Clinic 5045: Inside Look at Developing with WSS 3.0

Was able to find time today to complete this free online self-paced course offered by Microsoft and was able to get a certificate for it. I thought that was pretty cool :) Course details and notes taken from the course can be found below:

Clinic 5045: Inside Look at Developing with Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0

In this 2-hour premium clinic you will learn about the rich capabilities that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 offers to developers. The clinic will focus on Architecture and List Management, Building and Extending Windows SharePoint Sites, and Packaging and Deploying Windows SharePoint services solutions.Having this knowledge will enable you to determine how to incorporate Windows SharePoint Services into your workspace solution development. Additionally, it will enable you to consider deployment options for your SharePoint solutions.

Objectives
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Describe Site and Workspace management and Document storage.
- Describe Integration with ASP.NET and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
- Describe Sites, Lists, Content Types and Collaborative features.
- Describe Programming with WSS and using the WSS Event model.
- Describe the Property Bag and Change Log.
- Describe SharePoint Pages, Master Pages and Content Pages.
- Describe Custom Views and Templates.
- SharePoint Designer
- Describe Web parts and Workflow support.
- Describe the Administrative object model.
- Describe how to create deployable Windows SharePoint Services-based solutions.
- Describe the Feature framework.
- Describe the Solution deloyment model.

For notes taken, you may go here.

For details on how to enroll in this clinic, please refer to an earlier post entitled, "myrampup.com".

myrampup.com

from lurking within one of the blogs i have recently started to follow, i discovered this online university offering some free courses, sometimes also known as "clinics", about the many development tools, programming languages, databases, operating systems, collaboration tools and presentation frameworks Microsoft has made available to the IT world. all you need is a Windows Live ID in order to sign-up.

courses im enrolled in

most courses come with a price tag ranging from $30 to around $200, but some fortunately, are being offered for FREE. i signed up to a few which i thought would be beneficial to what i am trying to do: gain more knowledge about the MOSS 2007 platform which means understanding also the frameworks from which it was built upon (ASP.NET 2.0 and WSS 3.0) and the database system it uses for storing user content and application pages, the same system it relies upon in displaying more intelligent reports to the audience (MS SQL Server).

the online classroom

im currently taking "Clinic 5045: Inside Look at Developing with Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0" and so far, im happy. i love that the content loads fast and are 80% narrated and that tool demos are available. the self-test makes the learning process exciting as well. i love that they are broken down into short-term, 2 to 6 hour courses making the completion of the course not too impossible. i love that the text can be copied from the transcripts. i love that the course teaches me the fundamentals and have an easy to follow format. i love that you can receive graduation awards upon course completion in the form of discounts on other e-learning courses and training kits. i love that its free!