Course

Word Processing Level 1

Important Notice

This course is not active. Please contact Department Chair for more information.

Faculty
Commerce & Business Administration
Department
Office Administration
Course Code
OADM 1108
Credits
2.00
Semester Length
10 Weeks X 5 Hours per Week = 50 Hours
Max Class Size
24
Method(s) Of Instruction
Online
Typically Offered
To be determined

Overview

Course Description
Word Processing Level I is designed to teach you the basic functions of a word processing program as well as teach you to properly format documents such as letters and memoranda. Although you will be required to use Microsoft Word 2000 to complete this course, many of the skills you will obtain are generic and can be transferred to most word processing packages.
Course Content
  1. Create, save, print, close, open, and edit a Word document.
  2. Enhance documents with character formatting including all caps, bold, underlining, italics, fonts
  3. Format paragraphs with text alignment; indent text, and change line spacing; display non-printing characters.
  4. Insert special symbols, bullets, and numbers.
  5. Adjust page breaks and section breaks, control text flow, change margins in a document, create custom tab settings, including left, right, center, decimal, and vertical tabs.
  6. Copy, move, rename, and print multiple documents.
  7. Proofread all types of business documents with the Spell Checker and Thesaurus and improve the grammar of written documents with the Grammar Checker.
  8. Utilize special features in Word 2000 documents such as AutoText, spacing between paragraphs, date and time, dropped capital letters, and templates.
Learning Activities

Communications between instructor and students will be conducted online using the course email, bulletin board and chat utilities.  The instructor will guide the students through a series of learning objectives using motivation and online instruction.

Means of Assessment

Your final grade will be based on the following:

Chapter Assessments  25%
Unit 1 & 2 Assessments    25%
Written Exam  10%
Final Production  40%
Total 100%

 

 

 

 

 

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the learner will have demonstrated the ability to:

  1. Apply a variety of resources and methods to learn word processing software functions.
  2. Use accepted terminology for word processing functions and hardware components.
  3. Transfer knowledge and skills to other computer programs.
  4. Produce finished documents in accordance with business standards for timely completion, correctness of content and format, professional appearance, and creativity.
  5. Accept responsibility for own file maintenance: logical use of directories, backup and safe storage procedures
Textbook Materials

Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students

 

Required Text / Materials

Microsoft Word 2000 by Nita Rutkosky, Irwin Publishing, ISBN 0-7638-0250-6

Data disk: Word 2000 student CD that accompanies the above textbook.

Software: Microsoft Word 2000

Disks:  At least three formatted 3 1/2" floppy disks.

 

Recommended Text / Materials

Pitman Office Handbook

Dictionary

Requisites

Prerequisites

OADM 1104

Corequisites

No corequisite courses.

Equivalencies

No equivalent courses.

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

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Institution Transfer Details for OADM 1108
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

Course Offerings

Winter 2025