This course is designed to give students introductory skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint, and an overview of Windows. The course is designed for the beginning student and does not include advanced concepts. Keyboarding skills are strongly recommended.

Registered Students | Overall Course Objectives | Major Course Topics | Course Format | Orientation | Course Requirements | Materials | Exams

Registered Students
Immediately after enrolling, send Cathy Sutton an e-mail at csutton@howardcc.edu; include your name, the semester, the course and section. You will receive specific course instructions the week classes start.
 
Overall Course Objectives
This course is designed to give you an overview of the Microsoft Office software to assist you in your computer work in an office or home environment. You will be introduced to many of the features of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. You will not be learning these software packages in detail. If becoming self-sufficient in each of these packages for job purposes is your goal, please email Cathy Sutton at csutton@howardcc.edu for advice.

Once you have completed this course you will be able to:

• Use basic features of Windows. 
• Use a word processing package to create, edit, format, and print documents.
• Use a spreadsheet package to calculate, analyze, and chart data.
• Use a presentation graphics package to enter and edit text, graphics, and pictures in slides.
• Use a database package to create simple forms, tables, queries, and reports.

Major Course Topics 

• Windows Features

• • Mouse operations

  • Manipulating a window

  • Windows Explorer

  • Creating folders

  • Moving, copying, deleting, and renaming files and folders

• Word Processing

• • Creating, saving, and printing documents

  • Formatting paragraphs and characters

  • Headers, footers, and footnotes

  • Editing documents – move, find, replace, spelling

  • Using a Template

  • ClipArt

• Spreadsheets

• • Creating, saving, and printing worksheets

  • Formatting worksheets and cells

  • Charts

  • Relative and absolute references

  • AVERAGE, MAX, and MIN, and IF functions

• Databases

• • Creating, saving, and printing tables

  • Forms

  • Reports

  • Filter and query

  • Changing the structure of a database

  • Adding, changing, and deleting records

  • Creating validation rules

• Presentation graphics

• • Creating, saving, and printing presentations

  • Inserting and deleting slides

  • Themes

  • Normal, slide show, and slide sorter view

  • ClipArt

Course Format

This course:

•  Is not self-paced. However, you may accelerate your pace so that you may finish the course in fewer than 14 weeks.
• Does not require on-campus meetings. However, this course does require on-campus attendance for tests. Tests may be taken during any open hours in the Office Technology classroom. Please note, however, that all CMSY-110 online students are welcome to come to the Office Technology classroom to do classwork and/or to get personal help from an instructor.
• Does not require real-time chats.
• Uses email for communication.

Orientation

This course does not have a face-to-face orientation. You will receive detailed course information the week classes start.
 
Course Requirements

• Review the “What you should know before you register” section of the Distance Learning Homepage.
• There are no prerequisites for this course but if you don’t have basic typing skills, you will have difficulty with the word processing part of the course.
• Install Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Access 2007, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 on your computer.
• Come to the college periodically to take both written and computer tests, which have deadlines for completion.
• Complete four homework assignments.

Materials

Required:

Shelly, Gary; Cashman, Thomas; and Vermaat, Misty. Microsoft Office 2007, Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Windows XP Edition, Course Technology.

Buy your textbooks from our online Bookstore, or visit our Bookstore.

Technical Requirements:

The course requires:

• Internet Explorer
• Netscape

Exams

For purposes of verification and assessing learning outcomes, this course has six exams, which have deadlines for completion. The exams must be taken at the college during any open hours in the Office Technology classroom. There are three theory exams (written) and three production exams (taken on the computer).

If you have any questions or comments about this course, please send a message to Cathy Sutton, csutton@howardcc.edu.
Last updated on 11-Dec-07 © Howard Community College, 2000