Learn how to streamline repetitive document creation with Microsoft Word's Mail Merge feature. This course introduces the fundamentals of creating personalized letters, labels, envelopes, emails, and other documents by combining a Word document with data from sources such as Excel spreadsheets or contact lists. Through hands-on practice, participants will learn how to set up, customize, and complete mail merge projects efficiently and accurately.

Basic Life Support (BLS) recertification courses allow you to update your skills, refresh your memory and extend your certification by two years. Designed for those whose credentials are still valid (or within 30 days of expiring), BLS renewal courses make it possible to avoid a lapse in certification so you can stay certified and stay on the job.

Build confidence in the kitchen by developing essential knife skills while learning foundational culinary techniques. In this hands-on course, participants will practice proper knife handling, cutting methods, and safe food handling practices while learning chicken fabrication, cooking techniques, and the preparation of a classic mother sauce. Designed for cooks of all experience levels, this class emphasizes safety, efficiency, and the fundamental skills needed to prepare a variety of meals with confidence.

Gain confidence in creating basic formulas and functions with relative and absolute references. Understand operator precedence and how it affects formulas. Learn about the different parts of a function and how to create arguments to calculate values and cell references. Excel includes common functions that can be used to quickly find the sum, average, count, maximum and minimum value for a range of cells

This course prepares participants to become American Heart Association (AHA) instructors for Basic Life Support (BLS) and Heartsaver courses. 

To take this class you must:

1. Hold a current AHA BLS Provider card
2. Purchase the 2025 BLS Instructor Manual (ISBN:978-1-68472-311-9)
3. Complete the BLS Instructor Essentials Online and Core course prior to the classroom session.
4. Submit proof of completion for the online course and a copy of current BLS Provider card

Students will need to be monitored for 6 months in order to receive their certification card and that they will not be allowed into class without the required listed pre-requisites. 

Explore how Artificial Intelligence can streamline and enhance your content creation process in this practical, hands-on workshop. Learn how to use AI tools to develop ideas, create and refine social media content, draft blog posts and articles, support SEO efforts, develop email marketing campaigns, and adapt existing content for different audiences and platforms.

This class is for final year apprentices who will, as journey workers, soon be responsible for passing on their skills to new apprentices.  Developed by the Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards, this 8-hour course teaches soon-to-be journey workers how to serve as a mentor and job coach, how to provide hands-on skill training, how to give positive and effective performance feedback, and explores the characteristics of a positive and diverse work environment. Please note that this is a Blackboard online course. If you are not a current/former student of Blackhawk Technical College you will receive login credentials 3-5 days before class starts.

This course will prepare the licensed dental hygienist to safely and effectively use diode LASERs in the preventive and periodontal treatment of dental patients. The course will cover a brief history of LASERs in dentistry, as well as LASER physics, safety practices, and clinical applications, with a focus on LASER Bacterial Reduction and LASER-Assisted Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy procedures. Students will practice using dental LASERs on a porcine jaw, and on a classmate patient. Participants will receive a certificate of completion worth six continuing education credits (6CE).

The course begins on 11/13/26 with an online, asynchronous component on Blackboard, for which the estimated completion time is two (2) hours. It culminates with an in-person lab on Monday, 11/30/26 (9:00am - 4:00 pm).  Participants will receive course login information the week of 11/13, or two business days after registration for those who register after 11/13. 

 Students will need to submit proof of current DH license in WI and current CPR certification. Please submit these to mmarkley4@blackhawk.edu with your name and 56539 in the subject.