Computer lab for MS Project
The scope of the lesson is practice most important functionalities in MS Project time and resource planning software.
Most important MS Project functionalities are:
1. creation of outline task list,
2. estimation duration of tasks,
3. defining relations between tasks,
4. critical path of the project,*
5. assignment of resources,
6. resource leveling.
Lesson activities:
1. Teacher’s presentation – creation of simple time plan. The example is time plane for team home task.
2. Guided personal exercise – at the same time with teacher’s presentation students create same time plan in their personal computers. Finished time plan is published in Google Docs and graded by teacher.
3. Teamwork – creation of project time plan in teams. Teamwork can be finished at home. *
Before lesson following learning materials are created in Lemill environment:
1. User guide of MS Project. The basis for this document is MS Project user guide created previously for vocational training. The content of new user manual must be hardly reduced (only one example and most important functions). The new manual should contain URL to MS Project demo version.
2. Instruction for teamwork. It must contain instructions for converting MS Project Gantt chart to image file because MS Project does not have automatic image saving function and Google Docs does not support MS Project files. Some simple graphical design software must be introduced (e.g. Irfan View)*
