Smartsheet Essentials: From Creation to Collaboration for Enhanced Productivity
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Class Code |
Date |
Delivery Method |
Cost |
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ITS-2050 |
- Thu Dec 5, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
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Live Online - 1 session |
$300 |
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ITS-2050 |
- Thu Jan 9, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
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Live Online - 1 session |
$300 |
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ITS-2050 |
- Thu Jan 23, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
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Ventura Hall (Room 1) - 1 session |
$300 |
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ITS-2050 |
- Wed Feb 12, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
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Main Campus - 1 session |
$300 |
Before each session, Tech Training will provide a Zoom link for live online classes, along with any required class materials.
Note: This class offers an option for online and in-classroom sessions. Participants attending an in-person class must adhere to the Stanford Health Check guidelines.
Explore the basics of creating and managing work within a single sheet. You will be introduced to cell linking, reporting, and automated alerts and actions. You will explore the different Smartsheet views and how these views can maximize engagement and organization. You will also find out more about the many ways to collaborate inside of Smartsheet through sharing, sending, publishing, and update requests to internal and external collaborators.
Discover how Smartsheets can help increase work agility and collaboration by providing a powerful platform for planning, organizing, managing, reporting, and automating work.
- Learning Objectives
Upon completion, participants will have had the opportunity to:
- Implement organizational best practices to increase readability
- Use the appropriate Smartsheet features to collaborate effectively
- Visualize your work by leveraging all the views in Smartsheet
- Topic Outline
Create
- Maneuver Smartsheet environment by learning how to create and organize your work
- Organize work with hierarchies
- Edit columns to improve sheet functionality
- Increase efficiency with different formatting and viewing
- Centralize communication with the use of comments and attachments
- Create basic formulas
- Introduction to the views: Gantt, Calendar & Card
- Fundamentals of Project Management in Smartsheet
Collaboration
- Use update requests to obtain information from external collaborators
- Build conditional formatting rules to track updates and information visually
- Set up automated alerts and actions to notify collaborators
- Set row and sheet level reminders
Communication
- Send work via sending a row and sending a sheet
- Share work by inviting collaborators and assigning permission levels
- Print and publish sheets to allow greater audiences to view your work
- Prerequisites
Participants should have a basic knowledge of Excel.
- Special Features
- 3 Professional Development Units (PDU)
- 0.3 Continuing Education Units
- 3 Professional Development Hours
- Stanford Technology Training Program Certificate of Completion Awarded
David Casuto is a 20-year veteran in the fields of software training, curriculum design, and training facilitation.
Don is the Instructional Design lead in Technology Training, and has been at Stanford since 1998. He teaches collaboration and communication classes, along with courses on Google Apps, Smartsheet, and survey design.
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