Laurel Ridge Workforce Solutions

Intermediate AI
2026-10-05 | Online 24/7
Dive deeper into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence. Explore machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, and neural networks, while gaining hands-on experience with popular AI frameworks and tools. Take your AI expertise to the next level.

Marketing Using Social Media
2026-10-05 | Online 24/7
Develop a two-way communication and marketing strategy for your organization using social media. Let your instructor guide you in exploring major social media, including Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogging. Learn quick, easy ways to use Twitter, blogs and LinkedIn to engage your customers or clients and keep them interested in your organization or business. You’ll find out the advantages and disadvantages of each, and learn what’s right for your work and kind of organization.
Agenda
Unit 1.
Social media as two-way communication
The customer-business relationship
The power of viral marketing
Building customer loyalty with social media
Using social media to brand your organization
Unit 2.
Creating, marketing and communicating using Blogs
How blogs got started
Writing blogs for work and business
Marketing and promoting your blog
Business strategies for blogs
Unit 3.
How to use Twitter
Uniqueness of Twitter
Creating tweets and messages
Doing research and information gathering with Twitter
Integrating Twitter with other publicity
Unit 4.
LinkedIn: a social media for professionals
Why businesses and professionals use LinkedIn
How LinkedIn distinguishes itself among social networks
Getting connected with LinkedIn
Case studies and examples of business and professional uses
RequirementsInternet connection ,IE8 or higher, Chrome, FireFox and access to Adobe Flash Player

Mastering Microsoft Word
2026-10-05 | Online 24/7
Master the art of document creation and take your professional skills to the next level with Microsoft Word, which is essential for success in the modern business world. Discover how to format text, paragraphs, images, and pages with ease. Get hands-on experience creating professional-looking documents, from resumes and cover letters to reports and brochures.
Find out how to use templates and themes to save time and streamline your workflow. At the end of this class, you will be equipped with the skills to create, edit and share polished documents that will impress employers and coworkers and give you a competitive edge in the workplace.

Boosting Your Website Traffic
2026-10-05 | Online 24/7
Acquire the basic skills to boost your website traffic, including how to analyze your visitor traffic, how to use search engine optimization to get greater visibility and exposure in Google searches, and how to redesign your web site copy to increase your visitors and results. No experience necessary, but if you are at an advanced level, your instructor is an SEO expert and can answer your toughest questions as well.
Agenda
Unit 1
Why web site analysis works
Why web site managers analyze their visitor traffic
Creating goals and objectives for your web site
Understanding the web site visitor experience
How data analysis can improve web site outcomes
Unit 2
How Google Analytics functions
Setting up Google Analytics accounts
Analyzing traffic sources and visitor traffic
Redesigning pages to improve retention
Testing web site versions with Google Optimizer
Unit 3
Search Engine Optimization
Understanding how page ranking and positions are determined
Redesigning the title bar, alt tags, heading area, and links your URL
Keyword density and rewriting web page copy
Strategies to improve your page rank
Unit 4
Moving to Web 2.0
Generation Y and the Web 2.0 Attitude
Developing user-created content
Creating interactive web sites
The future of web sites

HTML Fundamentals
2026-10-05 | Online 24/7
This course covers all the basics of HTML coding language. You will learn building simple web pages by hand coding, using HTML tags to create paragraphs, heading, lists, links, insert images and tables and more. We also cover creating a simple multi-page website with images, text and a navigation bar.

Adobe Photoshop Essentials
2026-10-05 | Online 24/7
This fundamental course covers Adobe Photoshop CC most commonly used tools, menus and panels. You’ll learn all the basics of Photoshop to effectively work with selection and editing tools, layers, and masks to edit, retouch and enhance existing images or create your own composite digital art work. Impress your business organization, friends and family by enhancing their photos and create magazine cover quality enhanced images. Access to Adobe Photoshop software required.
One-month course.
Agenda
Unit 1: Getting to know the Interface and Selection Tools
-Interface menus
-Tools
-Panels
-Working with the various Selection tools
Unit 2: Working with Layers and Masks
-Layers and layer management
-Non- destructive editing using masks
-How to type and format text
-Using various type formatting and style tools and panels
Unit 3: Image Correction & Enhancement
-Photo correction and enhancement tools
-Crop, dodge and burn
-Recoloring, retouching
-Healing brushes
Unit 4: Using the Drawing Tools
-How to use the Pen tool
-Other drawing tools in Photoshop
-Advanced drawing and selection
-File formats
-How to save files for print or web

