OK Native Career & Technical Education Program (OKN-CTEP)

Certifications to set you apart or get you hired

Whether you have a creative mind perfect for the field of marketing or a technical mindset geared towards computer hardware and networking, we have new classes to get you certified and employable in a variety of industries.

All courses offered in a “live-online” format and are guaranteed to run regardless of the number of students enrolled. Students will use the PNC computer lab to connect to their courses.

All classes are live on line and students must connect to the class at the Pawnee Nation College computer lab.

About Live Online training

Online LIVE training provides the same high-quality education, including live lectures, demonstrations and virtual labs, as a traditional classroom training, all while gaining flexibility.

Online LIVE training allows you to:

  • Instruction led by live instructor.
  • Participate in discussions via live video and audio feeds.
  • Perform virtual labs for hands-on experience.
  • View documents and presentations in real time.
  • Play back any class for review.
  • Attend virtual rooms to facilitate team activities.
  • Participate in discussions with your instructor and fellow students.

 

Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Training

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop CC – Part 1

Adobe® Photoshop® CC: Part 1 focuses on some of the basic features of Photoshop so that the student can navigate the environment and use Photoshop tools to work with photographic images. In addition, the orientation to Adobe® Bridge and organization of files in Bridge is covered. Although Photoshop is used by a variety of professionals, from photographers to designers to videographers, Photoshop Part 1 will focus mainly on the photography component. The illustration and animation techniques are covered in subsequent levels of Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop CC – Part 2

Adobe® Photoshop® CC is a leading graphic creation application, popular among graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers. Photoshop’s numerous features work together to provide a comprehensive toolset for you, the design professional. This course delves into some of the more advanced image creation and editing techniques, and offers you hands-on activities that demonstrate how these techniques can be used in combination to create exciting visual effects.

 

Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign CC – Part 1

Giving your documents a well-designed, professional look will put you a step ahead in the marketplace cluttered with all kinds of communications. Paragraph and character styles that allow you to format pages of text uniformly, layout features that help you to build alternate size configurations of your document, and various panels that enable you to easily customize both text and graphics; Adobe® InDesign® CC (2018) has all the tools you need to elevate the look of your document and get it out to the people who need to see it, whether it be in print or on the web.

Adobe InDesign CC – Part 2

In Adobe® InDesign® CC (2018): Part 1 you were introduced to the many features that help you create professional looking documents. Now you need to create much lengthier interactive documents that need to be accessed across a range of devices. In Adobe® InDesign® CC (2018): Part 2, you will learn advanced InDesign techniques to enhance the look and functionality of your documents. Using Adobe InDesign, you can create interactive documents and export them for viewing in a web browser with various features such as buttons, page transitions, movies and audio files, hyperlinks, and animation. You have the ability to assign color profiles and establish print presets. In creating longer documents, you’ll be able to include such features as a table of contents, footnotes, cross-references, and an index.

 

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator CC – Part 1

To meet the demands of individuals and organizations for flexible, reusable, and easily modified visual content, Adobe Systems has created a cadre of applications that collectively provide a scalable, end-to-end solution for nearly every type of visual design project one can contemplate. Called Creative Cloud™ (CC), the collection of applications perform specialized design tasks while interoperating among each other to deliver superlative content.

Adobe Illustrator CC – Part 2

You have created simple artwork by using the basic drawing and painting tools available in Adobe® Illustrator® CC. You now want to use advanced tools, options, and effects to create complex artwork. In addition, you want to ensure that your artwork is ready for commercial printing and also save it for the web. In this course, you will draw complex illustrations and enhance them by using various painting options. You will also use painting tools, manage colors, format type, work with effects, prepare artwork for commercial printing, and prepare graphics for the web.

 

CompTIA Certifications

CompTIA IT Fundamentals+ (ITF+)

This course will prepare participants to take the FC0-U61 exam to obtain the IT Fundamentals+ certification and help participants learn some of the basic principles and techniques of providing PC, mobile, applications, and network support.

 

Option 1 (Combined)

CompTIA A+ Certification (Exams 220-1001 and 220-1002)

CompTIA A+ certified professionals are proven problem solvers. They support today’s core technologies from security to cloud to data management and more. CompTIA A+ is the industry standard for launching IT careers into today’s digital world. It is the only industry recognized credential with performance-based items to prove pros can think on their feet to perform critical IT support tasks in the moment. It is trusted by employers around the world to identify the go-to person in end point management and technical support roles. CompTIA A+ is regularly re-invented by IT experts to ensure that it validates core skills and abilities demanded in the workplace. The Official CompTIA® A+® Core 1 and Core 2 (Exams 220-1001 and 220-1002) course provides the background knowledge and skills you will require to be a successful A+ technician. It will help you prepare to take the CompTIA A+ Core Series certification examinations (exam numbers 220-1001 and 220-1002), in order to become a CompTIA A+ Certified Professional.

NOTE: This fast-paced course is designed for those that have been working in the field of IT for a significant length of time and have full knowledge and experience with the skills taught in this course.

 

Option 2 (Separate)

CompTIA A+ – Part 1

CompTIA A+ – Part 2

The CompTIA A+ course can benefit you in two ways. Whether you work or plan to work in a mobile or corporate environment where you have a high level of face-to-face customer interaction, where client communication and client training are important, or in an environment with limited customer interaction and an emphasis on hardware activities, this course provides the background knowledge and skills you will require to be a successful A+ technician. It can also assist you if you are preparing to take the CompTIA A+ certification examination, exam numbers 220-1001 and 220-1002, in order to become a CompTIA A+ Certified Professional.