Microsoft Visio

Duration: 15 hours (5 lessons, 3 hrs/day)

Cost: $ 749 + GST

Each additional 10 lessons-10% Discount

Grades 5 to 12 recommended.

In addition, you will need printers if you want to print the drawings created in the course.

Course Description

Overview: Students will learn basic concepts for creating flowcharts, cross-functional flowcharts, and organization charts. This includes learning the basics for using and creating shapes, printing drawings, creating custom stencils, and many time-saving shortcuts and techniques designed to increase user productivity.

Benefits: Students will learn how to fully utilize Visio's drawing features to create professional-looking drawings with increased efficiency. Each project gives you challenging business problems to solve while learning how to create diagrams. Many of the techniques demonstrate the most efficient ways to create diagrams and manage your drawings.

Performance-Based Objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Identify Visio file types
• Understand the workings of the drawing window
• Draw basic objects and reshape them
• Import graphics into a drawing
• Identify master shapes and stencils
• Create custom properties for shapes
• Create basic flowcharts
• Create cross-functional flowcharts
• Create organization charts
• Know how to use the Page Layout Wizard
• Know how to use the Organization Chart Wizard
• Understand how to create organization charts from a spreadsheet
• Setup spreadsheets for company data to be converted to organization charts
• Print files
• Create custom stencils

Course Content

1. Before You Begin
1. Prerequisites
2. Getting Ready
3. Loading The Project Files
4. Software You Will Need Installed
5. Curriculum Overview
6. About The Manual
7. Chapter Overviews
8. Manual Conventions
2. Learning Your Way Around
1. Visio Standard Overview
2. Starting A New File
3. The Interface
4. Standard File Types
5. Changing View Settings
6. Panning Across The Page
7. Navigating Pages
8. Opening Additional Stencils
9. Manipulating Stencils
10. Selection Techniques
11. Scaling And Resizing Objects
3. Basic Techniques
1. Drawing Tools Overview
2. Drawing Closed Shapes
3. Creating Open Shapes
4. Reshaping With The Pencil Tool
5. Drawing Compound Lines
6. Drawing With Precision
7. Using The Size And Position Window
8. Duplicating Objects Quickly
9. Aligning Objects
10. Distributing Objects
11. Quick Analysis Of Connected Drawings
12. Rotating Objects
4. Creating a Basic Flow Diagram
1. Flowcharting Tips
2. Understanding Master Shapes
3. Placing Shapes
4. Adding Shapes With The Rubber Stamp Tool
5. Connecting Shapes
6. Using The Connector Tool
7. The Connect Shapes Command
8. Adjusting Connection Lines
9. Connecting Shapes Automatically
10. Basic Text Features
11. Adding Text To Shapes
12. Adding Text To Lines
13. Adjusting Text Blocks
14. Rotating Text Blocks
15. Formatting Basics
16. Formatting Text
17. Formatting Text Blocks
18. Formatting Shapes
19. Formatting Lines
20. Adding A Background Shape
21. Dynamic Connectors
5. Cross-functional Flowcharting
1. Quick Overview
2. Setting The Layout
3. Understanding Functional Bands
4. Setting File Properties
5. Page And Printer Setup
6. Creating Background Pages
7. Adding Fields
8. Adding Text To The Layout
9. Formatting The Functional Bands
10. Creating Custom Colors
11. Adding Separators
12. Managing Functional Bands
13. Adding Connection Points
14. Adding Detail Pages
15. Linking Diagrams
16. Linking To Other Pages
17. Creating An Off-Page Reference
18. Creating Hyperlinks
19. Linking To Multiple Files
6. Creating Organization Charts
1. Quick Overview
2. Using The Page Layout Wizard
3. Importing Graphics
4. Creating The Organization Chart
5. Adjusting Shape Placement
6. Creating Entire Groups
7. Overriding The Layout
8. Managing Detail
9. Creating Synchronized Copies
10. Custom Properties
11. Organization Chart Wizard
12. Using The Sample Spreadsheet
13. Updating The Chart With The Wizard
14. Printing Your Charts
7. Creating Custom Stencils
1. Creating Custom Stencils
2. The Stencil Toolbar
3. Creating New Shapes
4. Adding Shapes To The Stencil
5. Adding Imported Shapes
6. Editing Master Shapes
7. Saving The Stencil
8. Using The Custom Stencil

For more information on any course, please call us at (647)-430-7478 or Email us at:   hr@whizkids.ca