Free online course Jira software to project management
Duration of the online course: 2 hours and 21 minutes
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Organize projects faster with Jira skills in this free online course—create boards, track issues, build dashboards, and improve team delivery with confidence.
In this free course, learn about
Jira basics: purpose, interface overview, and primary goal of the beginner course
Jira product areas and applications (Software, Service Management, Work Management)
Agile methods in Jira: Kanban vs Scrum, key differences and typical usage
Projects: project types, creating a project, and who can edit/delete projects
Home & dashboards: Dashboard tab purpose, creating/customizing dashboards, using gadgets
User profile preferences: updating settings and profile image customization
Atlassian Marketplace: extending Jira with apps/add-ons and where to get them
Search results customization: change issue navigator layout and add/remove columns
Issue templates, screens, and custom fields: how Jira captures and displays data
Basic Search & filters: clauses/elements, saving filters, and resetting criteria
Searching issues by project, type, assignee, reporter, status, date, and other options
Issue workflow actions: transitioning, resolving/closing, editing, and viewing activity stream
Time tracking, creating subtasks correctly, linking issues, and finding completed work
About the free online course
Managing a project is easier when everyone can see what is happening, what comes next, and who owns each piece of work. This free online course helps you build that clarity using Jira Software, a widely used platform for planning, tracking, and delivering projects in modern teams. You will learn how Jira fits into real project management workflows, from early setup to day-to-day execution, so you can spend less time chasing updates and more time moving work forward.
Starting from the fundamentals, you will get comfortable navigating the interface, understanding how Jira is structured, and working with the building blocks that power daily delivery: issues and their types. As your confidence grows, you will learn how to adapt Jira to your needs by adjusting views, setting preferences, and using dashboards and gadgets to surface the information that matters most. This is where Jira becomes more than a tracker—it becomes a practical control center for decisions, priorities, and progress.
The course also connects Jira to Agile ways of working by explaining key concepts behind Kanban and Scrum, then showing how those approaches translate into Jira projects. You will practice creating and managing common work items such as epics, stories, tasks, subtasks, and bugs, and understand how to use them to keep large initiatives organized without losing sight of the details. You will also see how transitions and resolution practices support a clean workflow that stakeholders can trust.
To help you operate efficiently in real environments, you will learn how to find exactly what you need using search and filters: locating issues by type, status, reporter, assignee, and date, saving filters for repeated use, and checking activity streams to understand what changed and why. You will also cover practical execution skills like editing issues, linking related work, and time tracking, so your Jira data becomes reliable for planning and reporting. By the end, you will be ready to set up a project space, keep work visible, and maintain momentum across a team using Jira as your project management backbone.
Course content
Video class: JIRA Tutorial #1 - Atlassian JIRA Training Introduction02m
Exercise: What is the primary goal of the 'JIRA for Beginners' course?
Video class: JIRA Tutorial #2 - What is JIRA02m
Exercise: What are the three main categories of JIRA?
Video class: JIRA Tutorial #3 - JIRA Issue | What is issue in JIRA01m
Exercise: _What is an issue in JIRA?
Video class: JIRA Tutorial #4 - JIRA Issue Types | JIRA Standard Issue Types04m
Exercise: What issue types are supported in JIRA Software by default?
Video class: JIRA Tutorial #5 - Change Layout of the Issue Search Results Screen04m
Exercise: _What is the process to customize the view of certain issues in JIRA and add or remove columns in search results?
Video class: JIRA Tutorial #6 - JIRA Homepage Introduction06m
Exercise: What is the purpose of the 'Dashboard' tab on the JIRA homepage?
Video class: JIRA Tutorial #7 - Update JIRA User Preferences | JIRA Profile Image04m
Exercise: _What can you customize in your JIRA profile preferences?
Video class: JIRA Tutorial #8 - JIRA Gadgets Tutorial | Adding Gadgets in JIRA02m
Exercise: What is the primary purpose of gadgets in JIRA?
