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Further Microsoft Power BI (two-day)

This course is designed to help you advance your Power BI skills. We expand on the basics, showing you new transformation techniques to shape your data and explore ways to generate fully automated reporting systems.

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Course Summary

Subject Area: Adult Digital
Adult and Community
Location: Ilkeston
Full Time or Part Time: PT
Level: 1
Number Of Years:
Interview Required?: N
Weeks: 1
Hours: 14.00
Start: Flexible
Tuition: £375
Ilkeston

Apply now at: https://www.derby-college.ac.uk/course/further-microsoft-power-bi-two-day
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Course Information for Students

Bring together other software like SharePoint, Excel and Power Automate into your Power BI environment and start to understand how you already have all the tools at your fingertips. You just need to harness them.

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Transforming Data

  • Import data from different sources into Power Query
  • Connect SharePoint sites to data models
  • Practise advanced data transformation techniques via Power Query
  • Learn how to merge and append queries
  • Pivot and unpivot data
  • Group data
  • Add calculated columns in Power Query

Data Models and Relationships

  • Create a data model
  • Understand the star schema
  • Build different types of cardinalities between data sets
  • Explore the importance of relationships to reports and visualisations

Shaping Data

  • Work with more complex DAX in Power BI
  • Understand the difference between calculated columns and measures
  • Create calculated columns and measures to data models

Creating Reports

  • Explore different types of visualisation
  • Build meaningful reports from data sets
  • Format the appearance of reports

Power BI Navigation and Security​

  • Understand the behaviour of slicers within reports and dashboards
  • Explore Multi-level Security
  • Apply and share roles to reports and dashboards

 Working with the Online Service

  • Assign security roles to colleagues
  • Build dashboards from published reports
  • Share dashboards and review roles
  • Create automatic refresh schedules

Day 2 entails working on Power BI data projects using your own data and systems. 

You will learn on-site.

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Course Information for Employers

If you are an employer and would like to know more about the apprenticeships and professional training we deliver or how you can get involved in co-creating and co-delivering the curriculum, please contact us via email on businessenquiries@derby-college.ac.uk, call us on 01332 387 421 or visit our employer pages here.

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Course Information Last Updated On: July 18, 2025 9:28 am