Save Money with Free, Online Classes 24/7 at HP Learning Center
Got some free time on your hands or want to brush up on or learn new computer skills? The HP Learning Center has a broad range of online classes geared toward small business, home office, hobbyists, and/or professional development.
Learning center classes are accessible from any computer with an internet connection. Classes include two to six lessons and may also include interactive demos, quizzes and assignments. You can review all the lessons at your own pace and at any time of day. During an active class session, you may also interact with your fellow students and instructor via the class message board. The majority of the classes do not have session end dates; however, if a class does, the end date is displayed on the class overview page and you will receive a class ending email before the class is scheduled to end
Here are some of the classes you can choose from currently:
Digital photography
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 for photography
- Adobe Photoshop CS4: advanced NEW!
- Beginner’s guide to saving, printing and sharing your digital photos
- Beyond basics: fundamental photography techniques
- Camera composition: change your perspective
- Digital photography: getting creative (quick lesson) NEW!
- Digital photography: take great close-up photos (quick lesson) NEW!
- Digital photography: take great people shots (quick lesson)
- Digital photography: take great vacation shots (quick lesson) NEW!
- Five common photo problems and how to solve them (quick lesson)
- Photo restoration basics: preserve your family photos
- Print great pictures with a portable photo printer (quick lesson)
- Professional digital photography made simple
- Scanning basics
- Touch up digital photos with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0
Home office
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS3: introduction
- Choose the right gear for your college-bound student (quick lesson)
- Color your business: develop a marketing color scheme (3:23)
- Create and print your own high-quality marketing materials
- Creating a distinctive identity: business cards, stationery and more
- Getting started with LightScribe (quick lesson)
- Go wireless: using Bluetooth to connect and print (quick lesson)
- Laptop PCs: basic troubleshooting and repair (quick lesson)
- Laptop PCs: troubleshooting wireless problems (quick lesson)
- Mastering email: keep your inbox clutter-free (6:45)
- Microsoft® Excel 2007: take a tour of the interface and learn basic skills (5:42)
- Microsoft® Windows Vista: decrease Windows Vista startup time (3:30)
- Microsoft® Windows Vista: find files using basic Search (2:45)
- Microsoft® Word 2007: take a tour of the Ribbon (3:37)
- Networking 101
- Online social networking (quick lesson)
- Practical Wi-Fi security (quick lesson)
- Print wirelessly at home or on the road (quick lesson)
- Safe wireless computing on campus—and everywhere (quick lesson)
- Setting up a wireless home network
- Simple backup strategies with HP Backup and Recovery Manager (quick lesson with podcast)
- Streamline your digital media with the MediaSmart LCD HDTV (quick lesson)
- Technology and your elementary school student (quick lesson)
- Technology and your high school student (quick lesson)
- Technology and your middle school student (quick lesson)
- The future is now: the HP Touchsmart PC (quick lesson)
- The other 90 percent: unlock your vast untapped potential
- Using the HP Yahoo! Printing Toolbar (5:28)
Microsoft Office and Adobe
- Adobe Acrobat: creating PDFs
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS3: introduction
- Adobe InDesign CS4: introduction
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 for photography
- Adobe Photoshop CS4: advanced NEW!
- Adobe Photoshop CS4: intermediate NEW!
