Complete before Week 1

Make sure everything opens before the learning begins.

This short check confirms that you can sign in, create an email to your tutor, open Excel and Power BI, find the full printable plan and understand how weekly work is sent.

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Complete these six checks in order

Sign in to the course website

Use your eight-digit SRC student number and six-digit course PIN.

Open learner sign-in

Create an email to your tutor

Select the button and confirm that a new message opens addressed to mcclellandp@src.ac.uk. You do not need to send the test message.

Create a test emailI can create an email addressed to my tutor.

Open a workbook in Excel

Download the Week 1 starter and confirm that it opens in the Excel desktop app. Do not complete it yet.

Download the test workbookThe workbook opened in Excel.

Open Power BI Desktop

Start Power BI Desktop and wait until the Home screen appears. You do not need to import anything.

Power BI Desktop opened successfully.

Find the full printable work plan

Open Week 1 and locate Print / download plan at the top. This gives you every task and hint on one page.

Open Week 1I found the full plan and know how to save it as a PDF.

Know how to email the weekly assignment

At the end of each week, attach every file listed in the assignment checklist and email them to mcclellandp@src.ac.uk. Use the subject: Week number – your name – SRC student number.

Create an assignment emailI know how to address, name and attach files to my weekly assignment email.

Next step

Complete the checks above first.

Your progress is saved as you tick each check.

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