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the July Microsoft Imagine Academy (MSIA) newsletter we announced
an important change in MSIA’s online learning benefit, effective
October 1st, which will enable an improved and more cohesive
learning experience for educators and students, with access to new
online learning as well as a modification to how and where
educators and students will access it. On October 1st, MSIA’s
online learning management platform and its related Admin and
Learner dashboards will be retired. This means educators and
students will no longer have access to the courses currently hosted
on that site, so please keep in mind that any online learning
course in progress will need to be completed and transcripts
downloaded before the site is retired.
NOTE:
MSIA’s Member Site is not affected by this change and
will continue to be educators’ primary MSIA hub.
Beginning October 1st, educators will be able to identify and
access specific online learning options using a new “MSIA Online
Learning Directory” to be made available through MSIA’s Member Site in September 2018. This master
directory, in easy-to-use OneNote format, will include links to
direct users to specific online learning resources supporting
MSIA’s four learning paths – Computer Science, Data Science, IT
Infrastructure, and Productivity.
In addition to the new MSIA Online Learning Directory, we are
currently updating some of MSIA’s most popular courses in our
learning paths, including the Office 2016 suite of courses and our
Data Science courses. These course updates are “repackaged” in a
comprehensive educator’s course OneNote, to include all of the
instructor, student and online learning content – everything in one
place!
The online learning tab within this OneNote course container will
include links to the prescribed online learning resources for the
course, with a list the topics covered and mapping to certification
exam objectives where applicable.
For more information about the change in MSIA’s online learning on
October 1st, review these Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). As this new
school year gets underway, we hope you’ll be sure to visit MSIA’s Member Site regularly for important program
updates we post on the new Notification Center page, and watch for
additional new content announcements. It’s going to be a great
year!
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