February is Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month, and we’re excited! TestOut is gearing up to celebrate CTE Month with webinars, activities, and more all devoted to helping guide your students to a career in IT. In addition to CTE Month, TestOut has a few other releases happening. Check the news out below!
CTE Infographic
Certification Magazine asked certified IT professionals several questions about how certification has impacted their careers. Click here to view the data that was gathered.
IT Career Exploration Quiz
This month we are celebrating CTE month. Share this IT Career Exploration quiz with your students to help them identify which IT career domains they are most interested in. Click here to begin the quiz.
Exclusive CTE Month Poster
The poster highlights four common IT careers and describes what skills and certifications your students need to launch a professional career. Click here to download the poster.
Facebook Giveaways
Join our Instructor Community on Facebook to participate in weekly giveaways all month long during our CTE Month Celebration. We’ll also be giving out prizes on TestOut’s Facebook page.Click here to join the community.
How to establish a culture of certification in your I.T. program (and why you should want to)
Why is certification important? Why would your students want to become certified? How can you establish a culture of certification in your I.T. program? And most importantly, why would you want to? Join us on February 23rd at 2 pm EST as we answer these questions and more!
In this webinar you will learn:
Why certification is important for your students
What you can do to promote certification
How to prepare students to become certified and get jobs
What employers are looking for, and how search engines work when looking at potential candidates
Three things your students need for a successful career
Join TestOut and top industry instructors and experts on February 23rd as we explore this exciting topic of certification, and helping students get into fruitful, enjoyable careers.
Help Your Students Pass the Microsoft Office (MOS) Exam in Microsoft Word
Last month we had a fantastic webinar presented by three incredible instructors: Alice Cooper, Kelly O'Dell, and Tricia Roberts. They discussed "Preparing Students for the MOS Word Certification Exam" using TestOut's Office Pro and how they have been successful. Click here to view webinar.
Office Pro Word and Excel MOS Exam Prep Additions
Release Date: March 29, 2021
Enhancements include:
New MOS exam domain practice labs
Improvements to the MOS practice tests
Additional skills labs in the MOS Preparation sections
New exam interface that familiarizes students with the MOS testing experience
Our amazing, all-new CyberDefense Pro course and certification will help you teach students how to monitor and respond to traffic both proactively and analytically, using hands-on labs that challenge them with high-stake scenarios they’ll face on the job. It covers the most up-to-date tools, like Burp Suite, Wireshark, Metaspoit, Ettercap, and Nmap, and will help students to learn job skills used by Incident Responders, Threat Intelligence Analysts, and Cyberecurity Analysts in and out of Security Operations Centers (SOC).
Click here to stay up-to-date on the newest release information.
Working Together with SkillsUSA
TestOut is a strong supporter of SkillsUSA. We provide resources to help with different state and regional SkillsUSA competitions for several IT and Computer Applications divisions. If you are over a SkillsUSA competition, click here to see what we can offer.
Supporting You
TestOut takes great pride in the service and support we offer our customers. We strive to answer every call in under two minutes and respond to every e-mail in 24 hours or less. We are confident that you will receive the best service from our support team, every time!
We are very excited to be celebrating CTE Month with you. TestOut’s official mission statement reads as follows: We make a difference in a person’s life through education using breakthrough technology. We want that person to be every teacher and every student who uses our products. If there’s ever anything that we can do to make your experience better, please don’t hesitate to let us know.
Tiffany Edwards Customer Success and Communication Specialist
P.S. If you would like to be removed from future CTE Month communication, please click here.