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Advanced Care Planning: Health Care Directives
Who would speak for you if you couldn’t speak for yourself? That’s the concept behind Advanced Care Planning, a guided conversation on your end of life wishes and preferences that identifies what is most important to you concerning quality of life and living. Leave class with the confidence to develop your Health Care Directive, a written document which describes your choices. -
Advanced MS Excel
Discover advanced tips and tricks that can increase your productivity and get your specific questions answered. Topics include: conditional formatting, data manipulation , custom lists, conditional formulas and functions, use of the formula/function library and more. Prerequisite: Intermediate MS Excel or equivalent skills. -
Cloud Storage
What is the "Cloud" and how do you store digital content on it? We will cover the basics of two free cloud storage services, Dropbox and Google Drive. Using these tools properly will allow you to store and access your files from anywhere you have internet including from a smartphone, tablet, computer. Participants must sign up for Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/) and Google Drive (https://drive.google.com) accounts before arriving at class. -
Computer Coding: Python
Learn basic programming concepts and get hands-on coding experience using Python. Bring your laptop to class with the following programs already installed: Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/ VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/downloadStarting Soon -
Computer Security
Cyber threats are a growing problem as our reliance on the internet increases. How secure is your computer? Learn about firewalls, and what else you need to protect your privacy, as well as what to do if your computer is affected by spyware, viruses or ransomware. -
Downsizing: Where to Begin?
Keep, sell, donate, toss? Downsizing can be overwhelming. Get tips on creating a plan, determining what to keep, what to sell, what has value and how the market influences worth, what to donate, where to donate, and more. Offered in partnership with Sort Toss Pack. -
Dream Big, Start Small: Launching Your Biz From Home
Doing business from home can be a smart, economic move. Learn about your community’s business-in-home regulations and tax advantages, strategies to get you out of your PJs and into a schedule, and separating family and business even in small spaces.Popular -
Financing Your Business
Launching and building your business takes money. Discover what sources of funding are available for both start-ups and established small businesses, and review loans, bootstrapping, credit cards, investors, grants, crowd-sourcing and more. We’ll also discuss personal credit and credit repair, and their impact on getting funded. Ka-ching! -
Getting to Know VA Benefits
Receive important information on the State and Federal VA Benefits that apply to veterans and their family members. Learn what benefits exist, who is eligible and who to contact to assist with the VA claims process. -
Hiring 101: Employee and Contract Basics
You can’t do it all. And often you shouldn’t. Learn how, when to add an employee. And the difference between employees and contractors. We’ll cover interviewing to help make good hiring decisions and not get into legal trouble, job descriptions, orientation, being a supportive boss, payroll, and more, including when to let someone go. Parking at Creative Arts Secondary School can be validated as long as you park in the ramp on the same city block as the school – the Capital City Plaza Parking Ramp. -
Home Stretch
Become an informed, prepared consumer! Home Stretch workshops cover, start-to-finish, the entire home buying process and offers objective, practical information to help you get on the path to homeownership. Completion of this course results in a Home Stretch certificate. Offered in partnership with the Neighborhood Development Alliance -
Home Stretch
Become an informed, prepared consumer! Home Stretch workshops cover, start-to-finish, the entire home buying process and offers objective, practical information to help you get on the path to homeownership. Completion of this course results in a Home Stretch certificate. Offered in partnership with the Neighborhood Development Alliance -
Intermediate MS Excel
Expand your basic knowledge of MS Excel with an exploration of data manipulation (sort, filter, fill, text functions, join and split data) and formulas and functions (absolute vs relative cell references, 3D cell references). Prerequisite: Introduction to MS Excel or equivalent skills. -
Introduction to MS Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that helps format, organize and calculate data. Learn how to create and navigate spreadsheets, charts, basic formulas and functions and Excel Theory. Keyboard and mouse skills required. -
Introduction to Squarespace
Understand the basics of creating and maintaining your own Squarespace website – no coding skills required! A authorized Squarespace Trainer will lead you through the process in this small group, hands-on class. Objectives include: building a five-page website; understanding the main tools of your site; creating and updating basic pages with different layouts, photos, text and videos. Bring your laptop to class. Cost of hosting your site not included. Web hosting services cost approximately $110 -$150/year. Your instructor will have more information on web hosting options in class. Class limited to 5 people.Starting Soon -
Investment Basics
Every investor must start somewhere. We’ll cover investment basics including U.S. markets, volatility and risk and building a foundation, and types of investments including stocks, bonds and mutual funds, as well as the importance of asset allocation and diversification. -
Know your Smartphone
What makes a smartphone "smart” and how do I get the most out of it? What apps are useful and how do I install them? How do I adjust my settings? Get simple answers to these questions and more. Bring your smartphone to class. -
MS Excel: Pivot Tables and Graphs
Pivot Tables enable users to select large amounts of data and manipulate it to pull out the information and then create tables and charts for easy visual understanding. Prerequisite: A strong working knowledge of Excel. -
Making Wise Medicare Decisions
For both new enrollees and existing members. Learn about the basics of Medicare and coordinating insurance plans; how and when to enroll; associated costs; what Medicare does and does not cover. -
Preparing Your Home to Sell
Learn the basic fundamentals of how to prepare your home to sell. Discover how to get the most bang for your buck and how to get the best sale price. Bring your questions and your specific home concerns for discussion. -
Side Hustle Success in the GIG Economy
Learn the basics of today’s Gig Economy and how to create your own successful side hustle. We’ll look at opportunities in both service or project gigs, how to market yourself, recordkeeping/tax considerations, and how to avoid some of the most common pitfalls. -
Small Business Marketing Made Easy
Take the mystery out of marketing. We’ll discuss defining your target markets, knowing the competition, effective marketing activities, low-cost techniques, building customer loyalty and more. Parking at Creative Arts Secondary School can be validated as long as you park in the ramp on the same city block as the school – the Capital City Plaza Parking Ramp. -
Smartphone 2
Can you power on and off, receive calls and send text messages, but want to do more? Learn to download and use applications, surf the Internet, text pictures, send email and more. Prerequisite: Getting to know Your Smartphone or equivalent skills. Bring your smartphone to class. -
Smartphone 3
If you enjoyed the first and second level smartphone classes but you want to learn more, this is the class for you. We will do a deeper dive into a few things including email, settings, file/storage management, how the device can interact with a computer and more.
