Shave hours off your work time! Create budget and expense reports by entering and copying formulas and functions. Format spreadsheets with different fonts, styles, shading, and color. Create and print colorful bar, line, and pie graphs. Use the database functions to sort and print records. Flash drive required: Must have some experience with Windows and the keyboard. Students must activate their My Northshore account prior to first class.

WordPress has grown to become one of the world's most popular content management systems (CMS) and blogging tools. Creating a simple blog or website no longer requires knowledge of any programming language. Learn how to get your blog or website started from installing and configuring the software, to using themes, plug-ins, and widgets. At conclusion, you will have begun to design and develop your first blog or website along with managing and changing content, creating posts, adding pages, embedding video and changing media files. Students must activate their My Northshore account prior to first class.

The North Shore is a spectacular place to shoot photos especially in the Summer. Each class meeting, we will gather at some local, photogenic area and discover new ways of capturing the beauty of our region. While shooting you will learn about creative composition and the way light, shadows and textures help to create great photographs. Bring any camera you wish from cell phone to DSLR to mirrorless, the basics are the same and you'll develop your "photographer's eye" as we build our portfolios.

Have some typing skills, familiar with the keyboard and Windows? Time to take it to the next level. Learn to create, format, and print all types of documents. Discuss file management, text management, formatting, and much more. Flash drive required: Students must activate their My Northshore account prior to first class.

An ideal beginner's class from learning computer hardware basics to exploring Windows and Microsoft Office (including Word). Learn through hands-on sessions to open, close, size and switch between windows; create, edit, format, save and print a document. Build the necessary foundation for further study in computers. Knowledge of the keyboard is necessary. Students must activate their My Northshore account prior to first class. To register: To register: Please call (978) 236-1200.

CompTIA IT Fundamentals certification is your launch pad for an IT career. Course provides a strong IT foundation for non-technical professionals and advanced end-users at home, work, college, or high school. Focus on essential IT skills including features and functions of common operating systems and establishing network connectivity, identifying common software applications and their purpose, and using security and web browsing best practices. Prepares you for the CompTIA IT Fundamentals examination (Exam FC0-U61) and is a suggested prerequisite to CompTIA A+. Cost of the exam is not included in the cost of the program. Textbook required: For textbook information visit: https://store.comptia.org/p/978-1-64274-089-9. Students have the option of attending face to face, via video conference, or a combination of the two.

If you've always been shooting in Auto mode, you'll be amazed at how much your images can improve when you take control of your camera settings. Learn the different features on your camera, how to use them, and techniques that result in more creative images. Topics include exposure controls (ISO, aperture, and shutter speed), scene presets, exposure modes, focus options, composition, color balance, lens choice and the use of in-camera flash. The camera required for this class needs to allow you to leave Auto and work in other modes. Have your camera available as we explore technical and artistic ways to better your photography. This virtual class will meet live using the Zoom platform which requires a computer with microphone, camera and internet access. Textbook required: Stunning Digital Photography by Tony and Chelsea Northrup.

Excel for the Workplace: Level IIITopics in this advanced course include, financial functions, goal seek, solver, H and V Lookup; formula auditing tools; tracking changes;consolidations, and integration. Prerequisite: Intermediate Excel or have a strong working knowledge of the program. Flashdrive required. .Students must activate their My Northshore account  prior to first class