A good night’s sleep is important not only for your health and well-being, but also for your personal and professional performance. This course is designed to help you get a better night’s sleep, so that you can be your very best each day. First, learn how to practice using your breath to clear your mind, steady your thoughts, and stay present in the moment. Go through the steps of adding then releasing tension to each portion of your body to gain a deeper sense of relief and relaxation. Learn the process of being thankful for all of the good things that happened in your day. Find out how to reconnect with your current physical sensations and redirect them toward the way you actually want to experience your night and morning. In conclusion, explore how to get comfortable and give your body space to fully relax.

This course was created by Chill Anywhere. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Whether you are upgrading or starting with a new operating system out of the box, give yourself the peace of mind that your system will be secure by taking a few necessary actions. In this course, Martin Guidry guides you through each essential security step. Martin takes you through familiar ground, such as standard account setup with accounts, authorization, user groups, and permissions. He also takes you through unfamiliar territory like enhanced features and new products, examining BitLocker, Encrypting File System (EFS), Windows Defender, IPsec, and VPN. Martin shows you how to protect your computer from a network attack, apply security policies in Group Policy, use remote desktop, and more. He gives you step-by-step walkthroughs, in addition to best practice discussions.

A newer OS may have already debuted, but Windows 10 is not a relic of the past. Until Windows 11 is more widely adopted, many IT professionals will still be charged with supporting users and troubleshooting Windows 10 in their organization. In this course, 20-time Microsoft MVP Brien Posey shows you what it takes to do this, providing a practical look at what IT pros need to know to support this OS. Get practical information that you can use right away, including tips on application performance and compatibility, remote connectivity to user systems, and backup. Plus, Brian steps through how to set up some of the latest Surface accessories.

For all the amazing things that Wi-Fi lets you do, when it doesn’t work, it can lead to frustrations, productivity losses, and other serious problems. It can be slow and almost unusable. It can lack proper security. So how do you solve these problems? In this course, Robert McMillen helps you address your wireless connectivity issues, sharing his knowledge from over 20 years of experience in the information technology field. Robert discusses common troubleshooting tools and shows how to solve many client connectivity problems. He shows how to properly secure your Wi-Fi network, how to track down causes of wireless network interference, and covers hardware problems, security issues, and misconfigurations. If you’re looking for Wi-Fi fixes beyond “turning it off and turning it back on again,” connect with Robert in this course.

Explore how to create, edit, format, and share documents with ease, using Microsoft Word 2021. Nick Brazzi, LinkedIn Learning staff instructor, walks you through all the essential features of this powerful tool. Nick goes over creating, editing, and saving documents, with topics like working with ribbons and the Backstage View, using templates, finding tools, and more. He covers ways to shrink and enlarge your document view, manage dark mode, and use the immersive reader. After explaining ways to write and format text, Nick dives into a variety of tools you can use to format paragraphs. He demonstrates how to use text boxes, shapes, drawing tools, and tables to insert and format pictures and other objects. Nick goes into formatting pages and entire documents, as well. After describing how to check and correct the spelling and grammar in your documents, he finishes up with a discussion of ways you can share and collaborate on your Word files.

Learn how to create, edit, format, and share documents with ease using Word for Mac for Microsoft 365. Follow along with David Rivers as he shows all the essential features of this powerful tool. Get started by learning how to edit and format text and pages, use both built-in and custom styles, leverage proofing and AutoCorrect options, add shapes and images, and more. He also shows how to share documents with others via email and the cloud, as well as how to add password protection to a document you plan on sharing.

Learn how to create, edit, format, and share documents with ease using Word for Mac for Office 365. Follow along with David Rivers as he shows all the essential features of this powerful tool. Get started by learning how to edit and format text and pages, use both built-in and custom styles, leverage proofing and AutoCorrect options, add shapes and images, and more. He also shows how to share documents with others via email and the cloud, as well as how to add password protection to a document you plan on sharing.

Learn how to use Word styles to help save time creating consistent and well-designed documents. Instructor Gini von Courter shows how to create, apply, and modify a variety of style types, from paragraph styles to list styles. More advanced topics include generating a dynamic table of contents from styles, using style sets, restricting formatting and document use with styles, using keyboard shortcuts, and much more. Plus, learn how to manage and copy styles between documents using the Organizer.

Microsoft Word templates consist of predefined page layouts, fonts, margins, and styles, and offer the power to reuse the same structure and styles in numerous documents. In this course, Gini von Courter demonstrates how to work with premade Word templates and create custom templates that you can share with your team. Discover how to quickly build professional forms, resumes, invoices, fax cover letters, and more. Plus, explore advanced template options including the use of field codes and the building block gallery.

Slow loading speeds equal lost customers. In this course, instructor Patrick Rauland walks through steps you can take to make a typical WordPress site lightning fast. Patrick explains why speed is so important, then shows you how to check and monitor your speed. He describes how websites slow down and how to identify static and dynamic WordPress sites. Patrick goes into hosting and all the ways a good website host can speed up your site. He covers ways you can make sure media isn’t slowing down your site, such as optimizing images, using a content delivery network (CDN), and offloading audio and video files. Patrick shows you how to balance fast versus functional, in making sure plugins don’t slow down your site. After going over how to make your database more efficient, Patrick concludes with a discussion of caching and how “busting” your cache can speed up your site.

