Cobb school district offering tech training for students

The Cobb County School District is offering live training on Microsoft software to students from grades 3-12.

A trainer from Microsoft will partner with Cobb InTech to lead the virtual sessions, according to the school district. They will run from 6:45 to 7:15 p.m. The first lesson, on Microsoft OneNote, is Tuesday.

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Links to join will be posted before the training session.

The Oct. 12 training will be about PowerPoint and the Nov. 9 session will be about Flipgrid.

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