PREPARE TO SUCCEED AT WORK OR SCHOOL
Six essential courses.
Learn professional skills.
Instructor support.
100% remote.
Affordable prices.
- Free, open learning resources provided.
- Designed for adult learners 18+.
- Grade 12 level of literacy required.
Hello and welcome!
These six courses are designed to provide you with today's essential workplace skills recommended by the Government of Canada. The demand for these skills has steadily grown and are now required in most job descriptions for business and government.
To prepare for success, Kwriter Academy offers the most recent, relevant Open Textbooks and new lesson modules. The Open Textbooks selected for these courses are recent, free, downloadable and written by Canadian educators who have taught their content at a Canadian college or university.
We recommend you start by signing up for our free, two-week micro course on career planning. Experience the range and quality of learning we offer before committing to a paid course.
After the micro course, come back for one of our six week courses and we'll help you bring that career plan to life.
Kate Hildebrandt, Instructor
Introducing our six certificate courses
Engaging. Relevant. Affordable.
Please read the course overview. That's where you'll find the Register button.
Professional
Writing
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Course fee - $400
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Six weeks - 60 hrs.
Learn current methods for
professional writing, editing and proofreading used in today's workplace. You'll also be introduced to The Writer’s Process, a classic, proven method for planning and managing quality writing assignments. Keep in mind, you'll be creating assignments that double as work samples for your portfolio.
Strategic Communications
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Course fee - $400
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Six weeks - 60 hrs.
Communication skills are an essential service in business and government. Professional communicators work with leaders, teams and external consultants. They are problem-solvers and diligent planners who drive success across multiple channels. Strategists at heart, they measure and assess results, routinely reporting on their progress.
Portfolio Website Development
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Course fee - $400
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Six weeks - 60 hrs.
Make a strong first impression and validate your range of skills and experiences with a portfolio website. With our guidance and support, you will create your website using a templated format of your choice. Prepare to showcase your best work as we teach you how to create a brand strategy, build content, gather and load your assets and design your site your way.
Career Planning
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Course fees - Free!
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Two weeks - 20 hrs
Things have changed since the pandemic. Advances in workplace technology, for example, are now driving the need for digital skills. This free course explains how you can map out your own distinct viable career path based on your local employer needs alongside your interests and abilities. You'll learn how to research job markets and apply for the best jobs that are right for you.
Digital Marketing
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Course fees - $400
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Six weeks - 60 hrs
Google Trends has identified digital marketing as one of the top three most in demand professions in the world. Working with a 2025 Canadian Open Textbook titled Digital Marketing Strategy, you will learn the steps required to build a strategic framework and market effectively online. You'll also learn how to reach customers, increase brand visibility, drive sales, and achieve goals.
Digital Writing
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Course fees - $400
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Six weeks - 60 hrs
Learn how to write digital content for websites, blogs, social media, and email campaigns. Reach your target audiences effectively with Search Engine Optimization skills. This course will teach you conventions of digital genres. You will also learn how to develop a content strategy, master key writing skills and design strategies to fit your audiences' evolving needs.
These courses are tested, current and aligned.
Take one course at a time. Or subscribe for one year and complete all six. Save $980!
Instructor support
Assignments are reviewed and assessed by your instructor. If you need help, email us. We'll help you out. Learning is focused on key skills employers seek in new hires. Upon completion and a final exam, you'll receive a certificate and a personalized assessment letter.
We support your success.
Relevant content
Our course content is in step with today's workplace and aligned with Open Educational Resources used worldwide across the academic sector. This course content has also been taught to university undergraduates by your instructor who works as a professional writer for business and government.
Course content = career readiness.
Distinct learning
Adult learners benefit from studying workplace skills and selected elements of academia with an emphasis on the need for writing, communications and career planning skills. Also, learners choose their own assignment topics so they have relevant work samples to show potential employers.
Engage and prepare to succeed.
Our 10-step teaching method
How you will learn
Our courses are designed to promote cognitive engagement which involves mental effort, persistence and strategic thinking. Learners engage and grow by applying critical thinking skills, self-regulation and by connecting new information to prior knowledge. Strategies to promote a deep desire to learn include having choices, using collaborative, open-ended projects and creating tasks that require critical thinking rather than simple recall.
Here’s how we encourage cognitive engagement in our courses -
1. You will receive a course plan with details on how each learning module for each week changes and challenges you.
2. You will also receive a link to the Open Textbook for the course you have selected, free of charge.
3. Each course comes with a poster, a visual tool that maps out each step in the learning process.
4. Learning modules follow this same process so you'll always know what staage you're at within the course.
5. Learning resources include videos, slide decks, visual and editorial samples from various sources.
6. Your course plan will also indicate textbook chapters and pages to be read for your weekly quiz.
7. A live meeting is held once each week to discuss key elements of each module.
8. Assignments are also discussed in detail at the weekly sessions. You pick your own subject matter.
9. A social media networking resource is set up so you can discuss your studies and learn from other learners.
10. An email address is provided to connect with your instructor if you have questions, get stuck or need an extension.
Please view the Learning page for more info on our teaching methods.
SIGN UP AND SAVE
Membership means unlimited access at half the price
Access all six courses within one year. Start with any course you wish, complete within the year. Learn at your own pace.
Our membership plan comes with several benefits. For starters, you'll pay less. A one-year membership for all six courses costs only $1000 -- $83.33 per month (+ 5% GST) for 12 months.
Our regular price for all courses is $2000. Our membership plan saves you $1000 for the whole enchilada.
You'll have access to all learning resources, instructor feedback and support, with enough wiggle room to study, complete tests at the end of each course, plus time to rest before starting the next course.
Once you sign up, we'll send you course descriptions, schedules and information on how to access all six courses.
Kate Hildebrandt, Instructor
P.S. Learners can register for one six-week course at a time, if they wish. Cost is $400 per + GST. The micro course is still free and always will be.
Imagine yourself after one year of successful studies
- After one year, you will have six certificates for six professional skills you have studied and completed.
- You will have built your own portfolio website showing your completed assignments, now professional work samples.
- You will have six posters outlining the process you followed within each course. You can recite those steps by heart.
- You will have more than ten curated Open Textbooks and a series of learning resources that guided you through your studies. These resources are handy when you are challenged at work.
- You will have a resume and a draft cover letter to update for every future job application.
- You will have a career plan to guide you to the right job market in your search for the kind of work you want to do.
- You will have an assessment of your course work from your instructor who will also serve as a reference.
- You are prepared to succeed! Congratulations!
- Oh, and you saved $1,000.
Answers to our three most frequently asked questions
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What credentials do I need to enroll?
Can I get a reference from the instructor?
Feedback from previous students
"Your presentation* captured my attention from start to finish. I felt like you were speaking to me personally."
- Jessica
*The presentation was on Narrative as an Act of Leadership, a lesson in the Professional Writing course.
"The structure of your presentations made it easy to follow. Thank you for your openness, flexibility, and understanding the whole way through. My class speaks highly of you."
- David
“I can honestly say the crazy amount of red ink on that first news release I wrote for you has played a big role in me getting to this point*. So, thanks!”
- Mike
* Mike was promoted in his government job. The news release lesson is taught in the Strategic Communications course.
"I can see you had a pragmatic approach to planning your presentation. I thought it was seamless."
- Tobias
"I look forward to sharing your ideas with my students to help them prepare for their writing projects. Very useful information."
- Pam
"Kate, thank you for this interesting session. I really liked your six rules*. They are so applicable!"
- Jen
*You can read My Favourite Six Rules of Writing by clicking on the middle blog story below.
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