This course will provide a variety of awareness training on construction safety and health topics with an emphasis on identifying common hazards in the construction industry as well as avoidance, control and prevention. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will receive an OSHA Construction Safety and Health 10-Hour card.

This is a 16-hour course that must be completed within 90 days of employment as a security guard. The course provides the student with detailed information on the duties and responsibilities of a security guard. Topics covered in this course include the role of the security guard, legal powers and limitations, emergency situations, communications and public relations, access control, ethics and conduct, incident command systems, and terrorism. The passing of an examination is required for successful completion of this course.

This is an eight-hour course that must be completed within 12 months from completion of the eight-hour pre-assignment course for Security Guards, and annually thereafter. The course is structured to provide the student with updated and enhanced information on the duties and responsibilities of a security guard. Topics include the role of the security guard, legal powers and limitations, emergency situations, communications and public relations, access control, and ethics and conduct.

This is an eight-hour course that must be completed within 12 months from completion of the eight-hour pre-assignment course for Security Guards, and annually thereafter. The course is structured to provide the student with updated and enhanced information on the duties and responsibilities of a security guard. Topics include the role of the security guard, legal powers and limitations, emergency situations, communications and public relations, access control, and ethics and conduct.

This is an eight-hour course required by New York State as the first step in obtaining a security guard registration card from the New York State Department of State. The course provides the student with a general overview of the duties and responsibilities of a security guard. Topics covered in this course include the role of the security guard, legal powers and limitations, emergency situations, communications and public relations, access control, and ethics and conduct. The passing of an examination is required for successful completion of this course.

This is an eight-hour course required by New York State as the first step in obtaining a security guard registration card from the New York State Department of State. The course provides the student with a general overview of the duties and responsibilities of a security guard. Topics covered in this course include the role of the security guard, legal powers and limitations, emergency situations, communications and public relations, access control, and ethics and conduct. The passing of an examination is required for successful completion of this course.

After taking this advanced course in Data Analysis, you will be able to perform inquiries that will be useful to your business or organization, and have the skill necessary to communicate these results through graphs and text that your fellow employees will understand. Take the guesswork out of important company decisions and make decisions based on statistically significant information. Whether your business is home based or a large company, this class will take you to the next level where important decision-making is concerned.

We are faced with different types of business decisions each day that can change the data we work with along with our financial outcomes. Have you ever wondered what type of workplace skills you can learn to make wiser decisions? Learning Advanced Excel contains these tools that can help you prepare your worksheets accurately, examine your data for authentication, and then find those answers to your most difficult questions. This course will help you learn these required business functions along with the tools required to analyze data efficiently within the workplace. Save time for yourself by protecting your valuable data and know with assurance that the entered data is accurate without any errors. By completing the course, discover how to attractively visualize your data into meaningful information with confidence.

Expand your knowledge of Power BI Desktop to the highest level. This course focuses on the advanced capabilities of Power Query, Data Modeling and Reports. Check for data inconsistencies, design efficient queries, create proper relationships, and write DAX code to ensure reports update quickly and accurately. Add navigation and analytical features to your reports to enable consumers to analyze the results.

Take your SQL query skills to a new level by learning how to write more advanced SQL queries for enhanced decision making. In this course, you will learn how to write advanced subqueries, advanced join queries, and UNION queries that query more than one table. You will learn how to use transaction processing to ensure SQL statements execute completely or not at all and how to create stored procedures that enable you to store SQL statements for execution.

Acquire the basic skills to boost your web site traffic, including how to analyze your visitor traffic, how to use search engine optimization to get greater visibility and exposure in Google searches, and how to redesign your web site copy to increase your visitors and results.

This will be a survey class giving the overview of the brewing process. The instructor will compare and contrast German Style and English Style brew houses, cover a brief history of brewing, and give industry insight. Brew-house operations as well as the basics of brewing and best practices will be covered.

Students will learn the basics of malt and the malting process. They will be able to read a malt report and choose malt based on quality characteristics. They will understand protein content, moisture content, germination energy and favorable appearance characteristics. Different varieties of barley will be available for evaluation and tasting.

