Welcome to CSU Channel Islands! In partnership with ed2go, we offer a wide range of highly interactive, not-for-credit courses that you can take entirely online. All of our courses are led by expert instructors, many of whom are nationally known authors. Our courses are affordable, fun, fast, convenient, and geared just for you. Ready to "channel your potential"? Browse our catalog or check out our Popular, New, and Featured Courses.
*If you are CSU Channel Islands staff, please contact Jeff Ziskin before enrolling. jeff.ziskin@csuci.edu 805-437-2653
Learn to use basic, intermediate, and advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2016.
Learn medical Spanish quickly and easily, honing your basic conversational skills and mastering key healthcare words and phrases.
Gain confidence in your basic math skills and start using math to your advantage.
Learn everything you need to know to enter the world of non-profits and writing grant proposals.
Learn how to develop an Internet marketing plan, use popular social media platforms, and achieve higher positions with major search engines.
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.
Gain a marketable new skill by learning the basics of double-entry bookkeeping, financial reporting, and more.
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.
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.
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.
This course will provide you with a close look at the scientific investigation process as you work to plan for lab activities in your classroom. You will learn how to construct pre- and post-lab activities that align well with a lab experiment that follows the scientific method.
This course will teach you about the characteristics of giftedness and how fostering creativity should be an important component in your classroom. It will also help you acquire simple activities you can incorporate into your lessons to support creativity in your gifted students.
This course will provide you with an overview of how to establish boundaries in your classroom, communicate properly with parents, students, and colleagues, and maintain professionalism in the classroom and on campus.
Explore the three main types of assessments—pre-assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessment—and learn how to design assessments to measure the growth and progress of your gifted students. You will also learn how to use the data from assessments to inform your instruction and adjust the level of rigor for more effective learning and growth in your classroom.
Learn how to leverage your previous Photoshop experience to color and paint photos or enhance your creative works.