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Microsoft Imagine Academy and Microsoft Certification

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Microsoft Imagine Academy Certification Workshop

Are you Certifiable?

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Workshop Agenda

12:30pm – 2pmWelcome and Introductions

Microsoft Certifications

o Why Certify?

o MOS, MTA, MCE

Hands On: Microsoft Educator Community Portal

o Teaching with Technology Courseware

Microsoft Imagine Academy

o Hands On: Getting Started with Microsoft Imagine Academy

District School Board of Niagara, ON

Hands On: Activate your Jasperactive account

Jasperactive – Microsoft Office learning solution

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Are you Certifiable?

2pm – 4pm

Choice your own adventure…

Microsoft Office

Specialist (MOS)

Microsoft Certified

Educator (MCE)

Microsoft Technology

Associate (MTA)

Benchmark

Assessment in

Jasperactive (50 min)

Review Teaching with

Technology courseware

Review MTA course

content to select your

exam

Take a MOS exam

(50 min)

Take the MCE exam

(100 min)

Take a MTA exam

(50 min)

Free Certification Exams!

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A Microsoft Authorized Education Partner.

An Education Technology company specializing in interactive courseware, certification,

software licensing, and educator services.

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Our Belief System

•We believe that every lifetime deserves to be maximized

•We believe that anything that changes a child’s life has to be taken very seriously

•We believe that the Microsoft Learning Products and their impact are the most serious part of the entire Microsoft Corporation.

•We believe that learning needs to be human centred

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Meet the CCI Team

Kathy Richmond

Account Manager, Canada

1-800-668-1669 www.ccilearning.com

Daniel Sweeney

Manager, IT & Deployment Services

Empower students and professionals to do more, be more, and earn more

Entry-level new hires

with certification

• Simplify the candidate

screening process

• Reach full productivity sooner

• Have longer tenures, on

average

• Have more opportunities

for advancement

Certified staff

• Earn 15% more, on average,

than staff without certification

• Have higher productivity

for server, database, and

application teams

• Teams are nearly 20% more

productive

• Can support complex and

evolving technologies and

security issues

The speed of technology

innovation demands ongoing

training - those with IT

certification

perform better and are

more confident employees

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The Value of Certification

Jobs In Demand by Technology

Toronto 1,374 321 479 10,609

Montreal 668 97 263 5,018

Vancouver 611 136 150 4,253

Ottawa 176 24 128 1,534

Calgary 131 35 79 1,506

Edmonton 133 20 26 1,384

Halifax 36 16 5 377

Winnipeg 37 14 13 674

Hamilton 265 67 92 3,302

Waterloo 101 19 19 1,006

Source: Indeed.com, March 2017

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Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)

The only official, internationally recognized, independent third party validation of core Microsoft Office skills.

The minimum standard of proficiencyrequired to effectively and efficiently use a Microsoft Office application in a business environment.

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Microsoft Office

proficiency is in the

top 4 skills

needed in today’s job market1

1 IDC Study: Top Skills Comparison 2013 2 Microsoft Office Specialist: Improving the Workplace, Credentio, 2001.

85%of supervisors say

Microsoft Office

certified employees

are more productive2

Why Microsoft

Office?

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Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship

• World-wide competition in Word, Excel and PowerPoint

• Students aged 13 and 22

• 400,000+ compete in qualifying round

• Approx 130 go to the world finals

• Each country has national competition

• National winners get all expenses paid trip to world finals

• Scholarship Awards: Gold - $7,500, Silver -$3,750, Bronze - $1,500

Learn More:

www.moschampionship.com

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Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA)

Want to build and deliver technology education with a simple, convenient, and

affordable suite of entry-level technology certifications?

Microsoft makes it easier.

MTA: IT Infrastructure• Windows Server Administration

Fundamentals

• Networking Fundamentals

• Security Fundamentals

• Mobility and Device Fundamentals

• Cloud Fundamentals

MTA: Database• Database Administration

Fundamentals

MTA: Developer• Software Fundamentals

• HTML5 Application Development

Fundamentals

• Software Testing Fundamentals

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Microsoft Certified Educators have the tools needed to provide rich, customized learning experiences for students.