WordPress is the dominant CMS on the web, and one of the reasons for its popularity is its consistency. From its inception in 2003 until very recently, the functionality of WordPress stayed the same. But with the introduction of the block editor in 2018, WordPress started a shift to a new paradigm. Understandably, many people were and are still resistant to move on from the CMS they know and love. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen makes the case for embracing the new vision of WordPress (besides the fact that the Classic Editor plugin won’t be maintained after 2022), covering the new opportunities as well as the new challenges. Step into the future with Morten as he teaches you how to migrate your pages to blocks, gives you a preview of full site editing, shares key terminology to know in the new WordPress, talks about the future of themes, and explains how to be a part of the WordPress community and have a say about the future of the application.

If you have a WordPress site, you may have heard that you can benefit from using a content delivery network (CDN), but you might not understand the technology or how to use it. This course teaches what you need to know to confidently use a CDN with a WordPress site.

CDNs are great, but they aren't necessary for every website. Instructor Carrie Dils explains what a CDN is, what types of sites benefit from a CDN, and what type of content a CDN serves. What if your web host already has a CDN, but you want to use your own? Carrie shows you how to proceed. A CDN is just one part of a larger strategy for optimizing your website for speed, and Carrie explains some other parts to consider. Carrie walks you through how to choose a CDN provider and reviews key features of several popular CDN providers. Once you’ve chosen a CDN provider, you’ll need to enable, configure, and integrate the CDN. Carrie shows you how to navigate that process successfully, including how to speed test your site.

While the ease of use of the WordPress dashboard is one of the main draws of the platform, there are instances when using the command-line interface, or CLI, has distinct advantages. For example, repeated actions like updating themes or deleting spam comments can be done with a single CLI command. Using WP-CLI, you can also write scripts to automate processes like nightly backups, updating plugins, or even full WordPress installs. In this course, Joe Casabona takes you through the vast and flexible uses of WP-CLI, starting with basics like managing posts and content, to working with the WordPress database, and everything in between. By the end of this course, you’ll see how to execute nearly all WordPress dashboard tasks from WP-CLI, leaving you with the freedom to decide the best method for each scenario and task.

Drones have become the standard for aerial photography. In the past, photographers and videographers had to hire an airplane or helicopter. Today remote pilots can do the job! Many photographers have an aerial vehicle to supplement their earth-bound cameras. In this course, instructors Luisa Winters and Francis Torres cover in depth the core information you need to do professional work with your drone. Topics include the basis of legal issues; how to get clients; how to fly your drone for construction, cinematic, and real estate clients; special considerations when flying your drone at night; and how to fly for hyperlapses and 360-degree video. Get informed and maximize the potential of your drone!

Note: This course was created by Luisa Winters. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

A LinkedIn Learning membership gives you access to an incredibly rich resource: exercise files that allow you to follow along with the very same project as the instructor. For many of our technology courses, that project lives in GitHub. This course shows how to access GitHub exercise files—from the command line as well as from several popular IDEs, including Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA, and GitHub Desktop. Learn how to locate the repository, clone it to your computer, and work with branches. Plus, learn how to save, commit, and roll back branch changes with Git commands. By the end of the course, you’ll have everything you need to start working with these valuable assets.

There's a secret storytelling code at the heart of almost all great novels. In this course, author Jessica Brody lays out the 15 essential beats, or plot points, that make readers want to keep turning the page. Filled with tips on plot and story structure, this course is based on Blake Snyder's famous "Save the Cat!" plotting method. Upon wrapping up the course, you'll have the tools you need to create a complete road map to your novel.

Great orators make speaking to large crowds look easy. But the ability to craft and deliver a great speech isn't a talent possessed only by a select few. With the right preparation, anyone can deliver a speech worthy of a standing ovation. In this course, Duke University professor Dr. Daisy Lovelace shows you how, sharing tips for writing and delivering the perfect speech for a variety of occasions. Daisy highlights the key differences between speeches and presentations. She goes over how to tailor your speech to your target audience and set yourself up for success by confirming key logistical details. And since more and more meetings and events are going remote, Daisy discusses how to stage and deliver a compelling virtual speech. She then provides guidance on writing speeches with different purposes, such as speeches that are primarily informative or persuasive, speeches designed to honor a person or team for their accomplishments, and award acceptance speeches.

In this course, instructor Sam Bennett shows you how to write great emails that'll leave a positive impression. First, Sam explains that being both personal and direct contributes to a high ROI, no matter who your recipient is. She goes over how to utilize the basic types of emails: inquiry, transactional or informational, and marketing or sales. She steps you through how to write engaging yet clear emails that grab your customer's attention and keep it. Sam teaches you what makes a good story work and what will convert prospects to customers. She walks you through best practices to make sure your emails get read at the right time by the right people and how to craft a relevant call to action. She shows you how you can reuse emails as blog posts, social media posts, and even compiled as ebooks. Sam concludes by discussing how to leverage email content to improve your FAQ and About US pages.

This course was created by Madecraft. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

White papers were originally produced by governments, but now serve a vital purpose in marketing departments worldwide. A white paper is a deep dive into a concept, initiative, or product, designed to educate and persuade by framing issues in a clear way. In this course, corporate communications pro Tom Geller leads you through the format, purposes, and uses of white papers; helps you define what you want your paper to be; and then helps you make it a reality. You'll finish this course with information about where white papers fit in the greater business ecosystem—and how to make your paper the best it can be.

Have you ever had to cite a sight you saw while on site? English has many troublesome words that people commonly confuse, which can lead to misunderstandings, confusion, and embarrassment. Using the wrong word can affect your credibility and have an adverse effect on communication. In this course, Mignon Fogarty, better known as Grammar Girl, covers some of the most frequently misused words, from words that sound the same, like “compliment” and “complement,” to words with commonly misunderstood meanings, like “farther” and “further.” Learn how to write with more confidence, make fewer mistakes, and spend less time doubting how to use these tricky words.