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Enrich your teaching talents and encourage your students' creative thinking as you learn to turn your classroom into a creative classroom.

Creativity will abound in your classroom as you tap your students' hidden talents. Learn how to use creativity to teach reading, writing, visual arts, performing arts, social studies, science, mathematics, and physical and health education. Develop creative new approaches to field trips, learning labs, activities, exercises, assignments, and evaluation methods. Think beyond the textbook and challenge your students by making your classroom a creative classroom!

Courses are delivered to you through expertly executed lessons, online instruction and interaction with like-minded students. Our courses are designed to deliver all of the benefits of studying in a classroom whilst giving you the flexibility to study at a time and place to suit your needs. You can access your classroom 24/7 from any device with an internet connection.

This course has a 3 month duration. You'll complete comprehensive lessons, quizzes and assignments before submitting your final exam at the end of the course to achieve your certificate. Courses must be completed within the 3 month access period.

Are you a creative teacher? Today, we're going to analyze the traits that creative teachers share and explore how you can apply these traits to your classroom. Then we'll exercise our minds by using brainstorming to transform everyday classroom routines into creative learning opportunities!

Can you encourage your students to be more creative? Today, you'll discover how to find your students' creative talents and even recognize students' hidden talents. You'll learn to be a creativity encourager and prepare yourself to help all students become creative thinkers and learners. We'll also examine how thinking relates to creativity, how to teach students about how they learn, and how to use questioning to initiate the creative process.

Does your classroom learning environment encourage creativity? In this lesson, we're going to explore whether your classroom is nurturing or neglecting creativity. I'll provide you with the tools you need to make your classroom a creative classroom—a learning environment that inspires, encourages, and promotes creativity! We'll also explore how to create classroom rules and objectives that encourage creativity, as well as creative testing and grading.

Can you create a space for creative learning in your classroom? Imagine a classroom where students learn about reading, writing, plants, animals, and mathematics at the same time, with learning taking place throughout the classroom. It's time to set up creative learning labs in your classroom, and in this lesson, we'll go over everything you need to know! You'll learn how to design creative learning labs for different learning styles, create themed-based learning labs, and best yet, find grants and other resources that can help you turn your learning lab ideas into realities.

How do you encourage reluctant readers and motivate creative students? In this lesson, we'll go over many creative techniques you can use to transform reading reluctance into enthusiasm. We'll explore ways to liven up those everyday reading assignments and make books come to life through creative reading. We're going to open our books and teach students to read, respond, remember, and relate—using creativity as our tool!

What happens when students can't write? In this lesson, we'll take a look at creative ways to eliminate your students' writer's block and encourage them to write creatively. After we get our students' pencils moving, it's time to fine-tune their writing skills with some creative assignments that will challenge them, encourage them, and make them enjoy writing, even if they can't yet write their names. We'll also explore freewriting, dramatizing, imaginative writing, and writing circles.

How do you encourage creative thought through art? Even if you don't consider yourself to be an artist, you can teach your students to create art and use creativity. In this lesson, you'll learn how the process of creating produces creative art. We'll talk about how to help students turn those early art creations into classroom masterpieces as we explore creative ways to introduce drawing and painting. Then we'll turn our classrooms into art museums for displaying mixed media creations. After that, grab your easels because we'll be taking art into our writing, math, and history lessons, too.

So what does it take to get a student interested in music and acting? In this lesson, you'll learn how to put students on stage—a friendly stage, a creative stage. We'll explore how to creatively teach music and drama through self-expression and how to provoke student interest in the performing arts across the curriculum. Some of the techniques we'll discuss include using self-expression in music—using mime, identifying with instruments, even thinking musical moods. And when we go into acting, you'll learn creative methods you can use to teach students to determine characters' emotions, create costumes, and create sets.

Is science creative? Through problem solving, scientists find answers by using some very creative techniques. In this lesson, you'll find out how to turn your creative students into creative scientists. We'll start by exploring the scientific method and how to use it in all your classes. We'll discuss using scientific knowledge in our everyday routines, like classroom discipline and testing, and then we'll take science out of the classroom as we explore some creative labs and field trips. Grab your lab coats, microscopes, and lab notes and prepare to think creatively!

How do you make a connection to the world from inside your classroom walls? In a world full of facts and figures, there are creative ways to make these items real. In this lesson, you'll learn creative ways to teach students to analyze, interpret, and be active participants in the subjects they're studying. We'll start by relating social studies to your students' lives by using the social studies connections in your classroom: the school's chain of command, classroom rules, and collaborative learning. We'll also use critical thinking to analyze social studies textbooks, and we'll create social studies learning labs and field trips.

