Your browser is not optimized for viewing this website.

More information »

The Center for Community and Professional Education

Filter by Category



Administrative Assistant

in Administrative

Excel for Self-Taught Users

$219

with Elaine Moore

Calendar Next available session starts Feb 4, 2026 at 6 pm, runs for 3 weeks

In this virtual seminar, you'll dive into a variety of Excel tools and functions—both commonly and less frequently used. Topics include freezing and unfreezing cells, applying conditional formatting, and protecting worksheets.

You’ll gain hands-on experience working with different functions, creating multi-sheet workbooks, and linking formulas across sheets. The session will also cover key concepts like Relative vs. Absolute cell referencing, Pivot Tables and Charts, and essential reference functions such as IF and VLOOKUP.

Format: In-person at the Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis Center location, 540 Main St., Hyannis.

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017. 

Excel Beginner Basics

$219

with Elaine Moore

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 3, 2026 at 10 am

This beginner-friendly, three-session course is designed to help you build a strong foundation in Excel. Across the sessions, you’ll explore Tabs and Ribbons to locate key commands, practice essential keyboard shortcuts, and learn basic formatting tools. You’ll also be introduced to creating formulas using the Order of Operations, as well as building simple worksheets and charts.

Course Format: 
This course is offered live via Zoom. 

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.

PowerPoint at Lunch: Slide Master & Basics

$49

with Elaine Moore

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 4, 2026 at 12 pm

Take a productive break and join us mid-day for a 1-hour, lunchtime mini session on PowerPoint! This quick and practical overview will walk you through how to set up, lay out, and format a presentation using the Slide Master. Whether you prefer to watch or follow along, you’ll gain useful tips to make your slides look polished and professional.

Stick around after the session for a brief Q&A—bring your questions!

Course Format:
This course is offered live using Zoom.

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017. 

Excel for Self-Taught Users

$219

with Elaine Moore

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 5, 2026 at 10 am, runs for 3 weeks
1 additional session on Apr 23, 2026

In this virtual seminar, you'll dive into a variety of Excel tools and functions—both commonly and less frequently used. Topics include freezing and unfreezing cells, applying conditional formatting, and protecting worksheets.

You’ll gain hands-on experience working with different functions, creating multi-sheet workbooks, and linking formulas across sheets. The session will also cover key concepts like Relative vs. Absolute cell referencing, Pivot Tables and Charts, and essential reference functions such as IF and VLOOKUP.

Course Format: This course is offered using Zoom. 

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017. 

Excel at Lunch: Transform Written Formulas to MS Excel

$49

with Elaine Moore

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 11, 2026 at 12 pm

Join us for a 1-hour Lunch & Learn on Zoom and discover how to turn written formulas into working Excel formulas. Bring any formulas you’ve been wondering how to enter—this session will show you how to translate them with ease.

Course format:
This course is offered using Zoom.

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.

Excel at Lunch: Excel Efficiency

$49

with Elaine Moore

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 18, 2026 at 12 pm

Join us for this 1-hour Lunch & Learn session filled with practical tips for working more efficiently in Excel. You'll discover faster ways to enter data, create functions, format cells, and organize your spreadsheet layout. Walk away with time-saving techniques that help streamline your workflow and free up time for other tasks.

Course format: 
This program is offered using Zoom.

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.

Reclaim Your Time: Learn New Strategies to Accomplish Mostly Everything

$79

with Elise Tofias Phillips

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 26, 2026 at 12 pm

Reclaim Your Time! Are you constantly trying to get things done? Are you struggling to accomplish all the things that need to happen? Are you looking for more balance in your life, while getting to do the things you enjoy?

Did you know most people do not use a time management system? Are you looking for a time management system that is results-oriented and supports you to become more organized, efficient, effective?

Join us for this time management course where you will learn a system that really works: from identifying and eliminating time wasters, determining priorities, creating lists that really work, prioritizing, breaking up and managing large and small projects, tips for digital and paper planning, and developing daily habits that will support your needs to accomplish what is most important to you professionally and personally.

This course will support the balance in your life that you have been craving.

Goal: To learn a result-oriented time management system that will support getting more accomplished for a more balanced life.

Participants will learn to:

  • Develop positive time management strategies and systems that really work
  • Identify and eliminate time wasters· Understand priorities
  • Set daily goals
  • Prioritize what needs to be accomplished
  • Calendar
  • Develop to do lists
  • Develop daily habits to support managing personal and professional time
  • Plan time digitally and on paper

Class Format
This course is offered live via Zoom. 

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at 508-375-5017 or ebrown@capecod.edu.

 

Word at Lunch: Set Tabs, Modify & Create Styles and More

$49

with Elaine Moore

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 29, 2026 at 12 pm

Discover the full potential of MS Word during this 1-hour, Lunch & Learn session. Learn how to set tabs, create and modify styles, and explore a variety of other powerful features. Join us to enhance your Word skills and unlock new ways to streamline your work.

There will be time for questions after the hour presentation.

Course Format: 
This course is offered via Zoom. 

Questions? 
Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.





Forgot password?
Staff Log In