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Learning opportunities for Commonwealth of Virginia (COV) employees

BPS learning opportunities 2025

Training opportunities for all Commonwealth of Virginia (COV) employees.  Registration is open; click the registration link beside the date and time for the class.

Box content management (BCM) learning opportunity

Tuesday, March 4. The virtual meeting will be held from 9 a.m. - noon

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Draft agenda

Box platform

Platform use cases
Education on platform presentation

Live demo session

Focusing on a signature flow and portal experience
Education on Box developer website
User model walk through

Artificial intelligence (AI) API for analytics and reporting

Box API support
Custom integrations

Power Automate CoP

Wednesday, March 5

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Draft agenda

Overview of Power Automate
Power Automate robotic process automation (RPA) – Presented by Microsoft
Agency spotlight: VA Department of Treasury automated document processing

Microsoft Azure Cloud GitHub innovation day

Thursday, March 27

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Draft agenda

Welcome and overview

Why we are here
Licensing and availability of GitHub Enterprise Cloud

What is GitHub good for?

Business case for collaboration on code and scripts
GitHub high-level capabilities
Azure DevOps contrasting functionality
ADO integrations
Decisionmaker's key discovery questions

A deeper look at GitHub platform components

Code management, working collaboratively
Actions and packages: automating releases
Application security
Project management: Boards vs. GitHub Projects
Migration considerations

On Demand: Lunch & Learns for Power Platform

The Power Platform lunch and learns were held in September 2022. Below are the presentation slides and recordings, if available for each topic. These were considered Level 100 courses -- introductory overviews which focuses on different components.

Lunch and Learn resources:

Topic	Additional topical information	Resource materials
Introduction to Power BI: What is possible and what are its business capabilities?	Designed for anyone that wants to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive and interactive insights. Users will learn different business use cases and have a deeper understanding of both PowerBI Desktop and PowerBI Service.	View presentation slides Watch the presentation
Introduction to Power Apps: Canvas and model driven apps	Designed for business analysts, power users, and developers that focus on the Business Application Platform: Power Apps (Model-Driven Apps and Canvas Apps), Dataverse and more. Users will be able to gain a deeper understanding of how to use Power Apps, enabling them to create their productivity applications.	View the presentation slides Watch the presentation
Introduction to Power Automate	Designed for power users who are wanting to automate their workloads. Users will be exposed to how to automate their business process and send automatic reminders, utilizing more than 500 data sources or any publicly available API.	View the presentation slides

Topic

Additional topical information

Resource materials

Introduction to Power BI: What is possible and what are its business capabilities?

Designed for anyone that wants to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive and interactive insights. Users will learn different business use cases and have a deeper understanding of both PowerBI Desktop and PowerBI Service.

View presentation slides

Watch the presentation

Introduction to Power Apps: Canvas and model driven apps

Designed for business analysts, power users, and developers that focus on the Business Application Platform: Power Apps (Model-Driven Apps and Canvas Apps), Dataverse and more. Users will be able to gain a deeper understanding of how to use Power Apps, enabling them to create their productivity applications.

View the presentation slides

Watch the presentation

Introduction to Power Automate

Designed for power users who are wanting to automate their workloads. Users will be exposed to how to automate their business process and send automatic reminders, utilizing more than 500 data sources or any publicly available API.

View the presentation slides