Can math be fun and creative? In this lesson, we'll look at ways to make mathematical challenges fun through problem solving. We'll make math engaging, creative, and fun by organizing math field days, and we'll look at ways you can help your students relate their everyday lives to math through math learning labs, field trips, and much more!

Can you imagine a classroom of students eager to participate in physical activity? Good, because imagination is the key! In our final lesson, you'll learn how to get students moving by helping them to use their imaginations. You'll learn about creative movement, creative team games, creative cooperative games, and creative assessment. You'll also learn creative ways to keep your students healthy as they promote healthy topics and flex their creative muscles. You'll also learn how to use conflict-solving techniques that will teach students to think of creative solutions for their problems.

Robin Sellers

Robin Sellers is a certified teacher with a Master of Arts degree with a concentration in Technical and Professional Communication. She has over 11 years of experience in the traditional classroom and has been an online instructor since 2000, trai... Read more

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Once you've made the payment, we'll send you a confirmation email with a link to start your course. Feel free to get started whenever you're ready!

You'll have 3 months access to your course. In that time you are free to study at your own pace. The course duration is 24 hours.

Online learning is a flexible way to study that fits around your schedule, giving you the freedom to learn at your own pace from anywhere in the world. You'll have 3 months to complete the course and can take the multiple-choice questions and final exam whenever it suits you.

If you need help, you can contact us anytime. You can also join the discussion area where you can interact with other students. The discussion area for each lesson is open for the entire duration of the course.

Of course! We offer a 10-day money back guarantee. As long as you haven't completed the course, you can get a full refund within 10 days of enrolling.

We do not offer extensions or transfers for this self-paced course. However, you will have 3 months to complete the course, and if you need to cancel within the first 10 days of enrolment, we offer a money back guarantee.

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I am a licensed teacher staying home with my children. I am taking classes for licensure renewal. I am currently homeschooling my third grader and first grader. This class was perfect. I have applied many of the ideas in our school day.

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I am an Art major and think myself to be fairly creative. I was impressed with your very practical uses of creativity for the core subjects. Your ideas will help me, since I also have to teach these subjects. Thank you for the over-all coverage of elementary curriculum.

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I found this course to be interesting and useful. There were lots of great ideas presented that will be easy to incorporate into any classroom. All of the resources included in the supplementary material will be a great help.

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Crystal Reports Fundamentals

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Delivery Method Online
Professional Certificate
24hrs Suggested Study Time
3 Months Access
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1425 Students

Learn how to use Crystal Reports to create attractive business documents that are easy to read and understand.

Want to ""wow"" people with your business reports? In this course, you'll master the techniques the pros use to produce attractive, reader-friendly reports for any audience.

Designed for Crystal Reports XI, Crystal Reports 2008, and Crystal Reports 2011, this course will teach you how to transform the information that lies buried in your database or accounting program into clear, easy-to-understand documents.

You'll hone your Crystal Reporting skills as you get hands-on practice in extracting, sorting, and grouping your data. In addition, you'll find out how to include totals for groups of figures or for the entire report. Next, you'll master the art of building your reports and formatting your material to create a polished, professional look.

Whether you're new to Crystal Reports or want to enhance your skills, this course is ideal for you. By the time you're done, you'll be able to produce anything from a quick meeting handout to an elaborate annual reportâ€”and you'll never be intimidated by report-writing tasks again!

NOTE: Please check the Requirements tab for important softwareversioninformation before you sign up for this course.

Crystal Reports is the world's most popular software tool for creating reports based on data stored in databases. It's popular because of its power and flexibility, which will help you create reports that communicate the information you want to convey to the people you want to convey it to. In our first lesson, you'll learn why it's important to find out everything you need to know about the report you want to create before you even launch the Crystal Reports application. This advance planning gives you a much better chance of creating a report that achieves your objectives.

In this lesson, we'll hit the ground running and create a Crystal Report from scratch. From Lesson 1, you already know how to connect to a data source. Today, you'll learn how to pull data from that data source and place it into your report. Then, I'll show you how to use Crystal Reports to create a quick, simple report with a professional appearance—adding headers and footers, and adjusting column headings and the data itself. We'll also discuss how to arrange all of these items on a page for maximum visual impact. By the end of this lesson, you'll know how to create a simple report!

