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Excel, in three levels
Each level ends with something you built and a record that links to it. You can stop after any one of them, and what you earned still stands on its own.
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Excel Foundations
A sales summary workbook someone else can open and read, where every figure traces back to the data.
6 sessions·About 10 hours
Earns: a Foundations completion record, linking the workbook you built on your own.
In development
Excel Practitioner
A monthly report pack built from more than one file: lookups, PivotTables and the checks that catch them out.
Earns: a Practitioner completion record.
In developmentNeeds a paid plan
Excel Professional
A model other people depend on, and the audit trail for it.
Needs the Excel desktop app on a Microsoft 365 subscription — Excel for the web can’t run this level
Earns: a Professional completion record.
The Microsoft Office Specialist exam this track maps to (MO-210) is taken in the Excel desktop app; this track runs in Excel for the web.
Finish all three
Completing all three levels earns the Alongrail Certificate in Excel: three levels, three workbooks, each one built on your own. Like every record, it’s private until you publish it.
What the three levels add up to
This is a sample, so you can see exactly what completing the track earns.
Alongrail Certificate in Excel
- Name
- Sample learner
- Awarded
- Sample date
The three levels, and the project each one links
Awarded for three completed levels and the three projects linked above.
Each level also earns its own record as you finish it. The certificate comes when all three are complete — Practitioner and Professional are in development.
The record is a description of work you did, not a claim about you. The certificate is the same, three times over. It’s issued the moment your last level record exists, private until you publish it, and yours to unpublish.