The Microsoft IT Academy Program offers a comprehensive technology curriculum to help students learn the IT skills they need. The curriculum benefits include E-Learning courses and collections, Digital Literacy courses, and academic pricing for Microsoft Official Academic Courses (MOAC), Microsoft Official Courses (MOC), and E-Reference libraries. For help with planning your curriculum, please feel free to consult a Microsoft Academy Service Partner in your area.
Microsoft IT Academy members receive unlimited access to up to 250 award-winning Microsoft E-Learning courses that have been specially chosen to align with Microsoft IT Academy programs. E-Learning provides students with more hands-on practice through a multimedia learning experience. Educators can use E-Learning to expand their own professional skills and to explore ways to improve classroom learning.
The E-Learning portfolio includes:
The 2007 Microsoft Office system and Microsoft Office 2010 applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Access. Many of these courses are available in Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, German, French, and Italian
Windows Vista Desktop courses, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP Professional, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 7.0, Exchange Server 2007, and SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2005, ASP.NET, and ASP.NET 2.0; Visual Studio .NET and Visual Studio 2005; .NET Framework 2.0; and more
Microsoft IT Academy educators have flexibility and control in managing E-Learning courses with the online Instructor Learning Management System.
Using this tool, instructors can:
Select E-Learning courses for their students
Create access codes for the classroom
Manage group-level messaging
Access usage reports for each of their classes
View the available E-Learning courses (Microsoft Excel file, 140 KB)
Note Click the language tabs at the bottom of the Excel file to view the courses available in the respective languages.
The Microsoft Digital Literacy curriculum provides essential computing skills for those new to computing as well as for people interested in improving their current skills. The IT Academy Program uses Digital Literacy as a remedial or introductory tool for students and as a means of exploring new topics for others. This benefit is available to all IT Academy members.
The basic curriculum consists of five courses:
Computer Basics
The Internet and World Wide Web
Productivity Programs
Computer Security and Privacy
Digital Lifestyles (which covers digital media)
This curriculum offers the following benefits:
E-learning and assessment, so that students can skip concepts they have mastered and focus on the topics they need to round out their skill sets
A new Basic curriculum for absolute beginners, covering the basics of using the mouse and the keyboard, and a new Advanced curriculum for students who have mastered the five Standard courses
A Digital Literacy Certificate test for students who want to demonstrate their mastery of all five courses
Educator resources, including classroom setup guides, test item banks, and SCORM-compliant download packages
Local language learning for the Standard curriculum in: Arabic, Bengali (Bangladesh and India), Danish, Dutch, English (UK and US), French, French Canadian, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and European), Russian, Spanish (Latin American), Thai, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Tamil, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh
Find out more about Microsoft Digital Literacy today
Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) offerings are only available to academic institutions and are discounted (depending on region) for IT Academy members. This best-selling textbook series is published by John Wiley and Sons in partnership with Microsoft. Designed for semester- or quarter-based academic programs, MOAC textbooks provide a rich foundation for educators and students to expand their knowledge of Microsoft technologies and acquire the real-world skills they need to succeed in today's technology careers.
The MOAC textbook series includes:
Full coverage of Microsoft Certification exam objectives; lessons with real-world scenarios; and a wealth of hands-on practice exercises
180-day evaluation software that students can use to get hands-on practice (Office 2007 and Office 2010 titles only)
Online educator resources, including course setup ideas, lecture outlines, teaching tips, virtual labs, assessments, PowerPoint slide presentations, and educator guides
For select titles, MOAC Labs Online are available to:
Save educator set-up time
Enable student access anytime and anywhere to virtual environments of the actual software
Help institutions save on lab and hardware infrastructure needs
Find out more about MOAC textbooks (www.wiley.com)
Microsoft Official Course (MOC) offerings are professional courseware intended for IT professionals and developers who build, support, and implement solutions by using Microsoft products and technologies. MOC is available to IT Academy members at a discounted price.
Microsoft Official Courses are designed to cover the topics that employers know are mission-critical in the real world and are available in several formats:
Course—A guided learning experience that combines lecture and practice
Workshop—A collaborative, hands-on learning environment based on real-world scenarios
Clinic—A detailed how-to presentation of technical information about Microsoft products
Seminar—A dynamic presentation featuring business scenarios, case studies, and success stories
MOC labs require that you use Microsoft Virtual PC, which enables two or more operating systems to run concurrently on one computer. One virtual computer can host the virtual PC labs that provide students with a fully configured and consistent learning environment.
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The E-Reference Library from Microsoft Press is a premier virtual library for IT professionals, developers, and information workers who want to learn about Microsoft products and related technologies. As an IT Academy member, you are entitled to a 50 percent discount on all Microsoft Press e-books and a 40 percent discount on print books (shipping not included).
Microsoft Press e-books are hosted by the Safari Books Online. This library enables you to search more than 600 technology books by topic, code fragment, or problem. You can add books to your personal bookshelf, set bookmarks, make notes, and download up to five chapters each month. You can also read on any mobile device when you’re on the go. The subscription-based library keeps you current with new book releases!
The library includes the following series from Microsoft Press:
Training Kits (for Microsoft Certification exam preparation)
Resource Kits
Developer Reference
Administrator Companion
Pocket Consultant
Inside Out
Step by Step
Plain & Simple
Microsoft IT Academy educators are eligible for five complimentary annual subscriptions to the exclusive IT Academy E-Reference Library, which is a selection of 127 Microsoft Press titles for use in your classroom. This E-Reference Library is an online, subscription-based resource that you can use to learn and teach about Microsoft technologies.
To help schools and institutions make full use of their complimentary subscriptions, Microsoft Press has written a licensing addendum that will allow you to print and use parts of its books in your classrooms. For example, you could print a chapter from Microsoft Excel 2010 Step by Step, download and distribute the practice files to your students, and teach the lesson straight from the chapter—tutorial style, step by step.
IT Academy members can purchase subscriptions at the reduced rate of US$100 for the complete Microsoft Press E-Reference Library, featuring more than 600 titles. The IT Academy Program discount represents a 60 percent savings off the $249.99 full retail price of an E-Reference Library annual subscription.
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