2-Day Power BI Desktop Series 3 - Designing Powerful Dashboards Tips and Techniques Course (New & Exclusive Course)

Course Overview

This course is created, owned, and trained by its original creator, Mr. Alaster Leong. Learn from the original creator.

This course is intended for existing Power BI users.

Ready to take your Power BI dashboard design skills to the next level?

This Power BI Desktop course is the third in the series and is a hands-on, project-based course designed for users looking to elevate their dashboard design skills and explore the latest Power BI features and visuals.

You’ll apply advanced techniques to real-world business intelligence scenarios, reinforcing your skills through practical application. You’ll learn how to create dashboards that are not only insightful and visually compelling but also user-friendly — so even end users without Power BI experience can navigate them with ease. Additionally, you’ll learn how to optimize your dashboards to be space-efficient, making the best use of available screen real estate without sacrificing clarity.

In business intelligence, even the most powerful data model can fall short without thoughtful, well-executed design. This course dives into advanced dashboard design strategies, emphasising clarity, usability, and real-world impact — helping you build dashboards that are intuitive, interactive, and make the best use of available space.

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge taught in Power BI Desktop Series 1 – Data Model, DAX & Dashboard Visualization. You’ll continue using the same project database from Series 1, allowing you to dive straight into refining your design approach without time wastage.

This course is the third in our Power BI Desktop series:

Power BI Desktop Series 1 – Data Model, DAX & Dashboard Visualization
Power BI Desktop Series 2 – Advanced DAX Formula
Power BI Desktop Series 3 – Designing Powerful Dashboards Tips & Techniques

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to:

Utilise advanced dashboard design techniques to create professional, user-friendly reports
Apply practical tips and techniques to elevate the clarity, usability, and effectiveness of your dashboards
Work confidently with newly implemented Power BI features and visuals to enhance data presentation and interactivity

Who Should Attend

This course is for:

Learners who have attended our Power BI Series 1 – Data Model, DAX & Dashboard Visualization course.
Existing Power BI Desktop users

Methodology

This is a hands-on practical course. Trainer will walk through the topic step-by-step. Learners will be provided with exercise files on every topic to effectively apply what have been taught. A short Q & A session will be available after each topic.

Prerequisites

Have attended our “Power BI Series 1 – Data Model, DAX & Dashboard Visualization”
Existing Power BI Desktop users

Things To Bring

A Windows operating system laptop with Microsoft Power BI Desktop recent version (October 2024 or later) installed or updated (personal laptop is preferred as some company laptops may have security restrictions).
Laptop power adaptor and a USB mouse.

Course Information

Fee

SGD 910.00 (Nett)

Absentees will be charged the full course fee

Includes lunch and two coffee breaks with light snacks, unless otherwise stated

Time

9:00am to 5:00pm (14 hours)

Mode

Classroom @ Hotel
(The hotel will be confirmed five days before the course start date)

Dates

22-23 Sep 2025
24-25 Nov 2025

Important Note

Closed Class

Important Note

Closed Class

Why Learn With Us?

Course Outline

1. Project Setting

Project Path Setup
Option Settings
Turn on Preview features
Pane Manager Setup

2. New Features, Visuals & Advanced Design Techniques

Organize Measures with Virtual Folders
Creating Dynamic Format String for Measures
Canvas Background & Wallpaper
Using Image as a Button
Modern Visual Tooltips
Report Page Tooltips
The New Drill Through Location
Creating Drill Through Button
Conditional Drill Through
Calculation Group
Conditional Formatting on Chart
Locking Objects
Small Multiples
Field Parameters – Dynamic Table Columns
Field Parameters – Dynamic X & Y Axis
Create Hierarchies in Field Parameters
Dynamic Slicer Based on Field Parameters
Create a Reset all Slicers Button
Search Box & Wildcard in Slicer
Create an Apply all Slicers Button
Dynamic Constant Line for Line or Column Chart
Dynamically Highlight Columns below Target
Sparkline in Matrix Visual
Traffic Light KPI in Table Visual
Display Last Refresh Date and Time
Selection Pane In-Depth
Bookmarks In-Depth
Create Dynamic Titles Based on Slicer Selection
Create Multiple Page Tabs within a Page
Slicer Pane
Q&A Visual
Conditional Icons in Table or Matrix Visual
Reference Line in Chart
The New Card Visual
The New Button Slicer
Card (new) Visual Small Multiples
Text Slicer
Visual Calculation
Building Page Navigation Pane

3. Optional Topics

Creating a Live Analog Clock
The New List Slicer
Creating a Data Dictionary

Our Dedicated Lead IT Trainer - Mr. Alaster Leong

This course is created, owned and trained by Mr. Alaster Leong. Learn from the original creator of this course.

Alaster has been training adult learners in IT in both the private and public sectors since 1986. Alaster’s career before training centred around IT for over 12 years, as he held various roles within software development. He has earned himself a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification and he is an existing Trainer approved by People’s Association (PA). He was also a former Associate Trainer with the Civil Service College.

He specialises on training Microsoft Applications and Adobe Photoshop. Based on his vast experience and keeping abreast with the emerging trends, tools and technologies with the IT industry, especially software, he has extensively involved in developing several course outlines and course materials and conducting training to equip learners with skills in-demand or likely to be most important in the jobs of the future work.

Alaster constantly explore innovative and effective ways in imparting knowledge and engaging his learners at the same time. He also focuses his training on providing practical solutions to real-life problems, especially Excel. He is more than willing to help overcome various problems faced by his learners that arise in their workplace in applying their newly-acquired knowledge and skills any time after the course. He is well-known for his dedication, commitment and passion to training that makes him well-liked and appreciated by his learners.