Water makes up 95% of beer and is often overlooked as an ingredient. Students will understand water hardness, where to find it on a water report, and best practices for adjusting water to make it suitable for brewing. Students will work hands on with local water reports and information to create ideal brewing water for a variety of styles.

Often the most talked about topic when it comes to beer. Here we will see how the different varieties of hops affect the flavor and aroma of beer. Students will learn the basics of hops, kettle hopping and methods for dry hopping. Whole leaf and pelleted hops will be brought in for examination and evaluation.

Students will learn the nutritional requirements of yeast in wort and the challenges of fermenting wine and cider. Methods for harvesting yeast and storing it for re-use will be examined, as well as optimal growth, fermentation and storage conditions. Students will work hands-on with brewer’s yeast to perform cell counts and determine cellular viability.

This class will dive into basic quality checks a small brewery can perform. From basic microbiological plating to gravity, pH, oxygen and what they mean to beer and brewing. We will show students some basic quality checks they can perform to ensure a consistent and delicious beer.

Experience common off-flavors found in beer. Hone your skills in identifying the most prevalent defects in beer. This hands-on workshop will allow students to familiarize themselves with ten known beer defects. Off flavors presented will be DMS, Diacetyl, Acetaldehyde, Trans-2-nonenal, lightstruck, and hydrogen sulfide and more. 

Learn the process of brewing to enhance your small business or take your home-brewing to the next level. Go from bucket to barrel in this seven week course where we cover malt, water chemistry, hops, yeast, brew-house workflow, and quality testing. We will cover the basics of reading malt and water reports, adjusting water chemistry, evaluating hops, harvesting and storing yeast, and performing basic quality checks for a small-scale brewery. An overview of the brewing process and best practices will round out the class. Students will have mixed lecture with hands-on learning, with opportunities to work with ingredients and apparatus. Learn how the science of water, hops, barley, and yeast meet the art of brewing to create quality beer and how some principles apply to wine, cider, and distilled spirits. Participants who successfully complete all seven sessions will receive a certificate.

New research and information is coming out frequently now about how your learners - and you - learn. Here’s what we know. In the last century, you taught everyone equally by teaching them the same.  But we know we each learn differently. So in this century, you teach everyone equally by teaching them differently.
  In this Certificate in Learning Styles, you get the most advanced information about the three most important and most prevalent characteristics you experience with your participants: generation, gender, and the autism spectrum.

The New York State Education Department requires healthcare, educational, and other licensed professionals to be trained to identify and report child abuse. Matriculated students at MVCC should consult with academic advisors before enrolling in this course.

The New York State Education Department requires healthcare, educational, and other licensed professionals to be trained to identify and report child abuse. Matriculated students at MVCC should consult with academic advisors before enrolling in this course.

This course shows you how to create a worksheet used to adjust the account balances and prepare the financial statements. Use your financial statements to measure performance, make improvements and set goals. The final step covered in this course is closing your books and preparing them for the next accounting period; this is done by journalizing and posting closing entries.

CPR and Basic Life Support for Health Care Professionals. BLS CPR (1 & 2 rescuer) BVM Ventilations, choking, and AED use for adults, children and infants. Students that pass written and skills tests receive an AHA BLS ecard that is valid for two years.

CPR and Basic Life Support for Health Care Professionals. BLS CPR (1 & 2 rescuer) BVM Ventilations, choking, and AED use for adults, children and infants. Students that pass written and skills tests receive an AHA BLS ecard that is valid for two years.

CPR and Basic Life Support for Health Care Professionals. BLS CPR (1 & 2 rescuer) BVM Ventilations, choking, and AED use for adults, children and infants. Students that pass written and skills tests receive an AHA BLS ecard that is valid for two years.

Learn about the online instructional environment, envisioning your online course, developing a web course, phases of design and development, design guidelines, and more. Discover the principles behind the adoption of technology innovation and the nature of the online learning environment. Then get tips for planning your online course, identifying resources and design guidelines. Discuss the phases of design and development and models, motivating student-student interaction, and managing interaction. Get the latest information on copyright issues, assessment and evaluation.

