Microsoft Project and Visio: Free Course

About this course

Connect project scheduling with visual process communication. This free Learn Skills Daily course retains the complete beginner and advanced tutorials for both Microsoft Project and Visio. The recorded curriculum uses the 2021 editions of the applications.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Relate a work breakdown structure, task durations, constraints and resources to a project schedule.
• Follow the Project demonstrations to understand how planned work can be tracked as it progresses.
• Use Visio’s drawing and connector concepts to explain a simple process or structure.
• Review whether a schedule and diagram communicate consistent information to their intended readers.

Skills you’ll gain

• Microsoft Project
• Work breakdown structures
• Scheduling concepts
• Resource planning
• Microsoft Visio
• Process communication

Course Overview

The Project training addresses building a phase-based work breakdown structure, assigning durations, considering constraints and resources, and tracking a project. The Visio classes introduce navigation and drawing components before developing more demanding diagrams, shapes, connectors and links with external information. Study each application’s beginner and advanced pair in order. A schedule and a diagram serve different purposes: one represents work and timing, while the other can explain a process or structure. Keep the meaning of the information clear before customising its presentation. Software licenses are separate from the public video lessons.

How to study the course

• Complete the Project beginner and advanced classes, then follow the corresponding Visio pair. Keep all four source sessions available for reference.
• Use a small fictional project to connect the two tools. A readable diagram should explain the work without pretending to replace the scheduling information.

Use the searchable classroom lesson list to revisit a specific explanation. Pause after a useful demonstration, reproduce a small example and explain the result in your own words. Keep a short note of what worked, what changed and what you still need to understand before moving on.

Who is this for?

This course is for project coordinators, managers, team leads and learners who want to study scheduling and visual communication. It is software training and does not provide a project-management certification.

Before you start

Basic project and computer knowledge is helpful. Practice needs appropriate Project and Visio environments. The recordings use 2021 software interfaces; licenses and current feature availability are separate from free viewing.

Put the lessons into practice

Describe a fictional office training project with a few phases and tasks. Define the relationship between tasks, estimate durations and identify a resource constraint. Build or sketch a small schedule, then create a separate diagram explaining one process within the project. Check that the task names and responsibilities agree between the two. Introduce a simple change and explain its effect on the schedule and the diagram. Keep the exercise small enough that every dependency and assumption can be reviewed.

This optional activity is provided by WikiFree for independent practice. It is not a graded assignment from the instructor. Keep your working notes, check the result against the task you defined and return to the relevant lesson when an assumption or technique is unclear.

Certificate / Assessment

Watching the public videos and using WikiFree progress tracking does not award a certificate, exam voucher, academic credit or instructor assessment.

Use your practice output to review what you can now explain and repeat independently. Completion tracking records your study progress; it does not replace an assessed qualification or professional experience.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: Learn Skills Daily. Videos play from the Learn Skills Daily channel on YouTube.