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Power BI Report Design Course

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About the Course

During this 1-day course, you will learn to build Power BI reports that are not just accurate and functional, but also visually compelling. Students will build strong design foundations to enrich their reports by first exploring and then intelligently utilising some handy tools and elements such as conditional formatting, bookmarks, report page tool tips, drill through filters, custom visuals, and more.

Who should do this course?

This course benefits new and experienced Power BI professionals who want to become proficient in designing eye-catching reports.

Prerequisites

This Power BI course is suitable for the people who have either completed our Power BI essentials course or have equivalent skills.

Course Details

$495 incl GST

  • Duration:1 Days
  • Max. Class Size:10
  • Avg. Class Size:5
  • Study Mode:
    Classroom Online Live
  • Level:Intermediate
  • CPD Hours:6 hours
  • Course Times: Classroom: 9.00am to 5.00pm approx(Local Time) Online Live: 9.00am to 5.00pm approx(AEST or AEDT)
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Level 11, 32 Walker Street, North Sydney , NSW 2060

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Course Units

Unit 1: Design Principles

  • How to Communicate a Clear Story
  • Creating Aesthetically Pleasing Reports and Dashboards
  • Using the Right Visuals
  • Information Reading Rule: Left to Right and Top to Bottom
  • Report Design Rule: KPI
  • Report Design Rule: Summarized Data
  • Report Design Rule: Detailed Data
  • Best Choice Visuals for Comparison
  • Best Choice Visuals to Show Data Distribution
  • Visualizing Relationships between Data
  • Analysing Data Composition

Unit 2: Introduction to Power BI Ecosystem

  • Power BI's Reporting and Authoring Tool
  • Using of Different Power BI Components
  • Keeping the Ecosystem Updated
  • Understanding Parts of a Report
  • Sorting and Drilling Through Capabilities
  • Introducing the Spotlight
  • Understanding the Insights
  • Introducing AI Visuals
  • Working with Bookmarks
  • Understanding Filter Propagation
  • Creating a Dashboard
  • Understanding Visuals Pane
  • Understanding Filters Pane
  • Understanding Fields Pane Controls
  • Page Navigation in Power BI
  • Using Enterprise Power BI Templates

Unit 3: Basic Report Elements in Power BI Desktop

  • Importing Custom KPI Icon and Image files
  • Copying and Pasting Between Reports
  • Adding Report Level Measures
  • Introduction to the Ribbon Tabs
  • Configuring Advanced Preview Options
  • Features in Desktop vs. Reports
  • Introduction to Various Data Connectors
  • Creating Calculated Measures, Columns and Tables
  • Creating Hierarchy

Unit 4: Developing Reports in Power BI

  • Creating the Report File
  • Adding Filters and Slicers
  • Adding Visuals and Report Elements
  • Configuring Theme and Formatting
  • Setting the Default User Experience
  • Dynamic Column Headers

Unit 5: Report Filters and Slicers

  • Understanding Filters in Filters Pane
  • Using Filters as a Slicer in a Report
  • Filtering a Report, Page and Visual
  • Understanding Text filtering options
  • Categorizing Date and Time Filters
  • Understanding Date and Time Filtering Options
  • Setting the Filter Status
  • Creating Drop Down or List Filters
  • Creating Number Filters
  • Configuring Multiple Selections
  • Editing Interaction between Filters
  • Syncing Slicers
  • Adding Place Holders
  • Setting Background Colours
  • Adding Search Menu
  • Formatting Options for a Slicer
  • Copying Across the Report
  • Snapping to Grid
  • Configuring Buttons
  • Using Selection Pane
  • Maintaining Layer Order
  • Grouping Items Together
  • Working with Time Intelligence Slicers

Unit 6: Understanding the Report Elements

  • Understanding Report Elements
  • Creating Charts/Graphs
  • Creating AI Visuals
  • Using Card Visual
  • Using Spatial Data for Maps
  • Introduction to Fields Pane
  • Understanding the Format Pane
  • Using the Analytics Pane
  • Adding Text Box
  • Creating Advanced Buttons
  • Adding Shapes
  • Adding Images
  • Creating Card Visual with Icon
  • Configuring Ribbon Chart
  • Using TopN Filters
  • Locking the Filters
  • Creating Cluster Bar Chart
  • Configuring Tooltips
  • Creating Combo Chart
  • Creating Line Chart
  • Adding Analytics Lines
  • Creating Scoreboard

Unit 7: Theme and Formatting Options in Power BI

  • Introduction to Report Themes and Their Types
  • Creating Custom Theme Interface
  • Setting the Visual Header Configuration
  • Adding Image in Title
  • Adding Latest Date
  • Creating Multi-Row Card
  • Formatting Pages
  • Enabling Always-Focus Mode
  • Recommended Practices
  • Final Formatting Method

