Microsoft Virtual Academy is one of the best online IT academy with lots of free online IT courses, that available for everybody who want to expand their knowledge and information.  MVA provides exactly what you need to deepen your knowledge. Discover how to get started today and get expert for working professionally.

MVA, the Free Online IT Courses

MVA is free for anybody interested in advancing their career through training on Microsoft technologies. You can watch or download videos and slides without signing in, but to get full access to all resources, including learning plans, self-assessments and live events, you will need to use a Microsoft account and create an MVA profile. Your profile is a record of the time you invest here, including the certificates of completion for the courses you take.

How to Register on MVA?

You can register to MVA with a Microsoft account. If you already don’t have any Microsoft account, go to outlook.com website and create an outlook account freely. Next login to MVA with your newly created email account.

Note: Creating outlook account is easy. Just go to outlook website and sign up for a new account. Fulfill the registration form with your correct information and follow the next steps.

Take a Course or Attend a Live Event to Build Your Skills

To get started, simply pick a course that interests you and begin watching the videos in each module. You’ll be able to download the presentations and also test your learning with assessments. Once you have completed every lesson in a course, you will get a certificate of completion. When you attend a live event, you also have real time access to experts who can answer your questions during the training.

Track Your Progress and Get Recognized

On your Dashboard, you can manage personal learning plans and see how much of each course you have completed. Your Dashboard automatically records your progress and stores your certificates of completion which are available for you to download and print. Your dashboard reflects the commitment you’ve made to skills up.

Create a Learning Plan

My Learning Plan is a way to organize courses your interested in… Once you register as an MVA member, you can add courses to a plan by clicking Add to my learning Plan next to the course descriptions. You can edit and manage your learning plans from your Dashboard. You can store up to 10 learning plans. You can have up to 10 courses in each plan.

So there is no reason to postpone your learning and improving skills with these huge free online IT courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy. Studying a hour daily will change your life and get you expert.

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If you like online courses to learn something new and get improve your skills in various subjects, you probably know Udemy. You might download Udemy courses. Udemy is the world’s online learning marketplace, where 9 million+ students are taking courses in everything from programming to yoga to photography–and much, much more. Each of the Udemy 35,000+ courses is taught by an expert instructor, and every course is available on-demand, so students can learn at their own pace, on their own time, and on any device.

How Udemy Work?

There are lot’s of courses on Udemy from free courses to premium courses. Some courses are cheap to start from $5 and some are very expensive. You can participate in free courses just with a simple account. No need to issue a credit card or any other identification card.

But you need to download the courses which you have purchased or free courses. The IDM will download videos of course one by one. But with the Udemy-dl tool, you can download all your courses at once. Just need to run the tool through the command line (cmd) on Windows and (Terminal) on Linux.

How to Download Udemy Courses?

The developer of this tool created this app to download udemy courses for personal offline use. I have tested on a free course that works perfectly. Try to download the courses you have paid for offline watching.

1. Find and download the udemy-dl from the Github website, where you can find more open-source tools. The file contains python scripts for Linux and an exe file for Windows.

2. Run the application through the command prompt in Windows and Terminal on Linux. Just do it like the below screenshot.

3. When you run the tool from the command line, run the .exe file from the dist folder then paste the URL of your course and press enter. When asking for your email address, type your email and password to connect to Udemy and start downloading your course.

Simple to Advanced Usage

If you want to know more about these command-line tools, read the below usage guides of Udemy-dl from the developer website.

Simply call udemy-dl.exe with the full URL to the course page.

udemy-dl.exe https://www.udemy.com/COURSE_NAME

udemy-dl.exe will ask for your udemy username (email address) and password then start downloading the videos.

By default, udemy-dl.exe will create a subdirectory based on the course name. If you wish to have the files downloaded to a specific location, use the -o \path\to\directory\ parameter.

If you wish, you can include the username/email and password on the command line using the -u and -p parameters.

udemy-dl.exe -u user@domain.com -p $ecRe7w0rd https://www.udemy.com/COURSE_NAME

For information about all available parameters, use the --help parameter

udemy-dl.exe --help

usage: udemy-dl.exe [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD]
                    [--lecture-start LECTURE_START] [--lecture-end LECTURE_END]
                    [-o OUTPUT_DIR] [-v]
                    link

Fetch all the videos for a udemy course

positional arguments:
  link                  Link for udemy course

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        Username/Email
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        Password
  --lecture-start LECTURE_START
                        Lecture to start at (default is 1)
  --lecture-end LECTURE_END
                        Lecture to end at (default is last)
  -o OUTPUT_DIR, --output-dir OUTPUT_DIR
                        Output directory
  -s, --save-links      Do not download but save links to a file
  -v, --version         Display the version of udemy-dl and exit

Finally, you can find your downloaded udemy courses in udemy-dl folder. Hope you use these tools for educational purposes and we don’t responsible for this tool if it causes any issue to your udemy account.

This is a third-party tool for udemy. So hope udemy developer team quickly fix this bug.

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Continuing high level Education in the top best universities of the world is the dreams of all students. Maybe you hear about free online courses but did not join them yet? Study online for free at your free time. The day was gone when you walk along way and waste more time to go college or university. Now you can stay at home and participate to your favorite courses in your field from best universities around the world. All you need is a computer or mobile with a internet line to join the classes.

Yes I’m talking about free online courses which provided by Coursera website for all countries of the world.

 Coursera is a for-profit educational technology company founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford University that offers massive open online courses (MOOCs). Coursera works with universities to make some of their courses available online, and offers courses in physics, engineering, humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences, mathematics, business, computer science, and other subjects.

You can register and join the courses with your computer through the official Coursera website or install the Apps on your smartphone.

Download the Coursera App for IOS from App store and install it with iTunes or directly.  For Android devices just find and install from Google Play App store from here. Unfortunately I could not found any App for windows Phone users. You can find more about Coursea on Youtube channel.

All courses provided with different language and cultures. So If you really care about your higher educations, don’t miss the free online courses by Coursera. Join and start from here and today because Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take for free.

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