Microsoft Excel Essentials (Level 1)
2026-10-06 09:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Laurel Ridge Fauquier Campus, 6480 College Street, Warrenton, VA, 20187, United States
Formulas and functions are the name of the game, and this course will give you the tools to create powerful formulas and understand why an Excel spreadsheet without formulas has no heart! In this course, you will learn: (1) Introduction to worksheets: Formatting sheets and cells, numbers, dates, basic calculations, (2) Rearranging data: Working with rows, cells, and columns, (3) Managing multiple worksheets, formulas, and cell references, (4) Data visualization with charts and images. Using tools for formatting and editing, and (5) Organizing large amounts of data: Sorting, freeze panes and window split.

ITIL Foundations Prep and Certification
2026-10-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Laurel Ridge Workforce Online Class, VIRTUAL - ONLINE
If you are an IT professional looking to get into IT service management using ITIL best practices, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) Foundation Certification course is the first step in your preparation. The course will prepare you for the ITIL version 4 Foundation exam, introducing you to basic concepts used in IT service management. In this course, you will acquire the essential skills and information necessary to lead and manage an IT business service through every stage of its lifecycle. This course is completely online and students will attend classes via zoom. Textbook and exam voucher included.
Prerequisite: CompTIA A+ or 9-12 months of networking experience*

Microsoft Excel Advanced (Level 2)
2026-10-13 09:00 - 15:00 | Laurel Ridge Fauquier Campus, 6480 College Street, Warrenton, VA, 20187, United States
Begin automating spreadsheets and learn how to create linking formulas that automatically connect data over many different worksheets, allowing for easy one-time data entry. Grow your portfolio by adding a group of the most powerful formulas frequently used in Excel and then splash your spreadsheet with useful graphics and templates to highlight and connect key informational points. In this course, you will learn: (1) advanced formatting: themes, cell styles, customizing page setup, (2) date and time functions, conditional formatting, (3) advanced functions for text and analysis: IF criteria, troubleshooting formulas, and (4) introducing lookup functions and the outline features.

CySA+ Prep and Certification (CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst)
2026-10-19 18:00 - 22:00 | Laurel Ridge Workforce Online Class, VIRTUAL - ONLINE
Are you looking to advance your career in cybersecurity? This program will prepare you to enter the cybersecurity field by teaching you threat and vulnerability management, software and systems security, compliance and assessment, monitoring and security operations and incident response.
Prerequisite: Credential in CompTIA Security+

Microsoft Excel Expert (Level 3)
2026-10-20 09:00 - 15:00 | Laurel Ridge Fauquier Campus, 6480 College Street, Warrenton, VA, 20187, United States
Many users are aware of the basics. After this class you will have a distinct competitive advantage as the Excel go-to-person performing sophisticated data analyses. Show others how to stop wasting time on repetitive tasks, be the protector of spreadsheet data from errors and unwanted manipulation, and quickly share your work with others by converting workbooks to different file formats. In this course, you will learn: (1) Working with tables: Calculated columns, structured references, table features, (2) Financial functions and what-If analysis: PMT, PV and NPER Functions, (3) PivotTables and Pivot Charts, (4) Work with Macros and (5) Workbook protection and inspecting workbooks for compatibility.

CompTIA Project+ Prep and Certification
2026-10-27 17:00 - 21:00 | Laurel Ridge Middletown Campus, 173 Skirmisher Lane, Middletown, VA, 22654, United States
With the rising need of IT professionals with project management skills, CompTIA Project is a great starting point to gain entry level skills. This certification class prepares you to manage those small, less complex projects. Throughout this class, you will learn essential project management concepts such as the project life cycle, ensuring appropriate communication, managing resources and stakeholders, and maintaining project documentation. This class will prepare you to take the newest Project+ version, PK0-005 and provide experience required to advance to higher IT Management certifications, such as PMP. Prerequisite: CompTIA A+ or 9-12 months experience in IT management.

