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Robotic Process Automation (Basic)

Topic:Engineering, ICT, Media & Design, Others

Course Type:Short & Modular Courses

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Overview

  • Course Date:

    31 Jul 2024 to 01 Aug 2024
    19 Aug 2024 to 20 Aug 2024
    04 Sep 2024 to 05 Sep 2024
    16 Sep 2024 to 17 Sep 2024
    23 Oct 2024 to 24 Oct 2024
  • Registration Period:

    04 Apr 2024 to 03 Jul 2024
    02 May 2023 to 27 Jun 2024
    12 Jun 2024 to 07 Aug 2024
    19 Jun 2024 to 18 Aug 2024
    03 Jul 2024 to 24 Sep 2024
  • Duration/Frequency:

    Wed & Thu (9am to 6pm)
  • Mode of Training:

    Classroom
  • Venue:

    Singapore Polytechnic
  • Funding:

    -

Course Introduction:

Robotic Process Automation is the application of technology that allows employees in a company to configure software or a “robot” to capture and interpret existing applications for processing a transaction, manipulating data, triggering responses and communicating with other digital system. This course will show how businesses can automate some of the internal process to bring about an improvement in productivity and get employees to move up the work value chain. 

Course Objective

This course aims to equip participants with the skills to easily create useful Robotic Process Automation (RPA) scripts to automate their own desktop processes, without coding or programming knowledge. They will learn how to achieve this through using a RPA software.

Course Outline

Course Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the Course, participants will be able to: 

  1. Explain what is RPA and how it can help to automate processes
  2. Develop RPA solution for data entry
  3. Develop RPA solution for data scraping
  4. Develop RPA solution for Excel and Email processes
  5. Troubleshooting RPA exceptions
  6. Identify internal processes suitable for RPA implementation
  7. Develop RPA scripts using participant’s selected process 
Topics to be covered
  1. Introduction to RPA
  2. Installation and Introduction to RPA software
  3. Automate basic data entry
  4. Automate repetitive data entry
  5. Automate data scrapping
  6. Automate Excel and Email processes (Extended)
  7. Identifying internal processes for automation (Extended)
  8. Troubleshooting and RPA resources

Minimum Requirements

Participants must be computer literate and have basic knowledge in MS Office such as Outlook, MS Excel and MS Word.

Certification / Accreditation

• Certificate of Attendance (electronic Certificate will be issued)
A Certificate of Attendance will be awarded to participants who meet at least 75% attendance rate

• Certificate of Completion (electronic Certificate will be issued)
A Certificate of Completion will be awarded to participants who pass the assessment and meet at least 75% attendance rate

Suitable for

RPA Developer / Business Analyst / IT Consultant / Tech Support.

Course Fees

The course fees payable above are inclusive of 9% GST rate.

Applicants/Eligibility SkillsFuture Funding GST* Subsidised Fee (after GST)
Singapore Citizens aged 40 and above1 $630.00 $18.90 $88.90
Singapore Citizens aged below 40 $490.00 $18.90 $228.90
Singapore Permanent Residents and LTVP+ Holders $490.00 $18.90 $228.90
SME-sponsored Singapore Citizens, Permanent Residents and LTVP+ Holders2 $630.00 $18.90 $88.90
Others (Full fees payable) $0.00 $63.00 $763.00

As per SSG’s policy, the GST payable for all funding-eligible applicants is calculated based on prevailing GST rate after baseline funding subsidy of 70%


Singaporeans aged 25 years and above may use **SkillsFuture Credit balance to offset respective course fees.

¹ Under the SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy. For more information, visit the SkillsFuture website here

² Under the Enhanced Training Support for Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Scheme. For more information of the scheme, click here. To view SP’s list of similar funded courses, click here. Please submit the attached “Declaration Form for Enhanced Training Support Scheme for SME” together with your online application.


Funding Incentives

Please click here for more information on funding incentives.


Application Procedure

1. For self-sponsored applicant, please click on the “Register” button to apply for the course. You will be directed to STEP portal to manage all your course activities. Please note that you will be prompted to sign in with Singpass/Student ID.
 
2. For company-sponsored applicant, please approach your company's Human Resource (HR) team to put in the application through the company portal using CorpPass.  You may only apply after receiving the registration link from your company's HR.
 
3. Your application does not guarantee acceptance into the course. Your acceptance into the course is dependent on meeting the course requirements and course vacancy.
 
4. All successful applicants will be notified with a letter of confirmation via email.
 
6. PACE Academy course schedules, including course trainer, course fees and course availability are subject to change.

7. PACE Academy reserves the right to cancel or postpone any course at short notice; & at its absolute discretion without assigning any reason for such cancellation/postponements. In the event that the applicant’s chosen course is cancelled prior to its commencement, PACE Academy will make a full refund of course fees already paid by the applicant.

8. The data provided to Singapore Polytechnic will be kept strictly confidential and will be used for the purpose of course administration. The data may be passed on to the relevant organisations that require the information related to the course.  

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