- Adobe Photoshop CS4: introduction
- Microsoft® Excel 2007: create a PivotTable (3:07)
- Microsoft® Excel 2007: filter data (2:10)
- Microsoft® Excel 2007: intermediate
- Microsoft® Excel 2007: introduction
- Microsoft® Excel 2007: link and unlink content between two workbooks (3:59)
- Microsoft® Excel 2007: manually format parts of a chart (7:00)
- Microsoft® Excel 2007: record a simple macro and edit it in VBA (3:28)
- Microsoft® Excel 2007: take a tour of the interface and learn basic skills (5:42)
- Microsoft® PowerPoint 2007: create a new slide master (2:43)
- Microsoft® PowerPoint 2007: customize the PowerPoint interface (4:44)
- Microsoft® PowerPoint 2007: introduction
- Microsoft® Word 2007: intermediate
- Microsoft® Word 2007: introduction
- Microsoft® Word 2007: take a tour of special features (6:18)
- Microsoft® Word 2007: take a tour of the Ribbon (3:37)
- Microsoft® Word 2007: use the Track Changes feature (4:40)
PC security and maintenance
- Laptop PCs: basic troubleshooting and repair (quick lesson)
- Laptop PCs: troubleshooting wireless problems (quick lesson)
- Microsoft® Windows Vista Sidebar: adding gadgets (2:15)
- Microsoft® Windows Vista advanced customization: back up the registry (2:03)
- Microsoft® Windows Vista advanced customization: increase bandwidth for network and internet connections (3:23)
- Microsoft® Windows Vista: advanced customization
- Microsoft® Windows Vista: decrease Windows Vista startup time (3:30)
- Microsoft® Windows Vista: find files using basic Search (2:45)
- Microsoft® Windows Vista: find information in the registry (2:23)
- Microsoft® Windows Vista: troubleshooting and maintenance
- Microsoft® Windows Vista: tune up your PC
- Microsoft® Windows Vista: use Disk Cleanup (2:47)
- Microsoft® Windows® XP: tune up your PC
- Migrating to Microsoft® Windows Vista
- Protect your PC from spam, spyware and viruses
- Simple backup strategies with HP Backup and Recovery Manager (quick lesson with podcast)
- Understanding Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium
Business basics
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS3: introduction
- Color your business: develop a marketing color scheme (3:23)
- Create marketing materials that align with your goals (quick lesson)
- Customizing business envelopes and automating postage (quick lesson)
- How to build your first website (with podcast)
- Marketing writing tips: five mistakes to avoid (quick lesson)
- Mastering email: keep your inbox clutter-free (6:45)
- Microsoft® OneNote: creating and using notebooks (5:27)
- Microsoft® OneNote: getting started (7:17)
- Networking 101
- Save money, be energy efficient
- Ten tips for printing better marketing materials in-house (quick lesson)
- The other 90 percent: unlock your vast untapped potential
- Use Google Desktop to find and retrieve what you need (6:09)
- Use color-coding to prioritize your email (5:00)
IT professionals
- Combating spam and spyware (with podcast)
- Disaster preparedness through virtualization (quick lesson)
- Evaluating desktop virtualization solutions
- Exploring and implementing Gobi and 3G technology
- Getting connected with mobile broadband
- HP Backup and Recovery Manager: restore files (8:13)
- HP Backup and Recovery Manager: schedule backups (13:34)
- HP ProtectTools Security Manager: enable Smart Card security (10:36)
- HP ProtectTools Security Manager: using BIOS Configuration (6:10)
- HP ProtectTools Security Manager: using single sign-on (10:03)
- HP ProtectTools: security at your fingertips (quick lesson with podcast)
- How to build a midsize IT core infrastructure
- IT infrastructure and its challenges: outsource or hire? (quick lesson)
- Improve ROI by investing in a mobile workforce (quick lesson)
- Introduction to storage networks
- Linux 101: a beginner’s guide UPDATED!
- Network attached storage basics
- Practical Wi-Fi security (quick lesson)
- Protect your data: back up to tape, disk and the network
- Servers 101
- Simple backup strategies with HP Backup and Recovery Manager (quick lesson with podcast)
- Six steps to computer security (quick lesson)
- Streamline your organization through shared services (quick lesson)
- Transition your old IT assets (quick lesson)
- Understanding Microsoft® Windows Server 2008
- Virtualize your infrastructure: operations NEW!
- Virtualize your infrastructure: planning
- Wireless networking with Bluetooth (quick lesson)
- Wireless security in depth
Graphic arts
- Adobe InDesign CS4: introduction
- Adobe Photoshop CS4: intermediate NEW!
- Adobe Photoshop CS4: introduction
- Large-format printing: pre-production tips and techniques
- Printing and marketing large-format projects
If you don’t find what you are looking for currently offered, check out the other class offerings not “in session.” You can sign up to be notified when new classes become available
