Master the skills you need for a successful career as an optician and obtain the knowledge to effectively manage an optometrist’s office.
In this online course, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to become an optician and prepare for the Basic American Board of Opticianry (ABO) exams. This includes the NOCE (National Opticianry Competency Exam) and the CLRE (Contact Lens Registry Exam), required by many states to work as opticians or as a stepping-stone to career advancement.

$3,995
est. cost
18 mo.
Time to Complete
390 hrs.
Self-paced

What you will learn

  • Learn how to understand and assign prescriptions to customers
  • Understand the different corrective eye care solutions available for patients
  • Master the mathematical formulas that opticians need to know
  • Learn how to read prescriptions for glasses and contact lenses
  • Prepare for the NOCE and CLRE
  • Learn advanced formatting, drawing tools, create and manage tables, and work with column layouts
  • Create, edit, format, and print Microsoft Word documents
  • Learn how to add comments, footnotes and endnotes, and a table of contents
  • Create, modify, and format Excel worksheets, perform calculations, and print Excel workbooks
  • Learn to use advanced Excel formulas, work with lists, work with illustrations and charts, and use advanced formatting techniques
  • Learn to work with pivot tables, audit worksheets, work with data tools, protect documents for collaboration with others, and work with macros
  • Perform fundamental analysis of accounts, financial documents, and reports
  • Perform essential bookkeeping duties and tasks
  • Apply basic accounting principles (accrual method, depreciation, and so on) to bookkeeping practices
  • Understand fundamental accounting concepts and how QuickBooks works to support these concepts

  • Be qualified to obtain an entry-level position as an optician in a retail or medical setting (note that some states require ABO certification)
  • Be prepared to take the ABO exam, if you have a high school degree or GED
  • Knowledge about ocular anatomy, eye diseases and conditions, frame styling and adjustment, eyewear selection, glasses lens, and contact lens selection, prescriptions, and the equipment and mathematical formulas used in opticianry
  • Gain confidence in your ability to use QuickBooks to perform bookkeeping tasks for any company
  • Use basic, intermediate, and advanced features of QuickBooks Online proficiently
  • Prepare for the QBCU Exam
  • Prepare to become Microsoft Word and Excel Certified

    • We offer a wide range of highly interactive courses that you can take entirely online. All of our courses are led by expert instructors, many of whom are nationally known authors. Our online courses are affordable, fun, fast, convenient, and geared just for you. 

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