. In other words, if your supervisor assigns you to lead a project, this course will enable you to draft a project plan with Project and share it with your supervisor (and others) for review and approval.

Note: This course is for anyone who has Project on the desktop, regardless of whether they purchased an “on-premise” edition or subscribed to a “cloud-based” (online) edition. Most project managers and project team members use the desktop application, so that is the main focus of this course. The main features of the online app are presented in an appendix.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will be able to construct basic project plans using Microsoft Project.

You will:

Identify project management concepts and navigate Microsoft Project Professional.

• Create a new project plan.
• Add tasks to a project.
• Manage task relationships within a project.
• Manage project resources.
• Finalize a project plan.
• Update a project plan.
• Generate project views to manage a project.
• Create project reports to share a project's status.
• Reuse project plan information.
• Work with multiple projects.

Target Student

This course is designed for a person with an understanding of project management concepts, as well as general desktop computer skills, and who will be responsible for creating and maintaining project plans. This course will give you the fundamental understanding of Microsoft Project necessary to construct basic project plans.

In addition, target students will be looking to acquire the advanced knowledge and skills needed to update a project plan in Microsoft Project during the execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of a project.

Prerequisites

To ensure your success in this course, you should have basic knowledge and skills using the Microsoft® Windows® operating system—preferably the most current version. While you do not need to be an expert, some experience and competency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word and Excel®, will be useful. Finally, having a foundational knowledge of project management concepts will help prepare you for working with Microsoft Project.

Course Content

• Lesson 1: Getting Started with Microsoft Project
• Lesson 2: Defining a Project
• Lesson 3: Adding Project Tasks
• Lesson 4: Managing Tasks
• Lesson 5: Managing Project Resources
• Lesson 6: Finalizing a Project Plan
• Lesson 1: Updating a Project Plan
• Lesson 2: Viewing Project Progress
• Lesson 3: Reporting on Project Progress
• Lesson 4: Reusing Project Plan Information
• Lesson 5: Working with Multiple Projects