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Bolstering student employability and empowering professional productivity
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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Enter Promo Code:
DSPTTQ0GSMIAFY2017
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