About Course
An Excel Expert is a person who collects, organizes, and analyzes data. She/He is also involved in finding, editing and analyzing data, creating databases and writing reports with conclusions.
There are various techniques of data analysis, which an excel expert must understand in order to perform efficiently. Data analysis is important as it assist humans in getting the insight of patterns related to business, customer, revenue, etc.
Therefore, doing the analysis helps to produce the best results for the decision making.
The conclusions made by excel expert based on data are very helpful in every organization for forecasting the business speculations.
Why one should consider this course ?
Today’s world is digital and every information is stored digitally.
The person who has just basic skills can just do a data entry job in Excel and will not be able to generate meaningful reports from the entered data.
Every now and then the information which is stored digitally needs to be analysed to make proper decisions
Nowadays most of the office tasks related to Accounts, Admin, HR, Sales, Purchase, Stock etc. are managed by using Excel.
The person who has advanced excel skills plays a major role in the management of information systems (MIS) by Analyzing, Sorting, Tabulating Raw Data and presenting it to Managers in proper form.
Most of the business decisions based upon analysis of historical data such as trends in sales, profit, customer complaints over the years. This task can be very well performed if one has excellent advanced excel skill.
The person who has advanced Excel skills can analyse raw and voluminous data and presents it to the Managers using charts and graphs so that they can quickly make decisions on the most complex problems.
Certification and Important Dates
Certification :
KLiC courses are recognised by Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU).
MKCL provides certificate to the KLiC learner after his/her successful course completion.
Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) provides mark sheet to successfully passed KLiC learners (Jurisdiction: Maharashtra).
Important Dates :
Batch Commencement: One batch in each calendar month (January to December)
Date(s) of Application and Fee Payment by Learner: 1st - 30th day of each calendar month
Date(s) of Learner Confirmation by ALC: 1st - 30th day of each calendar month
Course Start Date and Date of Issuing Learner Login: Date of admission confirmation
Academic Approach
The Academic Approach of the course focuses on the “work centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book !), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as well as development of the society
Learning Methodology
Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
Learners are then exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
Learners are then acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
Learners are then acquainted with the architecture of the tool or Tool Map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions and their inter-relations.
Learners are then exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level
Learners then perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made outputs.
Learners are then engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
Learners are then encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
After imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression.
Register Online
Learner can choose any of the following option:
Online Registration: Learner need to visit www.mkcl.org/join and make an online payment for admission confirmation. Kindly refer online admission process guidelines for more details.
Register at Center: Learner can contact preferable MKCL’s Authorised learning center and coordinate with them for registration process
Learning Mode
Learner can choose any of the following option in consultation with MKCL’s Authorised learning center:
Learn at Center: Learning at Authorized Learning Center (ALC)
Learn Online: Learning on Home Computer (truly online mode)
Syllabus
Apply Custom Formats and Layouts
Apply Custom Data Formats
Use Advanced Fill Options
Apply Advanced Conditional Formatting and Filtering
Apply Custom Styles and Templates
Use Form Controls
Prepare Workbooks for Internationalization
Use Outlines
Create advanced formulas
Functions
Apply functions in formulas
Mathematical Functions
Financial functions
Useful Data Functions
Some Other Useful Functions
Look up data by using functions
Apply advanced date and time functions
Functions for Manipulating Text
Arrays
Use Scenarios
Use What-If Analysis Tools
Create Scenarios
Merge Scenarios
Create Scenario Summaries
Use Data Tables
Create Advanced Charts
Basic Excel Charts
Use Area, Scatter & Stock Charts
Use Surface, Radar & Combination Charts
Create Custom Chart Templates
Work with Sparkline’s
Pivot tables & charts
PivotTables
Use Pivot Charts
Manage and Share Workbooks
Manage Workbook Versions
Copy Styles between Workbooks
Copy Macros between Workbooks
Use Track Changes and Comments
Merge Workbooks
Protect Workbooks for Sharing
Connect To External Data
Duration
120 Hours to be covered in 2 months (8 weeks).
Medium
For Nationwide Jurisdiction: The medium of instruction is English and Marathi
Study Material
MKCL will provide world-class interactive eLearning content at no extra cost
Evaluation Pattern
Evaluation Pattern of KLiC Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:
| Section No. | Section Name | Total Marks | Minimum Passing Marks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Learning Progression | 25 | 10 |
| 2 | Internal Assessment | 25 | 10 |
| 3 | Final Online Examination | 50 | 20 |
| Total | 100 | 40 | |
| 4 | SUPWs (Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments) | 5 Assignments | 2 Assignments to be Completed & Uploaded |
YCMOU Mark Sheet:Printed Mark Sheet will be issued by YCMOU on successful completion of Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3 and will be delivered to the learner by MKCL.
YCMOU Mark Sheet will be available only for Maharashtra jurisdiction learners
MKCL’s KLiC Certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:
Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and
Section 3
Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments
Jurisdiction
This course is available Nationwide
Eligibility
MS-CIT passed preferred.
Should preferably be a 10th/12th Std. passed student. (Not compulsory)
Fees
List of ALCs
You can find the nearest Authorized Learning Center (ALC) at this link