SmartPLS PLS-SEM course for theses, final-year projects and dissertations

Duration: 8 hours, 4 sessions of 2 hours

Learn to build, validate and interpret your research model with SmartPLS: latent variables, reliability, validity, structural relationships, hypotheses and academic writing.

Format: online with replay

Certificate: included

Goal: independence in PLS-SEM modelling

90+ students trained

150+ models analysed

French and Arabic

1,000 MAD (≈ €90)

Individual price

Group price, min. 4

600 MAD (≈ €55) /person

A clear conceptual model

Interpretable results

Turn your hypotheses into a testable model.

Understand AVE, CR, R², VIF, bootstrapping and coefficients.

Academic writing

PLS-SEM independence

Present your results in your thesis or dissertation.

Move forward methodically, even as a beginner.

Going from a theoretical model to defensible results

This certified SmartPLS course is designed for students and researchers working on conceptual models, latent variables and hypotheses to test. You progress step by step with a clear logic: build, test, interpret, write up.

Build the model

Assess quality

Test the hypotheses

Clarify your variables, indicators, hypotheses and the relationships between constructs.

Learn to read reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity and VIF.

Interpret coefficients, significance, bootstrapping and the strength of the model.

The SmartPLS skills you need for your thesis or dissertation

The content focuses on what you really need to understand to produce a clear, credible and presentable PLS-SEM analysis.

Understand the logic of theoretical models and PLS-SEM.

Build a conceptual model with latent variables and indicators.

Import and prepare data for a clean SmartPLS analysis.

Assess the reliability and validity of research constructs.

Analyse structural relationships and test hypotheses.

Interpret R², AVE, CR, alpha, VIF, path coefficients and p-values.

Present the results according to the expected academic standards.

Become independent in PLS-SEM modelling with SmartPLS.

Who is this SmartPLS course for?

A course designed for academic projects that require a conceptual model, latent variables or an advanced analysis of relationships between constructs.

Bachelor's, Master's, PhD

Thesis, final-year project, dissertation

Management sciences

Students who want to master an advanced quantitative method.

Validating conceptual models and testing research hypotheses.

Marketing, management, logistics, entrepreneurship, finance and HR.

Social sciences & education

Health & nursing sciences

Other disciplines

Psychology, sociology, human sciences and education sciences.

Clinical research, behavioural sciences and health surveys.

Any university project involving constructs and theoretical relationships.

Detailed SmartPLS course programme (8 hours)

A progressive path designed to turn your theoretical model into an interpretable SmartPLS analysis.

Introduction to PLS-SEM & theoretical models

Understand the logic of SmartPLS

Understand structural equation modelling.

Identify latent variables, indicators and relationships.

Build a clear, defensible conceptual model.

Building the measurement model

Reliability and validity of constructs

Assess the quality of measurement scales.

Check the consistency of the indicators.

Validate the research constructs against the expected thresholds.

Analysis of the structural model

Hypothesis testing

Test the relationships between latent variables.

Analyse the significance of the hypotheses.

Interpret the coefficients, R², VIF and model effects.

Interpretation & academic writing

Showcase the results

Read and explain SmartPLS results clearly.

Present the results in academic form.

Include the analyses in a thesis, final-year project or dissertation.

What the course includes

Complete PDF materials

Exercises with solutions

Real case studies

Replay available

Private WhatsApp group

Final certificate

What our participants say

Feedback focused on what really matters: understanding, interpreting and defending the results.

This SmartPLS course allowed me to validate my conceptual model and interpret my hypotheses correctly.

SmartPLS seemed complicated to me, but the course is very clear, progressive and directly useful for writing up.

Thanks to Data Académique, I completed the PLS-SEM analysis of my dissertation with a much more structured reading.

Imane A.

Omar H.

Dr. Salma R.

Master's in Marketing

PhD candidate in Management

PhD candidate in Social Sciences

Before starting SmartPLS

Answers to the questions we are asked most often before enrolment.

Is it suitable for beginners?

Yes. The course is designed for SmartPLS and PLS-SEM beginners, with a step-by-step progression from the basic concepts to the interpretation of results.

Do I get a certificate?

Yes, a Data Académique certificate will be issued at the end of the course, depending on the path followed.

Is it live or on replay?

The course takes place online with a replay available, so you can review the explanations and repeat the steps at your own pace.

Do I need to install SmartPLS?

Yes, SmartPLS must be installed. You can ask for guidance if you need help getting started properly.

One-to-one or group course?

Both options are available: one-to-one course at 1,000 MAD (≈ €90) or group course, minimum 4 people, at 600 MAD (≈ €55) per participant.

Master PLS-SEM to succeed in your academic research

Don't leave your research model unanswered. Build a clear, interpretable analysis that you can defend in front of your supervisor or the jury.