Best Practices

Best Practices

How do you get buy-in and build ongoing excitement
and support for MOS? This section gives you an
overview of best practices for doing so.

Change More Lives

It’s time to make an even bigger impact in the lives of students. Nourish their
ambition. Cultivate their potential. Prepare them to thrive.

MOS CHAMPIONS: A QUICK OVERVIEW

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The Fire—and Fun—of Competition

Students can qualify for and compete in the
Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship.
They can win thousands of dollars in cash prizes
and add another level of prestige to their
résumés. Promoting the MOS Championship also
generates buzz among faculty and parents.

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Victory Begins with Belief

Last year, the MOS World Championship attracted
more than 600,000 unique candidates from 80
countries.

"More than 1.2B
people use Office
worldwide. These
students are the
best of the best."

Alison Cunard | Microsoft

“If you don’t try,
you’ll never
succeed.”

Andrew Parker | Kansas
U.S. PowerPoint
Champion

Become a Certiport Authorized
Testing Center (CATC)

Once you start certifying students, showcase
them. And their parents. And their teachers.
Recognize them in social media and other
venues. Make your MOS students—and the
program itself—stars. What can happen when
this really takes off? Find out!

Read the Case Study

PR Ideas

PR IDEA: Create
blog posts for all
certification
accomplishments.

PR IDEA: Issue a
press release to your
local paper. Here’s a template you can use.

MICROSOFT STAMP OF APPROVAL

Certiport is the sole
provider of Microsoft Office
Specialist certification exams
officially endorsed by
Microsoft.

GET STARTED

Educators, interested in learning more about becoming a Certiport Authorized Testing Center? We can help.