Adobe InDesign Essentials
2026-11-02 | Online 24/7
Adobe InDesign is the industry standard page-layout program that works with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop seamlessly. InDesign allows you to create simple to complex multi-page documents such as brochures, flyers, books and magazines. This course is a comprehensive exploration of InDesign tools and capabilities to create professional documents. You will learn how to manage the InDesign environment, create, setup, design, enhance and finalize multi-page documents. Access to Adobe InDesign software required.
One-month course.
Agenda
Unit 1: Getting to Know the Interface and Setting up a Document
-Interface menus
-Tools
-Panels
-Starting and setting up a multi-page document in InDesign
Unit 2: Working with Objects and Color
-Learning to work with color panels
-Creating, managing and applying color to elements
-Inserting and managing images and illustrations into an InDesign document
Unit 3: Working with Text
-Learning about insert and flow text to multiple pages
-Managing long text documents
-Text editing in InDesign documents.
Unit 4: Typography
-Advance typography tools and menus
-Character and paragraph settings and styles
– Creating print-ready PDF files.

CSS Fundamentals
2026-11-02 | Online 24/7
In this introductory course, you will learn how to style web pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) coding language. Topics include using inline, internal, and external CSS, web typography, formatting text, working with web colors, using Google fonts, working with id and class selectors, working with elements, creating page layouts using elements, and CSS box model.

Online Advertising
2026-11-02 | Online 24/7
Get the keys to making online advertising work for you and your organization. See how pay-per-click advertising with Google AdWords works. Find out how to test low budget AdWord campaigns. Learn how you can target local audiences. Then discover Facebook advertising and how you can determine the demographics and even numbers of people you want to reach. No experience necessary, but if you are at an advanced level, your instructor is an online ad expert and can answer your toughest questions as well.
Agenda
Unit 1
The evolution of online advertising
From mass marketing to targeted marketing
The role of search in online advertising
Return on investment for online advertising
Competing effectively with online advertising
Unit 2
Creating Google AdWord Campaigns
Determining keywords
Selecting your AdWord territory
Understanding pricing strategies
Creating an AdWord budget and evaluation
Unit 3
Improving Online Advertising Results
How SEO and online advertising complement each other
Testing keywords and related keywords
Using Traffic Estimator to improve keyword selection
Successful strategies in using online advertising
Unit 4
Facebook Ads
Understanding Facebook uses and users
Using demographics to target Facebook Ads
Setting up Facebook Ads
Trends and future of online advertising

Mastering Microsoft PowerPoint
2026-11-02 | Online 24/7
Bring your ideas to life and leave a lasting impression with Microsoft PowerPoint. Master the tools and techniques that turn humdrum slides into dynamic presentations that will captivate your audience. With hands-on practice and real-world examples, learn design principles and multimedia elements such as images, videos, and charts that elevate you to the next level.
Acquire critical know-how to deliver your presentations with confidence and ease. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned user, you’ll find new ways to work smarter, not harder. You’ll leave class with in-demand skills and the ability to create professional, visually appealing presentations that will engage your audience and help you stand out.

Integrating Social Media Into Your Organization
2026-11-02 | Online 24/7
Take away a practical strategy and techniques for implementing social media for your organization or business. Learn how to create your own private social media using Ning, work socially using Google Docs and calendars, and move your website to an interactive Web 2.0 site. Then your instructor will help you choose which social media tools are right for your situation, and then integrate them into your web site to develop a social media strategy for your organization. Find out what you can be doing, what you should be doing, and take back a plan to integrate social media into your communication and marketing.
Agenda
Unit 1. Running a Community and Creating Your Own Social Network Using Ning
Online Communities and Creating Your Own Social Network with Ning
Top 5 Considerations When Starting a Social Network
What Goes into Build a Great Social Network
What is an online community manager
What is Ning and How to Use the Platform
Examples of Companies Using Ning
Unit 2. What Tools to Use for Your Organization
What tools and platforms will help get content on the web
Readings on top new tools to consider
How to select which tool to use
How video fits into online marketing
Organizing and collaborating with Google products
How to take advantage of mobile and local in applications and search
Unit 3. Integrating Social Platforms into Your Web Site
Discovering how web design has changed and what is needed for true integration
Understanding elements on web sites that increase interaction, engagement, search engines findability
Learn best practices for website usability and landing page design
Discuss how your sites compare and generate next steps that will improve your business
Unit 4: Developing a Manageable Work Flow: Time, Resources, Policies, and Trends
Developing a Manageable Work Flow
Time and Resources: How do you know where to spend your time?
Target Social Media Influencers to Boost Traffic and Sales
Is Your Company Ready for Social Media or Are They Holding You Back?
Trends – What”s Next or Are We Still Working on Last Year”s Trends?
Social Media Policies and Planning For A Crisis
RequirementsInternet connection ,IE8 or higher, Chrome, FireFox and access to Adobe Flash Player

