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Certificate in Mastering Computer Skills for the Workplace
with Elizabeth Flanagan, Biddeford Adult Education

Get hands-on experience with the most widely used computer programs in the world, and take away the skills to create professional documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.
Whether you're looking to enhance your current career or launch a new one, this certificate program will equip you with the skills you need to succeed in today's digital world.
Earn a certificate that demonstrates your mastery of computer skills for the workplace by taking all three classes in this series. Discover the power of Microsoft Excel to create, edit and manage spreadsheets, master the art of professional document creation with Microsoft Word, and bring your proposals and presentations to life with Microsoft PowerPoint.
This certificate consists of:
How it Works click HERE.
Certificate in Mastering Excel
with John Rutledge, Amyn Klous, Elizabeth Flanagan, Biddeford Adult Education

A must-have skill to succeed in business, whether an entrepreneur or a valued employee, is the ability to create, edit and manage spreadsheets. Microsoft Excel is the most used spreadsheet tool in the world.
Begin with learning how an Excel worksheet is constructed, populated with content, and edited for delivery. Discover how various menu items, commands, settings and processes affects the look of your Excel worksheets and workbooks.
Then, increase your efficiency by learning how to organize, display and calculate your data into useful information. Identify different types of data and how data can be best visually represented or formatted, by using different data tool techniques.
Finally, you’ll learn a variety of Excel’s most powerful features to analyze data quickly and easily. This Certificate will help you discover how to attractively visualize your data into meaningful information with confidence.
Students must have Microsoft Excel to complete this certificate.
This certificate includes:
- Mastering Microsoft Excel
- Intermediate Excel
- Advanced Excel
How it Works click HERE.
Certificate in Project Management
with John D. Fitzgerald Jr., Jermaine Dykes MBA PMP CSM, Gail Singleton, Biddeford Adult Education

In today's business environment, there is a need for good project management. Project management provides visibility of project health to the business and the customer. Through continuous monitoring, early detection of variations to plan, schedule, and budget can be communicated to stakeholders for quick resolution, including project cancelation.
Project management is one of the fastest paths to promotion by increasing your network through greater exposure.
First, gain the skills, tools and templates to confidently develop and maintain a project. An overview of salaries, certification costs, education and experience requirements are provided.
Then acquire a well-rounded knowledge of the five Project Management Processes relating to the Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide. This basic information will assist you in learning the beginnings of Project Management, whether you are interested in project management, in a project management field, or in any line of work.
Finally, learn the ten Project management Knowledge Areas and their support role and relationships to the five Project Management Processes.
This certificate includes and must be taken in the following order
- Introduction to Project Management
- Project Management Processes
- Project Management Knowledge Areas
How it Works click HERE.
Certificate in QuickBooks
with Marcus Lander, Biddeford Adult Education

Save time, track money, and get important insights with Quickbooks Online. Quickbooks Online is the leading online accounting platform. It is the preferred choice for small business managers, owners, bookkeepers and accounting professionals. There area patches and regular automatic upgrades to the software.
Get a comprehensive understanding of QuickBooks Online. Then learn how to work with more advanced Quickbooks Online topics.
A free trial version of the software is provided to use during the class.
This certificate includes:
- QuickBooks Online Level 1
- QuickBooks Online Level 2
How it Works click HERE.
Certificate in Workplace Communication
with Sally Klauss, Biddeford Adult Education

Good communication in the workplace is more important than ever. And critical to your career advancement and success. Come get a comprehensive and intensive preparation with skills and techniques you can put to use on Monday morning. Take back a workable conflict management model, along with successful and practical conflict management strategies. Then work with a pro to learn how to improve your negotiation skills for a win-win outcome, including helping others to get what they want, so you get what you want. Finally, find out more about yourself and others using personality profiles for better work performance. You will be learning from some of our more popular instructors, and taking away new how-to skills that work.
This certificate includes:
- Management in the 21st Century
- Conflict Management
- Using Personality Profiles for Better Work Performance
How it Works click HERE.
CERTIFICATE Marketing
with LERN U Got Class, Sanford Community Adult Education

This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.
Discover advanced and new best practices in marketing, the changing field that now integrates traditional print marketing with digital marketing for even greater marketing success. Young generations are embracing print as well as online media, creating this exciting new area of marketing.Gain advanced marketing concepts and principles such as R, F, & M analysis; AIDA, and the 3-30-3 principle, that lead directly to practical marketing success. Learn the secrets of writing marketing copy, including easy steps in editing. Acquire the understanding of how digital marketing and print complement and enhance each other, and how to integrate both kinds of marketing for even greater overall effectiveness. Start any month. Come away with a new marketing expertise to make your value in the workplace even stronger.
For full details, see: https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/sanford
Class runs: June 2, 2025, through August 29, 2025
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at AdultEd@sanford.org
CERTIFICATE Mastering Excel
with LERN U Got Class, Sanford Community Adult Education

This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.
Microsoft Excel is the most used spreadsheet tool in the world for creating, editing, and managing spreadsheet data.
Learn how an Excel worksheet is constructed, populated with content, and edited for delivery. Increase efficiency by learning how to organize, display, and calculate your data usefully. Learn a variety of Excel’s most powerful features to analyze data quickly and easily. Attractively visualize your data into meaningful information with confidence.
This includes three classes which may be taken individually or grouped as a certificate:
Mastering Microsoft Excel - $195
Intermediate Excel - $195
Advanced Excel - $195
For full details, see: https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford
Class runs: June 2, 2025, through August 29, 2025
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
CERTIFICATE Non-Profit Administration
with LERN U Got Class, Sanford Community Adult Education

This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.
Non-profits today need to be run like a business in many respects. You have competition, a need to generate income and a surplus, and staff needs to be even more productive. Get the best training on revenue generation for nonprofits, and program evaluation for nonprofits, with our Certificate in Non-Profit Administration. You will come away with the latest best information from instructors who train people in nonprofits.
This includes two classes which may be taken individually or grouped as a certificate.
Revenue Generation for Nonprofits - $495
Program Evaluation for Nonprofits - $245
For full details, see: https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford
Class runs: June 2, 2025, through August 29, 2025
If you have questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org