Power Apps for Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: Update on Microsoft Trial Registrations

Lecture 3: Getting setup

Lecture 4: What is a canvas app?

Lecture 5: What is a model-driven app?

Lecture 6: What is Power Automate?

Lecture 7: What is the Dataverse? (Common Data Service)

Lecture 8: 30-Day Trial Environment

Chapter 2: Orientation of the Power Apps Maker Environment (updated Jan 24')

Lecture 1: Introduction to section 2 – Power Apps Maker Studio

Lecture 2: How to access Power Apps maker and landing page overview

Lecture 3: Where to start building Apps from

Lecture 4: Where to find your Apps

Lecture 5: What are solutions

Lecture 6: What are Flows

Lecture 7: What are Tables

Lecture 8: What are Dataflows

Lecture 9: Wrap-up with miscellaneous features

Chapter 3: Orientation of the Power Apps Design Studio (updated Jan 24')

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Orientation of the left navigation

Lecture 3: Orientation of the design area

Lecture 4: Orientation of the object properties

Lecture 5: About the formula bar

Lecture 6: Wrap up of section 3

Chapter 4: How to create Apps automatically from existing data (updated Jan 24')

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Create a simple app using Microsoft Excel Data

Lecture 3: Create an simple App using an existing SharePoint list

Lecture 4: Create a simple App using an existing Dataverse table

Lecture 5: Create a simple App using Copilot

Chapter 5: Practice using each function in the Maker Environment – Part 1

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: How to add screens to your app (Updated Feb 24')

Lecture 3: Understanding labels and what they can be used for

Lecture 4: Working with buttons

Lecture 5: Working with different text types

Lecture 6: Microsoft Update to Expression

Lecture 7: Project – A simple kids drawing app

Lecture 8: Exploring inputs types (dropdown, combo & date picker)

Lecture 9: Exploring input types (list box, checkbox & radio)

Lecture 10: Course Content Update

Chapter 6: Practice using each function in the Maker Environment – Part 2

Lecture 1: input Options – Toggle, Slicer & Rating

Lecture 2: Exploring input options types (container & timer)

Lecture 3: Exploring address input using geospatial services

Lecture 4: Microsoft Update to Expression

Lecture 5: Working with user forms

Lecture 6: Understanding the image control and uses

Lecture 7: Working with Sound – Part 1

Lecture 8: Working with Sound – Part 2

Lecture 9: Working with icons in apps

Lecture 10: Using the Add Picture control

Chapter 7: Working with Actions

Lecture 1: How to use the Navigate function

Lecture 2: How to store data temporarily in a collection

Lecture 3: How to use the Select function

Lecture 4: How to invoke a Flow from a button click

Chapter 8: Data view options

Lecture 1: Introduction to Data Sources

Lecture 2: Understanding media options in Canvas apps

Lecture 3: Introduction to Collections

Lecture 4: Introduction to Variables

Chapter 9: Introduction to Power FX

Lecture 1: What is Power FX?

Lecture 2: Comparing Excel formulas to Power FX expressions

Lecture 3: About the Power FX reference guide

Lecture 4: Where expressions are written in the App Maker

Lecture 5: Writing basic math functions using Power FX

Chapter 10: Power FX Formulas (Hand-on part 1)

Lecture 1: Filter – Setup database for filtering exercise

Lecture 2: Filter – Configure Galleries on Canvas

Lecture 3: Filter – Write the expression to filter contacts

Lecture 4: Filter – Using a dropdown to Filter Data

Lecture 5: How to use the Search expression

Lecture 6: Edit an exiting record

Lecture 7: Delete a record

Lecture 8: Mapping the current user details to a record

Lecture 9: And, Or, Not Operators

Lecture 10: Setting global variable within the APP Object

Lecture 11: Using the Sum expression

Lecture 12: Using the Calendar Object

Lecture 13: Using the ColorFade Expression

Lecture 14: Using Concatenate to join strings

Lecture 15: Using CountRows in a table

Lecture 16: Date calculations

Lecture 17: One click dialing

Lecture 18: Download function

Chapter 11: Introduction to the Dataverse

Lecture 1: Introduction to Model-driven Apps

Lecture 2: Creating an app with the new designer

Lecture 3: Introduction to Tables

Lecture 4: Introduction to Forms

Lecture 5: Introduction to Views

Lecture 6: Introduction to Table Relationships

Lecture 7: Introduction to Datatypes

Lecture 8: Introduction to Business Processes

Lecture 9: Introduction to Business Rules