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Microsoft Certified Educator (MCE)

• MCE demonstrates that educators

have achieved technology literacy

competency in six areas

• mapped to the UNESCO ICT

Competency Framework for

Teachers, Technology Literacy

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Hands On:

Microsoft Educator

Community Portal

Desktop shortcut: MCE Online Training

https://education.microsoft.com/

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Microsoft Imagine AcademyHelps prepare students for careers in a technology demanding world

Three Core Areas of Study

Microsoft Imagine Academy: Growing Academic

Ecosystem

Microsoft Imagine Academy

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Hands On:

Getting Started with

Microsoft Imagine Academy

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Microsoft Imagine Academy BenefitsSave time and money on course implementation and delivery

MOACMicrosoft Official

Academic Course

Up to 50%discount on MS Press and MOAC books, and Wiley

resources

Study Guides

Customizable lesson plans

THE DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDOF NIAGARA PRESENTS…

THE MICROSOFT IMAGINE ACADEMY

…OUR JOURNEY

LOUISE BERNARDINI

I.T. COORDINATORIT4 LEARNING TEAM

DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD OF NIAGARA

IN THE BEGINNING…

• DSBN first received a 2-year Microsoft Imagine Academy license with our Microsoft License agreement

• We didn’t know what to do with it…

• So we bought 4 more

ROUGH START

• We promoted to the wrong departments

• We started at a bad time of the year

• We went through a labour dispute

• We presented the program to the wrong teachers

THEN THINGS TURNED AROUND

• We had a great orientation session with Curtis from CCI

• We gained a better understanding of the program

• We found the right courses and the right teachers

• We got excited

ENDLESS SUPPORT

• Because I still had my regular role, I could only dedicate so much time to the MIA

• We ran into technical difficulty with our computers, group settings, permissions, and software

• Initially, I was calling CCI every time I setup a new student or teacher on the MIA site, on Gmetrix and when I administered an exam

• CCI spent time with our Senior Tech to resolve the issues

When we were experiencing difficulties, they even arranged for someone to be available for us while we administered an exam at 8:30 a.m. EST…or 5:30 a.m. their time!

WHERE WE ARE NOW

• We have 3 MIA licenses all starting their 2nd year

• One of those includes our Adult Learning Centre

• In the past year, we administered 287 exams

• This includes 8 classrooms and 84 adults

• Another course has had 7 students pass the MTA exam (Security, Networking and HTML) AND this is on top of the students regular class load

• Each successful MOS certification promotes the program to other students

STUDENT SUCCESS FROM OUR ADULT LEARNING CENTRE MIA

• Gives them an advantage in the job market

• Builds their confidence

• Provides them with certification to add to their resume

• Allows them to see where their skill level is at

• They enjoy the challenge

• One certification leads to another in many cases

• Many commented that they’ve worked with Word & Excel for many years, but they learned so much more

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Jasperactive

Jasperactive 30-Day Account

Microsoft Office 2016

WEP16-EX20-2969Expires 30 days after activation

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Jasper is customizable

.... customized means you can lock down lessons to these lessons only

"build your own tests"

as a teacher, you can program office to ask what you want it to ask students

One Size Does Not Fit All

Jasperactive is customizable with infinite possibilities

Teachers can choose how much they want to intervene in the learning process

Teachers are in control

- Build your own tests

- Isolate lessons and apply them to learning objectives

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Give students

something to

shout about! Earn and display badges*

across the web, social

media, and on a resume.

*Uses Mozilla Open Badge technology

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Are You Certifiable?

Try it!

Attempt a certification

Let’s get to it!

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Are you Certifiable?

2pm – 4pm

Choice your own adventure…

Microsoft Office

Specialist (MOS)

Microsoft Certified

Educator (MCE)

Microsoft Technology

Associate (MTA)

Benchmark

Assessment in

Jasperactive (50 min)

Review Teaching with

Technology courseware

Review MTA course

content to select your

exam

Take a MOS exam

(50 min)

Take the MCE exam

(100 min)

Take a MTA exam

(50 min)

Free Certification Exams!

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Bolstering student employability and empowering professional productivity

Microsoft Imagine Academy Certification Solution

Microsoft Imagine Academy

Jasperactive

Certification Exams

Education Services

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Curriculum and resources for academic institutions to train and

certify their educators and students on Microsoft products and

technologies in three areas of study: Computer Science, IT

Infrastructure, and Productivity.

Offer: 30% discount on orders placed by June 15, 2017

$1,250 ($1,788 value)*available for new MIA members only

Interactive, hands-on, live in application Microsoft Office learning and validation system mapped to the Microsoft Office Specialist certification exam objectives.

Offer: 30% discount on orders placed by June 15, 2017$2,099 ($2,999 value)

Own the Future with Microsoft CertificationBring life changing career skills to your students

r studentsEverything students, staff, and faculty need to assess, teach, practice, and certify

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• Support and training in becoming a Certiport Authorized Testing

Center and use of Console8

• Unpacking your Microsoft Imagine Academy Subscription virtual

training

• Jasperactive virtual training

• Ongoing support and service

• MOS/MCE Combo pack (125)

• MOS/MTA/MCE Combo pack (500)

• MTA/MCE Combo pack (125)

• Individual Exam Vouchers

Certification Exams

Own the Future with Microsoft CertificationBring life changing career skills to your students

r studentsEverything students, staff, and faculty need to assess, teach, practice, and certify

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Questions?

Kathy Richmond

krichmond@ccilearning.com

(855) 211-2023