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01 Power Query: Surveillance Data Analysis Available

Learn Microsoft Excel's Power Query through six exercises set inside a fictional dystopian Australian outback town. You'll combine messy CSV files, merge relational tables, write custom M-language functions, and reshape data for executive briefings. The dataset doubles as a discussion prompt about algorithmic bias and surveillance ethics.

DURATION · 3 hrs LEVEL · Beginner to intermediate FORMAT · HTML dossier + 13 CSVs
Open course
02 Microsoft Excel: Foundations to Power User Coming soon

From cell formatting to pivot tables, conditional logic, and lookup functions. A single working scenario that grows in complexity across the course, so each technique you learn is immediately applied to data you already know.

STATUS · In development EXPECTED · Q3 2026
03 Microsoft Word: Documents That Get Read Available

Word as a document engineering tool, not a typewriter. A scenario-based group activity where you take Janelle's chaotic draft and turn it into Australia's formal bid to host the 2034 Olympics in Darwin. Practise the styles pane, multilevel numbered lists, the Table of Contents tool, tracked changes, Compare Documents, and Copilot Chat for drafting and fact-checking.

DURATION · 4 hrs LEVEL · Beginner to intermediate FORMAT · Group activity + 5 resources
Open course
04 Microsoft PowerPoint: Effective Visual Communication Available

PowerPoint as a design discipline, not a slideware free-for-all. A scenario-based group activity where you take Janelle's chaotic Sunday draft and rebuild it into an IOC-grade Inspection Delegation pitch deck for the Darwin 2034 Winter Olympics. Practise slide masters, layouts, theme colours, alignment, tasteful animations and transitions, the Accessibility Checker, and Copilot Chat for drafting and rebuilding.

DURATION · 2 hrs LEVEL · Beginner to intermediate FORMAT · Group activity + 5 resources
Open course
05 Digital Literacy: Workplace Skills Coming soon

Foundational digital skills for adults entering or re-entering the workforce. File management, browsers, email, calendars, video conferencing, password hygiene, and the everyday literacies that quiet quitters of technology never quite learned.

STATUS · In development EXPECTED · Q4 2026
06 Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Non-Specialists Coming soon

A grown-up introduction to cybersecurity for people who don't intend to become security professionals but do intend to stop being a vulnerability. Threats, defences, and the everyday habits that protect a household, a small business, or a workplace.

STATUS · Planned EXPECTED · 2027
07 AI Literacy for the Workplace Available

A one-day, beginner-friendly introduction to AI tools, safe online use, data privacy, and how to spot digital risks. Six hands-on sessions plus three take-home resource pages. Designed for workforce entrants and the wider community; no prior tech experience required.

DURATION · 1 day LEVEL · Beginner FORMAT · 10 HTML pages
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08 More to come In planning

NT World Ink is built one course at a time. Future courses are likely to cover automation and scripting, working with PDFs, data visualisation fundamentals, and a deeper dive into red-team thinking. If there's a topic you'd like to see, get in touch.

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