Today, every school in America has students who have been diagnosed with ASD (Austism Spectrum Disorder)—a neurological disorder on the autism spectrum. The effects of this disorder vary widely, but it is important for every teacher to understand how to recognize behaviors that may indicate ASD.

 In this course, you take away strategies for working effectively with ASD students. And you will find out how to work effectively with parents to create the most positive learning environments for children and teens with this disorder.

 The course is geared for K-12 teachers, but it is also relevant for counselors, faculty in higher education, parents and anyone else interested in understanding this important issue.

This course will address the social patterns of harassment, bullying, and discrimination including, but not limited to, those acts based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex. It will also cover the identification and mitigation of harassment, bullying, and discrimination and strategies for effectively addressing problems of exclusion and bias and aggression in educational settings. Successful completion of this course will meet the certificate requirements in 14(5) of Chapter 102 of the Laws of 2012.

This course will address the social patterns of harassment, bullying, and discrimination including, but not limited to, those acts based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex. It will also cover the identification and mitigation of harassment, bullying, and discrimination and strategies for effectively addressing problems of exclusion and bias and aggression in educational settings. Successful completion of this course will meet the certificate requirements in 14(5) of Chapter 102 of the Laws of 2012.

Being engaged with your online learners throughout the course is one of the three biggest weaknesses of online teachers. It is also one of the three biggest ways to take your online course to the next level, making it a superior learning experience for your learners. Come experience how to do it from the creator of the concept and practice of 'continual engagement' in teaching. Discover how to build student success through your interaction, how to give online learners feedback, communicating with them about everything from subject matter to delicate issues to grading. You will come away with advanced, practical, how-to tips from one of the foremost authorities on fostering online discussion. And you will see how your instructor models great interaction and engagement in the online environment.

Discover why girls waste 30% of their study time, why boys get worse grades than girls, why boys do less homework than girls, and the 5 learning habits girls get in school that hurts them in the workplace.

Your female students learn differently than your male students. Discover how girls learn. Take away 10 top tips for helping girls learn more, and the 5 tips to help girls succeed more. Then discover how boys learn. Take away 10 top tips for helping boys learn more, and the 5 tips to help boys succeed more.  Get info about research not available anywhere else.

In this course, you will learn how to post journal entries to the correct general ledger accounts impacted by each transaction. This course will show you how to make sure your general ledger balances at the end of each month by preparing an unadjusted trial balance. You will learn how to look for errors when you don't balance, and how to determine to correct entries. After posting correcting entries and/or adjusting entries, you will verify debits and credits equal with an adjusted trial balance. This course also goes through the steps of performing monthly bank reconciliations.

This course will focus on the influence of generational characteristics on learning styles. Your students learn differently than you do. Come find out how to help your students learn more and discover something new about yourself too! We will explore fascinating information on the brain and how each generation has responded to their unique "cohort experience." You will acquire the skills and information needed to facilitate Gen Y and the emerging generation of learners. Understand how your own generational characteristics impact your learning and your teaching. Come away with our top 20 generational techniques for helping your students learn more.

This course covers a wide spectrum of the role of insurance in the financial planning process. It examines a number of insurance and non-insurance financial products generated by agents and brokers. How much insurance is enough? Let's talk about it. This course provides eight CE hours of instruction. (BR, C3, LB, LC, LSB, LAH, PA and PC; NYCR 260535)

8 CE Credits

To become a licensed insurance agent in New York State, you must complete the 90-hour pre-licensing training requirement for Property & Casualty under New York State Insurance Law. This Part 1 segment covers Personal Lines Licensing and is 45 hours in length. This course will fulfill the requirement to sit for the Personal Lines licensing exam only. Textbook is included in tuition.

