Our open enrollment hands-on classes are very similar to the traditional classroom learning experience. Anyone can register for an open enrollment hands-on class. Students sit in a classic classroom where a highly skilled and experienced instructor. Most of our classes are taught by the author of the course. This ensures you are not getting someone else’s interpretation of the course, but instead you are getting real world expert instruction and guidance.

Each student is provided with their own state-of-the-art workstation and a manual for the class. A typical day involves lectures, demos and hands on lab time. Throughout class students are encouraged to ask questions and bring real world experiences to the instructor. Each lecture is filled with multiple instructor led demos so students can see what is being presented in action. At the completion of each lecture, students are given ample time to complete a step-by-step hands-on lab that offers hands on experience. The manual each student receives on the first day includes a copy of all the slides from the lectures as well as the hands-on lab. Students are free to take notes in the manual as the manuals are for the students to keep. In addition, most classes contain an associated ZIP file that includes sample code, utilities and other great assets students use throughout the class (such as in the hands-on labs).

Most of our hands-on classes are held at local Microsoft Technology Centers (MTC's) which are owned and managed by Microsoft (click here for a list of all locations where we offer open enrollment hands-on classes). These facilities offer state-of-art workstations. We preload a virtual machine on each workstation that includes a full installed and configured SharePoint environment. The only exception to this is in our Administrator and IT Professional courses where installation of a farm is one of the things students learn (not much hands-on in learning how to install and configure SharePoint if it is already installed and configured now, eh?).

We have hands-on classes for Developers,Administrators / IT Professionals, Information Workers / Site Collection Owners and Web Designers. For more information on our classes, feel free to jump to any of the following…