Word Processing Level 1

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Course
OADM 1108
Discontinued
Yes
Course Code
OADM 1108
Descriptive
Word Processing Level 1
Department
Office Administration
Faculty
Commerce & Business Administration
Credits
2.00
Start Date
End Term
201730
PLAR
Yes
Semester Length
10 Weeks X 5 Hours per Week = 50 Hours
Max Class Size
24
Contact Hours
5 hours per week
Method(s) Of Instruction
Online
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.

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 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
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%

 

 

 

 

 

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

Prerequisites

OADM 1104