For many insurance customers, the only point of contact with their insurer is you! This eight-hour CE course will provide a variety of tips and hints for developing superior customer service skills. These skills can then be taught throughout an organization to develop a culture based on customer service. This course provides eight CE hours of instruction. (BR, C3, LAH, LB, LSB, LC, PA, PC; NYCR 237532)

8 CE Credits

For many insurance customers, the only point of contact with their insurer is you! This eight-hour CE course will provide a variety of tips and hints for developing superior customer service skills. These skills can then be taught throughout an organization to develop a culture based on customer service. This course provides eight CE hours of instruction. (BR, C3, LAH, LB, LSB, LC, PA, PC; NYCR 237532)

8 CE Credits

The ISO Homeowner’s Insurance Policy has been the standard of coverage for many years in New York. However, as life conditions change our liability exposures change, as well. Should your insured host a graduation party at their home? Are you covered if you rent out to a tourist? Can I run a business from my home? These situations, as well as many others will be covered in this fast-paced, timely course. This course provides eight CE hours of instruction. (BR, C3, PA and PC; NYCR 266660)

8 CE Credits

This new course will explore the liability coverage parts of the latest New York Businesspwners Policy.  From premises and operations through products and complated operations, this course contains the latest court decisions on a variety of business exposures.  This course is approved for the following licenses:  BR, PC, C3 and PA.

8 CE Credits

Easily the most controversial law passed by Congress in the last 10 years, it is still one of the most confusing. With changes in Washington D.C. politics, where do we go from here? Will New York State keep all of the provisions of the law? Who is going to pay for all of this? This course provides eight CE hours of instruction. (BR, LAH, LB, LSB, LC, PC; NYCR 254230)

8 CE Credits

Enter the fascinating and emerging field of integrated marketing. Explore how to move potential customers from one media to another, increasing their interest and purchasing. See how different media complement each other.  Take home an Integrated Marketing Model to help you choose what’s best for your business and industry.  Put it all together with a one-year integrated marketing plan that engages your customers, moves inquiries to customers, and projects a positive image for your organization and efforts.

Many of your business decisions involve comparing groups for differences. For example, would men and women prefer different product features? In addition, you may look at relationships between variables. Does product recognition relate to subsequent product purchase? This Intermediate Data Analysis course will introduce you to the statistics behind these group differences and relationships. In addition, you'll learn how to work with ratings, graphs and user-friendly reports of statistical results.

Have you ever wondered why Excel is one of the most powerful applications used today by many businesses? Excel is one of the most important applications that you can study now to take your skills to the next level!
This course will help you increase your efficiency by learning how to organize, display and calculate your data into useful information. Find out how you can consolidate your data proficiently into readable rows and columns using different table designs and styles. Create a unique style for yourself to improve your spreadsheet appearance to make the content easier to understand for your target audience. Learn from the trainer on how beneficial it is to become more productive in generating different everyday business functions. Discover how easily pivot tables can be created to quickly summarize large amounts of data. Through this course, these tasks will make your work outstanding and unique in what you do.

Delve further into Power Query to ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) your data. Build the Data Model using modeling features and relationships. Perform calculations using  DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) functions. Utilize Time Intelligence functions to view YoY or YTD reports. Add user friendly features to enhance your reports.

Discover how to write powerful SQL queries that enable you to retrieve data from one table or from multiple tables stored in the database simultaneously. In this course, you will learn how to retrieve more meaningful data from one or more tables stored in a database. You will learn how to merge data from multiple columns, how to create calculated fields, and how to order and group the results from a query. You will also learn how to create a single join query or subquery to obtain data from multiple tables simultaneously.

This eight-hour initial certification course is required for any renovators without previous training to become a certified lead-safe contractor. Bring a pen, pencil, and paper; all other materials will be provided. The course concludes with a 25-question exam. Students should also bring lunch.

You cannot manage remote workers like you manage office workers. But you can manage remote workers better, with greater productivity and efficiency. Discover the keys to successful managing in the new workplace of the 21^st century.  

Get a step-by-step practical guide you won’t get anywhere else.  Employees and employers both like the new system. You’ll want to apply these practices to your office workers as well. 

NEW - After completing this one-hour, continuing education course, insurance producers, consultants and adjusters will have a stronger knowledge of the effects of climate change which can result in flood conditions.  The time to learn is now.  This one-hour course is designed for insurance professionals who are NOT active in the sale of flood insurance through the NFIP.  (NYCR-273381. Approved for BR, C3, PC and PA). 