Unit 8: Premium User Experience

  • Configuring Pages
  • Adding Slicers and Filters
  • Sorting in an Order
  • Configuring the Drill through Location
  • Difference between Workspace and App User Experience
  • User Experience Options Available in Service
  • Writing Comments in a Team
  • Creating Dynamic Multi-Value Data Labels
  • Learning How to Use Charts
  • Recommended Practices
  • Understanding Paginated Report

Unit 9: Conditional Formatting

  • Adding Conditional Formatting
  • Types of Conditional Formatting
  • Adding Data Bars and Icons
  • Adding Custom Icon Set
  • Adding Web URL
  • Using Same Conditions for Multiple Visuals
  • Conditions for Histogram Bins

Unit 10: Drill Through, Visual Interaction and Slicer Synchronisation

  • Navigating From Summary to Detail Pages
  • Configuring Cross Filtering
  • Keeping Filters
  • Setting Visual Interaction
  • Duplicating Pages
  • Configuring Measure in Filters
  • Creating a Decomposition Tree

Unit 11: Basic and Advanced Tooltips

  • Configuring Tooltips on Visuals
  • Enabling Visual Header Tooltip
  • Configuring Tool Tip Pages
  • Using Smart Narrative Visual
  • Adding Emoji in Visuals
  • Adding Various Calculations in Smart Narrative

Unit 12: Bookmarks

  • Quick and Easy Navigation Using Buttons
  • Toggle between Charts Using Buttons
  • Elements of a Bookmark
  • Configuring Button States for User Experience
  • Setting Button Effects
  • Finding Anomalies in Data

Unit 13: Custom Visuals

  • Importing Visuals from Marketplace
  • Common Visuals in an Organization
  • Importing Custom Visuals
  • Custom Slicers
  • Visual Cues
  • Introducing Colour Helper by Okviz - Discuss
  • Box and Whisker Chart

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Student Reviews

(5.0)
17 December, 2025

Sean was a huge help in understanding complex theories and being very patient in going through the content. Would definitely go to another training session with him in the future

Anonymous
(4.8)
17 December, 2025

Great course - instructor clearly knew what he was doing and demonstrated everything clearly. My only issue was the pacing - at times the easier topic seemed to drag a bit, and at other times it was difficult to keep up.

Luke M
(4.3)
17 December, 2025

Very good, however there were a lot more class interruptions today that caused a break in concentration. I will definitely need to resit this course. Trainer is fantastic. Thank you!

Desiree T
(5.0)
16 December, 2025

The course structure, contents and instructor are very helpful for a person like me who hasn't developed effective and interactive Power BI report charts and visualizations.

David
(4.8)
15 December, 2025

very well instructed and very useful. good pace, well explained and great understanding of potential use cases. great instructor

Campbell J
(4.2)
15 December, 2025

- Really great pacing and excellent teacher who was very friendly and very happy to slow down to answer questions. - Most valuable information was the publishing, custom tooltips, bookmarks, and how to add search feature to your slicer. - Talking about use cases was very helpful to explain when and where we might use certain features. - Going into detail on some slightly more advanced formatting features like how to use AI with powerBI would improve the course further.

Anthony
(5.0)
15 December, 2025

Interesting and interactive session. Topics were thoroughly explained, all questions were answered in detail.

Ayesha K
(5.0)
04 December, 2025

The course was strategic form the start and it's fulfilling to see the end results of a report we started crating from the scratch. The instructor was clear and led each area of the course well.

Virginia W
(4.9)
03 December, 2025

I found this course very useful. I have worked with Power BI for many years now, and I still picked up new tricks, and saw techniques I've not used before. The presenter (Adam) was engaging and knowledgeable. I also got some good design principles and advice on creating an engaging and useful dashboard, which is what I was after from this course.

Merryn T
(4.8)
03 December, 2025

Enjoyed the course, liked the practical applications of Power BI usage and learnt some new things. Pacing in the second half of the course could have been quicker.

Connor W
(5.0)
03 December, 2025

Great way for my team to upskill in design elements and usability of the reports we are building. Adam was an excellent presenter, very engaging and had some very valuable tips and tricks to share.

Michael A
(4.6)
20 November, 2025

I found the course to be a good base for me to start developing Power BI reports. A few times I fell a bit behind but the presenter was able to go through the steps again with me and was patient and helpful when doing this.

Sean N
(5.0)
20 November, 2025

Very well presented. Loved the design theory to get an understanding of these foundations. Really well facilitated. I learnt a lot

Dani C
(5.0)
18 November, 2025

Thanks Paul for the thorough explanations! Also thanks for sharing best practices, I found them to be very helpful.

Paul N
(5.0)
14 November, 2025

Informative, instructor was able to assist for any issue and get you back up to speed, no one left behind

Brad P
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