Continuing Education allows you to enhance your career, knowledge, or skills on your terms when you need it, and how it’s delivered.
For more information on courses, times, and schedules email us or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.
Our main office is located at Portage College, Lac La Biche Campus.
Office Hours
Monday to Friday 8:15 am to 4:30 pm
Closed Statutory holidays
Fall/Winter Courses:
- Date: September 2-3, (St. Paul), October 14-15 (Cold Lake), October 20-21 (Lac La Biche), 2025
- Tuition: $280.00
ATV Rider Safety
- Date: November 7, 2025
- 8:00 am-4:30 pm
- Cost: TBD
- Location: Lac La Biche
Beading Hats and Earrings
- Date: October 21 & 23
- Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
- Cost: TBD
- Location: TBD
Bear Awareness & Safety Traning
- Date: October 24, 2025
- Time: 8:30 am-3:00 pm
- Cost: $150
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Ages 16+
Ceramics
- Date: November 20, 2025
- Time: 5:00-7:30 pm
- Cost: $60 (supplies included)
- Location: Lac La Biche
Chainsaw Orientation (WTA)
- Date: October 15, 2025
- Time: 8:30 am-4:30 pm
- Cost: $275
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Ages 16+
Class 1 Core Learning Program - Lac La Biche
- Date: October 22- December 31, 2025
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Cost: $6,800 +gst
Class 1 Core Learning Program - Cold Lake
- Date: October 16- December 24, 2025
- Location: Cold Lake
- Cost: $6,800 +gst
Class 1 Core Learning Program - St. Paul
- Date: January 7-March 16, 2026
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Cost: $6,800 +gst
Class 1 Competency Learning Program - Lac La Biche
- Date: January 5-16, 2026
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Cost: $2,500 + gst
Class 1 Competency Learning Program - Cold Lake
- Date: December 22, 2025-January 9, 2026
- Location: Cold Lake
- Cost: $2,500 + gst
Class 1 Competency Learning Program - St. Paul
- Date: March 23-April 3, 2026
- Location: St. Paul
- Cost: $2,500 + gst
Class 3 Driver Training - Lac La Biche
- Date: January 19-March 13, 2026
- Application deadline: TBD
- Cost: $3,600 + gst
Class 3 Driver Training - Cold Lake:
- Date: January 7-March 13, 2026
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Cost: $3,600 + gst
Class 3 Driver Training - St. Paul
- Date: September 4 - October 10, 2025
- Application deadline: TBD
- Cost: $3,600 + gst
Clutter Workshop
- Date: October 8, 2025
- Cost: $75
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Date: October 9, 2025
- Cost: $75
- Location: Cold Lake
- Date: October 10
- Cost: $75
- Location: St. Paul
- Date: November 20, 2025
- Cost: $170
- Location: Lac La Biche
Conversational French
- Date: September 25, 2025. Recurring every Thursday for 12 weeks.
- Cost: $225.00
- Location: Lac La Biche & Cold Lake
- Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Core Strengthening
- Date: Tuesdays and Thursdays from October 2-December 16.
- Cost: $100
- Location: TBD
- Time: 12:00-12:45 pm
Field Cookery
- Date: September 27, 2025
- Cost: $350
- Location: Lac La Biche
First Aid - Standard Level C/CPR & AED
- Date: October 24, 2025
- Tuition: $210
- Location: St. Paul
- Start time: 8:30 am
Foraging Walk
- Date: September 26, 2025
- Cost: $100
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Date: TBD
- Time: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
- Cost: TBD
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Date: TBD
- Cost: $150
- Location: Lac La Biche Campus
- Time: 6:00-9:00 pm
- Date: TBD
- Cost: $150
- Location: Lac La Biche Campus
- Time: 6:00-9:00 pm
- Date: TBD
- Cost: $195 (training provided by MultiTest)
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Time: 9:00 am
Leatherwork
- Date: October 25, 2025
- Cost: $120 (supplies lac included)
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Time: 9:30
Professional Driving Improvement Course
- Date: TBD
- Cost: TBD
- Location: TBD
- Start time: TBD
Ribbon Skirts
- Date: October 4, 2025
- Time: 10:00 am-5:00 pm
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Cost:$175
Sculpture Art
- Date: October 1-2, 2025
- Cost: $110
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Date: October 8-9, 2025
- Cost: $110
- Location: Cold Lake
- Date: October 15-16
- Cost: $110
- Location: St. Paul
- Date: September 18, 2025
- Cost: $275
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Start Time: 9:00 am
- Date: TBD
- Cost: $400.00 if you bring your own snowmobile
- Location: Lac La Biche Campus
- Start Time: 8:30 am
Stained Glass Ornament
- Date: November 29, 2025
- Time: 81:00 pm
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Cost: $220 (supplies included)
Trailer and Load Securement
- Date: October 5, 2025
- Time: 8:30 am - 3:00 pm
- Cost: $190
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Ages 16+
Two-Day Culinary Hands-on Learning
- Date: TBD
- Cost: TBD
- Location: TBD
Welding for Farmers
- Date: December 15-17
- Cost: $150
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Ages 16+
- Date: TBD
- Cost: $650
- Location: Lac La Biche
Woodland Trainer Association Chainsaw (WTA)
Spring/Summer Courses:
Air Brakes "Q" Endorsement - Lac La Biche
- Date: TBD
- Tuition: $280.00
Air Brakes "Q" Endorsement - Cold Lake
- Date: TBD
- Tuition: $280.00
Applied Suicide Intervention (ASIST)
- Date: TBD
- Cost: $300.00
- Location: Lac La Biche
Basic Drone Pilot Training
- Date: TBD
- Cost: $425.00
- Location: Lac La Biche
Class 5 Driver Training - Lac La Biche
- Tuition: $950.00
- Location: Lac La Biche
Class 5 Driver Training - Cold Lake
- Tuition: $950.00
- Location: Cold Lake & Lac La Biche
Class 3 Driver Training - Cold Lake
- Date: TBD
- Time: 5:30-9:30 pm
- Cost: $3,600
Class 3 Driver Training - Lac La Biche
- Date: TBD
- Time: 8:30-4:30 pm
- Cost: $3,600
- Date: TBD
- Location: Cold Lake
- Cost: $700
- Date: TBD
- Location: Cold Lake
- Cost: $6,800
- Date: TBD
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Cost: $700
- Date: July 10-September 17
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Cost: $6,800
- Date: TBD
- Cost: $150
- Location: Lac La Biche
First Aid - Intermediate Level C - CPR (St. John's Ambulance)
- Date: TBD
- Tuition: $210
- Location: Lac La Biche
First Aid - Intermediate Level C - CPR (St. John's Ambulance)
- Date: October 24 2025
- Tuition: $210
- Location: St.Paul
- Date: TBD
- Cost: $225
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Date: TBD
- Cost: $195
- Start time: 9:00 am
Mobile Elevating Work Platforms - Lac La Biche
- Date: TBD
- Location: Lac La Biche
- Tuition: $225.00
- Date: TBD
- Cost: TBD
- Location: TBD
- Start time: TBD
Washboard Free Grading
- Date: TBD
- Cost: $1,500
- Location: Lac La Biche
We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.