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Salesforce Lightning Interface

This Salesforce Lightning training was designed as user training to help take the weight off Salesforce administrators. After completing this Salesforce Lightning Interface training, your users will know how to navigate and personalize Salesforce Lightning and perform common and essential tasks, such as interacting with the navigation bar, creating and managing accounts, working with leads and opportunities, and much more.

Updated October 2019

6Skills
63Videos
7hTotal

Who This Course Is For

This Salesforce Lightning Interface training is considered administrator-level Salesforce training, which means it was designed for Salesforce administrators. This Lightning interface skills course is valuable for new IT professionals with at least a year of experience with CRM infrastructure and experienced Salesforce administrators looking to validate their Salesforce skills.

Skills Your Team Will Gain

  • Transitioning to Salesforce Lightning
  • Configuring core Lightning features
  • Mastering the many different views: Custom Lists, Kanban and more
  • Relating contacts to multiple accounts
  • Navigating tasks and working with the calendar in Lightning
  • Understanding the Salesforce mobile app

Course Curriculum

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Salesforce Lightning for Business Users

Duration: 1h 37m26 videos

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  • Premium skill.Transition to Salesforce Lightning for Business Users1h 57m · 40 videos
  • Salesforce Lightning for Business UsersFree1h 37m · 26 videos
  • Premium skill.Navigate and Personalize Salesforce Lightning1h 8m · 26 videos
  • Premium skill.Configure Core Lightning Features1h 9m · 18 videos
  • Premium skill.Configure Path in Salesforce Lightning44m · 14 videos
  • Premium skill.Manage Actions in Salesforce Lightning45m · 14 videos
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For IT leaders

What IT leaders need to know before assigning this course

Salesforce Lightning rollouts can stall when business users depend on administrators for basic navigation, personalization, and everyday CRM tasks. This course gives IT Directors and Salesforce Team Leads a structured way to reduce that support burden by preparing users and junior CRM staff to work confidently in Lightning.

The training is a realistic assignment for Salesforce administrators, new IT Practitioners with CRM infrastructure exposure, and business users involved in accounts, leads, and opportunities. Plan for about 7 hours and 20 minutes per learner, with modules that can be assigned around rollout milestones: Lightning transition, navigation and personalization, core feature configuration, Path, and Actions.

For change management, this course is most useful before or during a Lightning adoption push, especially when teams need consistent workflows and fewer “how do I do this?” tickets. Team Leads can use CBT Nuggets Playlists to assign the right modules by role and Team Reporting to track completion across Salesforce user groups.

Team Impact

How this training helps your team succeed

IT teams complete this Salesforce Lightning training to make Lightning adoption smoother and reduce the day-to-day load on Salesforce administrators. The course focuses on practical interface use and core configuration tasks that affect sales and CRM workflows.

  • Support a Lightning transition: Prepare business users to move into Lightning with less disruption and fewer basic navigation questions.
  • Improve CRM data handling: Help teams create and manage accounts, leads, and opportunities more consistently in the Lightning interface.
  • Standardize sales workflow guidance: Use Path concepts to help users follow defined stages and next steps inside Salesforce.
  • Reduce admin bottlenecks: Build shared understanding of navigation, personalization, core Lightning features, and Actions so routine requests do not always escalate to the Salesforce admin.

After completion

Capabilities your team walks away with

Knowledge

  • How Salesforce Lightning differs from prior interface expectations for business users
  • How the Lightning navigation bar supports common CRM workflows
  • How accounts, leads, and opportunities fit into everyday Salesforce use
  • How personalization affects user experience in Lightning
  • What core Lightning features, Path, and Actions are used for

Ability

  • Navigate and personalize the Salesforce Lightning interface
  • Create and manage account records in Lightning
  • Work with leads and opportunities as part of standard CRM activity
  • Configure core Lightning features covered in the course
  • Configure Path to support guided user workflows
  • Manage Actions to streamline common Salesforce tasks

Readiness check

Confirm prerequisite knowledge before training begins

A short placement assessment on the CBT Nuggets assessments platform measures whether a learner already has the foundation this course assumes. IT Directors use it to put the right people in the right training — and any learner can take it right now to make sure they'll get full value from day one.

  • Questions generated from this course's own video transcripts — what gets measured is exactly what gets taught
  • Instant, per-learner results that show whether the prerequisite foundation is in place
  • Results roll up into team readiness reporting, so training hours go where they change outcomes
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Salesforce Lightning interface and why do I need to learn it?

Salesforce Lightning is an improved version of the customer relationship management software. Salesforce Lightning is highly customizable and exists so that users who don't know how to code can still customize how they use the CRM. With Lightning training, you can make your CRM uniquely powerful.

What will you learn in this Salesforce Lightning training?

In this Salesforce Lightning training, you'll learn how to completely customize your use of Salesforce. But more than just learn how to put the useful buttons on your homescreen, you'll learn how to configure the way that Salesforce operates so that your CRM does more work for you.

Is this course in Salesforce Lightning associated with a certification?

No, this Salesforce Lightning course isn't designed with any particular certification in mind. The skills you'll learn in this course are specifically related to actually using, navigating and customizing you and your company's Lightning interface, and most Salesforce certifications tend to cover much more material than that.

Is there a Salesforce certification I should plan to earn after taking this Lightning course?

Yes, there are several Salesforce certifications that you'll be a few steps closer to earning after taking this course. Specifically, the certifying exams for the entry-level Salesforce Administrator, Architect, and Designer certifications all have material that relates to this training. Which one's right for you depends on your job.

Who should take this course in the Salesforce Lightning interface?

Anyone who uses Salesforce should take this course. It's especially useful for users who recently transitioned to Salesforce Lightning but are struggling to find the tools and buttons they're familiar with. But administrators and developers will particularly benefit from understanding how Lightning works under the hood.

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