Once you know how to pull data from a database and display it in a basic report, the next step is to pull data from multiple database tables and display only the data you want, filtering out any irrelevant information. In this lesson, you'll learn how to perform these functions, and I'll also show you how to build reports that allow users to decide at runtime what to display. In effect, you can build one report that serves the purpose of multiple reports!

Displaying the information in a database is one thing; displaying it in a way that communicates effectively is another. In today's lesson, we'll review how to enhance communication by organizing a report's data in a meaningful way, and you'll learn how to use Crystal Reports to sort data and group related data items together. You'll discover how to summarize numerical data with group totals and how to obtain an overall grand total. And we'll also look into the drill-down capability of Crystal Reports, which allows your report readers to use a simple mouse click to access suppressed details of a specific data group!

In this lesson, you'll dive into the details of the various report sections. First, we'll discuss how to resize sections, and then we'll take a close look at the Section Expert, which is your major tool for selecting options that control the appearance and function of the various sections of a report. We'll also explore how you can control the placement of groups, reset page numbering, and move report totals. Finally, we'll take a closer look at the drill-down feature and hiding details.

Today, you'll get even more hands-on experience formatting a report. First, we'll look at a number of formatting options that Crystal Reports offers to help you give your report just the look you want. Then, we'll look at how you can use report templates to achieve a consistent appearance across a family of reports. And finally, we'll practice using absolute formatting and conditional formatting, features that can adjust the appearance of your report based on the data it contains.

With Crystal Reports, you can do more than just display the data you select from your data source. You can also show correlations between related categories of data items. To do this, you create a cross-tab report, which can show such correlations across the entire data set or within a selected group of data items. As usual, Crystal Reports provides considerable flexibility in how it presents the cross-tab data to users. In this lesson, you'll learn what the options are and how to use them.

You'll often need to create a report based on some, but not all, of the data in a database. For example, a sales manager may want to look only at the purchase records of her top five customers. Alternatively, she may want to view the performance of her bottom 10 salespeople. Crystal Reports makes it easy to produce such reports, as well as others that are selective about what they display. In this lesson, you'll create such targeted reports that make it easy for managers to make informed decisions.

The formulas and control structures in Crystal Reports allow you to make your reports dynamic, sensitive to what's happening at runtime. With formulas, you can operate on data and put the result into your report. You can also save time and effort by including one or more of the predefined functions in your formulas. You can even create your own custom functions, save them, and use them both now and in the future. These facilities give you the flexibility to produce a sophisticated custom report with very little time and effort. And you'll find out how to do all of this in today's lesson<strong>.</strong>

Crystal Reports gives you the ability to embed one report inside another. The two reports can be related in some way, or they can be completely unrelated. As long as you have a reason for displaying both reports at once, you can do it, and you'll find out how in today's lesson. We'll also practice embedding hyperlinks today. This can be a great alternative to embedding a subreport within a main report!

Charts and maps can add visual dimension to the display of information in a report. While columns of numbers may be an effective way to present data for some readers, you may have visual learners in your target audience who would be better served by charts and maps. Today, you'll learn how to choose a chart type that best conveys the information you want to emphasize. And you'll find out how to use color, font, scale, legends, and titles to help you highlight trends in the data or data points that fall outside of the expected range.

After you've created a report, you need to distribute it. Crystal Reports gives you several convenient distribution options, and we'll explore all of these in our final lesson. We'll talk about print and fax options, exporting a report to any of a number of popular file formats, and transmitting it to the people who should read it. You'll learn how to post the report on your organization's intranet or the Web, and then we'll discuss distributing reports via Crystal Reports Viewer 2008.

Allen Taylor

Allen G. Taylor is a 30-year veteran of the computer industry and the author of 28 computer-related books, including "Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies," "Database Development For Dummies" and "SQL For Dummies." He has been teaching computer course... Read more

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Frequently Asked Questions

Once you've made the payment, we'll send you a confirmation email with a link to start your course. Feel free to get started whenever you're ready!

You'll have 3 months access to your course. In that time you are free to study at your own pace. The course duration is 24 hours.

Of course! We offer a 10-day money back guarantee. As long as you haven't completed the course, you can get a full refund within 10 days of enrolling.

The Learning Environment

From the moment that you enrol in the Crystal Reports Fundamentals you will become an integral part of our learning community. You'll find yourself with the freedom to learn at a speed that suits you, on any device, from anywhere in the world. Achieving your career goals no longer has to mean compromising family and work commitments.