Project Tools

Project coordinators spend much of their day in a handful of tools: a spreadsheet tracker, a task board such as Trello or Microsoft Planner, and the shared folders where the project's documents live. Employers expect new coordinators to be comfortable with these tools from the first week, and to keep files organised so that nobody ever works from the wrong version. This course gives you clear, step-by-step instructions for building a task tracker with drop-down lists and automatic highlighting in Excel or Google Sheets, drawing a simple Gantt chart in a spreadsheet, setting up and running a project board in Trello, using Microsoft Planner, organising and naming shared project folders, sharing files safely under POPIA, and controlling versions so that everyone works from the latest approved document. All the tools covered have free versions or are part of common workplace software. The course is fully online and self-paced. Each lesson has a short activity in your workbook. You finish with a practical task in which you set up a real tracker, board and folder structure, and a final assessment, and you receive a MetaCo Certificate of Completion that you can add to your CV.