GOCAT to offer Microsoft Office certification program

WEST PLAINS, Mo. – Missouri State University-West Plain (MSU-WP) will offer a new Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification Program beginning Feb. 2 at the Greater Ozarks Center for Advanced Technology (GOCAT), 395 Jackie Garrett Ave., in West Plains.

This 16-week non-credit program provides industry-leading assessments of skills and knowledge through new project-based testing, giving students and professionals real-world exercises to appraise their understanding of Microsoft Office.

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GOCAT’s Employment and Education Specialist Roy Crouch talked about the program:

Audio transcript:

“This is the Microsoft Office specialist certification program and we’re gonna be offering it here at GoCat starting on February the 2nd and it’s a 16-week program and it’s designed  to give an individual na in-depth training in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

It’s gonna be broken down into two eight week sessions the first session we’ll start on the 2nd which is a Tuesday and we’ll run through March 23rd, it’ll be every Tuesday evening and it will be on Excel. The second session it starts on March 30th and run through May the 18th and it will be both Word and PowerPoint and it will run from basically 5 to 6:20-ish for Word and then at 6:30 to 8 p.m. it will be power point so these are two upcoming classes that will offer certification. They’ll be blended where you both in class and online training and it’s just a great opportunity for employers to take some of their employees and get them a good, solid Microsoft foundation.”

This is a three-part program designed for students to earn a certification for each exam they pass. The program is separated into two eight-week blocks. 

            • Session 1: Excel 1 certification, 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Feb. 2 through March 23

            • Session 2: Word 1 certification, 5 to 6:20 p.m. Tuesdays, March 30 through May 18

            • Session 3: PowerPoint certification, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, March 30 through May 18

The fee for this program is $800 per person and includes exam fees. The registration deadline is Jan. 27.

For more information about Missouri State-West Plains and its academic programs, call the admissions office at 417-255-7955.

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