Online Training
3-day intensive Power BI training course
Live online training course - classroom version also available
Three days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)
This course is aimed at people who have already used Power BI a little (or even a lot), and who want to learn pretty much everything it can do - excluding DAX measures, for which we have a separate two-day course - in as short a period of time as possible. You're right for this course if:
- You're the sort of person who generally picks up software reasonably quickly; and
- You don't mind attending a fairly intensive three-day course online.
This three-day fast-track course aims to cover most (if not all) of the topics from our two-day introduction and two-day advanced Power BI courses in three busy days!
Course schedule
Here are our next few online Fast track Power BI course dates:
| Dates | Times | Price (excl. VAT) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15-17 Mar | 09:30-16:30 | £995 | Book |
| 04-06 May | 09:30-16:30 | £995 | Book |
| 05-07 Jul | 09:30-16:30 | £995 | Book |
| Show full list of dates | |||
Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider creating your own customised online course to run on a date convenient to you).
Course Contents
This fast-track course combines topics from the following other Wise Owl courses:
Data sources
- SQL Server / databases
- Excel / text files
- Websites and web services
Multiple tables
- Relationships
- Filter directions
Basic reports
- Getting data
- Basic visualisations
- Shapes, text boxes and images
Formatting visualisations
- The formatting panes
- Conditional formatting
Charts
- Working with charts
- Specific chart type issues
- Grouping and binning
Other types of visualisation
- Working with matrices
- Working with cards
Dashboard visualisations
- Gauges
- Single-number visualisations
- KPIs
Query editor
- Filtering rows
- Manipulating columns
- Working with data types
Filtering data
- Slicers
- Visualisation level filters
Drill-down
- Interactions
- "See records" feature
Drill-through filtering
- Adding drillthrough filters
- Back buttons
Calculated columns
- Adding columns
- IF and SWITCH
- The RELATED function
Overview of maps
- The types of map
- Geo-location
- Disadvantages of ArcGIS
- Other mapping visuals
Publishing reports
- Power BI accounts
- Power BI files (PBIX)
Power BI Service
- Publishing
- Dashboards and tiles
- Sharing reports
Advanced data models
- Connecting to folders
- Changing the source using M
Advanced Query Editor
- Unpivoting data
- Merge transforms
- Append transforms
Data load error handling
- Viewing errors
- Fixing/removing errors
If time
Parameters
- Filtering and drop-downs
- SQL stored procedures
- Dynamic connection strings
Custom visuals
- The play axis slicer
- The Chiclet slicer
- Other examples
- Pros and cons
Tooltips
- Tooltip backgrounds
- Dynamic report tooltips
- Visual header tooltips
Conditional formatting
- Based on numerical values
- Based on a colour name
If time
Dynamic display
- Dynamic images in tables
- Dynamic button hyperlinks
- Dynamic titles
Quick measures
- Date tables
- Time intelligence
- Showing selected items
- Filtering columns
Bookmarks
- Creating bookmarks
- Data and display properties
- Spotlighting and hiding visuals
Bookmark case studies
- Dynamic chart axes
- Dynamic page titles
Dynamic page navigation
- Page navigation buttons
- Controlling with slicers
- Drill-through with slicers
Power BI Templates
- Creating templates
- Using parameters
If time
Decomposition tree
- How it works
- Formatting the parts
- Locking levels
If time
More on Power BI Service
- Row security
- Q&A
- Analysing in Excel
If time
Power BI mobile
- Creating mobile reports
- Limitations
Benefits of our online training
Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl online courses:
- Maximum of 5 people per class
- Excellent colour courseware manual posted to you in advance
- Pre-course set-up included in the days before the course
- No need to install any software on your computer
- All courses given by one of our 6 Wise Owl trainers
- 519 references viewable online
What other people have said
Many thanks to those listed below for kindly agreeing to let us use their names. All of the reviews are from the last 3 calendar years (although some may be for classroom courses):
Shamarke Esse (The University of Manchester)
Ahbab Miah (London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
Elliot Knaggs (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Daniel Rowan (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG))
Philip McTiernan (Department of Health)
Refresh the page to see a different set of reviews!
How our live online training courses work
We've published a full summary of what it's like to attend a Wise Owl course online - here are the main things you need to know.
You'll need three things for the course:
- A computer (obviously) running Windows.
- A good internet connection.
- A microphone and (ideally) webcam.
In addition you'll find the course very difficult without an additional monitor (so that you can participate in the course on one screen, and use the software you're learning on the other).
Within a few hours of your booking a place on one of our online courses, we'll be in touch to get you set up correctly. This usually takes about half an hour, and can be done at any mutually convenient date/time.
A few days before your course begins you'll receive a parcel in the post (free for UK bookings) containing:
- A full colour courseware manual;
- An exercise booklet to go with the course; and
- A USB stick containing the files for the course, should you need a back-up.
Your parcel will even include a Wise Owl Sheaffer biro (they're good; trust us) and pad.
You won't need to install any software at all on your computer. This is because:
- you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed; and
- we use Teams for our online training, which you can run through most modern browsers.
On the day of the course itself you will be able to join the course up to half an hour before it begins. This will give you time to:
- familiarise yourself with the set-up;
- meet your trainer; and
- get to know the other delegates!
After the course finishes you'll receive an electronic certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).
You can see full details of exactly how our online courses work here.