Create and Manage Canvas Apps with Power Apps (PL-7001)

This course equips companies with the knowledge and skills to train their employees in creating and managing canvas apps using Power Apps. This technology is integral for enhancing productivity and streamlining workflows within organizations. The course provides a step-by-step guide to building, customizing, and managing canvas apps, ensuring that employees can create dynamic, user-friendly applications effectively.

We begin the course with Get Started with Power Apps canvas apps. In this lesson, you'll be introduced to Power Apps and learn how to start building your apps. You’ll create your first app, explore data sources, and use Excel with Copilot to automate app creation. Additionally, you’ll discover how to integrate Power Apps with Power Automate and Power BI, and dive into effective app design practices.

Next, in the lesson on Customize a canvas app in Power Apps, we focus on enhancing your app by making basic customizations. You’ll get hands-on experience with various controls and screens specific to canvas apps, ensuring your applications are both functional and visually appealing.

The following lesson, How to build the user interface in a canvas app in Power Apps, teaches you to use themes for quick appearance changes and branding controls. You’ll work with icons, images, and personalization options to tailor your app for different devices such as phones and tablets. These skills will help you create an intuitive user experience that resonates with your corporate identity.

In Work with external data in a Power Apps canvas app, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of connecting and interacting with external data sources. Learn to add data sources, incorporate Office 365 users, and display data in galleries. You'll also manipulate data between collections and sources using the Collect function, which is essential for data-driven applications.

The Write data in a Power Apps canvas app lesson introduces you to forms, covering various form modes and how to add and customize an edit form. You’ll practice submitting forms and explore special properties to ensure your data entry processes are efficient and accurate.

As we approach the end of the course, the lesson on Publish, share, and maintain a canvas app covers the application lifecycle management. This lesson ensures that your apps are ready for deployment and can be easily shared and maintained, ultimately facilitating smoother operations and collaboration within your organization.

Finally, the Guided Project - Create and manage canvas apps with Power Apps allows you to apply what you’ve learned by creating and managing your canvas apps. This hands-on project reinforces the skills and knowledge gained throughout the course, providing practical experience in a real-world context.

By the end of this course, your employees will be proficient in building, customizing, and managing Power Apps canvas apps. They will have a solid understanding of integrating data sources, designing user-friendly interfaces, and ensuring seamless app maintenance and collaboration, thereby enhancing your organization’s productivity and streamlining internal processes.