Smartsheet 2023 For Beginners: Modern Project Management (Udemy.com)

Jeremy Deighan's course packs the basics of Smartsheet into 3.7 hours across 39 lectures. A dozen of those lectures walk through one running example, building a project schedule from scratch, before a longer section adds dashboards, reports, workflows and integrations. It assumes zero prior Smartsheet experience, which fits the beginner label, and it leans on a free 30 day trial account rather than any paid software the student has to buy first.

Reviewers like Deighan's step by step style. Gloria Evans called him "an awesome online instructor that takes it step by step in a way that I can easily understand," and several others say the same in fewer words. Feedback on pace is mixed: one reviewer wanted a pause after each action because it moved too fast, while another wanted the pace even faster, so students clearly land in different places on this. A few say screens in the video no longer match what Smartsheet shows them now, since the last update was March 2023. One reviewer also wanted more on Smartsheet's row and column limits compared to a normal spreadsheet.

At 165 reviews and a 4.3 average, most of the friction is mild rather than a dealbreaker, and the rating breakdown backs that up with only a handful of 1s and 2s against 94 five star ratings. For someone who has never opened Smartsheet and wants the shortest path to a working project schedule, this still does the job. Anyone leaning on very recent interface details should expect to reconcile a few menus themselves.