How to Make the Most of this Course

Here are some tips to make sure that you get the best experience and gain the required knowledge for a job interview or a certification, or for that matter, to enhance your skills.

Tip 1: Get familiar with the course content

Browse through the module structure to get a feel of the topics and associated assets. This will help you navigate through the course easily and also help you to understand the mandatory and optional topics in the module.

Familiarize yourself with the order of topics, as this will help you connect the ideas together and form a cohesive whole. The outline with the modules and lessons in the course is available later in this topic.

Tip 2: Create your schedule to complete the course

Set a target date when you want to finish the course and schedule time each day to study. Set a reasonable goal for yourself to complete each module.

Tip 3: Be an active learner

• Set some time aside for studying the course. Avoid distractions.
• When watching instructional videos, make sure to take notes. You can download transcripts and highlight parts of the narration that you think are important. Alternatively, you can take notes elsewhere.
• Keeping yourself engaged is important to learn more as well as measure your understanding.
• Go through the readings thoroughly as they help connect the instructional videos and real-life scenarios.
• Make sure to review the demo videos and attempt the labs. This will help you get used to the different project management-related activities that you will need to as a project manager role.
• Attempt all of the practice quizzes and read the feedback for correct and incorrect responses. Retake them until you get all of the answers correct.
• Complete all of the graded quizzes. If you get a response wrong, you can revisit the topic where that information was addressed. Review the topic, identify the correct response, and understand why that answer is correct. While there is a minimum passing score, you can retake graded quizzes for a higher score.
• Discussion forums are optional. However, it is recommended that you actively participate in the discussion forums. Provide thoughtful responses to the prompts and engage by responding to others' posts.

Tip 4: Inform your family and friends about course goals

Signing up for the course was the first step. You must make yourself accountable and commit to the course. Inform your family and friends about this commitment. If there are topics where you need a different perspective, get family and friends involved.

Tip 5: Follow through with your plan

You create a schedule for yourself in Tip 2. Make sure to stay motivated and achieve your set goals. Commit and execute! Be unstoppable and keep yourself motivated!