AI Planning and Strategies
2026-11-02 | Online 24/7
Develop effective AI strategies to solve complex problems across various industries. Gain practical insights into how AI can be harnessed to enhance efficiency and drive innovation. By the end of the course, you will have the skills to create robust AI planning solutions that can adapt to dynamic environments and meet organizational goals.

IT Credential Information Session
2026-11-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Laurel Ridge Middletown Campus, 173 Skirmisher Lane, Middletown, VA, 22654, United States
Take the first step toward an exciting career in technology! Whether you’re new to the field or looking to enhance your skills with certifications, this session is your gateway to in-demand fields like Cybersecurity, Data Center Operations, and more.
Join us to discover how Laurel Ridge Workforce Solutions’ fast-track programs are designed to fit your busy schedule. With flexible delivery options—live online, in person, or through on-demand replay—you can access hands-on training that works for you.
Learn about:
• The skills and certifications employers value most.
• Career pathways and growth opportunities in the tech industry.
• How our programs provide practical, career-focused education to help you succeed.
• Explore a mock data center to see the technology and tools in action.
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore your future in technology and gain the skills you need to thrive!

CompTIA Tech+ Prep and Certification
2027-01-12 17:00 - 21:00 | Laurel Ridge Fauquier Campus, 6480 College Street, Warrenton, VA, 20187, United States
This course is a great first step to a career in IT. Aimed to help students earn the CompTIA Tech+ certification, this course covers hardware, software, networking, and cybersecurity topics. The CompTIA Tech+ Certification shows employers that you are comfortable with IT concepts and is a great starting point for more advanced certifications. Exam and materials are included. Due to the nature of this profession, moderate knowledge of computer basics is required. Prerequisite: Complete the pre assessment. Please know that only your first attempt will count upon registration. You must score a minimum 120 points.

CompTIA Tech+ Prep and Certification
2027-01-12 17:00 - 21:00 | Laurel Ridge Middletown Campus, 173 Skirmisher Lane, Middletown, VA, 22654, United States

CompTIA Network+ Prep and Certification
2027-01-19 17:00 - 21:00 | Laurel Ridge Workforce Online Class, VIRTUAL - ONLINE
This course will cover the Network+ exam objectives from the following five domains: network architecture, network operations, network security, troubleshooting, and industry standards. You will concentrate on the configuration, management, and troubleshooting of common wired and wireless network devices, define the appropriate cabling and device technologies, determine the network troubleshooting methodology and appropriate tools, and examine physical security and common attacks while securing wired and wireless networks. At the end of this course, you will have learned the essentials needed to successfully pass the CompTIA Network+ Exam N10-009. Exam and materials are included.
Pre-requisite: Credential in CompTIA Tech+ and CompTIA A+

CompTIA Network+ Prep and Certification
2027-01-20 17:00 - 21:00 | Laurel Ridge Middletown Campus, 173 Skirmisher Lane, Middletown, VA, 22654, United States

SecurityX Prep and Certification
2027-01-25 18:00 - 22:00 | Laurel Ridge Workforce Online Class, VIRTUAL - ONLINE
This advanced level program will cover skills relating to security architecture and senior security engineering. Other skills taught are governance, risk, and compliance.
Prerequisite: Credential in CompTIA CySA+

Microsoft Excel Essentials (Level 1)
2027-03-02 09:00 - 15:00 | Laurel Ridge Middletown Campus, 173 Skirmisher Lane, Middletown, VA, 22654, United States

Microsoft Excel Advanced (Level 2)
2027-03-09 09:00 - 15:00 | Laurel Ridge Middletown Campus, 173 Skirmisher Lane, Middletown, VA, 22654, United States

Microsoft Excel Expert (Level 3)
2027-03-16 09:00 - 15:00 | Laurel Ridge Middletown Campus, 173 Skirmisher Lane, Middletown, VA, 22654, United States
