Fundamentals of Asana course

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Course content

What you’ll learn

Learn how to organize and structure work in Asana
How to add deadlines, assign ownership, and keep a project on track
How to use tags, sections and color-coding to organize a project

How to set up workspaces and invite team members to collaborate
How to use the calendar view to get the big picture of a project
Get an overview of all available features in the basic version of Asana

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Course content

6 sections – 30 lectures – 2h 8m total length

Previews available for some of the sections below.

Introduction

Welcome – FREE PREVIEW

Welcome to the course! Let’s get started 🙂

What is Asana & why do teams use it? – FREE PREVIEW

An understanding of where Asana fits in to all our other tools we use at work.

Getting started

How information is organized

Understand the hierarchy of the different Asana elements: subtasks, tasks and projects.

Understanding the interface – FREE PREVIEW

Let’s review the interface. Where are the sidebar, header, top bar, main pane, and right pane?

Deciding between a shared workspace or organization

When first setting up Asana, you’ll need to decide between putting projects in your personal projects, or making a shared workspace or organization. In this lesson, we take a look at the pros and cons of each option.

How to set up a workspace or organization

It’s easy to set up a workspace or organization. I’ll guide you through the steps in this lecture.

Adding a colleague to the workspace

We’ll see how easy it is to add colleagues or other stakeholders to an Asana workspace.

First impressions: Homepage, My Tasks & Inbox – FREE PREVIEW

Creating tasks

How to quick-add a task – FREE PREVIEW

The fastest way to start adding tasks to your Asana workspace is to use the omni-button to quick-add a task, project or conversation.

Assigning task owners

In this lecture, we learn how to assign tasks to either ourselves or other colleagues in the workspace.

Setting due dates

In this lecture, we look at how to assign due dates to tasks.

Adding a task description

Adding context to tasks with a task description helps to ensure everyone understands what the task is about.

Adding attachments & reviewing task history

How to add attachments and check the history of what happened with a particular task?

Breaking down work with subtasks

Filtering with tags

Follow up and duplicate tasks

Convert a task to a subtask

Let’s look at changing tasks to subtasks and vice versa.

Adding comments & collaborators to tasks

Commenting on tasks and aligning on work is one of the main benefits of Asana. Let’s look at how to collaborate on tasks.

Is it a subtask, task or project?

A quick pause before we move on to Asana projects.

Creating projects

How to create a project

Setting up your first Asana project.

Add team members to projects

A project wouldn’t be very useful without some other project members. Let’s add some now.

Having a project overview

What’s the project overview screen and why should you always add one?

Use sections to keep projects organized

Project board & calendar views

Project messages

Files & cleaning up the header

How to make a status update

Adding a task to multiple projects

Review & final project

Best practices for Asana

Make your own Asana project

Set up your own Asana project and share a screenshot.

Conclusion & key takeaways

Congrats for making it to the end of the course!!

What students are saying

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Course description

Asana is an awesome and very popular tool for project management.

In this class, I’ll take you through all the basic features of Asana step-by-step so you finish with a great overview of the features available to you.

I’ve used Asana extensively over the past few years, both as a freelancer working on different projects, as well as implementing it in several companies where I’ve worked.

I believe that using Asana makes teams more productive, as it helps to organize everyone’s work, keep teams on track and makes project management easier and more efficient.

What will this course cover?

We’ll review:

the five key areas of the Asana interface
how to create tasks
how to create projects
the difference between a workspace and an organization
how to add due dates to tasks and projects
how to assign ownership to tasks and projects

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at complete beginners to Asana. I want to help you get your first taste of this tool so that you feel very comfortable using it for personal projects, freelance or full-time work right after watching the lectures.

This course is also useful for people who are already using Asana but have a feeling like they could be getting more from the tool, maybe they haven’t had time to fully review all the features on offer. If this sounds like you, I’m sure you can pick up one or two tips from this course to share with your team.

What are the benefits of taking the course?

If your company is using Asana, or will be in the future, take this course to get a head start on what features you have available.

That way, when you start using Asana for project management, you understand the best way to use Asana to organize a project into a way that works for you and your company.

It’s important to understand what you can do with Asana, so you choose the correct set-up (workspace or organization) and use features like tags, sections and color-coding to give everyone an accurate big picture of a project.

Otherwise, Asana can become a confusing space, where there are duplicate tasks floating around and no clear organization.

Don’t make that mistake.

Take the time to learn about the basic features of Asana, so you can create a clear and organized project management structure.

As a student, you’ll get lifetime access to:

Over 30 engaging and practical lectures
Step-by-step tutorials: how to create tasks and projects, assign ownership, due dates, and more

All this for an investment of $34.99. If you aren’t 100% happy with the course, Udemy offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. Register for the course now and get started today.

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“Well done, thank you. I appreciate you getting right to the point with each lesson, and presenting them in bite-sized presentations. It’s very difficult to find the time to watch training, and I usually do it while grabbing breakfast or coffee, so your style was perfect. You speak well and delivered the content great! Thank you.”

Kari S.

“Fantastic quick overview with amazing detail. I feel confident to have enough knowledge going into a new job that uses this platform.”

Valerie M.

“So well crafted and incredibly clear instructions! You can develop a real understanding of the program and feel comfortable maneuvering through the site. Nikki’s breakdown of all the different facets of Asana, coupled with her great delivery makes learning Asana totally easy!”

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