Hi @Joe Alfaro

Good day! Welcome to Q&A forum.

I understand you're an instructor at a nonprofit seeking to provide free, certified Microsoft courses to minorities in your community, and you need to know how to gain access to these resources for them. Although as a moderator I don't have the tools to directly assign courses to your organization's members, based on my research, the following references will be very helpful for you in setting up a learning environment for your organization:  

Your organization needs to be validated as a nonprofit with Microsoft: Start here to register and validate your nonprofit status. This is a prerequisite to access the benefits. This process can take a few days to a couple of weeks >https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits 

Connect and Report in Microsoft Learn: This guide describes in detail how to set up a connection between your learning management system (or Azure Active Directory) and Microsoft Learn > Microsoft Learn Organizational Reporting service feature overview | Microsoft Learn 

Create course Collections and share them with your members to guide them to the right content > Create and manage Microsoft Learn Collections - Contributor guide | Microsoft Learn 

I hope the resources I've provided will help users in your organization access free courses from Microsoft. If there is any update or I misunderstand you, please feel free to let me know. I will continue to assist you.


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A certificate and a certification are two different things. You can get a free certificate by taking a free online course that gives one. However, this has little value. It only tells the employer that you finished something.

A certification on the other hand, is issued by the owner of the technology/platform, in this case Microsoft. Certifications require that you pass an exam which requires payment to take. It signifies you took a great deal of time to learn the technology and passed a rigorous exam process.

AFAIK, there are no free MOS certifications.

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Data entry is like accounting - the key is to be precise and accurate. Data manipulation is like finance - you should be accurate but it is more about how clever you are / what you can do with it. From my experience in corporate finance for 15 years: You are either one or the other, never both. And it usually shows early when starting to learn stuff. You should figure that out with your friend. As for certificates: They can help to show that you have taken a course and have a familiarity with the topic. I would take the free ones and rather use them to figure out what you / he still needs to learn and where your breaking point is. Many people never manage basic formulas - they never get it. The next hurdle is vlookup / pivot table - that is beyond the grasp of many as well. I have seen quite a few excel sites offering basic examples to work through - do them to learn how to use the tool and work from there. When you apply for a job and you claim to have knowledge of excel (or other tools) a certificate is nice to have - but the knowledge is just as good if you can proof it. More on reddit.com
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Hi @Joe Alfaro

Good day! Welcome to Q&A forum.

I understand you're an instructor at a nonprofit seeking to provide free, certified Microsoft courses to minorities in your community, and you need to know how to gain access to these resources for them. Although as a moderator I don't have the tools to directly assign courses to your organization's members, based on my research, the following references will be very helpful for you in setting up a learning environment for your organization:  

Your organization needs to be validated as a nonprofit with Microsoft: Start here to register and validate your nonprofit status. This is a prerequisite to access the benefits. This process can take a few days to a couple of weeks >https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits 

Connect and Report in Microsoft Learn: This guide describes in detail how to set up a connection between your learning management system (or Azure Active Directory) and Microsoft Learn > Microsoft Learn Organizational Reporting service feature overview | Microsoft Learn 

Create course Collections and share them with your members to guide them to the right content > Create and manage Microsoft Learn Collections - Contributor guide | Microsoft Learn 

I hope the resources I've provided will help users in your organization access free courses from Microsoft. If there is any update or I misunderstand you, please feel free to let me know. I will continue to assist you.


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July 13, 2024 -

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