1 CE Credit

NEW - After completing this one-hour, continuing education course, insurance producers, consultants and adjusters will have a stronger knowledge of the effects of climate change which can result in flood conditions.  The time to learn is now.  This one-hour course is designed for insurance professionals who are NOT active in the sale of flood insurance through the NFIP.  (NYCR-273381. Approved for BR, C3, PC and PA). 

1 CE Credit

NEW - This course meets the new state continuing education requirements for all insurance licensed professionals.  As professional insurance producers, consultants, and adjusters we face the world with open vision and thoughts.  As a professional, our role is to serve the people of New York in the most outstanding manner possible.  After completing this seven (7) hour program, participants will experience hands-on examples of ethical situations, and participate in classroom discussions on diversity, sensitivity, and inclusion. In addition, professionals will become more aware of some of the most important regulations in our industry.   (NYCR-273382. Approved for BR, C3, LB, LC, LSB, LAH, PA, PC and TLA.)

7 CE Credits

NEW - This course meets the new state continuing education requirements for all insurance licensed professionals.  As professional insurance producers, consultants, and adjusters we face the world with open vision and thoughts.  As a professional, our role is to serve the people of New York in the most outstanding manner possible.  After completing this seven (7) hour program, participants will experience hands-on examples of ethical situations, and participate in classroom discussions on diversity, sensitivity, and inclusion. In addition, professionals will become more aware of some of the most important regulations in our industry.   (NYCR-273382. Approved for BR, C3, LB, LC, LSB, LAH, PA, PC and TLA.)

7 CE Credits

If you have wanted to become a notary public, but have been worried about the exam, this class will help. Don't let the terminology scare you−you can become familiar with the terms and laws and learn the skills necessary to sit for the notary exam and earn the license to become a more valuable asset in your workplace.

If you have wanted to become a notary public, but have been worried about the exam, this class will help. Don't let the terminology scare you−you can become familiar with the terms and laws and learn the skills necessary to sit for the notary exam and earn the license to become a more valuable asset in your workplace.

If you have wanted to become a notary public, but have been worried about the exam, this class will help. Don't let the terminology scare you−you can become familiar with the terms and laws and learn the skills necessary to sit for the notary exam and earn the license to become a more valuable asset in your workplace.

Get the keys to making online advertising work for you and your organization. See how pay-per-click advertising with Google AdWords works. Find out how to test low budget Adword campaigns. Learn how you can target local audiences. Then discover Facebook advertising and how you can determine the demographics and even numbers of people you want to reach.

This program will familiarize you with various aspects of the medical laboratory and provides a certificate and skills required to work as a phlebotomist in a hospital, laboratory, or medical office. Intense classroom instruction is combined with individualized clinical practice. Medical requirements before clinical include a physical within one year, TB test results read within three months of clinical start date, positive titers or proof of two Mumps Measles and Rubella (MMR) and two Varicella vaccines. A Tdap or Tetanus toxoid within 10 years and seasonal flu shot are required. Tuition includes an insurance fee. Purchasing the textbook is optional but highly recommended. Note: High school diploma or equivalency needed for employment.

This program will familiarize you with various aspects of the medical laboratory and provides a certificate and skills required to work as a phlebotomist in a hospital, laboratory, or medical office. Intense classroom instruction is combined with individualized clinical practice. Medical requirements before clinical include a physical within one year, TB test results read within three months of clinical start date, positive titers or proof of two Mumps Measles and Rubella (MMR) and two Varicella vaccines. A Tdap or Tetanus toxoid within 10 years and seasonal flu shot are required. Tuition includes an insurance fee. Purchasing the textbook is optional but highly recommended. Note: High school diploma or equivalency needed for employment.

Enhance your understanding of program evaluation within the nonprofit context.  Find out how to improve your evaluation planning, data collection, data analysis and data use.  Special attention will be paid to the real-world challenges that organizations may face when conducting evaluation, including staff time, costs and reporting evaluation results to funders. By the close of the course, you will have a complete program logic model and evaluation plan ready for implementation.

