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IT Training & Education

IT Training & Education

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IT Training Online’s Skillchoice Complete eLearning service combines Skillsoft’s award winning eLearning courses with the Books 24x7 searchable database of textbooks to give you a huge set of online self-study resources. Service subscribers have access to nearly 3,000 self-study courses on Desktop, IT and Business Skills topics, and can search thousands of online computing textbooks in Books 24x7's Office Essentials, Business Pro and IT Pro collections to find the topics they want to read about.

Key Features

All subscribers will be able to take advantage of the following features:

  • Search: search for the courses and textbooks you want.
  • Download: download courses to your desktop for offline playback.
  • Course pretests: take a test when you start a course to assess how much of the content you already know. This enables you to better target your learning experience.
  • Course Certificates: once you have successfully completed a course, you can print out a certificate indicating that you passed the course.
  • Certification Preparation: many Skillsoft courses can be taken to prepare you for industry standard certification exams from Microsoft, Cisco, and Oracle
  • Mentoring: need more help on a topic you are studying? You can chat with subject matter experts while online.
  • Bookmarking: you can bookmark the chapters in Books 24x7 that you want to come back to at a later time.

Learn more

To get more information about Skillchoice Complete, you can:

  1. Download the Skillchoice brochure to learn more about Skillchoice Complete
  2. View the Skillsoft online catalog to access course descriptions in the IT, Desktop and Business collections
  3. Preview Desktop and IT courses on the Skillsoft site (free, but registration is required)
  4. Preview Business courses on the Skillsoft site.
  5. Visit the Books 24x7 page to learn more, take a free tour and view a demo.

Pricing

A one year unlimited access subscription costs:

Skillsoft eLearning Prices
IU Students * IU Faculty/Staff General public STEPS attendees **
$70 $110 $150

Notes on Pricing

IMPORTANT NOTE: If your primary interest is in IT ebooks, please note that faculty, staff and students on any IU campus (except IPFW) can access the IT ebooks in Books 24 x 7 at no charge through their campus’s library web site.

* IU students who use this service as a textbook for an academic course can also purchase access for one semester only for $40 if they prefer.

** Members of the general public must have attended at least one IT Training & Education STEPS workshop in order to purchase access to the courses.

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