Online Courses for Every New Year’s Resolution

16 Jan 2025 8 min read
Linda DeYounge
Linda DeYounge
Program Manager of Online Learning, Learning Technology Center

The new year has arrived, and with it comes a fresh start and new goals – namely, New Year’s resolutions. We’ve all sat down at the kitchen counter to write that kind of full year commitment. Drink more water, start working out, stop doom scrolling – the possibilities are endless with all 525,600 minutes ahead.

But following through on a New Year’s resolution? That’s the hard part. 

If you want to spend 2025 reading more, getting organized, or building better boundaries with technology, you’re in luck. The LTC offers a range of online courses designed to help educators and school staff like you achieve professional goals relevant to your work.

The best part? Our courses are all self-paced, allowing you to go at your own speed and begin implementing what you’ve learned in real-time. With facilitators on hand to help, you’ll also be able to stay on track and troubleshoot any issue without delay.

Let’s dive in and discover how our online courses can help you take 2025’s resolutions from commitment to reality:

Turn the Page on your

Reading Goals

You’ve had your eye on that stack of books on your desk for months. But finding the motivation for professional reading can be difficult, especially when other teaching tasks feel like a priority.

What if you could ride the reading rainbow and earn PD credit while you’re at it? Join Hyperlink’s EdTech Library, an online, self–paced book study where you are in the driver’s seat.

Your 2025 membership gives you the ability to:

      • Submit any edtech book of your choosing for approval
      • Engage with guided reflections and curated activities
      • Read up to three books for a total of 21 PD credits

For the next month, we have a special New Year’s discount for eager readers. Enter code hyperlinknewyear at checkout to get 25% off this course’s fee. Discount ends February 14th.

Stop Feeling Overwhelmed in the

Digital World

With a constant stream of emails, notifications, and texts, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed – especially when technology is integral to work. How can you start setting healthy boundaries, both on the job and at home?

Get a handle on your tech use and find balance in the new year with our newest course: Thriving in a Digital World

This course explores what it means to live alongside technology, setting boundaries and prioritizing your wellbeing. Along the way, you’ll be introduced to:

      • The basic tenets of digital thriving
      • Specific ways to focus amid your smart devices
      • Strategies to foster digital well-being in the classroom

Whether you want to stop doom scrolling or start having conversations about digital well-being with your students, this course can get you on the right track.

Get Organized with

Google Tools

There’s a better way to work! Declutter your digital life with this trio of Google tools that can help you collaborate with peers, organize important data, and clean up your to-do list.

Already know the basics? All three of these intermediate courses dig deeper into the Google apps you know and offer practical strategies for utilizing them in tandem:

Level Up with Shared Drives

Within any team or department, collaboration is a key to success. But when you and your fellow educators don’t share a central location for files, sharing resources can prove difficult.

Enter Shared Drives! These special folders within Google Drive provide flexible sharing options that make digital collaboration a breeze. Our Shared Drives course explores:

    • Creating and managing a Shared Drive
    • Adding files and organizing them for easy collaboration
    • Managing access permissions so that the right people have the right access to your Shared Drives
Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets

Stare at that spreadsheet full of raw student data all you want – it still looks like one big block of confusing text. Letters and numbers and statistics, oh my!

Make sense of all that data using Sheet’s built-in conditional formatting. These easy-to-learn rules and formulas can color code and organize your data, making it easier to interpret and share.

Our course teaches you how to use conditional formatting to:

    • Sort student grades by percentages
    • Sort test scores by number of correct responses
    • Assign color codes based on set criteria, such as percentage correct on a test
    • Track and sort missing assignments
Google Productivity Tools

Say goodbye to a cluttered desk of sticky notes! Google Tasks and Google Keep were tailor-made for busy educators who want to start the year on a productive note.

Our course covering both tools teaches you how to:

      • Use Keep to jot down and organize your thoughts on digital sticky notes 
      • Use Tasks to make digital to-do lists that sync with Google Calendar

Always More to Learn

With our online courses only a click away, there are even more ways to keep learning and growing throughout 2025.

Every course – including our Google Basics series – offers practical strategies developed by educators, for educators. Whether you want to learn more about Gmail, Google Classroom, or Google Calendar (and more), you’ll walk away with insights that you can immediately put to use.

So, what are you waiting for? Visit the LTC’s online course catalog and make this the year you crush your goals and learn something new – all at your own pace. The best time to start is now!

Linda DeYounge
Linda DeYounge
Program Manager of Online Learning, Learning Technology Center

Linda designs, develops, and evaluates the LTC’s digital professional learning, including working with subject matter experts to create learning objectives, conducting needs assessments, and delivering interactive online PD opportunities.