Advanced Strategies for Professional Development

Welcome to the ASPD Snack Center

The ASPD Snack Center provides fast-paced, fully online, engaging courses with targeted content to support individuals who want quick, focused continuing education opportunities without college credit.

Browse our catalog to see the many varied topics. ASPD Snack Center courses are led by expert instructors, many which are nationally known authors.

ASPD Snack Center courses are open to anyone with or without a college degree: educators, paraprofessionals, office staff, and individuals across all fields.

All courses are awarded a certificate of completion showing contact hours.

Credit Option

From time to time, ASPD combines multiple Snack Center courses for undergraduate or graduate level professional development credits. These credits will be awarded through University of Massachusetts Global (UMG) when available. One or more projects and an additional fee payable to UMG may be required to earn graduate professional development credits.

Can I use these credits for Continuing Education and Relicensing requirements?

All credits for individual Snack Center courses are based on contact hours. Contact the entity to which you wish to submit credits (such as a State, School District, Licensing Board, employer, etc.) to assure ASPD Snack Center course credits will be accepted for the intended purpose(s) before registering.

Browse our catalog or check out our Popular, New, and Featured Courses.

Featured Courses

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Microsoft Office 2016 Value Suite

Learn to use the basic features of Microsoft Word 2016, Microsoft Excel 2016, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2016, three of the most fundamental software programs used in educational and professional settings.

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Supervision and Management Series

Whether you're new to managing employees or are a seasoned pro, these courses will help you brush up on your leadership and interpersonal communication skills, to help you lead your team to success.

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Accounting Fundamentals Series

If you're interested in increasing your financial awareness while also gaining a marketable skill, this series of courses is perfect for you. You will learn the basics of double-entry bookkeeping, while also learning how to analyze and record financial transactions, as well as prepare various financial reports at the end of the fiscal period.

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Microsoft Excel 2016 Series

Learn to use basic, intermediate, and advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2016.

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Project Management Suite

In this suite, learn the essentials of project management as you learn to plan, implement, control, and close any type of project along with essential quantitative and qualitative project management applications.

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Popular Courses

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Speed Spanish

With the Speed Spanish course, you will immediately start creating sentences and conversations in Spanish. Each lesson will introduce new techniques to increase your fluency quickly and allow you to start speaking Spanish right away.

24 Course Hours

Accounting Fundamentals

Gain a marketable new skill by learning the basics of double-entry bookkeeping, financial reporting, and more.

24 Course Hours

Introduction to QuickBooks Online

Learn to use QuickBooks Online to record income and expenses; enter checks and credit card payments; track your payables, inventory, and receivables; and much more.

24 Course Hours

Accounting Fundamentals Series

48 Course Hours

Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2019

If you work with data of any kind, knowing how to create a spreadsheet is key to effectively managing and organizing information. This course will introduce you to Microsoft Excel 2019 and teach you how to use this powerful software.

24 Course Hours

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