Excel Study Plan

Introduction

The Excel study plan helps you teach your students Excel step-by-step.

Creating a study plan for Excel is easy.

You can use a pre-built study plan or customize it.

Students have different skill levels. The study plans can be customized to ensure that everyone is challenged.

Save time with pre-built teacher materials and study plans. Easily organize your class with a timeline from the introduction of Excel to the final exam.

W3Schools Academy

This study plan is a feature of W3Schools Academy.

W3Schools Academy is a platform that has everything you need to teach coding, all in one place.

It offers you as a teacher a toolbox of features that helps you succeed with teaching in your classroom.

You need to have an active subscription to access the study plan feature. There are two different subscription tiers:

• Essentials ($1.99 / month per student)
• Full Access ($5.99 / month per student)
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Academy also offer other features such as:

• Managing your classroom
• Tracking of student progress and reports
• Labs, assignments, and code challenges (prebuilt challenges or create your own ones)
• Auto-grading
• Teaching materials
• Certification exams

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Teacher Materials

W3Schools has everything you need to teach Excel.

The Excel training materials is available for you to include and use in your study plan:

• W3Schools Excel Tutorial
• Excel Exercises
• Excel Challenges (Coding challenges)
• Excel Certification Exam (End of Pathway Exam)

Excel Syllabus

With the Excel Syllabus, your students will start with the basics, like understanding cells, rows, and columns, and move to more advanced topics, like creating formulas, using functions, and analyzing data with charts and pivot tables. Each chapter includes examples, try-it-yourself sections, exercises, and quizzes to make learning easy, interactive, and fun.

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Study Plan Overview

The study plan features are made to help teachers and students. They make learning easy, flexible, and fun. These features work for different types of classes, learning styles and student level.

1. Learning Paths
   • You can add ready-made learning paths.
   • The learning paths are by default ordered by our recommended order.
   • You can change the order.
   • You can add custom activities with text, links, or multi-media files.
   • Drag and drop or click to make changes to the path.
2. Interactive Content
   • Tutorials
   • Try-its (test code snippets)
   • Exercises
   • Quiz
   • Challenges
   • Labs
3. Timeline and Pace
   • You can set a timeline of your study plan (e.g., 4-week, 8-week, 12-week, 24-week plans).
   • You can decide the learning pace for your class.
   • Different study plans can be assigned to different students in the same class.
   • The flexibility can help to make sure that everyone is challenged.
4. Track Student Progress
   • There are tools to track student progress.
   • The analytic tools include: chapter progress, exercises results, quiz results, exam results, and much more.
   • The challenges can be auto-graded or manually graded. The results are available to you as a teacher.
5. End of Pathway Exam
   • The Excel study plan aligns with the Excel Certification Exam.
   • The exam can be taken at the end of the study plan, at your selected date.
   • The exam summarizes the Excel Tutorial.
   • You get reports of the students' results.
6. Accessibility
   • Study plans and learning materials are accessible on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
   • This ensures students can learn anytime, anywhere.

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Sample Study Plan

You choose the timeline and pace of your study plans.

Schools have different preferences.

Some would like more intensive pace, e.g. 3 weeks, others 6 or more weeks.

It is completely up to you.

For example, this is how a 3-week Excel study plan could look like:

• Week 1: Introduction, Basic use, Formulas
• Week 2: Arithmetic Operators, Formatting, Sort & Filter, Tables, Highlight Cell Rules, Top Bottom Rules
• Week 3: Data Analysis Extras, Charts, Table Pivot, Case, Functions, Excel Certification Exam

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