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.
It aims to cover all of the material from our (already busy) two-day Introduction to Power BI and a fair few topics from our two-day Advanced Power BI (Reports) and two-day Advanced Power BI (Data) courses in three busy days.
Course schedule
Here are our next few online Fast track Power BI course dates:
| Dates | Times | Price (excl. VAT) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26-28 Jan | 09:30-16:30 | £995 | Book |
| 28 Feb-02 Mar | 09:30-16:30 | £995 | Book |
| 28-30 Mar | 09:30-16:30 | £995 | Book |
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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:
Basic reports
- Getting data
- Basic visuals
- Shapes, text boxes and images
Data sources
- SQL Server / databases
- Excel / CSV files
- Websites
Creating data models
- Relationships
- Hiding fields and tables
- Renaming fields/tables
Working with visuals
- The formatting pane
- Conditional formatting
- Visual interactions
Charts
- Creating charts
- Bubble and other charts
- Grouping data
- Small multiples
Matrices
- Row and column headers
- Drill-down
Dashboard visuals
- Gauges
- Cards
- KPIs
Query editor
- Filtering rows
- Manipulating columns
- Working with data types
- Creating new columns
Filtering data
- Slicers
- Using the filter pane
Drill-through
- Adding drillthrough filters
- Creating back buttons
- Button drill-through
Basic maps
- Bubble maps
- Filled maps
- Geographical data categories
Calculated columns
- Adding columns
- IF and SWITCH
- The RELATED function
Basic publishing
- Power BI Service
- Workspaces
- Dashboards and tiles
- Lineage view
Custom visuals
- Ways to import
- Pinning custom visuals
- The infographics visual
Tooltips
- Tooltip backgrounds
- Dynamic report tooltips
- Visual header tooltips
Conditional formatting
- Based on numerical values
- Based on a colour name
If time
Dynamic display
- Changing background colours
- Line chart averages
- Dynamic titles
Quick measures
- Showing selected items
- Filtering columns
Bookmarks
- Creating bookmarks
- Data and display properties
- Spotlighting and hiding visuals
- Case studies of bookmark use
Dynamic page navigation
- Page navigation buttons
- Controlling with slicers
- Drill-through with slicers
If time
Decomposition tree
- How it works
- Formatting the parts
- Locking levels
Advanced data sources
- Connecting to folders
- Changing the source using M
Power Query transforms (1)
- Unpivoting data
- Merge transforms
- Append transforms
Viewing and fixing errors
- How Power Query handles errors
- Manually replacing errors
- Removing errors using merge
- Replacing errors using merge
If time
Parameters
- Input parameters
- Dropdown parameters
- Dynamic connection strings
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
- 536 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):
Paul Martin (Ashton Sixth Form College)
Donna Wright (Ashton Sixth Form College)
Stuart Allan (Lloyds Banking Group)
Sarosh Sethna (Sellafield Ltd)
Magda Zarzycka (Emery Planning)
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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.