Course Number: AOP100
Current Catalog Course Title: Computer Keyboarding
Course Credit(s): 3, Lecture hrs.: 3, Lab hrs.: 0, 0 hrs.: 0 (Other)
Prerequisite(s): None
Current Catalog Description:
A course for non-Administrative Office Professional majors. Emphasis is on learning to touch type the alphanumeric keyboard on a microcomputer and to practice applications which are typical of those found in business.
Section Days Time Room
Class Meeting Times: AC03 M/W/F 10 to 10:5 L516
Instructor Name(s): Mrs. Jo Ann Lauer
Instructor Mailbox Location: M711
Instructor Telephone: 412-237-6585 Faculty Secretary: (412)237-2651
Course Objectives:
1. Students will demonstrate the correct "touch" method for operating alphanumeric and symbol keys.
2. Students will demonstrate the correct "touch" method for operating the ten-key pad.
3. Students will demonstrate a straight copy speed of 15-30 words per minute.
4. Students will demonstrate the ability to enter information from straight copy and rough-draft text.
5. Students will demonstrate the ability to proofread both alphabetic and numeric data.
6. Students will demonstrate the ability to follow oral and written directions.
7. Students
will demonstrate the ability to compose text at the keyboard.
8. Students will be introduced to Word in the second half of the semester.
9. Students will be able to create letters, memos, and manuscripts using Word.
Teaching Methods:
Lecture and demonstration
Course Plan:
Class Meeting
or Week Content - Activities - Assignments - Evaluation
LEVEL 1 Developing Keyboarding Skill
MODULE 1 – Alphabetic Keys
1 Introduction, Lessons 1 - 2
2 Lessons 3, 4, and 5
3 Lessons 6, 7, and 8
4 Lessons 9, and 10
5 Lessons 11, 12, and 13
MODULE 2 - FIGURE AND SYMBOL KEYS
6
Lessons 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19
7 Lessons 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25
8 Lesson 26 Get Started
Lesson 27 Edit and Format Text
9 Lesson 28 Create an Interoffice Memo
MODULE 4 - Business Letter Formats
Lesson 29 Block Letter Format
10 Lesson 30 Block Letters with Envelope
Lesson 31 Tabs
11 Lessons 33/34 Letter Review and Assessment
12 MODULE 5 - Simple Reports
Lesson 35 Unbound Report with Title Page
Lesson 36 Leftbound Report
13 Lesson 37 Two-Page Reports
Lesson 38 Two-Page Reports with Long Quotations
14 Lesson 39 Two-Page Report with References
Lesson 40 Assessment
15 Module 6 - Table Basics
Lesson 41 Create Tables
Final Test
Materials and Resources:
Required Text(s): Keyboarding and Word Processing Lessons 1-60, Van Huss, Duncan, Forde and Woo, South-Western Educational Publishing Company, (International Thomson Publishing) 2004.
Required Materials: 3.5" High Density Disk
Directed Study: Open Lab, Tutoring, etc.
Evaluation Plan:
Midterm Grade - This grade will be based on the completion of approximately 25 lessons of the College Keyboarding--Keyboarding Pro Software, textbook. Your grade will be dropped one letter for each set of three lessons that you are behind.
Final Grade - The final grade will be based on the completion of the 30 lessons and the following:
Final Grade – The final grade will be based on the following:
50% - Classroom assignments and production work*
25% - Production tests
25% - Final Examination
Note: No makeup tests will be scheduled unless arrangements have been made with the instructor prior to the test date. You will automatically drop one letter grade when making up a test.
*Final Grade will be dropped one letter grade if the first 25 lessons of the keyboarding package have not been completed.
Other Policies and Procedures:
Your Keyboarding class meets two times per week. You will be expected to complete three lessons per week. If you personally need two class periods in order to complete one lesson to your personal satisfaction, you must come to the lab during OPEN LAB TIME in order to complete the lessons at the rate of three lessons per week
If you miss more than 4 classes (TH), you automatically drop one letter grade. If you miss more than 8 classes (TH), you may fail the course. In other words, try not to miss any classes.
It is up to each student to make up any coursework missed by going to the Computer Suite on the fifth floor of the Library Building.
· During the semester/session, reasonable changes to the course outline may be academically appropriate; however, students will be notified of these adjustments in a timely manner.
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