In today’s business environment, there is a need for good project management.  Project management provides visibility of project health to the business and the customer.  Through continuous monitoring, early detection of variations to plan, schedule, and budget can be communicated to stakeholders for quick resolution, including project cancelation.  The Project Management Professional community does this through the five (5) Project Management Processes supported by the ten (10) Project Management Knowledge Areas.  This course introduces the student to the ten (10) Project management Knowledge Areas and their support role and relationships to the five (5) Project Management Processes.

Acquire a well-rounded knowledge of the five Project Management Processes relating to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide. This basic information will assist you in learning the beginnings of Project Management, whether you are interested in project management, in a project management field, or in any line of work.   Come away with a solid foundation of the five processes to learn and use when any type of project occurs in your employment arena.

Now know how to work with more advanced QuickBooks Online topics. Become capable with such skills as how to customize settings, banking, credit cards, foreign currencies, statements for debts collection, using tags and projects.

This workshop satisfies the New York State Education Department's requirement for two-hour school violence prevention training (SAVE). The course focuses on issues relating to violence and safety for school-age children from both the identification and prevention perspectives. Topics include abuse and neglect, abduction, substance abuse, traffic and fire safety, and violence. Teachers' legal responsibilities, dangerous behavior identification, intervention techniques, effective classroom management, and promoting positive attitudes and behaviors will also be discussed.

This workshop satisfies the New York State Education Department's requirement for two-hour school violence prevention training (SAVE). The course focuses on issues relating to violence and safety for school-age children from both the identification and prevention perspectives. Topics include abuse and neglect, abduction, substance abuse, traffic and fire safety, and violence. Teachers' legal responsibilities, dangerous behavior identification, intervention techniques, effective classroom management, and promoting positive attitudes and behaviors will also be discussed.

Gen Y embraces print. Gen Z likes print even more than Gen Y. Amazon and eBay are both producing print catalogs. Find out the secrets to success in the almost forgotten but still remarkably effective area of print, including catalogs, direct mail letters and post cards.  Acquire the techniques to produce print promotions, starting with catalogs, brochures and flyers. Then learn the powerful words, phrases and how to write a direct mail letter. You can use these effective techniques in writing your emails as well. Finally, catch on with the hot new trend in post card marketing, including positioning and choosing images that send a visual as well as written message. Come away knowing how to plan, write and create successful print promotions.

How do you keep track of the day-to-day financial transactions of a business? At the end of the cycle, what do the numbers mean? Whether you are looking to advance in your career, are an entrepreneur, or part of a family business, this course will help you understand the numbers, where the numbers go, and why. You’ll learn bookkeeping terminology as well as what it means to keep track of the numbers.

Increase your business with YouTube, the online video site and now the second largest search engine. Discover the power of video for your organization, and how to use video as a marketing tool to reach and serve more people. Find out what types of video work best on YouTube, how other business organizations are using YouTube, how to create your own YouTube channel, and the techniques of adding captions, annotations and other extra features.
After attending this course you will take back proven strategies and techniques for making YouTube work successfully for your organization.

Learn how to get your YouTube video on the first page of Google Search. Just like Facebook, YouTube is a social network that needs to be set-up, optimized, and used regularly to be effective. Your patters of behavior on YouTube may be working against you. Learn how YouTube can compliment your current marketing and social media strategy and how to maximize your YouTube Channel to get the greatest return.

A must-have skill to succeed in business, whether an entrepreneur or a valued employee, is the ability to create, edit and manage spreadsheets. Microsoft Excel is the most used spreadsheet tool in the world.

Begin with learning how an Excel worksheet is constructed, populated with content, and edited for delivery. Discover how various menu items, commands, settings and processes affects the look of your Excel worksheets and workbooks. Then, increase your efficiency by learning how to organize, display and calculate your data into useful information. Identify different types of data and how data can be best visually represented or formatted, by using different data tool techniques. Finally, you’ll learn a variety of Excel’s most powerful features to analyze data quickly and easily. This Certificate will help you discover how to attractively visualize your data into meaningful information with confidence.