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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 Fundamentals for Employment Available

A foundation-level, hands-on introduction to Microsoft Excel for the workplace. Four sessions take you from finding your way around the Excel window to entering data, writing simple formulas, formatting clearly, building charts, and managing your files. Every example is everyday and work-ready: budgets, stock lists, rosters, contact lists. Each session comes with a full take-home Word handout and starter and solution practice workbooks, so the whole course works offline, independent of this website.

DURATION · 4 × 3-hour sessions LEVEL · Foundation, no experience needed FORMAT · 4 sessions + Word handouts + practice workbooks
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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
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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
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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 Cyber Security Awareness Available

A four-session series that helps every staff member become a harder target and a faster reporter. Plain language, real Australian examples, and habits you can use the same afternoon. Built for Northern Territory workplaces and communities; no tech background needed.

FORMAT · 4 × 2-hour sessions LEVEL · Beginner STATUS · All 4 sessions live
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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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